I thank Mr. Chairman for his leadership on the CASH Act and also, as he mentioned, on the Ban Surprise Billing Act. It is really amazing the relief we are going to be giving to consumers this year on a bipartisan basis with his leadership. We are going to be making people's lives a lot better. So I thank him so much for the work he has done on both the CASH Act and on the work to address surprise billing. Madam Speaker, the effects of this pandemic have been cruelly uneven. Some remain unscathed, working remotely and still healthy, while millions of others are awash in misery, unable to return to work or pay their bills, even funeral bills for lost loved ones. While the stock market has hit a new record today, there are still bodies stored in refrigerator trucks. While online retail and grocery stores are booming, airline, Broadway, and mom-and-pop store employees have been laid off, and life savings invested in small businesses have been wiped out. The President's cynical ploy to threaten the COVID relief package to obscure his dark-of-night pardons has now resulted in a fighter's chance that we can pass this $2,000 stimulus check legislation if we can only get Mitch McConnell to finally show some empathy.…
On the recordDecember 28, 2020
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