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On the recordApril 23, 2020
Because of the urgency, I urge you to vote ``yes.'' However, State and local governments and Tribal nations across the country need funding, too, to provide essential services for our essential frontline workers: paramedics, law enforcement, firefighters. We must include the Coronavirus Relief Act, $250 billion for local government for populations less than 500,000 in the next act because small cities' firefighters and paramedics in my district matter, too.
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Raul Ruiz
Democratic · California

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