Political Quotes

“Democrats are falsely claiming that this bill claws back relief funds from Americans who received an overpayment through no fault of their own. The language in this bill is crystal clear. It is focused on recovering overpayments due to fraud. That means intent on the part of the individual. Existing law already protects individuals who receive overpayments through administrative error or otherwise. In fact, section 2401 of the CARES Act allows States to waive overpayments on a case-by-case basis if the payment would be contrary to equity and good conscience. This bill also explicitly states in section 2(a)(2) and section 2(a)(3) that ``the State agency may retain 25 percent of any amount recovered from overpayments of pandemic emergency unemployment compensation''--this is the one you need to understand--``that were determined to be made due to fraud.'' Not overpayment. Due to fraud. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”