Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend and neighbor, the Congresswoman from the District of Columbia for her work, and I also thank the Republican manager for his kind remarks about a grieving family in my district. Last year, I brought a similar version of this bill to the floor requiring Federal agencies to communicate safety plans to their employees before returning to their offices. It is not an extra layer of paperwork; it is a plan. You have just got to have a plan so that we don't have more people like Chai Suthammanont dying from COVID. It seems to me that is something we ought to come together on, on a bipartisan basis. While our country opens for business, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that had been declining just a month ago are again on the rise, and the dangerous delta variant accounts for 83 percent of those cases in the United States. Meanwhile, only 56.3 percent of the total U.S. population has had at least one dose of the vaccine, and in 16 States, fewer than 50 percent of the population has had at least one dose, including, I believe, the State of the distinguished Republican manager today. We are clearly not out of the woods, and we must look to ensure the safety of both of our Federal workforce and our contract Federal workforce as they return to the workplace. The Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act would require every Federal agency to prepare and communicate a safety plan for how to do that.…”