Political Quotes

“we have already had this debate once today when the Democratic leader chose to offer this motion knowing that, of course, it is not serious. What he is talking about here, just after having rejected a very commonsense proposal, which is a 1-week extension for the unemployment insurance--by the way, at $600, which is exactly what the Democrats say they want. They want to keep it at $600 even though, as we know from numerous studies, that means that, for many people--in fact, for 68 percent of the people on unemployment insurance, based on the University of Chicago study--they are making more on unemployment insurance than they can make at work. I think all of us here in this Chamber want to be sure that folks are taken care of. In fact, we just voted on legislation to provide the ability to be able to debate this very issue and other issues. But to say that people should be making substantially more for not working rather than working is something I think even a lot of my Democratic colleagues do not find acceptable. Instead, the minority leader, once again, is offering the Heroes Act, as he has done before. You will recall this is the House-passed legislation that was passed, actually, a while ago during different times. But it is $3.5 trillion. That is what the CBO says--$3.5 trillion. That makes it, of course, the most expensive piece of legislation ever passed by either body anytime in our history, by far.…”