Barbara Lee said "First, let me thank Madam Chair, our Speaker, our committee chairs--chair of the Black Caucus, Chairwoman Bass, and Robin Kelly chairs the Health Braintrust for the Black Caucus--for working together with me to address the unequal impact of COVID on people of color and the poor and making sure that people and organizations rooted in our communities play the lead role in recovery, including contact tracing. We are facing the worst health and economic crisis of our lifetime. Elevated rates of infection and death are in communities of color. Heroic frontline and essential workers being paid poverty wages. There are struggling small and minority-owned businesses, millions unemployed, and millions pushed into poverty. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 15, 2020

First, let me thank Madam Chair, our Speaker, our committee chairs--chair of the Black Caucus, Chairwoman Bass, and Robin Kelly chairs the Health Braintrust for the Black Caucus--for working together with me to address the unequal impact of COVID on people of color and the poor and making sure that people and organizations rooted in our communities play the lead role in recovery, including contact tracing. We are facing the worst health and economic crisis of our lifetime. Elevated rates of infection and death are in communities of color. Heroic frontline and essential workers being paid poverty wages. There are struggling small and minority-owned businesses, millions unemployed, and millions pushed into poverty. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.

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Barbara Lee

Democratic · California

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