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On the recordNovember 18, 2020
the American people sent a clear message in this election. They want us to get to work to empower people with a plan to fight this virus and to get people back to work, back to school, and back to their lives. They gave President-Elect Biden a commanding 5-million vote victory to do that. It is time for us to get to work. We have had more than 1 million new cases just in the past week. Yet what does Leader Mitch McConnell--what does he keep the Senate in session to do? He keeps the Senate in session and he puts essential workers at risk all to try to ram through an unqualified nominee who pretty much everybody in this body knows has no business serving on the Federal Reserve. Let's be clear on what this is about. It is about our outgoing President--again, who lost the popular vote by 5 million people and lost an electoral college by a landslide--trying to sabotage our economic recovery on his way out the door. Yesterday, luckily, Senators of both parties rejected that effort. There were 80 million Americans-- most ever by a lot--who voted for stability in this election. Judy Shelton, the Trump nominee, promises more Trump chaos. You can't say you support working people while putting someone in charge who has no problem whatsoever threatening their jobs and their savings to push a bizarre intellectual agenda. She has no idea how to handle an economic crisis like the one we are in. Her positions aren't conservative.…
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
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Nov 18, 2020

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