Political Quotes

“Many of them have worked for as many as 36 hours straight. My notes here say: ``Let's give them a round of applause.'' And, of course, one more thank-you to my great and wonderful staff. I will thank all of them by name at a later date because I want them to be awake and alert when I do. I yield the floor. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. The Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way or through a less rigorous process. Voters gave Senate Democrats the slimmest possible majority. Voters picked a President who promised unity and bipartisanship. Democrats' response is to ram through what they call ``the most progressive domestic legislation in a generation'' on a razor-thin majority in both Houses. The right path was obvious. We followed it five times last year--five rescue packages totaling $4 trillion, and none of them got fewer than 90 votes. The Senate wrote the CARES Act, Republicans and Democrats, shoulder to shoulder. That was the road to real pandemic relief, but Democrats actually wanted something else. They explained their intent very clearly: to exploit this crisis as ``a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.'' That is how you get this massive bill with only 1 percent--1 percent for vaccinations, that ignores the science on reopening schools, that is stuffed with non-COVID-related spending that even top liberal economists say is wrong for the recovery.…”