STANDING UP FOR AMERICANS

On 2025-04-09, Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5) delivered a floor speech titled "STANDING UP FOR AMERICANS" in the House.

STANDING UP FOR AMERICANS

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 64 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025)] [House] [Pages H1511-H1512] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] STANDING UP FOR AMERICANS (Ms. SCANLON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I spent the weekend listening to my constituents, and it damn near broke me. I heard from seniors worried about Musk's attacks on Social Security and Medicaid, small businesses confronting bankruptcy from Trump's tariffs, and parents seeing their college and retirement savings wiped out. I met with teachers worried about students who don't have the resources to weather the hardships so casually inflicted by this White House. I heard from Federal employees who lost their jobs but were more concerned about the veterans and seniors and kids with disabilities they could no [[Page H1512]] longer serve. I met with medical researchers whose work fighting cancer and pandemics had been abandoned by this White House. I heard from veterans stunned that they had been fired for no reason and volunteer firefighters who had lost FEMA funding. I heard from a dry cleaner terrified that her family would be deported, even though they have no criminal records and are legally in this country. I also heard from mental health specialists fighting opioid and fentanyl addiction, whose funding was canceled. My question for House Republicans is: What does it take to get them to stand up for Americans? Mr. Speaker, I yield my time but not my outrage. ____________________