Political Quotes

“So I believe our colleagues are coming clean. They opposed the American Rescue Act, which was absolutely essential legislation to get the country out of the Trump economic wreckage during the last administration. We had 14.8 percent unemployment; the highest unemployment rate since the Department of Labor started keeping statistics. Today it is down to 4 percent with the creation of 12 million new jobs under the Biden administration. So they shift the subject from unemployment, which they used to talk about, to inflation. Well, they raised the debt limit themselves three times under Donald Trump who contributed 25 percent of the entire debt of the Nation between George Washington and Joe Biden. Mr. Chair, 25 percent all came from the Trump administration, but they are looking for something to try to pin on Biden. So rather than acknowledging that Putin's war in Russia and the disruption of the global supply chains caused by the coronavirus pandemic created a global inflation, and America is doing much better bringing it down than anybody else, they decide just to try to demonize and vilify Joe Biden. Why? Because the cabinet is empty. The cupboard is bare. There are no ideas over there, as the distinguished minority leader said. They are not offering any ideas--some reporting requirements, and they are doodling on that; should it be a billion or a million or hundred million. Who knows?…”