Political Quotes

“Madam President, I actually believe that we make better legislation if we have two parties work together on something. In this case, we have crafted a piece of legislation that our party hasn't had any involvement in whatsoever. We tried. We went to the White House, and the President was very gracious in welcoming us and listening to us but did not accept any of our proposals. So we have before us today a piece of legislation that has the benefit of only one party. There are some errors in that and some things I think we really have to look at and try to fix. One of them is with regard to States and localities. At the time the President put his bill out there, there was an assumption that States have massive losses associated with the COVID experience. But the data that has come out since then has shown that, in fact, the States did not have those kinds of losses. Many States did not. Twenty-one States are seeing a rise in revenue. States like Florida don't need more money. Oklahoma doesn't need more money. My State of Utah doesn't need more money. California has record surpluses, billions of dollars in surplus. Yet, under this legislation, California itself at the State level gets $26 billion more and in total with its localities gets $41 billion. This is on top of their already surplus year. Think about that.…”