Louie Gohmert: “It is an honor to agree with the comments that have just been made. We do need to come together and provide assistance…”

“It is an honor to agree with the comments that have just been made. We do need to come together and provide assistance to the American public, to those who have been so extremely adversely affected, not merely by COVID, but by the, in some cases, very offensive uses of government power and actually unauthorized power in numerous circumstances taking away people's freedom for the first time in American history when they were not sick, quarantining people who were not ill, shutting down businesses, picking and choosing winners and losers among businesses. Yet we, as Republicans, have been begging our friends across the aisle, come on, there are things ready to be used--readymade. The money that was appropriated several months ago--there is over $100 billion, maybe a whole lot more than $100 billion--is waiting to be used, but the deadlines in that initial bill have been exceeded. So all we need to do is say that money is available again. It is still just sitting there. As businesses are going bankrupt, my friends across the aisle are allowing them to go bankrupt and basically holding them for hostage and saying: We are going to keep letting businesses go broke; we are not going to let you use the money that is sitting there waiting to be used to help these businesses to save them from bankruptcy and to keep them in business; and we are going to let them keep going out of business because we want a big comprehensive bill.…”