Political Quotes

“our country faces the greatest health threat in 100 years and the greatest economic crisis in 70 years, but here in the Republican-led Senate, you would hardly know it. Over the past several months, even as COVID-19 surged through the country once again, even as our States hit new records of infections and hospitalizations, the Republican majority in the Senate dithered and delayed on the next phase of major emergency relief. In April, May, and June, Democrats tried to jolt the Senate into action, but almost every time we tried to pass much needed legislation by average Americans, our Republican colleagues objected. Unemployment claims reached 50 million. The number of cases topped 3.8 million as the virus resurged over the past several weeks, and more than 140,000 Americans have died. Still, Senate Republicans wanted to, in the words of their leader, ``hit the pause button'' and ``assess the conditions'' in the country before providing any more relief. The country was burning, and Senate Republicans, led by Leader McConnell, said: ``Let's wait a little longer and see how this goes.'' Like President Trump, they were hoping it would go away, ignoring all of the scientific evidence but paying obeisance to the hard right, which didn't want to spend money no matter what the cost to America. Now it seems our Republican friends have finally found the motivation to do another emergency relief bill.…”