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On the recordMay 19, 2020
I was sitting through the last two speakers and listening to them. You can tell that it is an election year. The Democrats want to defeat President Trump, and I think sometimes a tactic to use is to get someone's strongest point and try to turn it into his weakest point. In this case, we have heard in just the last few minutes that the President is handling the coronavirus completely wrong, that he is critical of and then he was friendly to--I couldn't quite figure out the relationship with China. I know the Democrats in this Chamber are generally perceived as the close friends of China and President Xi and the rest of them. Also, to talk about what Speaker Pelosi has done in terms of the bill that was passed in the House and the criticism that we are not taking up that bill, well, all that bill is--we are not supposed to be talking about anything in all of this heavy spending except doing something about coronavirus. This is something that no one had anything to do with. We didn't know it was going to happen. We had no preparation for it. I have never experienced it in my life. Yet I do remember so well when this body, this Senate, was working on a coronavirus bill and we were to be voting on it on a Sunday at 6 o'clock in the evening, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, came dancing in. It was the first time I even knew she was in town because the House wasn't in session, and she stopped it.…
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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