Political Quotes

“as everybody knows, this country faces at this moment an extraordinary set of crises--in fact, crises that are unprecedented in the history of our country. We are in the midst of the worst public health crisis since the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, and, sad to say, this Senate has done nothing to address that crisis over the last 2\1/2\ months. Over the past 4 months, the coronavirus has infected nearly 5 million Americans and caused 160,000 deaths, and the Senate is doing nothing. Incredibly--and this is incredible--more Americans have been killed by the coronavirus than by the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Persian Gulf war, 9/11, the Afghanistan war, and the Iraq war combined, and the Senate is still not acting. We are in the midst of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Senate is doing nothing. Since March, more than 30 million Americans have lost their jobs. Last week, the Senate allowed a $600-a-week increase in their unemployment benefits to expire. Over half of the American people have seen a loss in their income. Yet the Senate continues to do nothing. Forty million Americans--an unbelievable number--40 million Americans are in danger of being evicted from their homes while the Senate has allowed a moratorium on evictions to expire. This is no great shock. Everybody knew this would happen. Yet the Republican leadership here has allowed that moratorium to expire.…”