Political Quotes

“I want to take a moment to explain to the American people what is happening here on the floor of the Senate. After putting the Senate on pause for over 5 long months, while businesses closed, millions lost their jobs, and hundreds of thousands of Americans died, Leader McConnell is now using this week to hold show votes on coronavirus relief. The vote we just had was not even a real vote. Leader McConnell moved to table the bill, then voted against tabling it. It was a stunt, plain and simple. It goes to show how unserious the Republican process is here on the floor of the Senate. Democrats, by their vote, called it for what it is. The truth is Leader McConnell is doing these stunts on the floor because there is a hard-right faction in the Republican caucus that doesn't want to pass any bill--any other round of relief. The Republican leader admitted that as many as 20 Republican Senators don't want to vote for anything. One Republican Senator voted not to vote for ``another dime.'' Every time the Republican White House asks the Republican Senators about a larger and needed COVID relief package, the Republican Senators say: Don't do anything. We are too divided. As if we needed any more proof this week that the votes this week are not serious, it was just reported in the Washington Post that Leader McConnell warned the White House against making a deal on a COVID relief bill before the election. Let me repeat that.…”