Political Quotes

“the Senate today meets for a rare New Year's Eve session for one reason and one reason only: The Republican leader has refused to allow us to vote on legislation to provide the American people $2,000 checks. He has twice objected to my requests to set a time for a vote on the measure, claiming yesterday that direct stimulus checks were ``poorly targeted,'' bemoaning the idea that some of these checks might go into ``the hands of Democrats' rich friends who don't need the help.'' Senator Toomey said much the same thing. Well, funny, I don't remember the Republican leader and Senator Toomey complaining about how a $2 trillion across-the-board corporate tax cut was ``poorly targeted'' because some large companies didn't need the help. No, when corporations get a blanket tax break, that is fine by the Republican majority. When the average American gets a little help from their government, it is ``poorly targeted.'' I hope that every American heard the objections by these Republican Senators. I hope every American who has their water or heat or electricity shut off or had eviction notices stapled on top of one another to their door or had to choose which meal to skip on a given day--I hope they all heard the reason they will not receive $2,000 checks is because Leader McConnell thinks it could wind up in the hands of ``Democrats' rich friends.'' Let's be very clear.…”