Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are here today once again to join Senator Durbin, who has been on the floor with me or I with him I don't know how many times now as it relates to this issue. We are here to urge the Senate to immediately approve legislation that would designate Venezuelans for temporary protected status. There are some 200,000 Venezuelans who are currently living in the United States. They are unable to return home safely, and they would benefit from TPS. We should be doing the right thing. We should be upholding American values and offering them protection, but once again, our Republican colleagues have blocked our efforts. We know what is at stake. Venezuela continues to experience the worst humanitarian crisis in our hemisphere. Its people continue to suffer food and medicine shortages, levels of criminal violence akin to a conflict zone, and grave human rights abuses under the Maduro regime. As if that were not enough, Venezuelans face the alarming spread of COVID-19 with a public health system in ruins. For 7 years, Maduro's devastating abuses of the Venezuelan people have left them with little choice but to stay and suffer or flee and have a chance at survival--flee the political persecution, flee the oppression. In Maduro's Venezuela, families struggle to feed themselves and children tragically die of treatable diseases.…”