Excuses (Cong. Rec., March 10, 2021)
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This is H1195 of the Congressional Record, House, March 10, 2021, with interleaved columns of one-minute statements. Ms. Plaskett salutes basketball player Aliyah Boston during Women's History Month and Virgin Islands History Month. Under the heading Reopen America, Mrs. Greene of Georgia says $1.9 trillion in spending is reckless, and under the heading Excuses, a speaker says the relief bill is an excuse to advance an unrelated liberal agenda. Another speaker pleads for people to wear masks as a mask order is lifted in the speaker's State, with the views and figures attributed to the speakers.
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March 10, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1195
minute and to revise and extend her re- back to work and maybe a desire to In sum, an excuse to advance an un-
marks.) party. related liberal agenda Democrats call
Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, this Unfortunately, with bad advice and the ‘‘most progressive bill in American
month is not only Women’s History political emphasis, the mask order will history’’ that will lead to huge tax in-
Month, but it is also Virgin Islands be lifted today on March 10 in our creases.
History Month, and what better way to State. I urge all my colleagues to vote
celebrate it than today for me to salute Our State is being plagued by the ‘‘no.’’
Virgin Islands’ native and basketball United Kingdom variant. We are still
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upcoming star, Aliyah Boston, who had on the hot list for the number of
another dominant performance in deaths. We have not reached a certain REOPEN AMERICA
South Carolina’s 67–62 win over Geor- number in terms of lowering the infec-
(Mrs. GREENE of Georgia asked and
gia in the SEC tournament final. tion rate, and we haven’t reached any
was given permission to address the
Boston put up 27 points and 10 re- kind of level in terms of vaccination.
House for 1 minute.)
bounds for her 15th double-double of Removing the restrictions and hav-
Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speak-
the year, and was named the tour- ing remove-mask parties is going to be
er, I thank my colleague and the good
nament MVP as South Carolina cap- a disaster.
gentleman here for explaining why $1.9
tured its sixth championship in the I make this plea: Wear your mask,
trillion in spending is reckless, irre-
last 7 years. socially distance. Restaurants and
sponsible, and the wrong thing to do.
‘‘Aliyah was huge,’’ said Coach Dawn other businesses be responsible.
We still have $1 trillion set aside for
Staley after the game. ‘‘She has to be We are on the way with a rescue, but
COVID relief and spending. There is no
that dominant in order for us to win I beg of my fellow Texans, let us not go
need to enslave the American people,
these kind of basketball games.’’ backwards to create more deaths, to
our children, our grandchildren, our
Aliyah, you are huge. You are domi- create more hospitalizations, more
great grandchildren, and generations
nant. And what better way to recognize loved ones that we will not have at the
going forward in more debt.
Women’s History Month and Virgin Is- dinner table.
We are $28 trillion in debt. This Con-
lands History Month by a Virgin Is- This is not a time to go backwards.
gress is ramming through unbelievable
lander and a woman making history. This is a time to go forward. Wear your
things at a rapid pace.
f mask. Let’s be responsible.
I ask my constituents on Washington This must be stopped. We have to
b 0915 Avenue: Do not have a remove-mask give pause and consideration to what
party tonight because you will be we are doing. This is a waste of money
IT IS TIME TO PUT STUDENTS and a complete waste of time.
FIRST walking into a destiny of death.
Reopening America is a much better
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(Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania way to go.
asked and was given permission to ad- EXCUSES f
dress the House for 1 minute and to re- (Mr. BARR asked and was given per-
vise and extend his remarks.) mission to address the House for 1 MOTION TO ADJOURN
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. minute and to revise and extend his re- Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speak-
Mr. Speaker, just over 1 year ago, we marks.) er, I move that the House do now ad-
entered a COVID crackdown. Busi- Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, after enact- journ.
nesses and schools shut their doors— ment of five bipartisan COVID relief The SPEAKER pro tempore. The
some of them, sadly, for good. Commu- bills last year totaling $4 trillion in as- question is on the motion to adjourn
nities across the Nation continue to sistance for healthcare workers, busi- offered by the gentlewoman from Geor-
feel this pain. nesses, schools, testing, and vaccines, gia (Mrs. GREENE).
For more than 365 days, far too many with over $1 trillion in already appro- The question was taken; and the
of our Nation’s school children have priated funds still unspent, with an un- Speaker pro tempore announced that
been confined to virtual learning— precedented level of monetary stimulus the noes appeared to have it.
forced to sit at home behind a com- from the Fed already in the pipeline Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speak-
puter instead of a classroom. with no end in sight, with massive er, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The implications of students being pent-up demand and an economy poised The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
left out of the classroom are much big- for full recovery, with the success of ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution
ger than parents being inconvenienced Operation Warp Speed delivering mul- 8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
or students missing their friends. tiple safe and effective vaccines in The vote was taken by electronic de-
Every day that we wait to reopen our record time, with literally millions of vice, and there were—yeas 149, nays
schools is another day we look the Americans benefiting from the mass 235, not voting 47, as follows:
other way as youth mental health con- distribution of those vaccines every [Roll No. 71]
tinues to plummet. single day, with all of these heroic ef- YEAS—149
Every day we wait to reopen our forts to defeat this virus already in
Aderholt Clyde Gonzales, Tony
schools is another day our students fall place, why is it that Democrats in Con- Allen Cole Good (VA)
behind. gress are so determined at all costs to Armstrong Comer Gooden (TX)
Mr. Speaker, allowing American ram through this hyperpartisan $2 tril- Arrington Crawford Graves (LA)
school children to return to the class- Baird Davidson Graves (MO)
lion spending spree with zero bipar- Balderson Davis, Rodney Greene (GA)
room is long overdue. tisan support? Barr DesJarlais Griffith
It is time to listen to the science. It The answer is that they are exploit- Bentz Diaz-Balart Grothman
is time to put the students first. And it ing this pandemic as an excuse: Bergman Donalds Guest
Biggs Duncan Guthrie
is time to reopen our schools. An excuse to force passage of this Bilirakis Dunn Hagedorn
f budget-busting monstrosity, 90 percent Bishop (NC) Emmer Harshbarger
of which is totally unrelated to Boebert Estes Hartzler
A PLEA TO ALL TEXANS COVID–19: Bost Fallon Hern
Brady Feenstra Herrell
(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was An excuse to bail out mismanaged Brooks Ferguson Hice (GA)
given permission to address the House State and local governments for liabil- Bucshon Fischbach Hill
for 1 minute and to revise and extend ities unrelated to COVID. Budd Fitzgerald Hollingsworth
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Burchett Fleischmann Hudson
her remarks.) An excuse to use taxpayer funds to Cammack Franklin, C. Huizenga
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, fund Planned Parenthood. Carl Scott Jackson
this morning I make a personal plea to An excuse to send stimulus checks to Carter (GA) Fulcher Johnson (OH)
my fellow Texans. Cawthorn Garbarino Johnson (SD)
prisoners and illegal immigrants. Chabot Garcia (CA) Jordan
I recognize that there has been an An excuse to expand the welfare Cline Gimenez Joyce (PA)
overload of tiredness and desire to go state and pay people not to work. Cloud Gohmert Keller
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