Jim Clyburn

These measures are especially important to ensuring that Americans with disabilities are able to safely cast their votes.

Indeed, as Ms. Washington has testified, voters are simply asking for voting options in order to cast their ballot freely, safely, and fairly.

This is America. We love participating in democracy. We promote democracy. But we also believe in this peaceful transition of power.

It's not only important that we ensure the franchise of the vote but also the confidence that, when you cast that vote, that nobody else is going to be able to go and nullify your vote with an illegal vote or that you are going to have to…

But this idea that the Federal Government should make states run a California-type system, when, again, weeks and weeks after the election in California, results were changing, that's not something I think instills confidence among voters.

That's not fair, but that is what we've inherited.

Are we in pursuit of a more perfect Union, or are we backtracking on that pursuit?

Given the virus's more harmful impact on seniors, younger Americans must be recruited to serve as poll workers in greater numbers than ever before.

Republicans should agree to allocate these funds without further delay.

The right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy.

Mail-in voting is safe and secure.

Every voter who casts an absentee ballot is a voter who will not be in line at the polls.

In Texas, local election officials warned that voters could be waiting in lines for hours on election day.

We cannot allow the pandemic to be used as a cover to continue or exacerbate the ugly history of voter suppression.

If we all do our part, America is up to the challenge.

Yet we also heard a recording from March in which he admitted, quoting again, 'I wanted to always play it down. I still feel like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic,' end of quote.

While our Nation confronts a perfect storm resulting from an unprecedented pandemic, distress resulting from ongoing police and racial violence, we must ensure that all Americans have voice at the ballot box this season.

This morning, we heard the President, in his own words, recorded in February, describe the coronavirus as, and I quote, 'deadly stuff,' end of quote.

Elections are not rigged.

I hope all my colleagues today will join me and Mr. Ginsberg in rejecting that advice and urging Americans to follow the law and vote only once.

Please, please get back to the negotiating table. Forget all of this name blame mess that I hear going on.

Congress created these programs to protect workers and preserve American jobs, not to funnel taxpayer dollars to big companies and corporate executives.

Let's find some common ground here, we are willing to come down from 3.2 trillion down to maybe 2

We think it takes $3.2 trillion to address this issue so the state and local governments can be involved

There's one Wall Street and there are thousands of Main Streets that are not doing well.