American Rescue Plan (Cong. Rec., March 1, 2021)

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Page S909 of the Senate section of the Congressional Record for March 1, 2021, in interleaved columns. Mr. McConnell calls the Democrats' relief bill a bad process, a bad bill and a missed opportunity, and says a one-size-fits-all minimum wage policy would kill 1.4 million jobs, which are his views. He also reports that Kentucky flooding forced an evacuation in one county and praises Wolfe County firefighters who saved a family of five trapped in their car. Another speaker condemns State legislative voting proposals as toxic to democracy, and a reprinted news article describes the coup in Myanmar and a jailed activist.

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March 1, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S909
been historically disenfranchised. That family of five who had been trapped in Whenever their long-term liberal
response is toxic to democracy and, in- their car. dreams came into conflict with what
deed, is the very opposite of democ- Once again, Kentucky’s brave first Americans actually need right now,
racy. responders are stepping up at a time of Democrats decided their ideology
Make no mistake, these despicable, need. We are all grateful for their dedi- should win out.
discriminatory, anti-democratic pro- cated efforts and praying for their safe- Well, it doesn’t have to be this way.
posals are on the move in State legisla- ty. We could have built more practical
tures throughout America. They must All Kentuckians can help the first re- policies to help the American people
be opposed by every American—Demo- sponders by continuing to follow the move forward. Some Senate Repub-
crat, Republican, Independent; liberal, recommendations of local emergency licans literally went down to the White
conservative, moderate—who cherishes personnel. My team and I are closely House and proposed that both sides
our democracy. monitoring the situation, and we will work together, like we did five times
This is just incredible what they are be ready to assist however we can. last year. The administration declined.
trying to do—incredible. We must do f So this is where we are: a bad process,
everything we can to stop it. a bad bill, and a missed opportunity to
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN
f do right by working families.
Mr. MCCONNELL. On another mat- f
MEASURES PLACED ON THE ter, at about 2 a.m. on Saturday morn-
CALENDAR—S. 461 AND S.J. RES. 9 ing, House Democrats rammed through FOREIGN POLICY
Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I the bonanza of partisan spending they Mr. MCCONNELL. Now, on one final
understand there are two measures at are calling a pandemic rescue package. matter, last weekend brought dis-
the desk due for a second reading en Only Democrats voted for it. Both Re- concerting headlines for the supporters
bloc. publicans and Democrats voted against of freedom and democracy in Asia. In
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lead- it. Burma the military junta’s month-long
er is correct. Last year, under a Republican Senate coup turned bloody. Eighteen pro-
The clerk will read the bills by title and a Republican administration, Con- testers have been murdered and at
en bloc for the second time. gress passed five historic coronavirus least a thousand civilian officials have
The senior assistant legislative clerk relief bills—five of them. Not one of been imprisoned on farcical grounds.
read as follows: the five bills got fewer than 90 votes in In Hong Kong, China’s puppet regime
A bill (S. 461) to create a point of order
the Senate or less than about 80 per- arrested 47 democracy advocates, in-
against legislation modifying the number of cent over in the House. cluding some who helped draw millions
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Ah, but alas, this time Democrats to the streets in peaceful protests in
States. have chosen to go a completely par- 2019, and are now holding them without
A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 9) proposing tisan route. Even famous liberal econo- bail.
an amendment to the Constitution of the mists and liberal editorial boards are Unfortunately, in both places, this
United States to require that the Supreme saying their half-baked plan is poorly sort of repression has become a famil-
Court of the United States be composed of targeted to what families needed. iar part of life, and it could be a dark
nine justices.
We have gone from passing public re- preview of developments elsewhere if
Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, in lief with 80 percent and 90 percent bi- the free world does not act.
order to place the bills on the calendar partisan supermajorities last year to Even as Burma’s civilian government
under the provisions of rule XIV, I the Speaker of the House ramming this made history in 2015, the military
would object to further proceedings en through with just 50.7 percent of the made clear it would keep using cro-
bloc. House on Friday night. The bill con- nyism and constitutional manipulation
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- tains all kinds of liberal spending on to obstruct real popular control. In last
tion being heard, the bills will be pet projects with no relationship what- year’s election, the people overwhelm-
placed on the calendar. soever to pandemic relief. ingly demanded true democracy and
Mr. SCHUMER. I yield the floor. Remember, we are almost to the 1- economic transparency, but that also
f year anniversary of a leading House raised the risk for those working pub-
Democrat admitting they see this licly to make permanent reforms.
RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY
whole crisis as ‘‘a tremendous oppor- The military’s detention spree has
LEADER
tunity to restructure things to fit our hit Burma’s civilian leaders, including
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Re- vision.’’ people like Mya Aye, a longtime Mus-
publican leader is recognized. So, sorry to all the American fami- lim pro-democracy leader. It has also
f lies who have just been hoping to get swept up some of the brightest eco-
their jobs back, their schools back, and nomic reformers working to fight cor-
KENTUCKY their lives back. Democrats are more ruption and grow prosperity—brave
Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, interested in some restructuring. That men like Bo Bo Nge, who spent years
once again, our communities across my is why only 1 percent—1 percent—of locked away in Burma’s Insein prison
home State of Kentucky are enduring this huge package goes directly to vac- in the 1980s and 1990s, built a successful
the aftermath of severe—very severe— cinations—1 percent for vaccinations. life abroad, and returned to help the ci-
weather. From east to west, heavy That is why it proposes another 12- vilian government craft economic re-
rains have drenched the Common- digit sum of Federal funding for K–12 forms.
wealth. Sadly, some of the hardest hit schools, even though science shows Madam President, I ask unanimous
areas were still in the midst of trying those schools can be made safe right consent that this Washington Post ar-
to recover from last month’s dangerous now. About 95 percent of that funding ticle detailing Bo Bo Nge’s story be
ice and snow. Emergency crews, first won’t even go out this fiscal year. printed in the RECORD.
responders, and now the Kentucky Na- Ninety-five percent of the school fund- There being no objection, the mate-
tional Guard are continuing to work ing in this bill won’t go out this year. rial was ordered to be printed in the
around the clock to prevent this bad And this is an emergency package? RECORD, as follows:
situation from becoming entirely trag- That is why they are pushing eco- [From the Washington Post, March 1, 2021]
ic. nomic policies that would drag down AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY IS LOST IN
An entire nursing home in Magoffin our recovery—like the House’s vote for MYANMAR’S COUP

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County was evacuated as a safety pre- a one-size-fits-all minimum wage pol- (By Shibani Mahtani)
caution. Feet of water submerged vehi- icy that would kill 1.4 million jobs or
HONG KONG.—Bo Bo Nge’s path typified
cles and caused power outages in continuing to pay laid-off workers a that of his generation’s brightest and brav-
Calloway County. premium to stay home that would ex- est: Jailed as a student for protesting
Wolfe County firefighters followed tend well into a recovery where job Myanmar’s military regime in 1988, he spent
the light of a cell phone and saved a growth and rehiring will be pivotal. years learning English from dictionary pages

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