OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Providing for Adoption of H. Res. Establishing A Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

Floor Speech

Date: April 23, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Employment and Affirmative Action

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Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, when we passed the Paycheck Protection Program, I warned that serious flaws would deliver a windfall to businesses that did not need it at the expense of those that do. That is exactly what happened, exhausting the fund within days.

Now it is imperative to replenish this program to assure that small businesses that desperately need these funds receive them.

Now, this could have been done 2 weeks ago but for the Democrats' demands that wasted time and added costs.

I supported the CARES Act only because I believed a better bill could not be produced given the current majority.

For the same reason, I support the bill to be taken up later today, but with this grave warning: unprecedented and unconstitutional government edicts have deliberately destroyed the livelihoods of millions of Americans and have set in motion both an economic depression and government insolvencies that threaten the very survival of our Nation. They must end now.

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