Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I will tell you this bill, among other things--we can talk about all the wish list of things that are in it, and I am sure many have and many will. I want to talk about the trillion dollars of additional spending to the States and talk about my State of Pennsylvania, where we spent and sent billions of dollars where, right now, the Governor is holding hostage that money that is supposed to go directly to the counties. He won't give it to the counties that are going bankrupt right now. What he is doing, Mr. Speaker, is making sure that our nursing home patients get exposed to COVID-19. It is a directive in Pennsylvania, if they have COVID-19 and the hospital releases them, they have to go back to the nursing home. So our nursing homes are 74 percent of the deaths across the State. Seventy-four percent of the deaths in Pennsylvania are because of the Governor's policy. Meanwhile, he says he doesn't have enough money. We are going to spend more money in Pennsylvania when the money hasn't already been spent Oh, by the way, the unemployment compensation money that we sent to Pennsylvania, it takes 41 days right now to have your claim answered. People cannot exist on policies and promises. They need money. Mr. Speaker, spending more money, sending more money to buttress failed policies doesn't fix the policies. They don't fix anything. They don't help anyone. Let's fix the policies.…”