From the August 2, 2020, edition of CNN’s State of the Union

DANA BASH (GUEST ANCHOR): Senate Republicans did try this past week to pass a one-week extension of the additional $600 a week unemployment benefits. Democrats blocked it. So why not, if it's so needed — and it certainly seems to be — agree to the short-term fix, while you're negotiating a longer deal? 

HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Because we need to have a well-coordinated activity here. We passed the HEROES Act in the House. Why won't they then bring the HEROES Act, or whatever part of it they would like, to the table? They won't do it. They passed out the so-called HEALS Act — I don't remember exactly what it stood for — but not even anything for state and local governments, nothing for unemployed people. That's why we won't do it. 

BASH: Right, well, that's understandable. But that's what you're negotiating about, right? So isn't it just all frankly a political play to not allow the at least one-week extension, while you're trying to maximize your leverage? 

CLYBURN: Well, Dana, we're always trying to maximize leverage — they are trying to maximize leverage. How long ago did we send them this law we passed in the House? We had it for weeks — they had it for over a month. So they are the ones that are playing games with this. We don't want to jerk the American people around. Let's just lay it out. Ours went all the way into January. I don't know that this is honest negotiation, when you want to leave town and not sit around the table and do what needs to be done for the American people to have some security and some safety in trying to live their lives. And that's what we're trying to do. This every week, one more week, two more days — that's not the way you do things.