This trend is outrageous:

Eliminating $15/hr
Reducing thresholds for payments (cutting off ~400k New Jerseyans)
Cuts to weekly payments

What are we doing here? I'm frankly disgusted with some of my colleagues and question whether I can support this bill.

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What is the Party of the People doing when instead of putting our full effort into helping struggling working families, we're arguing over ways to toss them aside?

What are we here for if not to help the American People?

It seems there's never a ceiling for the rich when they want a tax cut.

And never a floor for the poor when they need help.

If we're really #ForThePeople we best start acting like it. What I'm seeing of the negotiations right now doesn't cut it.

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4 Mar
This is madness. People are struggling and we’re fighting over how many people we want to EXCLUDE from the relief checks.

What about the family w/ several kids who made 160k but lost their job in 2020?
Or the person who made 80k pre-pandemic but lives in a high cost- of-living state like NJ or NY? We’re going to cut them out?
And you’re telling me we’re going to cut off single parents with one income before families with married parents?

@RepKatiePorter has explained in great detail why this is a BAD idea.
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3 Mar
Today, @RepJohnKatko and I are reintroducing the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act.

The COVID-19 crisis has brought much needed attention to the serious mental health crisis many communities had already been facing.
A 2019 study found that suicide attempts rose 73% in 20 years among Black youth.

Our bill would authorize funding to support research, improve the pipeline of culturally competent providers, build outreach programs that reduce stigma, and develop training programs.
In 2019, the @TheBlackCaucus Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health published its report outlining this growing problem and providing potential solutions that you can find in this bill.

Read the report here:
watsoncoleman.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
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14 Jan
If we look at history, insurrections occur when conditions become dire, the needs of people are ignored, and they get desperate.

A botched pandemic response + impotent economic relief in the face of crisis + a demagogue who shifts blame and stokes hatred = where we are today.
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To be clear, those who stormed the capital must be prosecuted and punished for their crimes, but if we don’t address the pain people are facing ACROSS the country, by people of all political leanings, we will never be able to bring our country back together.
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Congress needs to pass REAL relief: recurring checks to relieve people’s economic fears, labor reforms so they don’t fear losing their job for taking a day to care for a sick relative, a jobs guarantee to ensure economic stability, M4A…
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