[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 204 (Thursday, December 3, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H6058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                AMERICAN PEOPLE WAITING FOR COVID RELIEF

  (Ms. SCANLON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, this week, December's rent and mortgage 
payments came due for millions of Americans, marking another gut-
wrenching deadline for families who have been forced to make the 
impossible decision between putting food on the table or keeping a roof 
overhead.
  We have been asking for months for the Senate to take up one of the 
relief packages that the House has passed and sent for consideration or 
for the Senate to come up with its own COVID relief proposal. While 
there has finally been some movement this week, it is way overdue.
  My constituents cannot wait any longer. As the coronavirus surges yet 
again in my region, I hear every single day from folks who have 
exhausted every resource to scrape by, but they cannot make ends meet 
without more relief.
  These are folks like Denise from Linwood. Last spring, she and her 
husband both lost their jobs in the hospitality industry. They have two 
kids at home learning virtually. Now they are faced with the expiration 
of unemployment benefits, and they fear eviction come January.
  Ann from Wayne is a schoolteacher who is trying to get a COVID test 
so she can take care of her elderly mother and do her job, but she has 
had to jump through hoop after hoop because we still lack a national 
testing strategy.
  My constituents and our local officials are doing everything in their 
power to feed their families and stay safe. It is past time that the 
Federal Government does the same. America is waiting.

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