Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to ask our Democratic colleagues to join us Republicans in providing immediate relief--relief in the fight against coronavirus and economic relief for the people of this country. Americans don't ask much of their government, but they are asking us for something right now. No. 1, they are asking to help control the spread of the coronavirus, and, No. 2, they are asking to help with an economic recovery. America and Americans shouldn't have to choose between staying open and staying healthy. We need both, and Congress needs to provide a path beyond the pandemic. A path forward, as the Presiding Officer knows, is something Republicans have been proposing now for a long time. We have done it, first, with the CARES Act, and we need to do it right now with additional coronavirus and economic relief legislation. Our bill is practical. It supports our neighborhoods--men and women working on Main Street in our small towns and communities all across the country. We also need to provide unemployment help for those who, for no reason of their own, happen to find themselves out of work as a result of the pandemic. We need to get the vaccine to as many Americans as we can as quickly and safely as we can, especially during this holiday season, when we are really looking at a medical miracle. Now, what we have seen from the other side is gridlock--no path forward on the economy, no path forward on coronavirus.…”