Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to discuss the House Democrats' $3 trillion spending spree. The American people are at a point where they need a life preserver. Instead, Speaker Pelosi has just thrown them an anvil. It is absurd. Her COVID-19 proposal is pricey, partisan, and it is a pipe dream. It is a bloated bonanza of all of her leftwing socialist projects. It weighs in at over 1,800 pages, but there is one glaring omission: House Democrats forgot to help fight the coronavirus. This bill is Nancy Pelosi's socialist Democratic dream, but it is a nightmare for the American people. Nancy Pelosi needs a very serious reality check. The far-left fantasy will never become law. It cannot pass the Senate. The country is trying to recover from the coronavirus. People are stressed. They are struggling. They are sacrificing. They are suffering. They need help to survive the crisis. People have been living through 2 months of lockdowns to slow the spread of the disease. While the infection rate has finally started to flatten, tragically, tens of thousands of Americans have already died. More than 36 million people have lost their jobs. People back home in my State of Wyoming and people who, I am sure, are back home in the Presiding Officer's home State of Missouri--people all across the country know what we need to do. We need to get back to business safely. We need this disease behind us. We need our communities back, and we need it as soon as possible.…”