Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, that is added to the absolutely inaccurate descriptions I have heard from the other side as to what is in this legislation. In other words, they are blocking us from moving forward, creating the procedural hurdles that the majority leader just talked about, but also doing so by telling the American people, for instance, there is not enough in here for small businesses. My gosh, this is an unprecedented program for small businesses, something we have never done before. We are telling businesses: If you are paying your employees to stay there, you not only get a loan, you get a grant They say there was not enough in here to help people who are falling between the cracks. It is an unprecedented unemployment insurance system that we are setting up here. By the way, if you look at the unemployment insurance side, look at it this way. What we are saying is that we want to increase by eight times the cost of the national unemployment insurance system. That is how I look at it. It is an additional $600 per week, per person. It is a broader employment system because we are going to bring in people who are self-employed, people who run the gig economy--something that we should be doing as a matter of reform, perhaps, but in this case we have to do it. These people are hurting too. This is unprecedented to provide people who are low- and moderate-income Americans the ability to have wage replacement through unemployment insurance.…”