It doesn't cost us anything. Why would we not do that?

Would you agree that these populations are especially vulnerable during a pandemic and a recession and are likely in need of this Federal support?

Fact: Hospitalizations in Texas are up more than 215 percent since Memorial Day.

I really wish, Mr. Chairman, we could work this out pursuant to your suggestion, following the exact instructions of the Capitol physician.

Fact: Florida just reported 10,000 new coronavirus infections in two days.

Fact: Arizona, as of yesterday, had more than 60,000 cases, 1,467 deaths, and the infection continues to spiral out of control.

My office, and I'm sure my colleagues' offices, are just besieged with people who desperately need this money.

Why are we the only country on Earth where this is now a matter of polemical partisan debate instead of just public health order?

In other words, because we said that it should go to everyone who filed taxes, they thought it should go to people who had died.

There's no other country in the world in which wearing a mask has become a political or ideological statement. It's a public health measure.

That's just shocking. How did that happen?

Fact: 124,415 deaths in the United States from COVID-19.

We've got one thing, which is the public health guidance from Dr. Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control, and the vast majority of the doctors in the land who do not think this is a hoax and do not think this is invented and they don't…

we've got to do everything in our power to keep government going.

OSHA has been completely AWOL during this pandemic when workers' lives are literally on the line.

We've called on OSHA to do more.

I also want to express my condolences to the families of 117,832 Americans that we've lost in the last four months of this nightmare.

Turns out there's a whole article about it in Politico. I'm going to ask for unanimous consent at the end of the meeting to introduce it.

One thing that's not addressed in the memo is the real glaring fault of this, which is that President Trump in January, in February, in March and in April, on 37 different occasions praised China.

This legislation that we're looking at today, the Justice in Policing Act, will ban chokeholds, strangleholds, no-knock warrants, racial and ethnic profiling.

The whole point of the social contract is that we'll be safer inside of it rather than outside of it, in the State of nature, State of war.

Every Member of this body has to take responsibility for what is happening in this country.

The justice Act of 2020 reaffirms the sanctity of life.

There is nothing in this bill that should objectionable to anyone who cares about public safety truly, who cares about antidiscrimination and pledges themselves to it, who cares about the rule of law, and who cares about this country, and…

This civil rights movement, this Second Reconstruction, also faced a violent backlash.