[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 83 (Thursday, May 13, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2276]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SAYING YES TO MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER

  (Mr. RYAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, we are at a crossroads coming out of this 
pandemic. We are either going to decide, as a country, whether we are 
going to move forward together, or we are going to double down on the 
past and the bad economy.
  In the rescue package, 2.3 million Ohioan children will get $3,000 or 
$3,600 to stabilize themselves, to pull them out of poverty. And the 
Republicans said no.
  We had pension reform in that. Forty-thousand Ohioans will now be 
made whole instead of losing half their pension. Republicans said no.
  We want to do infrastructure. Republicans said no.
  We want money for State and local governments for hazard pay. 
Republicans say no.
  Mr. Speaker, if we removed the word ``no'' from the vocabulary of the 
people of the United States, the Republicans would be speechless.

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