Political Quotes

“I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Recognition of the Minority Leader The Republican leader is recognized. Inflation Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, 93 percent of the American people are concerned about inflation; 42 percent say they are struggling just to stand still financially; 63 percent say that gas prices, inflation, bills, or the economy are their biggest concerns. That is because 100 percent of the American people live in a country experiencing the worst inflation in more than 40 years, and 100 percent of the American people live in a country where things did not have to be this bad but for Democrats' deliberate policy choices. Don't take it from me. Listen to Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary to President Clinton and NEC Director to President Obama. Here is what Larry Summers had to say: There wouldn't have been nearly the same kinds of supply chain problems . . . if we weren't giving people who were laid off unemployment insurance that was far more than the salaries they had been earning . . . if we weren't mailing checks willy-nilly . . . there would have been less spending, that would have meant less bottlenecks.…”