[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 36 (Thursday, February 25, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H630-H631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DELIVERING ON PROMISED COVID-19 RELIEF

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Madam Speaker, in December, this House passed a 
COVID-19 relief compromise, during which time we pledged to the 
American people that we would do more. Now is the time for us to 
deliver on that promise.
  The American Rescue Plan is that promise delivered. It is something 
that enables us to put people back to work; put kids back in schools; 
to put $1,400

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checks in people's hands, the people who are struggling to keep body 
and soul together, to make ends meet, the people who really need this 
money.
  No American economist of repute disagrees that this kind of relief is 
necessary. Now is the time for us to do it. Let's come together and 
enact the American Rescue Plan.

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