I thank the gentleman for his observations. He is right; we are for this. We are also for making sure that children have food on their tables. We are also supportive of making sure that education facilities have the money to keep their venues safe and to keep education flowing. We are also for making sure that childcare is available to parents who can go back to work, when and if their children go back to school. We are also for having critical money for testing and tracing and, yes, for delivering the vaccinations. Yes, we are for that, and we are also for States and localities that are hemorrhaging revenue to have the resources to continue to be on the front line of fighting the battle against COVID-19. We are also for resources, not only to have created the vaccine-- almost all of which is being funded by the Federal Government--but we are also for making sure we can deliver that vaccine and have vaccinations as well as having a vaccine. We are very strongly for helping the extraordinary number of unemployed, who are on unemployment insurance, and who, at the end of this month, are going to find it goes away. We are for having an additional enhancement of that unemployment insurance, which so many economists will tell you from the CARES Act, was absolutely essential to keep the economy afloat.…
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This seems to be the substance of the Republican response to all the issues that the gentlewoman raises. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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