Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my friend and my chairman, who I have great respect for, Mr. Neal, that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was one of the pivotal successes of the Trump administration that led to the lowest poverty among all Americans that had existed in decades, if not ever, and the strongest economy and lowest unemployment among all demographic groups. Whereas, this plan, this so-called COVID relief plan, is not, in fact, a COVID relief plan at all. By far, most of the money goes to creating new entitlement programs. You see, my friends on the other side of the aisle are more concerned with making the American people rely on government programs than they are on creating opportunity for them to lift themselves up. Mr. Speaker, if you operate a small business trying to get people to come back to work, if you are a frontline worker eager to be vaccinated and hoping this plan will speed that up, if you are a family attempting to educate your children while schools refuse to open, this bill won't help you. It leaves you behind. My friend, Mr. Clyburn, said last year that this COVID pandemic created a great opportunity for Democrats to mold things to their vision. Boy, are they delivering. My friends on the other side say this bill is popular, and I don't doubt it is. I mean, it is certainly good politics to say: Hey, we are going to hand you a check for $1,400.…”