Political Quotes

“with each passing day, we get another round of news underscoring how costly this pandemic has been. Yesterday, over 3,000 Americans--3,000--died from COVID-19, the highest single-day death toll to date. If you were making a list of some of the deadliest days in American history, your mind would jump to Gettysburg, Antietam, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11. You can now add to that somber list last Thursday, Wednesday, last Tuesday, last Friday, and yesterday. Each day, nearly 2,500 Americans or more lost their lives to COVID in the course of a single day. Now time is running out for Congress to finish our most pressing priority: passing an emergency COVID relief bill to help American families in need. Right now, there is one clear path to getting an outcome: a bipartisan group of Senators and House Members who have reached an initial agreement on another emergency relief bill. In the spirit of compromise and for the sake of getting something done for the American people, Speaker Pelosi and I have endorsed those efforts as a framework for a final bill. Everyone knows that this bipartisan proposal is the only real game in town at the moment, the only proposal with enough bipartisan support to, hopefully, pass both Houses of Congress before the end of the year.…”