[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 135 (Thursday, July 30, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H3992-H3993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DON'T LET UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS EXPIRE

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, in the summer of 1789, according to a 
story, there was a famine in France. The people didn't have enough 
bread to eat, and they approached the queen, and they said: Queen Marie 
Antoinette, the people do not have enough bread to eat.
  According to the story, she said: Well then let them eat cake.
  Showing the most callous disregard for what the lives of the people 
actually was like, assuming that without enough bread to eat they 
actually had cake lying around, that is ridiculous.
  Mr. Speaker, that is almost certainly an apocryphal story; it didn't 
really happen. But now, here, in America, we have a real-life American 
Marie Antoinette.
  Showing the most caviler disregard for the plight of the American 
people, allowing UI to expire without negotiating, without talking, 
without trying to extend relief, Senator Mitch McConnell, don't risk 
letting our economy

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slide into a Great Depression. Don't be Marie Antoinette.
  Let's come to the table and get this done.

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