Political Quotes

“Madam President, let me first of all join with my good friend, Senator Cardin, in appreciating the incredible work that really so many Federal employees have done to make these programs work. I was with the SBA Director about 2 weeks ago on Friday. She said that in the first 14 days of the PPP program they did 14 months of loans in that 14-day period. I thought many times that Secretary Mnuchin set these high standards for how quickly we would get to each of these points and probably only later realized just how difficult it is to get the Federal Government to move. In this case, the Federal Government has moved. The Congress has moved working together. We didn't have the element of time on our side. We really had to move quickly. I think we all knew when we were doing so that we were going to have some miscalculations, whether it was the amount of money for PPP or a program that wasn't quite as refined as it needed to be. And, hopefully, we are right now trying to look at not only how we have filled in the blanks on the programs that we so quickly dealt with in March, but also to look forward to May and July and try to figure out what the economy is going to need and where we are going to be in this healthcare crisis in May and July. Certainly, a number of our States are beginning to reopen. States like Missouri are opening in what I think is exactly the appropriate way.…”