Political Quotes

“thank you. I am on the floor today to talk about the coronavirus pandemic and what we can and should do here in the U.S. Senate and in Congress as a whole to actually address the ongoing problem. We are not out of the woods yet. We still have a healthcare crisis and, of course, an economic crisis that is a consequence of that. We have done some good bipartisan work over the past 6 months. In fact, not many people realize that we have actually passed five or six bills with strong bipartisan majorities. The one people know about most is the biggest one, the CARES Act. I think it got 97 votes here on the floor of the Senate--97 to nothing. We have in the past been able to figure out a way to come together as Republicans and Democrats and as Americans to be able to address this crisis. We need to do it again because we still do have a crisis. We still do have unacceptably high levels of people getting infected, hospitalized, being in the ICU, fatalities, and, of course, our economy is not where any of us would like to see it although it has improved significantly, in part because of the legislation we passed here. I am convinced that we would be at over 10 percent unemployment still if not for the legislation we passed here. Instead, we are beginning to come down--8.4 percent last month. That is faster than anybody thought it could. Still, of course, it is unacceptably high.…”