Political Quotes

“now on COVID, yesterday afternoon I announced that Senator Romney and I had reached an agreement for a $10 billion COVID supplemental appropriations package. It took many rounds of bipartisan talks, many days and nights and weekends of negotiations, but we have shaken hands on a compromise that the Senate can and should move forward very soon. I thank the Senators on both sides of the aisle who participated in this, and Senators Burr, Blunt, and Graham were involved with Senator Romney. Senator Coons gets a special shout-out because of his fierce determination to work on international, on getting an international thing done. Senator Murray, as well, was very helpful in our negotiations. The deal we announced yesterday has the support of Speaker Pelosi and President Biden, who urged Congress to work quickly to get a bill to his desk. We are going to work hard to get that done, and I hope my Republican colleagues will join us to move forward on this legislation. There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to get this funding passed. The administration needs it right now, and we all know that our country is in great need of replenishing our COVID health response funding. Putting in the work, today, to keep our Nation prepared against new variants will make it less likely that we get caught off guard by a new variant down the line. So this is really essential to America's well-being. It is essential to getting back to normal.…”