Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor today to urge that we come together and resume negotiations on a comprehensive, bipartisan COVID relief package--the kind of package that this country has been calling for. Today, nearly 200,000 Americans, including 436 Granite Staters, have died from COVID-19, and we still have as many as 40,000 new cases each day in this country--enough people to fill a baseball stadium each day. As a result, our economy continues to struggle, with nearly 30 million Americans still out of work and more than 1 million filing new applications for unemployment each week. Many Americans have been forced to raid their retirement savings just to pay rent and put food on the table--and that is for those people who actually have retirement savings. Sadly, too many people do not. The President's recent Executive orders have many State unemployment officers tied up in knots. Those orders affect Social Security and Medicare, and they provide no new help for the nearly 13 million households who could be at risk of eviction in the coming months. Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Majority Leader McConnell have refused to recognize that too many Americans are still suffering and still need help. It has been 4 months since the House of Representatives passed the Heroes Act--a bill to provide assistance to Americans who are in need.…”