Political Quotes

“Madam President, I thank the Senator from Idaho, and I regret that he will not be my committee partner next year because he is moving on to--I guess he considers it a better committee. I don't know for sure. But anyway, the Senator from Idaho is right. We passed it unanimously back in March, and it worked. The $600 and the help for hospitals and schools and governments, local and State governments, actually kept--1 study said 12 million; say it is half of that--5, 6 million people out of poverty. It worked. So we said to Senator McConnell in about May or June--because these programs and dollars were running out--we see what has worked. We will jettison what doesn't work, and we will continue those programs. But then, lo and behold, Senator McConnell kept saying: No sense of urgency, no sense of urgency, no sense of urgency, and we got zero in the end, when we asked Senator McConnell in August to--don't let the $600 expire. We know more people will drop into poverty. We know more people will be evicted. We know, as Senator Jack Reed has worked on, we will see more people foreclosed on. Senator McConnell has used the crutch of half the Republicans, half my friends on this side of the aisle, don't want to vote another dollar. He said they won't vote for anything. So maybe Senator Crapo is an exception to that.…”