Political Quotes

“Madam President, let me just say at the outset, I strongly, strongly, strongly agree with my colleagues--Senator Rubio and my friend from Oregon Senator Merkley--that the United States has to fight genocide and the scourge of forced labor taking place in Western China and elsewhere around the world. As the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my special priorities--one that we worked on for quite some time--has been to tackle this issue of forced labor. It goes back to work that Senator Brown and I did in 2015 to close an unjustifiable loophole that allowed an exception to the ban on products made with forced labor. Not only is it morally abhorrent, it is also a major trade rip-off that undermines American workers. On the Finance Committee, we believe that the Senate needs to look at every opportunity to protect good-paying American jobs and help workers and their families get ahead. That means that the Senate has got to be prepared to tackle multiple challenges at once. Right now, the urgent issue for so many American families is the potential expiration of child tax credit payments on January 1. Families received their sixth child tax credit payment today. It could be the last if this body does not act. Families have come to depend on these payments to cover the essentials like rent, groceries, heat, and clothing for their kids.…”