Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have just a few more minutes, and I will be done. I won't go through the details of this report, but I want to note for the Senate two things. No. 1, we will be introducing--I will, and Senator Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senator Wyden, the ranking member of the Finance Committee--the three of us and our offices will be releasing a report about nursing homes. The report is entitled ``COVID- 19 and Nursing Homes: How the Trump Administration Failed Residents and Workers.'' This is a chronicle of deadly delay and a chronicle of a lack of real urgency on behalf of the administration. I hope the administration is reaching that point of urgency and is going to deliver to the American people a plan to get the death numbers down, to get the case numbers down in nursing homes. We haven't seen that sense of urgency. This report includes nine findings and nine recommendations, so no one can ever accuse us of just cursing the darkness of this tragedy without bringing the light of solutions to this issue. There is more that I could say, but just for the record, as I conclude, I ask unanimous consent that the written comments that my office received from two constituents with concern about their loved ones in nursing homes be entered into the Record. Just for the record, I will read the names of the family members: Thomas and Barbara Taylor of Coatsville, PA.…”