[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 63 (Tuesday, March 31, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E342]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          MIDDLE CLASS HEALTH BENEFITS TAX REPEAL ACT OF 2019

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                               speech of

                         HON. DANIEL T. KILDEE

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 27, 2020

  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is the intent of this chamber that 
States, Tribal governments, and local units of governments use the 
funds in the Coronavirus Relief Fund to recover any necessary monies 
that they would have otherwise collected or generated in order to pay 
their employees and cover costs but for the COVID-19 pandemic. As the 
legislation indicates, these funds are specifically targeted towards 
expenditures incurred between March 1, 2020 and December 30, 2020. I 
agree that it is important to try to keep American workers employed and 
paid during this time. And, I agree with the assessment that these 
governments rely on the collection of taxes and generation of revenues 
to pay the wages of these employees, and those costs were an 
anticipated expenditure to be allowable under the Coronavirus Relief 
Fund.

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