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Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 26, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, we all want to help. This is the American Rescue Plan--the American Rescue Plan. Somehow, $8.6 billion of the American Rescue Plan is headed overseas.

This isn't a rescue plan. This is a grift. This is theft.

We are digging tunnels. We are building bridges. That has nothing to do with the pandemic. Ninety percent of this money goes everywhere but the pandemic.

I mean, it is not going to help schools. It is not going to help people who have been put out of their jobs. It is not going to help people who need a vaccination or healthcare, none of that.

Ninety percent of about $2 trillion, this is a payoff. It is payoff to political friends. That is why it is partisan, because we don't think we should be paying off political friends. We want to help the American people.

Mr. Speaker, this doesn't help the American people. This is a grift. They are abusing people who are sick and have died and are hurting. This is abuse. I vote ``no.''

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