Political Quotes

“I just heard the Republican leader speak out on the floor. Leader McConnell is busy giving partisan speeches while for the last 2\1/2\ hours Speaker Pelosi, myself, Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin, and Chief of Staff Meadows were sitting in a room working hard, trying to narrow our differences and come to an agreement. We all want to come to an agreement. We know the gravity of the situation demands it. We will continue to work and work at it. We had a productive meeting. We narrowed some differences. Frankly, there are many that remain, but we must not give up. We must not resort to stark partisanship. We must come together and find a solution. If I had to characterize the major difference between our side and the Republican side, we believe the gravity of the situation--the economic problems, the health problems--demands a bold, strong, vigorous solution by the Federal Government. We believe we must meet those needs. And it will cost money, but mark my words--if we spend less money now, it will cost us more money later. We hear from our schools. They very much want to reopen. We hear from the parents of children. They very much want their kids to go back to school, but they want to do it safely. It costs a lot of dollars to make a school safe in this COVID crisis--not only the money for masks and PPE, but you can't sit two kids next to each other on a bus, so there have to be many more bus routes.…”