[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 46 (Thursday, March 14, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FOR THE PEOPLE AGENDA

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to remind this House of the 
Democratic For the People agenda, which starts with rebuilding American 
infrastructure and creating good paying jobs doing so.
  It includes expanding healthcare so that it is available to more and 
more Americans, and bringing down the costs of healthcare and 
prescription drugs.
  It includes cleaning up our American democracy and rooting out 
corruption in our electoral process.
  We achieved the third one this month with H.R. 1, the For the People 
Act, but the other two took a serious blow this week when we saw the 
President's budget, which cuts Medicare to the tune of $1.5 trillion 
over the next 10 years, breaking a core promise of the President's 
campaign, and also cuts infrastructure spending.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to reject that shortsightedness in 
the President's budget, and let's go ahead and achieve the For the 
People agenda.

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