Adrian Smith: “I did not come to the U.S. House of Representatives to vote for stimulus packages or bailouts. I didn't come here to…”

“I did not come to the U.S. House of Representatives to vote for stimulus packages or bailouts. I didn't come here to spend trillions of dollars or grow the size of government. However, the situation we are in today, in the United States and across the world, is different. We aren't in this situation because we've come to the end of a business cycle. We aren't here because mortgage lenders or Wall Street made bad decisions. We are here because our economy, with the help of regulatory and tax relief, was going strong, and we want to resume that strength when conditions permit. Three million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, not because the fundamentals of our economy changed, but because President Trump, and governors and mayors across our country, asked them to stay home as much as possible for a while, to help protect their families, friends, and neighbors. We should all be proud of how well most Americans have heeded that request. We owe Americans the opportunity to resume their lives, return to their jobs, resume their education, keep their homes, and feed their families just as they were before this pandemic arrived, and this bill addresses many barriers to that happening. Employers don't want to shut down and lay employees off. This bill will help many avoid having to. Americans want to work and support their families. The short-term changes to unemployment help those who don't currently have that choice.…”