Despite the hoopla about the bipartisan compromise infrastructure bill reaching an agreed upon framework, it's a bigger deal that all elements of the Democratic side are united on the two-bill plan for moving forward on infrastructure.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, points out that a simultaneous, dual bill solution is what progressives were advocating for for weeks.
"We have a culture problem in the Republican Party."
"Rather than solving the problems of their citizenry ... they are using their precious time in state legislature after state legislature to pass voting restriction laws targeting Black, brown, and young voters." @marceelias
"If we can buy time for our democracy and maybe have some shift in the [GOP] that it stops viewing people voting as an existential threat to the party, rather they start to see the participation of all Americans as a goal we should aspire to, then maybe we succeed." @marceelias
"Do I think it violates federal law? Yeah, I do. Because federal law requires that the ballots in federal elections be kept for 22 months after the election, and these ballots have essentially been tainted. Do I think it violates state law in some of these states? Yeah."
"One of the things that I've really be struggling with in processing is how quickly these patients deteriorate. How they go from walking and talking to being intubated to being pronounced dead within a matter of hours."
"Because of the way COVID is, they're not allowed to see their family even if they are hospitalized. So it can be weeks before they see their family, or it can be the last time that they see their family."
"The units are full with critically-ill COVID patients," Saliski said. About 90% of them are Black. He said hospitals are able to manage for now, but it's not sustainable. montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
"This mask slows that down, 95% protection from something as easy as cloth. ... If this continues the way it's going, we will be overrun."
"The question on the table is whether lack lives matter," Boyd said before the vote.
"When someone is calling out for help, it is our obligation to help them. Especially if you're an officer that is charged with protecting and serving the public. That didn't happen, and that's a failure." -Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
Minneapolis Mayor: "We need peace."
"The first action that I believe needs to come is the charge. We need a charge of the arresting officer in this case." -Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey