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Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019

Floor Speech

Date: March 27, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Miss GONZALES-COLON of Puerto Rico. Mr. Speaker, the CARES Act ensures that all citizens in Puerto Rico are treated equally under the Federal grants and benefits incorporated in this bill, which I strongly support.

Puerto Rico has been in lockdown since March 15, and more than 48,000 people lost their jobs already. This bill will help our small businesses, people, and the nutrition assistance program, as well as the health industry, to tackle those issues.

Puerto Ricans are ready because we have the infrastructure of a great pharmaceutical and skilled workforce that stands ready to ramp up and deliver medications and devices when backed up by the Defense Production Act.

We need to rebuild our American workforce in a domestic territory. That is the reason I thank the President and the leadership of the Senate and the House for putting together this economic health package to give our localities the resources to tackle this crisis affecting our Nation so we can focus on staying safe and healthy. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of it.

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