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On the recordMarch 10, 2021
I hope my colleague from Wisconsin will not leave at this time, as he has talked about Black Lives Matter. How dare you--how dare you say that Black Lives Matter, Black people, do not understand old-fashioned families. Despite some of the issues, some of the things that you have put forward that I have heard out of your mouth in the Committee on Oversight and Reform, in your own district, we have been able to keep our families alive for over 400 years in the assault on our families to not have Black lives or not even have Black families. How dare you say that we are not interested in families in the Black community. That is outrageous. That should be stricken down. Mr. Speaker, I was going to talk about the American Rescue Plan. We know that this is going to provide relief to not only Black lives, Black Americans, but all Americans, that we are interested in children and in their welfare. Forty-nine days ago President Biden took office and promised the American people that help is on the way. Today we take our final step forward on delivering on that promise. Millions of Americans will be supportive who have been economically crippled by a year-long pandemic. Most of this money goes directly to the American people. And, we have one of the most generous expansions of tax relief to working people in modern history in this plan. The child tax credit provisions on their own is a policy revolution in the making.…
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands
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Mar 10, 2021

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