Anna Eshoo: “I thank the chairman of the committee for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution. I do so for the…”

“I thank the chairman of the committee for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution. I do so for the following reasons: We have heard from our friends on the other side of the aisle about process issues. They are always appropriate to bring up. But that really is an obfuscation of why we are on the floor today with this resolution. This is about healthcare. This is about the Democrats looking to protect the healthcare that the American people have today. Now, from the outset of this administration, Medicaid coverage for low-income and disabled Americans, medically complex children, and our Nation's most vulnerable communities have been under attack. After failing to repeal Medicaid coverage for 17 million Americans in the last Congress, the Trump administration is now taking a hatchet to Medicaid. They are ripping coverage away from families, through onerous paperwork--saying: ``Oh, no, that really doesn't matter,'' but it does--onerous paperwork requirements, discriminatory policies against documented immigrants, and funding cuts through proposed block grants. {time} 1445 Block grants are not exactly tidy. It is not the way they are being represented. They use the word ``flexible.'' Whom is it flexible for? It is flexible for the States that can't stand it and allow them to cut, and they are the States that have some of the poorest people in them. The administration's actions have already taken a terrible toll.…”