Al Green: “I thank the chairwoman, Ms. Johnson, for the time. Madam Speaker, Dr. King was eminently correct when he reminded us…”

“I thank the chairwoman, Ms. Johnson, for the time. Madam Speaker, Dr. King was eminently correct when he reminded us that life is an inescapable network of mutuality tied to a single garment of destiny. What impacts one directly impacts all indirectly. This became perspicuously clear to us when we had a shortage of PPE in this country. We have a strategic petroleum stockpile, in the sense that we have oil, petroleum that is on reserve for emergencies. When we pass this bill, we will have a strategic medical supply stockpile, something that is desperately needed; something that this bill will provide; something that I will vote for, and I encourage my colleagues to do so as well. Pass the bill.”