Political Quotes

“I have an update on today's floor schedule. At 1:45, the Senate was scheduled to hold a procedural vote related to a shell legislative vehicle we could use to pass COVID response funding. Our Republican colleagues have requested that we do not hold a cloture vote on the motion to proceed at the present as we are getting close to a final agreement that would garner bipartisan support. We are working diligently to finalize language, scoring, and a final agreement on what should be funded in the final COVID package, both domestic and international. As a sign of good faith and to encourage us to come to a final agreement, I will reschedule today's procedural vote to a later time. H.R. 4373 Mr. President, now, when it comes to replenishing COVID response funding, we simply cannot afford to kick the can down the road. We need more money right away so we have enough vaccines and testing and lifesaving therapeutics. We want our communities to go back to normal and stay normal. If a new virus comes--if a new variant comes, and we are not prepared, we could lose that ability to go back to normality, for our schools to stay open, for events to occur, for people to gather. We don't want to do that.…”