Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are going to be talking tonight about nursing homes in the context of the COVID-19 disease. I will start with the numbers, which I think most Americans, unfortunately, know by now. Every day we see the number of cases and the number of deaths. I don't know exactly the number today, but it was somewhere around 127,000 deaths. Yet a number they may not know are the numbers when it comes to nursing homes. More than 54,000 residents of nursing homes or workers have died--more than 54,000. They account for more than 40 percent of all the deaths in the USA. To say this is unacceptable in no way begins to describe the gravity of this, the tragedy, and the failure by the administration to deal with it and to have a strategy to get that number down. I hope the administration and I hope Members of Congress would commit themselves today to say that when we come back here 3 months from now, 4 months from now, 5 months from now, that we are not again saying 54,000 more people died in nursing homes. I hope there will be an effort made by the majority in the Senate to make sure we are working together with the administration to get that number down. I don't sense that the administration has any kind of a strategy here at all because if there were a strategy, that number would never be as high as it is. I will have more to say later, but there is something we can do in the Senate and that is to pass legislation to do a couple of things. No.…”