Political Quotes

“a vote-arama is upon us. Stay hydrated. Try to keep good cheer. We are going to have lots of amendments today and kind of talk about where we differ on certain things, which will be good for the country. What I hate the most is that we are doing a partisan COVID bill for the first time as a nation, and I don't know why because on March 5, 2020, 96 to 1, we appropriated $8 billion when we had just begun to understand what COVID was about; March 18, $355 billion, 90 to 8; March 25, $1.9 trillion. So March 5 and 25, we spent well over $2 trillion, with the average vote 96 to 1, 90 to 8, and 96 to 0. In April we spent $355 billion by voice vote; September 30, 2020, $8 billion, 84 to 10; December 21, 2020, $1.04 trillion, 92 to 6. So it is not like we can't work together on COVID. You had a Republican President, you had a Republican Senate, and a Democratic House, and we were able to come together as a nation. But that is all over now because my Democratic colleagues have chosen to go another way because they can. They have all the power. They have the House, the Senate, and the White House. They have chosen to do a $1.9 trillion package without any effort at all, in my view, to try to find common ground. Ninety percent of this money has got zero to do with COVID. It is a liberal wish list, and every time Senator Schumer says it is not, it makes me believe it is.…”