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Providing for Consideration of H.R. American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 26, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care

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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the legislation because there are many reasons to vote for the American Rescue Plan.

If you want to ensure that schools can reopen safely and make up for lost time in the classroom, vote for the bill.

If you want to provide relief for institutions of higher education and their students, vote for the bill.

If you want to save our childcare system from collapse, vote for the bill.

If you want to protect workers against the virus and increase their wages, vote for this bill.

If you want to maintain access to affordable healthcare for workers who have lost their jobs, vote for the bill.

If you want to prevent more than a million retirees from losing their hard-earned pensions, vote for this bill.

Finally, if you want to keep children and families from going hungry, prevent domestic and gender-based violence, and protect older Americans during this pandemic, you must vote for this bill.

The American people need to know that help is on the way. I urge my colleagues to support the bill.

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