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On the recordMarch 23, 2020
``This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.'' This is an opportunity to fit our vision. That is a quote--not from some Communist activist leader somewhere in the United States, not from some Third World general. No, that is from the third ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. Let that sink in for a minute. Read it again: ``This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.'' I thought a bogus impeachment was shameful enough but clearly not. People in this country are dying. They are dying, literally. People are losing their jobs every day, literally. More and more people are getting sick every day. And that is why Senators rushed back here. We rushed back here to pass the House bipartisan legislation that was negotiated between the President and Speaker Pelosi. Then we let both sides work on the next steps. We passed that bill within less than 24 hours of receiving it from the House. As imperfect as it was, we passed it with 90 Senators voting for it. That is how bipartisanship works. We worked around the clock to craft a plan, and we succeeded. Here we sit, listening to our Democratic colleagues pretend this is a partisan plan, as if they weren't sitting in the room as it was being negotiated, and many of their ideas are in this bill. Why are they doing that? I will tell you why they are doing it. When we see a rising body count, they see a political opportunity. Shame on them.…
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Kevin Cramer
Republican · North Dakota

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