Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I think we all know what is happening here. The leader pointed out in his opening remarks that everything was going really quite well. There were a lot of working groups that were meeting. There was great bipartisan cooperation. Both sides were getting ideas included in a plan. Then, yesterday, the Speaker of the House showed up with an agenda and, all of a sudden, it got taken over at the leadership level. Now, instead of talking about helping workers, we are talking about the Green New Deal and all kinds of other things, including the demands unions and other special interest groups want to see in this deal. Yet the throwaway line in this is about bailouts for big corporations. Really? Are we going to do that again? Are we going to do this again? You guys are going to come over here and block votes and use the line that this is a bailout for big corporations? You heard what Senator Alexander just said. This has money in here for workers. This has money for families. This has money for small businesses. It has lots of money, and $300 billion is going to go to checks: $1,200 per person, $2,400 per couple, and $500 per child, for everybody. There is up to $75,000 for a single and $150,000 for a married couple who is filing jointly.…”