[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 36 (Thursday, February 25, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NOT TARGETED COVID RELIEF

  (Mrs. WALORSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to a massive 
spending bill filled with payoffs to progressives.
  We should be focused on defeating COVID, getting Americans back to 
work, and helping small business recover. Instead, House Democrats are 
tossing bipartisanship aside to ram through a one-sided $1.9 trillion 
bill.
  We need a full accounting of the $1 trillion in existing COVID relief 
that hasn't even been spent before asking taxpayers to foot the bill 
for trillions more.
  And this isn't even emergency relief. Less than 10 percent is for 
actually fighting COVID. The rest will only make it harder for small 
business to recover, hire workers, and rebuild our economy.
  On top of that, it is a massive bailout for fiscally irresponsible 
cities and States. Put simply, Hoosiers should not have to pay for the 
bad decisions of progressives in California.
  This is not the unity President Biden called for. It is not the 
bipartisanship Americans expect. It is certainly not the targeted COVID 
relief our country needs.

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