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On the recordMarch 24, 2020
I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the Republican whip. The time for political games is over. It is time to get this piece of legislation passed and signed into law. The American people need it. They want it, and they are watching. Yesterday, the U.S. Surgeon General warned us. He said: ``This week, it's going to get bad.'' He was talking about the healthcare aspects of it. I was on the phone last night, along with my colleague, Senator Enzi, in a telephone townhall meeting, talking to people all around Wyoming. It is not just the healthcare side of it that is going to get bad. The economic side of it is going to get bad, as people who every day want to get up and go to work are now, for the first time in a long, long time, told they can't do so, not by their employer but by the government. I have been visiting with doctors. Our healthcare providers are expecting more patients today and tomorrow and through the week. Some healthcare systems are being overrun. We need to get this done today. Americans are doing their part in preventing community spread of the virus, but the men and women on the frontline taking care of those patients need resources that would be included in this bill, and we need to get this passed today. The private sector mobilized to provide more tests, more masks, more respirators, and more ventilators. They are doing their job. This Senate needs to do its job today.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Mar 24, 2020

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