Senator Menendez calls for open debate on coronavirus relief package amid leadership talks

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez says in Senate floor remarks on providing state and local government budget relief in a comprehensive coronavirus relief bill that in ignore a regular order and letting leadership project the legislative process the needs of constituents were left out, Menendez had not come to Washington to sit on sidelines and wait for a handful of people to reach a deal behind closed doors before voting on 1000 page bill, and the high-stakes game of closed-door posturing and restore the Senate to its foundation is the greatest delivered body in the world, easier to embrace the 900 billion dollar fiscal relief in the heroes act or stick with the party line, but sticking to respective partisan corners would not help a single constituent, calling on senators to do their job and deliver a solution with federal support to states, counties and cities on the frontlines of the pandemic needing to defeat Covid 19 and serve the American people.
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez says in Senate floor remarks on providing state and local government budget relief in a comprehensive coronavirus relief bill that in ignore a regular order and letting leadership project the legislative process the needs of constituents were left out, Menendez had not come to Washington to sit on sidelines and wait for a handful of people to reach a deal behind closed doors before voting on 1000 page bill, and the high-stakes game of closed-door posturing and restore the Senate to its foundation is the greatest delivered body in the world, easier to embrace the 900 billion dollar fiscal relief in the heroes act or stick with the party line, but sticking to respective partisan corners would not help a single constituent, calling on senators to do their job and deliver a solution with federal support to states, counties and cities on the frontlines of the pandemic needing to defeat Covid 19 and serve the American people.
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