Political Quotes

“Mr. President, Senator Wyden is so right here. He fought back in March for $600 a week for unemployed workers, which kept our economy going, which kept us from going into a worse recession, which made all the difference in the world for all these workers. Think about this. If we were to adopt their proposal--I think they have a proposal. We haven't really seen very much yet. As Senator Wyden said, the House passed a bill back in May. It has been May, June, and almost all of July. We have waited and waited and waited. Unemployed workers know that their unemployment expires at the end of July, yet Senator McConnell sent us home, as Senator Wyden said. They wait. We wait. We wait. Then they come up with this half-baked proposal that they don't even know what it is exactly. But we do know one thing. We do know that workers who were laid off through no fault of their own, they want to work. Most Americans want to work. Those workers, their unemployment is cut from $600 to $200 a week. So we are essentially taking $400 from millions of workers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Oregon, Ohio, Arkansas, and Utah. We are taking $400 a week from these workers at the same time that the moratorium on eviction expires, at the same time that eviction courts in the States open up. In Columbus, OH--my State's largest city--they are holding eviction courts in an arena because there are so many people who will be evicted if their unemployment expires.…”