OPPOSING VIEWS

The Democratic leader

“This bill will deliver more help to more people than anything the federal government has done in decades,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a speech just before the chamber adopted the bill.

The Republican leader

“The Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way, or through a less rigorous process,”said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “Voters gave Senate Democrats the slimmest possible majority. Voters picked a president who promised unity and bipartisanship,” he continued, noting Democrats instead had opted to “ram through” their stimulus bill.