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| https://cheney.house.gov/2020/12/10/cheney-nancy-pelosi-proves-she-has-been-here-too-long-by-continuing-to-ignore-the-needs-of-the-american-people/ | Cheney: Nancy Pelosi Proves She Has Been Here Too Long By Continuing To Ignore The Needs Of The American People | 2020-12-10 | 2020 | 2020-12 | Republican | Senate | WY | Liz Cheney | C001109 | cheney.house.gov | legacy | Today, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined her colleagues at a press event to discussthe need to immediately extend the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) andprovide critical relief forsmall businesses who desperately need it. On 40 separate occasions, House Democrats have blocked effortsto have an up-or-down vote on Rep. Steve Chabot's legislation (H.R. 8265), which would extend the PPP and allow small businesses and workers to access the over $138 billion in funds that remain a part of the program. Watch video of Rep. Cheney's remarks here, and see the transcript below: REP. LIZ CHENEY:Every one of us lined up on these steps, every single member on the other side of the aisle, we all represent thousands, thousands of people, thousands of small businesses who are hurting. And when I watch what Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats are doing, there are many times that we've come up here and raised our issues, raised our disagreements with the Speaker, in particular,but when I watch this, it is a level of cynicism, a level of willingness to completely ignore the people she represents, that I have not seen before. I think it makes absolutely clear Speaker Pelosi has been in Congress and has been the Speaker for far too long. The American people deserve a House of Representatives that is one that will do what is needed. We are in the middle of a pandemic, we have got small businesses across this nation, we've got Ag producers, we've got energy producers, we've got restaurant owners, we've got hospitals, we've got people who are suffering and the Speaker of the House seems to think this is all about sitting in back rooms, negotiating deals, scoring political points. When she finally says the quiet part out loud, and admits that she is actually doing that, she actually has delayed getting help to the American people because she was waiting to see if Joe Biden would get elected President. That is what she's doing. Every single American, every single member of this House, particularly every single member of her party needs to answer the question and I hope you all will ask them do you agree that the Speaker of the House is in the right to continue to play politics while people's businesses are suffering, while people are dying, while our hospitals are suffering, while our agriculture industry is suffering? Every member of her side of the aisle has got to stand up and explain why they think it is okay, why they think these games are alright. People are hurting, they need help.As our leader said, as our whip said; we have the ability today, right now, instead of voting on bills to legalize marijuana, bills to protect exotic cats, put the bill on the floor that will help small businesses and do it now. It will pass.So we stand together calling on this body, calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop sitting on her hands, to stop sitting in front of her refrigerator with expensive ice cream and to help the American people today. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |