Political Quotes

“Mr. President, Senator Stabenow said some time ago that this is not just another Thursday. She and my eloquent colleagues, Senator Coons and Senator Hassan, who has just left the floor, have shown how painfully true Senator Stabenow's statement is about letting this not be just another Thursday here in the Senate. With Republican colleagues headed home for the weekend, perhaps for weeks, I want to take stock for a moment of all of the very crises the country faces while American families and communities don't have the luxury of a weekend. There is the COVID crisis, which Senator Stabenow and Senator Coons just talked about, with more than 50,000 newly confirmed cases and 1,000 or more deaths a day with a total of 4\1/2\ million cases in our country to date. There is the joblessness crisis. Enhanced unemployment benefits have expired. Tens of millions of Americans are out of work, with millions walking on economic tightropes. My colleagues are reading the letters. This is not based on some kinds of media reports. They are reading directly from what their constituents are saying, and I want to make sure everybody knows this, having listened now for days to our colleagues saying that the big problem is that somehow the American worker doesn't actually want to work. Senator Stabenow and I have heard that repeatedly in the Finance Committee room. I think it is insulting to the American worker.…”