Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019

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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, America is in the middle of a crisis, and our constituents are looking to us for help.

COVID-19 has shuttered businesses, closed schools, left millions of Americans without the means to pay rent or put food on their tables, and worst of all, killed over a thousand of our neighbors.

Congress has passed two bills to address the stubborn lack of testing that still plagues our health system, and to provide Americans with federally guaranteed paid sick leave for the first time ever.

However, it's clear that the scope and impact of this pandemic is far greater than we could have imagined.

So today, we take another step towards giving Americans a helping hand and some needed relief from an emergency that has changed life as we know it.

I support H.R. 748, the CARES Act, because it reflects a bipartisan compromise that will allow our elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools to pay their faculty and staff, and continue providing nourishment to their students.

I support the CARES Act because it will put money directly into the pockets of working Americans who aren't looking for a handout, but who need assistance to make it through the next few weeks.

I support the CARES Act because it provides billions in assistance to our number one job creators, our small businesses, as they look to make payroll and keep their workers employed.

It was the author William Feather who said: ``The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.''

The American people have done their best to meet each day of this crisis with resolve.

Now it is up to Congress to meet this crisis with the same kind of moral fiber.

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