Political Quotes

“I am glad to see a Member of the majority saying that Mitch McConnell ought to have us around here doing some work. I appreciate the Senator from Tennessee saying that. Senator McConnell said there was no urgency to help unemployed workers. Six hundred thousand unemployed workers in my State in August lost their $600 a week. What are they to do? Foreclosures are up. There are no dollars for public education so schools can open safely. I appreciate the Senator from Tennessee. Maybe she will talk to Senator McConnell and ask him to do his job so we can do our job. H.J. Res. 90 Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of H.J. Res. 90, the joint resolution of disapproval of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Community Reinvestment Act rule. We know who gets hit the hardest by this pandemic and economic crisis. It is not Wall Street. It is not CEOs. It is not U.S. Senators. It is low-income workers. It is essential workers. It is workers who go to work every day and get exposed to this virus and then come home, anxious about potentially infecting their family. It is the middle class. It is communities of color. Those are the people getting hit the hardest. It is the same story we see over and over and over. Corporate lobbyists and their allies in Washington do whatever it takes--whatever it takes to make sure that Wall Street recovers, and then they say: Oh, no, we can't afford to--we can't--the budget, the deficit.…”