Three days after the Senate’s two week-vacation ended but with the Senate GOP remaining “sharply divided” about measures to deliver relief to struggling families and President Trump’s insistence that they hand more tax breaks to big corporations, John Hickenlooper reiterated his calls for the Senate to stop with the bickering and find a way to get help to the people who need it.
Over the Senate’s two-week recess, Hickenlooper called on both Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to return to work to pass urgent relief for Colorado families, small businesses, and medical workers. The Senate’s gridlock and conflict now might have been avoided if they’d heeded his call and canceled their two-week vacation to get back to work.
“Days before expanded unemployment insurance payments expire, which over 227,000 Coloradans count on, the Senate has instead focused on ramming through Mitch McConnell’s fringe, far-right judges,” said Hickenlooper. “Instead of addressing expiring insurance payments, a national shortage of tests and PPE, and rising coronavirus cases, Senator Cory Gardner spent his two week vacation campaigning. This is Washington at its worst.”
Among the urgent issues the Senate failed to address while on its two week vacation are:
