Political Quotes

“last week I indicated that it would be unacceptable for the Senate to recess for the Christmas holidays without providing substantial direct payments to the working families of our country and to their children. Majority Leader McConnell and I do not agree on much, but as I understand it, we are in agreement on at least one point, and that is that the Senate cannot go home until the COVID emergency relief bill is passed. The fact that the majority leader intends to keep the Senate in session this weekend to continue work on the COVID relief package is the correct decision. But let me, at this time, be as clear as I can be. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, and I have been working together to make certain that the working families of this country have a direct payment of $1,200 for adults and $2,400 for couples and $500 for each of their children. Let me also be absolutely clear that I will object to any attempt by the Senate to pass an omnibus appropriations bill and leave town before passing a COVID relief bill with substantial direct payments going to working people. The truth is that the working families of this country today are probably in a worse economic condition than at any time since the Great Depression. Millions of people are unable to pay their rent, and they are worried about being evicted. Hunger is, literally, at the highest level that it has been in several decades.…”