Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, the minority leader is requesting to move to legislation after having repeatedly, this week, requested and asked for votes to adjourn multiple times-- leave town. Now, all of a sudden, he wants to legislate. I think there is a serious question about the sincerity of the minority leader's request here. And, frankly, to his point, the U.S. Senate has now twice--and most recently this week, on Tuesday--Tuesday this week--voted on legislation that would do all the things that he says that he wants to do: Help people who are unemployed; we voted on a bill that had unemployment insurance for people who are unemployed. Help small businesses; we had a bipartisan agreement on the Paycheck Protection Program to provide assistance to small businesses, and that was blocked by the Democrats earlier this week. It had money in there, resources on a bipartisan, agreed-upon objective, and that is more money, more resources, for schools and universities to open safely-- $100 billion in there for schools to open safely. They blocked it. They objected. It had money in there for farmers, something that is important to the Presiding Officer and to me as well. They blocked it. It had money in there for the Postal Service, something that his side has been saying repeatedly we need to address. They blocked it. We had that vote this week.…”