[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 43 (Monday, March 8, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1085]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICANS WANT TO BE RESCUED NOW

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, with final passage of President Biden's 
American Rescue Plan expected tomorrow, the priorities I pressed for, 
including $1,400 in direct payments per person and $26 billion in 
rental assistance makes the Rescue Plan live up to its name.
  The rescue extends to the District of Columbia, which retrieves $755 
million taken from the District when Republicans treated the District 
as a territory in the CARES Act. Instead, the new bill treats D.C. as a 
State as usual because D.C. residents pay full Federal taxes, and it 
funds D.C. for city, State, and county levels because D.C. provides 
services at all three levels.
  This bill resisted the Republican plan for less money because the 
American people want to be rescued now, not later. The American Rescue 
Plan Act will hasten doing our business together again on this House 
floor and getting the American people back to business and to school.

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