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Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019

Floor Speech

Date: March 27, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Mrs. RADEWAGEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in overwhelming support of this bipartisan legislation. The country needs it, and American Samoa desperately needs it. American Samoa has unique economic and geographic challenges.

So far, my constituents are without any coronavirus testing at all, as NBC recently reported. The Army Corps of Engineers has reported our LBJ hospital needs over $100 million, at a minimum, for improvements just to meet compliance standards.

I want to thank the President for his leadership, and I thank my colleagues for including my request that the Pacific territories and the Freely Associated States are in the definition of ``State,'' so all pandemic unemployment assistance programs apply to us.

Our people are strong and their faith is strong. Let's get this funding to work and provide testing in American Samoa.

Mr. Speaker, may God bless us all.

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