Hill Votes Against Speaker Pelosi's Partisan Messaging Bill
Washington,
October 1, 2020
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Rep. French Hill (AR-02) released the following video after voting against the HEROES Act 2.0. Click HERE, or on the image below, to watch Rep. Hill's message about the need to pass bipartisan legislation that supports struggling families, workers, and businesses.
A transcript of Rep. Hill's message is copied below: Over the past seven months, the coronavirus pandemic has been hard on everyone, especially our families and small business owners. Back in March, the House, the Senate, and our president came together with good faith negotiations to pass the CARES Act, a relief bill that had a positive impact on our country’s response to the pandemic and the re-opening of the economy. This bill provided financial help directly to Arkansas families and increased assistance for those forced out of their jobs. Many central Arkansas small businesses were kept afloat by the Paycheck Protection Program, and the CARES Act funded Operation Warp Speed, which initiated some of the fastest therapeutic and vaccine development in human history. But the CARES Act was only a short-term response to the pandemic, and, in my view, since August, we’ve needed a second round of targeted assistance -- assistance to help schools safely re-open, a second round of PPP for small businesses that are still struggling, and continued funding of our total fight against this pandemic. In the shadow of an upcoming election, the negotiations were not done in good faith, and a targeted, bipartisan solution in the spirit of the CARES Act has proved challenging. This week, the House of Representatives considered a proposal from House Democrats that they’ve marketed as “HEREOS 2.0”. When I started studying the details of this more than 2,000 page bill, I quickly discovered it was full of far-left progressive poison pill provisions, many of which have nothing to do with our response to the pandemic. Let me be clear: this legislation divides us more than it unites us. We’ve seen this from Nancy Pelosi’s leadership for the last two years. Rather than working together in divided government on legislation that will move our country forward, House Democrats once again have brought a bill to the floor that has zero chance of becoming law. Many members of her own party have expressed their disappointment. This is not a real deal nor is it a good faith effort. It’s simply one more time of the House Democrats trying to score political points and bragging about what they’ve passed in our legislative body, instead of finding consensus and getting legislation that can be signed into law – a law that will move our country forward. The House cannot act alone. Let’s work together as Americans and actually get much needed bipartisan legislation signed into law. We’ve already proven how much good we can accomplish for the American people when we work together. |