Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first let me say thank you to my colleague, the former Governor of Virginia, the Senator from Virginia now. As a former Governor, we have a real interest in making sure that there is a good, cooperative spirit between the Federal Government and State governments. But this evening, as we have gone through an entire day--which is rather unusual in the Senate to have one Senator speaking after another with others here--at a time in which we should be exercising separation, as they say, to have had so many colleagues on the floor shows just how seriously the U.S. Senate is taking this issue. Perhaps the frustration laid out by Members of my conference is that we really want this to move forward as quickly as possible, and we understand that it is very difficult to put together the resources in order to buy those additional pieces of equipment that our friend from Colorado laid out unless we have a long-term plan here in which to also pay for it. So what I would like to do is to share a little bit of what is in this just in terms of a summary of what is in the proposal right now and that we believe is an appropriate, major step in taking care of funding to respond not just to the medical emergency but also to the economic emergency that we have in front of us right now for men and women who are worried about where they are going to get the next paycheck.…”