Political Quotes

“We should be able to get a bill that we can move forward on with unanimous consent. We really should. That is what I am hoping for. I think we can do it Let me go back to where I am coming from. My whole thing is based on the healthcare right now. You can't throw enough money to fix this if you can't fix the healthcare. If you can't give my people in West Virginia and across this country the feeling that we have a treatment and we are moving forward on a vaccine, they are not leaving their homes. My restaurants aren't going to open up. The most important thing is, How do we take care of the workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own because businesses have closed? It is the same in my State as in your State--through no fault of their own. That is the package we have to get out. We have $160 billion moving right now--moving right now. I am saying this: It looks like things are weighted toward the Wall Street corporations' side. True or false? We are not in the frontlines. We are not one of the big four. Many of us--100 of us--are not there negotiating at the table. Our staffs are all having input, and we are working on that. But sitting there and making the final decisions comes down to this: Can we give the confidence that we can rise to the occasion to keep the people healthy in our States? My hospitals need to stay open. My healthcare workers need to be healthy. They need to be protected.…”