[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H1243-H1244]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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             CALLING FOR BIPARTISAN CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, recent news has indicated that an 
individual in the United States has been designated with the 
coronavirus who has not been assessed to have traveled in any of the 
countries that have been listed for travel advisories and has not been 
listed as having had any of the normal processes or patterns of getting 
this particular virus.
  With that in mind, I think it is extremely important that Congress 
plays a major role, in addition to its role of discerning the kind of 
funding.
  With that in mind, we will be organizing a coronavirus task force 
that is bipartisan and that will assess how we

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reach effectively, as Members of Congress, all of our constituents who 
are dependent on information that we receive: the waiters and 
waitresses, the traveling public, the aviation persons, the public 
hospital providers, all of those persons in our districts.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to join the task force. Let us 
work together because it is a crisis. We are in a position to help the 
American people in the best way that we can, and that is with 
information.

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