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And now I find that some of my Republican colleagues are very distressed.

They're very upset that somebody who's making 10, 12 bucks an hour might end up with a paycheck for four months

more than they received last week.

Oh my God, the universe is collapsing.

Imagine that.

Somebody was making 12 bucks an hour,

now like the rest of us, faces an unprecedented economic crisis with the 600 bucks on top of their normal,

their regular unemployment check might be making a few bucks more for four months.

Oh my word, will the universe survive?

How absurd and wrong is that? What kind of value system is that? Meanwhile, these very

same folks had no problem a couple of years ago voting for a trillion dollars in

tax breaks for billionaires and large profitable corporations.

Not a problem.

But when it comes to low-income workers in the midst of a terrible crisis maybe some of them earning

were having more money than they previously made. Oh my word we got to

strip that out.

Got to, got to tell those poor people that no matter what.

By the way, when this bill, when the McConnell bill first came up,

unbelievably, and I know many Republicans objected to this they were saying that well we want to give

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