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American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: March 10, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care

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Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the American Rescue Plan.

Last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread, I worked across the aisle to pass the CARES Act. Passing that bill required compromise, and the final legislation omitted key provisions that I wanted us to deliver on. But the American people got the relief they needed, and that was what was the most important thing.

One year later, with Democrats in the White House, Republicans won't help us in this pandemic. Why? Because Donald Trump's name won't be on the stimulus checks? Is that how easily they will abandon their constituents?

The American Rescue Plan will deliver $1,400 stimulus checks, cut child poverty in half, and provide critical support to help our communities recover and reopen.

The time for action is now, and if Republicans won't help us crush the coronavirus, we will do it without them.

For the sake of my constituents and all Americans, I am voting ``yes'' on the American Rescue Plan.

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