Coronavirus

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, Republican Senators, like working families all across the country had hoped--hoped--the Senate would be spending this week completing more bipartisan pandemic relief.

We proposed another package with hundreds of billions of dollars to make schools safer for our kids, to help American workers keep or regain their jobs, and to invest more in testing treatments and finding and distributing a vaccine. But alas, Democrats filibustered it all, apparently intent that working families cannot receive any more relief until election day.

Across the Capitol, Speaker Pelosi's excuses and Goldilocks games are even wearing thin on our fellow Democrats. A few weeks ago, more than 100 House Democrats publicly--publicly--asked Speaker Pelosi to stop blocking action on any coronavirus legislation besides her multitrillion-dollar, far-left wish list. She ignored them. She completely ignored them.

Yesterday, a number of House Democrats tried again. They released a new proposal they had written to some Republicans and pleaded with the Speaker to allow a vote on it. Again, she shot down any notion whatsoever of compromise. Now, bear in mind, the Speaker had explained she will block any compromise for kids, jobs, and healthcare because-- because--passing anything short of multiple trillions of dollars would make her look like ``a cheap date''--a cheap date.

The money that K-12 schools need, that unemployed workers need, and that we need for the race toward vaccines, Speaker Pelosi is blocking all of it because, apparently, to the San Francisco far left, anything short of multiple trillions of dollars would make her ``a cheap date.'' So, apparently, for the sake of the Speaker's personal ego, working families continue to suffer with no bipartisan help from Congress.

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