"Instead, we are here today considering a partisan COVID-response bill by a far-left progressive Member that seeks to hold American workers and employees hostage unless they consent to a laundry list of unpopular social mandates from the far-left wing."
"This bill is nothing more than protecting Democrats' left flanks, and instead, we should get serious about crafting legislation that will get the American people back to work and grow our economy, not..."
"I believe that the Fed's and Treasury's decisive actions prevented the worst of the economic catastrophe."
"I think there is wide agreement that your engagement in the PPP program made things largely better, right?"
"But based off of that uncertainty, you are asserting as a regulator that you will actively review this to ensure that we don't have a financial crisis as a result of this health crisis?"
"I think that there appears to be bipartisan support in the Senate to repurpose the $130 billion for PPP."
"So, rightsizing those things so that there is a gradual change in regulatory cost and oversight based off of the raise, instead of having arbitrary break points to smooth those things out, is that the..."
"I commend the work that you have focused on here. It has been due for decades at the SEC."
"that is a very sober assessment. We need to have a return to normalcy once this crisis passes."
"I think we all have an interest in ensuring that the broad base of the populous in our country, whether rural or urban, whether living on the margins or those who have newly found themselves living on..."
"There is something sickening and awful about what we witnessed happen to Mr. Floyd. This should not occur, we are better than that as a populace and a people, and we should respond together."