I appreciate the comments from the Senator from Georgia. There are plenty of negotiations going on. I don't know what he means when he says he doesn't have anybody to negotiate with. I just spent 2 hours with Secretary Mnuchin talking about provisions of this bill. We spent hours on Friday and Saturday talking within our committees. I applaud Senator Rubio, what he and Senator Cardin did. There has been bipartisanship but not from the majority leader, and that has really fundamentally been the problem--the Republican leader. Let's back up. Let's back up 10 days. I stood on this floor--Senator Durbin was here, a bunch of us--when Senator McConnell on a Thursday night, we were this close to agreement with the House on the second package, the one that had sick leave policy. We were that close. Senator McConnell decided he had to go back to Kentucky to go to a political event with a Justice of the Supreme Court--a political event with a Justice of the Supreme Court.
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