Political Quotes

“Madam President, before turning to Senators Menendez, Cortez Masto, Wyden, Klobuchar, Reed, Schatz, and Van Hollen, who all want to speak, I appreciate the comments from my friend--and he really is my friend--from Idaho. We work well together. We want to do regular order. This last bill was passed in March. Then there was April, May, June. Now we are in July. It is not a question of regular order. We would love to sit down with Senator McConnell and start negotiating as to what is next. We have wanted that really from about April 1. No April Fools' joke there; we really wanted to do that. Instead, Senator McConnell just seemed to ignore this. I mean, go back to the human side. What happens when somebody is unemployed? We will be leaving now for 2 weeks. That is why we are doing these unanimous consent requests now. It is because we want to see action. We have asked and asked and begged and begged and pleaded and pleaded. So what happens? We will go back home for 2 more weeks. Right now, if you can't find a job, if you are unemployed and are getting that $600 a week, you start paying attention online or you read the papers or however you get your information, and you find out that this is going to expire at the end of July. You don't know what you are going to do, but you know that you haven't paid rent in 3 months because you have had an eviction moratorium. Senator Crapo talked about the moratorium.…”