Political Quotes

“We live in an interesting age. I rise in strong support of this legislation. I have heard my Republican friends lament the fact that we have things in this bill that they don't like and apparently that the Senate doesn't like. I have been here long enough to know and to serve when the Republicans were in charge. They passed bill after bill with partisan provisions that they knew President Obama wouldn't sign and that could not pass the United States Senate because they couldn't get enough Democrats to get to 60 votes. They knew that. So both sides pass legislation that they think is good, notwithstanding the fact that the other side does not agree with some of the provisions in the bill. But, Mr. Speaker, this bill responds to the needs of the American people at a time of crisis. The House passed the Heroes Act more than 4\1/2\ months ago. Normally what would happen is when a bill goes to the Senate, they would pass a bill of their own unless they believed: Ladies and gentlemen of America, you are on your own. And States, as Senator McConnell said, you can go bankrupt. The minority leader of this House said: Let's wait and see what happens. And we waited and we waited and we waited, and 120,000 additional Americans have died since May 15. How long are we going to wait? The House did its job in May for the American people, yet the Republican Senate and President Trump have still not done theirs.…”