Political Quotes

“I see a very different country, apparently, from my colleague. And I respect Senator Cornyn. I sat at this desk on March 6. We had been voting, as the Presiding Officer from Hawaii remembers. We had been voting all night. It was a Saturday at about 12:30. We had voted for about 11 hours. And we defeated by one vote an amendment where Senator Grassley and my colleagues from the Finance Committee and the Senate Republicans tried to delete the child tax credit from the American Rescue Plan. We then took a second vote around noon on Saturday, after 11 or 12 hours of voting, where we passed the American Rescue Plan by one vote. Two different times, the Republican Party, which always votes for tax cuts for the richest people in the country, always on party-line votes, always under the very discredited theory that with tax cuts the dollars trickle down to workers and to the middle class and the rest of the country--they will always vote for a big tax cut for rich people, but they opposed twice--unanimously opposed, every single one opposed--the child tax credit. (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.) Today is the magic day. I remember saying to Senator Casey, when we passed the American Rescue Plan, that this is the best day of my career in public service because we are going to reduce the child poverty rate by 50 percent. This isn't a tax cut for rich people, so they can buy another home or another yacht or another vacation place.…”