[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 164 (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H4654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. America will soon pass 200,000 deaths from COVID-19. 
This pandemic is now the second leading cause of death in our country, 
only behind heart disease.
  This year, it will kill more Americans than lung cancer, stroke, 
Alzheimer's, diabetes, and the flu, and it didn't have to be this way.
  President Trump knew the dangers in January. His Deputy National 
Security Advisor told him to cut off travel from China, but he didn't 
do that.
  The next month, the President told a reporter that COVID-19 was more 
deadly than even your most strenuous flus, but he didn't tell the 
American people. He did what he always does when he faces a crisis. He 
failed the American people.
  Just yesterday, he told a crowd of his own supporters in Ohio that 
the disease ``affects virtually nobody.'' Yet, 200,000 have died of 
this disease.
  He is not up to his job. He never was. It is too big for him.
  The American people deserve a President who will take this deadly 
virus seriously and has a plan to defeat it.

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