Political Quotes

“my chairman on the Finance Committee, Chairman Grassley, who just left the floor, called me a scholar, and I think he meant it as a compliment, but it doesn't feel like that today. It actually feels like the fact that I have been reading this this afternoon is a sign of the fact that this institution is broken in significant ways, and there are not a lot of productive things happening outside a group of four people who are renegotiating a car deal again and again and again and again. I did spend a good chunk of my afternoon reading these 1,119 pages. You might wonder what this is. This is Nancy Pelosi's last-minute additional Christmas wish list of progressive items that she wants added to the coronavirus relief bill that has been being negotiated here over the course of the last 96 or so hours. I wanted to read this because I think we owe it to our constituents to know what is in bills before people pass them. And I want to say, in full disclosure, the wish list keeps growing so rapidly and radically that this thing could be like 50 percent obsolete since 3 or 4 hours ago when I started digging into it. There may be another bill that is another 1,200 pages thick. But this is the one that I have been reading today, and the Speaker has obviously decided that she doesn't want to waste any crisis. The American people face two unprecedented emergencies.…”