Political Quotes

“I wish to highlight a couple important points about our economic stimulus efforts in the Senate. We have had an opportunity over the last couple weeks to analyze carefully what the American people expect in terms of a jolt to our economy and what they expect this body to do. Unfortunately, we have been stymied by a lot of politics. I think it is important to point out very briefly the elements of what the Senate is trying to do, at least on the Democratic side and, secondly, to highlight its importance to the American people. First of all, with regard to the basic elements--I will not go into a long discussion--in order to stimulate this economy, we have to invest in strategies we know will work. One of those is unemployment insurance. We know that. All the economists say that. It is not because Democrats assert that; economists say one of the only ways that is proven to jolt our economy is to invest in unemployment insurance. This proposal on the Democratic side does that.”