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| Are you working? | ||
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Do you have a job where you receive tips? | |
| No, I do not. | ||
| That was Barb in Iowa. | ||
| We'll try to get in a couple more calls. | ||
| Raquel, Las Vegas, Nevada, line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Raquel. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Hi, Raquel. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hi. | |
| I have been doing taxes for 35 years, and I saw the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| My tax bracket, my husband and I's tax bracket is a clear 24%. | ||
| A quarter of everything we make is now what the government gets from the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| I believe that used to be the corporate tax rate back then. | ||
| What he's doing right now is exactly what the Republicans are allowing him to do. | ||
| He is a 100% criminal, lining the pockets of 83 people, 83 billionaires in the country are running our country into the ground. | ||
| And these people don't understand Social Security. | ||
| They don't understand. | ||
| Apologies, Raquel. | ||
| We're going to have to end it there because the House is coming in for this 9 o'clock. | ||
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We take you there now. | |
| The chair lays for the House Communications. | ||
| The Speaker's Rooms, Washington, D.C., July 2nd, 2025. | ||
| I hereby appoint the Honorable Michael K. Simpson to act as Speaker Pro Tempore on this day. | ||
| Signed, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. | ||
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The prayer will be offered by Chaplain Kibblam. | |
| Would you pray with me? | ||
| Holy and merciful God, send your angels to surround us and protect us while we pray and then as we conduct the business of this day. | ||
| May we seek and find you ahead of us, showing us the way. | ||
| May we be certain that you are behind us, upholding us in your truth. | ||
| Grant us a sense of your presence beside us, encouraging or challenging us on the path we take. | ||
| Take residence within us, granting us a fundamental understanding of your wisdom. | ||
| Surround us with your unfailing love, for our hope is in you alone. | ||
| Lord, you have hemmed us in, behind and before, in the past, in this present, and the future ahead. | ||
| Lay your hand upon each one of us, that we would yield to your authority alone, and so that none will stray from your perfect plan. | ||
| For you, O Lord, are omnipresent and omniscient. | ||
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And it is in your omnipotent name we pray. | |
| Amen. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 13 of Rule 1, the Journal of the Last Day's Proceedings is approved. | ||
| The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. McGovern. | ||
| I ask everyone to join with me, including those in the gallery. | ||
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | |
| Chairlays for the House Communication. | ||
| The Honorable the Speaker, House of Representatives, sir, following my election as ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I hereby resign from the House Committee on Homeland Security for the 119th Congress, effective today. | ||
| Signed sincerely, Robert Garcia, member of Congress. | ||
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Without objection, the resignation is accepted. | |
| The Honorable the Speaker, House of Representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2H, Rule 2 of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the clerk received the following message from the Secretary of the Senate on July 1, 2013. | ||
| 2025 at 5.20 p.m. that the Senate passed with an amendment, H.R. 1. | ||
| Signed sincerely, Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk. | ||
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For what purpose, does the gentleman from North Carolina seek recognition? | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 566 and ask for its immediate consideration. | ||
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Clerk will report the resolution. | |
| House calendar number 35, House Resolution 566. | ||
| Resolved that upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to take from the Speaker's table the bill H.R. 1 to provide for a reconciliation pursuant to Title II of House concurrent resolution 14 with the Senate amendment thereto and to consider in the House without intermittent any point of order a motion offered by the Chair of the Committee on the Budget or his designee that the House concur in the Senate amendment. | ||
| The Senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. | ||
| The motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the Chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget or their respective designees and the Chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective designees. | ||
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For what purpose does the gentleman from Massachusetts seek recognition? | |
| Mr. Speaker, pursuant to section 426 of the Congressional Budget and Empowerment Control Act of 1974, I make a point of order against consideration of the rule House Resolution 566. | ||
| Section 426 of the Budget Act specifically states that the Rules Committee may not waive the point of order prescribed by Section 425 of that same act. | ||
| House Resolution 566 states that it is in order to consider a motion that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, quote, without intervention of any point of order, end quote. | ||
| Therefore, I make a point of order pursuant to Section 426 that this rule may not be considered. | ||
| The gentleman from Massachusetts makes a point of order that the resolution violates Section 426A of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. | ||
| The gentleman has met the threshold burden under the rule, and the gentleman from Massachusetts and a member opposed each will control 10 minutes of debate on the question of consideration. | ||
| Following debate, the chair will put the question of consideration as the statutory means of disposing of the point of order. | ||
| The chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
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Gentlemen's recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, let me say this once again. | ||
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We will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight. | |
| And because this rule waives the point of order against unfunded mandates, it is not in order to consider it on the floor. | ||
| The bill Republicans are attempting to jam through the House today cuts nutritional assistance for moms and dads, kids, people with disabilities, veterans, and senior citizens. | ||
| It goes after the most important people in our lives, our families, to fund massive tax breaks for the richest people in the world. | ||
| I think that that's wrong and I think it's immoral. | ||
| But more than just a massive betrayal of the American people, this bill is also a massive new unfunded mandate on states. | ||
| Don't just take my word for it. | ||
| The nonpartisan experts at the Congressional Budget Office said Title I of the bill, the Agriculture Committee's portion of this awful bill, would impose intergovernmental mandates by requiring states for the first time ever to provide state funding for food assistance benefits, increasing the share of food assistance administrative costs paid by states, and requiring state agencies to perform additional administrative duties. | ||
| This massive new unfunded mandate would cost states a whopping $19 billion each year. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, where the hell are states going to come up with this kind of money? | |
| They can't. | ||
| And so what will happen is people will get kicked off of food assistance and they will go hungry. | ||
| State after state has written to Congress begging us not to pass this awful bill. | ||
| They have made it very clear that if this bill goes through, states will be forced to cut benefits, kick eligible people off of food assistance entirely, or raise taxes to pay for this massive new bureaucracy that Republicans are creating in every state in this country. | ||
| The chairman of the Agriculture Committee's home state of Pennsylvania would have to come up with over $1 billion to cover the state's share of benefit costs. | ||
| There is no state in this country who is able to take on this kind of massive unfunded mandate. | ||
| And we're talking about basic needs for people, a food assistance benefit of $2 per meal so people don't go hungry. | ||
| And by the way, that money not only lifts people out of poverty, it improves health and it uplifts local economies too. | ||
| Hunger costs this country and food assistance programs save us money. | ||
| People who have enough food to eat are more productive at work. | ||
| Kids who are not hungry are able to learn better in school. | ||
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And seniors who take their medication on a full stomach are less likely to go to emergency rooms. | |
| No American should go without food. | ||
| This is a human rights issue. | ||
| We live in the richest country on earth, for God's sake, and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one. | ||
| And especially not when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break. | ||
| So I said to my Republican colleagues, what's wrong with you people? | ||
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In this bill, you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families, which, by the way, is on average $2 per person per meal. | |
| Jesus Christ, what are you people thinking? | ||
| I reserve my time. | ||
| Gentleman reserves his time for what purposes? | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina, seek recognition. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise to claim time in favor of consideration of the resolution. | ||
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Gentlelady is recognized for 10 minutes. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| The question before the House is, should the House now consider House Resolution 566? | ||
| Though the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the motion to concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1, the Committee on Rules is not aware of any violation of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, nor has the Congressional Budget Office identified any violation of the act. | ||
| The reason for this motion is plain and obvious. | ||
| It is not a legitimate attempt to question consideration, but simply a dilatory tactic to further delay consideration of this historic legislation and to give the Democrats more time to mislead Americans. | ||
| We must dispense with this question of consideration so we can move the process forward and enact the agenda President Trump and the American people have demanded. | ||
| I reserve my time. | ||
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Gentlelady Reserves. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I just want to say we have a letter from the Congressional Office confirming that there are unfunded mandates in this bill. | ||
| And at this time, I yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from Ohio, Ms. Brown. | ||
| Gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. | ||
| Thank you, Ranking Member McGovern, for yielding. | ||
| I rise in strong opposition to this rule and the underlying bill. | ||
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For the first time in history, this bill would force states to pay, to pay for part of SNAP benefits, and it would require states to increase their share of administrative costs. | |
| This is an unfunded mandate, plain and simple. | ||
| And let's be clear: the costs are staggering, the consequences devastating, and the cruelty deeply disturbing. | ||
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This policy punishes those who can least afford it, seniors on fixed income, veterans and families already forced to choose between gas and groceries. | |
| States will be stuck in a corner, cut benefits, cut eligibility, or cut public safety, education, housing, and mental health programs just to stay afloat. | ||
| This isn't just a budgeting decision, it's a values decision. | ||
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And for what? | |
| To take from the hungry and give it to the wealthy. | ||
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To slash SNAP benefits, just $6 per day, and hand a quarter, a quarter million dollar tax break to the top 0.1%. | |
| 0.1%. | ||
| That's not policy that's plunder. | ||
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The math doesn't lie. | |
| In North Carolina, it's $400 million, more than the entire state budget for child development and early education. | ||
| In Georgia, it's $500 million, double what the state spends on child welfare. | ||
| And in my state of Ohio, it's $300 million, four times the transportation budget. | ||
| My colleagues are writing checks that the government can't cash. | ||
| And when the money runs out, the food runs out. | ||
| Children go hungry. | ||
| Seniors skip meals. | ||
| Veterans, working moms, and dads will be turned down and turned away, all because of a vote taken here today. | ||
| This mandate isn't just unfunded, it's unfathomable. | ||
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So I urge my colleagues, reject this provision, reject this rule, reject this betrayal. | |
| Don't reward the rich on the backs of hungry Americans. | ||
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And with that, I yield back. | |
| Gentleman from North Carolina. | ||
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Connecticut, a member of the Agriculture Committee, Ms. Hayes. | ||
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Gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. | |
| Good morning, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today against the Republican Reconciliation Bill, which would put 42 million Americans at risk of losing their SNAP benefits. | ||
| These policies are untested, they are dangerous, and they are arbitrary. | ||
| Congress did not engage in a thoughtful process to make these changes to SNAP. | ||
| The majority has not held a single hearing on the Nutrition Subcommittee on the cost-sharing provisions or the impact of this legislation. | ||
| It has not solicited, they have not solicited feedback from stakeholders or experts on what these changes would mean to states and hungry families who rely on SNAP. | ||
| The Republicans did not examine these policies closely because they knew it would take food away from hungry families and they didn't care. | ||
| They have chosen to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals. | ||
| They know these changes will devastate state budgets. | ||
| In my home state of Connecticut, we could have to pay up to an additional $221 million per year for SNAP benefits and an additional $39 million for administrative costs. | ||
| Connecticut, like most states, will have to come up with these funds or deny basic services that they need for other things like education, public safety, health care, and just providing for our roads and bridges in our states. | ||
| Notably, not every state will be subject to this change. | ||
| Late into the night, the Republican majority jumped through hoops to exempt non-contiguous states from these policies to pass cruel legislation. | ||
| That is why we're up here, writing legislation on the fly to protect some Americans while going after others. | ||
| No one should go hungry, whether they live in Connecticut, Alaska, Hawaii, or anywhere. | ||
| It should not matter where you live or what kind of deal your senator made. | ||
| Everybody deserves to eat. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to reject this irresponsible legislation, and I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina? | |
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman reserved. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts? | ||
| No. | ||
| What does he have to say? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have left? | ||
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There's two and a quarter minutes remaining. | |
| Two and a quarter minutes? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I yield myself to balance of the time. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I don't think any of my Republican colleagues have read this provision in the reconciliation bill. | |
| In fact, the Agriculture Committee never even did a hearing on it. | ||
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And yet, billions and billions of dollars in new costs are going to be thrust upon states. | |
| And states are going to have to decide whether to cut other programs in order to make sure that no one loses their nutrition benefits, or they're going to have to cut people off of their nutrition benefits. | ||
| The SNAP benefit on average is about $2 per person per meal. | ||
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That's it. | |
| You can't buy a damn cup of coffee in the Capitol with that. | ||
| And my Republican friends are obsessed with trying to throw people off of this benefit. | ||
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I have no idea why. | |
| You know, most of the people on the benefit are children, are senior citizens. | ||
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They include veterans. | |
| Many of them are working full-time and can't afford to put food on the table, and this benefit helps them provide for their families. | ||
| And my Republican friends have basically gone an attack on this most basic, effective program that is about food. | ||
| You can live without a lot of things, but you can't live without food. | ||
| So, Mr. Speaker, for those Republicans who think that it's okay to give Jeff Bezos a tax cut and at the same time cut food benefits for struggling families, let me say clearly, we don't share the same values. | ||
| We don't share the same values. | ||
| Unloading billions of dollars in new costs on states, money they do not have, will force them to cut benefits and throw needy people off of SNAP. | ||
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It is a rotten thing to do. | |
| And I believe there's a special place in hell for people who take food away from veterans, from seniors, from children, from former foster youth, and from hungry families. | ||
| This is sick. | ||
| This is disgusting. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Gentlemen yields back the balance of his time. | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Pardon me. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield back the balance of my time and urge all members to vote yes on the question of consideration of the resolution. | ||
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The gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. | |
| All the time for debate has expired. | ||
| The question is, will the House now consider the resolution? | ||
| Those in favor say aye. | ||
| Aye. | ||
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Those opposed, no? | |
| In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yays and nays. | ||
| The yeas and nays are requested. | ||
| Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. | ||
| Sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
| be a 15-minute vote. | ||
| Lawmakers now voting on a Democratic motion, and we could see more from Democrats to stall the process of taking up the Senate-passed GOP tax and spending cuts legislation. | ||
| If and when approved by the House in its current form, the legislation will go to the White House for President Trump's signature. | ||
| The first vote of the day underway, now a Democratic motion to proceed with rule debate. | ||
| Today, they're expected to take up the Senate-passed GOP tax and spending cuts legislation. | ||
| If approved by the House in its current form, the legislation will go to the White House for President Trump's signature. | ||
| He has said he expects the bill on his desk by the 4th of July. | ||
| While members are voting, we'll show a portion of the House Rules Committee meeting from yesterday. | ||
| Today, the Rules Committee is convening to consider a single measure, the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | ||
| With the Senate having completed its respective process, HR 1 has returned to the People's House for final consideration. | ||
| And while I don't often think that the other body improves our legislation, it's important to recognize that much of what the House included in H.R. 1 when we initially passed it is still included. | ||
| And I'm sure that our committee chairman will bring attention to that. | ||
| Things like tax relief for working families, reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in government programs so they remain focused on those who truly need the programs, a historic investment designed to strengthen our armed forces, protect our borders, and keep Americans safe. | ||
| I could go on and on about all the great things in this One Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| However, I think it's important to recognize that when this passes, it will go directly to the President's desk so that he may sign it into law and deliver a long line of massive wins for the American people. | ||
| Indeed, this process has been long and the thoughtful deliberations and efforts on part of committees, members, and staff is highly commendable. | ||
| And while those diligent efforts have been undertaken by many, we have still heard the same doomsayers yelling to the rafters week after week about this legislation. | ||
| Each week, they head back to the rhetorical trough, select a new inflammatory claim, and broadcast it feverishly to the masses as if the threat of the sky falling is imminent. | ||
| For the record, the sky is not falling. | ||
| We're all too familiar with this worn-out song and dance routine. | ||
| The fact is that Americans are not fooled by these ludicrous claims. | ||
| They're not buying into the fear-mongering because they know better. | ||
| They see the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a monumental opportunity, an opportunity that will spur even more prosperity within the nation and further propel America into the golden age where it truly belongs. | ||
| As the Speaker laid out very succinctly, this bill gets Americans back to winning again, and yes, it's been a long time coming. | ||
| From delivering historic tax relief to reigniting our economic engine, creating massive investments in border security, to capturing generational savings and much more, H.R. 1 is the embodiment of the America First Agenda. | ||
| And there are provisions within this legislation that Democrats and their media bedfellows remain noticeably mom about, such as the establishing of savings accounts for newborns, increasing the child tax credit by an additional $500 per child, strengthening paid leave and child care tax credits. | ||
| This legislation does not have a bowed posture and the frailty of a pip squeak. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the real deal. | ||
| It's what Americans voted for when they put their trust in President Trump and our Republican majorities in the People's House and the Senate. | ||
| And here's a sharp dose of reality. | ||
| A failure to pass this legislation carries with it serious negative implications not only for hardworking taxpayers, but also the nation. | ||
| The largest tax increase in American history would be levied against everyday men and women. | ||
| Millions of jobs would be wiped off the map. | ||
| Small businesses would be decimated. | ||
| Wages would vanish. | ||
| GDP would plummet, and nationwide economic ruin would erupt. | ||
| Resources to ensure the continued protection of our nation's borders would dry up and turn to dust. | ||
| Our nation's military would be rendered ill-prepared to confront existing threats to the American homeland, meet the quality of life needs for service members, and keep our adversaries in check. | ||
| This isn't blatant fear-mongering like what our Democrat colleagues have been doing incessantly for months. | ||
| These are just facts. | ||
| President Trump has his pen in hand and is waiting for us to move forward. | ||
| At this critical juncture, failure is not an option. | ||
| We're kicking off the final leg of this process here in the Rules Committee today, and we're making good yet again on our commitments that we have made to the American people. | ||
| Let's get this done and keep the winds coming. | ||
| With that, I yield to the ranking member, Mr. McGovern, for any comments he wishes to make. | ||
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Well, thank you, Madam Chair. | |
| The Chairwoman just said that Democrats were going to say that the sky is falling. | ||
| Well, I'm not going to say the sky is falling. | ||
| I'm going to say that health care is going to get ripped away from millions of people. | ||
| I'm going to say that food is going to be taken off the table of many families in this country who rely on SNAP as a way to make sure that they don't go hungry. | ||
| And I'm going to say that the richest among us are going to get a tax cut. | ||
| So it has nothing to do with the sky. | ||
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It has everything to do with what is right and what is wrong. | |
| We are here today on a bill that just dropped from the Senate, hot off the press, passed only an hour ago. | ||
| It's massive. | ||
| Here it is, nearly 1,000 pages long. | ||
| And I've got to ask, have any of you read it this time? | ||
| Because last time we met on this legislation, many of our Republican colleagues had not. | ||
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And that's no accident. | |
| It's by design. | ||
| It's a direct result of Republican leadership and the White House jamming this bill through Congress with zero transparency. | ||
| Now, let's be totally honest. | ||
| This entire process has been legislative malpractice. | ||
| It's been negotiated in backrooms from the start. | ||
| In April, conservatives argued for and ultimately got aggressive instructions in the budget for committees to slash spending. | ||
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I wonder how they feel now that the Senate has violated their hard-fought instructions by over a half a trillion dollars. | |
| And let's not forget, this bill was jammed through the House in May so quickly that some Republicans said they would have opposed it if they'd known what was actually in it. | ||
| And now, after another series of backroom negotiations in the Senate, we're getting jammed again without any chance for the public or independent experts for that matter to fully review the bill. | ||
| And let me make a prediction. | ||
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If this ugly bill passes, it's going to get a lot uglier when people realize what's in it. | |
| And not even Donald Trump's new $300 bottle of cologne will cover the stench. | ||
| This bill will hurt people in every congressional district in this country. | ||
| And Republicans are racing to get it passed before the American people can figure out what's in it. | ||
| There's no real deadline. | ||
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There's no real deadline that we're working against. | |
| None. | ||
| July 4th is just an arbitrary marker that Trump made up. | ||
| He wants a victory lap on Friday. | ||
| Just weeks after throwing himself a military birthday parade, complete with tanks rolling down Constitution Avenue, one that costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, he now wants to have a 4th of July signing ceremony at the White House for this dumpster fire of a bill. | ||
| We're rushing. | ||
| We're rushing, not because the country demands it, but because he wants to throw himself yet another party. | ||
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This isn't policy. | |
| It's ego management. | ||
| So why not slow down? | ||
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Why not actually do the work? | |
| Why not fix the problems instead of pretending that we're in the middle of some five-alarm emergency? | ||
| I mean, Vice President Vance just had to break a tie in the Senate. | ||
| Many of the Republicans who voted for this bill acknowledge that it is that in its current form, it is seriously flawed. | ||
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And listen to this quote from Senator Murkowski, who just caved and voted for this bill. | |
| And you've got to love this. | ||
| She said, quote, my hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we're not there yet, end quote. | ||
| I mean, my question to her is, if you really believe that, then why the hell did you vote for this bill? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It's a dereliction of your duty as a United States Senator and as a representative for the people in Alaska. | ||
| I mean, when was the last time this current House of Representatives has fixed or solved anything? | ||
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I mean, where have you been, Senator Murkowski? | |
| This Republican House is dysfunction on steroids. | ||
| And let me say to my Republican friends, I understand that the Senate just jammed you, but you don't have to be complicit. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I know the Republican leadership and Trump don't want scrutiny. | ||
| They don't want the American people to understand what's really happening here. | ||
| This bill is a middle finger to millions of Americans. | ||
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It isn't just a bad bill. | |
| It is the most dangerous piece of legislation in modern history. | ||
| Dangerous because of the very real damage it will do to real people, sick people, hungry kids, families just scraping by. | ||
| If this is Republicans' top legislative priority this Congress, it tells us everything about where your values lie. | ||
| And it's not with working families, not with struggling communities, but with megacorporations, billionaires, and Donald Trump. | ||
| Madam Chair, I know that once I'm done, you will say, as you did at the beginning, that I'm fearmongering. | ||
| That Democrats, nonpartisan scorekeepers, analysts, experts in industry, doctors, children's hospitals, food banks, utilities, organized labor, and journalists, what they say about this bill, every legitimate critique that we have heard about this bill, you will say that it is hyperbole. | ||
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But just because you say that, it doesn't make it so. | |
| Facts still do matter, and the facts say that this bill is terrible. | ||
| Now, we know Republicans are about to gut Medicaid and cut Medicare. | ||
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That's a fact. | |
| That's not an opinion. | ||
| This bill rips health coverage away from roughly 17 million people. | ||
| Of those, 11.8 million will lose health care due to the Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts. | ||
| Another 5 million will lose their health care because Republicans are allowing premium assistance to expire for those who qualify for help with paying for health insurance on the ACA exchanges. | ||
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That's not my opinion. | |
| That's the conclusion of the CBO and every single other credible budget expert across the country, the Joint Committee on Taxation, Penn Wharton Budget Model, Yale Budget Lab, Tax Policy Center, and even right-leaning organizations like the Tax Foundation and researchers at the American Enterprise Institute. | ||
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This bill will devastate rural hospitals, shut down nursing homes, hammer community health centers. | |
| It will punish people. | ||
| We ought to protect the elderly, the disabled, low-income kids, and working families just trying to survive. | ||
| It will end nutrition assistance for millions. | ||
| We are the richest country on earth, and you will be taking away food from our own children. | ||
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Why? | |
| To shovel tax breaks to billionaires and corporate executives? | ||
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I mean, give me a break. | |
| This bill will kill thousands of clean energy jobs and raise Americans' energy rates while rewarding big oil with billions in subsidies. | ||
| Because Republicans think welfare is okay if you're ExxonMobil, but not if you're a family struggling to pay your skyrocketing power bill, or a grandma who stays in assisted living, or our parents struggling to put food on the table. | ||
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It gives $150 billion more to the Pentagon, not for peace or security, but to line the pockets of defense contractors. | |
| This is on top of record levels of defense spending that we already provide the Pentagon in our annual spending bills. | ||
| For all you budget hawks out there, let me ask you, when was the last time the Pentagon passed an audit? | ||
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The answer is never. | |
| You're worried about someone on SNAP who gets an average of $2 per meal, might get $2.75 per meal, but you couldn't care less when millions of dollars are wasted by defense contractors and cost overruns. | ||
| There is $900 billion for giant corporations, corporations that are known to lay off hundreds of workers as they stash their inflated checks in offshore tax havens like in the Cayman Islands. | ||
| And this bill showers the wealthiest Americans with tax cuts. | ||
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Get this. | |
| A family making less than $50,000 per year, then get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. | ||
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I mean, you can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. | |
| But those making $1 million a year or more, well, they'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks or $96,000 tax breaks on average in a single year. | ||
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I mean, that's even worse than the original House bill. | |
| That's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy. | ||
| The average millionaire gets more in tax cuts than most families earn in an entire year. | ||
| And to be clear, there is deep support on the Democratic side for extending the middle-class tax cuts and passing no tax on tips. | ||
| We'd be happy to work with you on something that delivers just that. | ||
| But Republicans are holding bipartisan initiatives hostage to provide handouts to billionaires and gut Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Now, meanwhile, the new standards for the child tax credit leaves one in every three eligible children behind. | ||
| Because this bill doesn't invest in children, it abandons them. | ||
| All this, and Republicans are adding more than $3 trillion to the national debt. | ||
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You hear that? | |
| Over $3 trillion. | ||
| Now, I know some of the Republicans on this committee consider themselves real fiscal hawks. | ||
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Well, you cannot, with a straight face, say that you care about deficits and the debt if you vote for this bill, whether that's out of this committee or on the House floor. | |
| This bill even raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion because Republicans know that policies in here will explode our debt. | ||
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I mean, you can't make this stuff up. | |
| This is the biggest transfer of wealth in American history, stealing from the poor to give to the rich. | ||
| This is Republicans' Let Them Eat Cake moment. | ||
| It robs for the most vulnerable to pay off the already powerful. | ||
| It tells every kid without wealth this government has nothing for you, that the American dream is only for trust fund babies. | ||
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And here's what baffles me. | |
| You all know the truth. | ||
| You all know the truth. | ||
| You know this bill is cruel. | ||
| You know that it will hurt millions of Americans. | ||
| But Trump wants you to fold. | ||
| And the sad fact is that many of you will fold in a nanosecond. | ||
| You'll vote for this even though you know it's bad for your own constituents. | ||
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You're absolutely terrified that the guy in the White House will get mad and try to find someone to run against you in a primary. | |
| Like one of our Republican colleagues said this weekend on CNN, and I quote, everyone in the House knows the peril they're in if they vote no on this thing. | ||
| They know that their jobs are at risk, end quote. | ||
| You're terror-stricken that what happened over the weekend to Senator Tom Tillis will happen to you. | ||
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Well, Senator Tillis did the right thing, speaking truth to power. | |
| You should listen to him when he says that the Senate's version of this bill betrays President Trump's promise not to take Medicaid away from its rightful recipients. | ||
| He decided to retire because he wanted to put his constituents first. | ||
| And quite frankly, I think he's tired of dealing with the relentless MAGA threats and BS. | ||
| Truly, I've never seen anything like this in my life, the kind of petrified fealty we're seeing on the right, scared by a man who called voting against this bill the ultimate betrayal. | ||
| Like, what kind of president talks like that? | ||
| That's the language of dictators, not the language of a president. | ||
| But let me remind you all of something. | ||
| The people you should be afraid of, the people you should be afraid of betraying, are not in the White House or dining at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
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They're back home. | |
| The people in Boone, North Carolina, in Moorhead, Minnesota, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in Austin, Texas, in Salem, Indiana, in Jamestown, New York, in Tifton, Georgia, in Abington, Virginia, and Noonan, Georgia. | ||
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They're the ones who hired you. | |
| And if you vote for this bill, you're voting to screw them over. | ||
| Plain and simple. | ||
| When their kids go hungry, when their health care is gone, when their energy bills skyrocket, when they watch big oil rake in profits while they get pink slips, when they realize that billionaires like Jeff Bezos are getting 40 times the tax breaks that they're getting, when they watch the wealthy get richer and they're left behind, they are going to feel the pain that you brought on them. | ||
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And I think you're going to see that reflected in the next election. | |
| The American people are watching. | ||
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They deserve better than this. | |
| They deserve certainly better than this cowardice, better than this cruelty, better than this betrayal. | ||
| So I'm asking all of you to have a spine, find your moral compass, vote no on this bill, and come up with something better. | ||
| There's still time. | ||
| Work with us on tax relief for people who are not making millions and billions of dollars. | ||
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Let's go back to the drawing board. | |
| We can come up with a bipartisan consensus. | ||
| And so, Madam Chair, for a million reasons, from process to substance, and quite frankly, to give Republican members a chance to read their own bill, I move that the committee do now adjourn. | ||
| I thank the gentleman. | ||
| The question is on the motion to adjourn. | ||
| All those in favor say aye. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| All those opposed say no. | ||
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No. | |
| In the opinion of the chair, the no's have it. | ||
| Ask for a roll call, Madam Chair. | ||
| The gentleman asked for a roll call. | ||
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The clerk will report, will call the roll. | |
| Mrs. Fischbach. | ||
| No. | ||
| Ms. Fischbach, no. | ||
| Mr. Norman. | ||
| No. | ||
| Mr. Norman, no. | ||
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Mr. Roy. | |
| Mr. Roy, no. | ||
| Mrs. Hauchen. | ||
| Mrs. Houchin, no. | ||
| Mr. Langworthy. | ||
| Mr. Langworthy, no. | ||
| Mr. Scott. | ||
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No. | |
| Mr. Scott, no. | ||
| Mr. Griffith. | ||
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Mr. Griffith, no. | |
| Mr. Jack. | ||
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No. | |
| Mr. Jack, no. | ||
| Mr. McGovern. | ||
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Aye. | |
| Mr. McGovern, aye, Ms. Scanlon. | ||
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Aye. | |
| Ms. Scanlon. | ||
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I'm Mr. Nagoos. | |
| Aye. | ||
| Mr. Nagoos, aye, Ms. Flager Fernandez. | ||
| Aye. | ||
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Ms. Lezier Fernandez, aye, Madam Chair. | |
| No. | ||
| Madam Chair, no. | ||
| The clerk will report the total. | ||
| Four yeas, nine nays. | ||
| The no's have it. | ||
| The motion to adjourn is not agreed to. | ||
| Without objection, any prepared statements that our witnesses may have will be included in the record. | ||
| I now welcome our first panel, Chairman Arrington and Ranking Member Boyle from the Committee on the Budget, Chairman Thompson and Ranking Member Craig from the Committee on Agriculture, Chairman Guthrie and Ranking Member Pallone from the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Chairman Smith and Representative Moore from the Committee on Ways and Means. | ||
| Your full statement will be submitted for the record, and we ask you summarize your statement in five minutes. | ||
| Chairman Arrington, I welcome your testimony. | ||
| Well, the Ranking Member knows how to get me off topic here. | ||
| I've got a prepared set of remarks, but I'm just going to speak from my heart. | ||
| And I appreciate the opportunity to be back before this committee, a little like Groundhog Day, because we've been covering this subject matter, which is important to pour over for the American people. | ||
| But I've got to say that the people from West Texas sent me here, and especially in this last Congress, to reverse the curse of the last four years, the lawlessness and chaos at the border that has devastated my home state of Texas, and I would say probably communities in every state in the country because of the open border and the crime, criminals, | ||
| and drugs that have been pouring into our communities. | ||
| It is the most imminent national security threat to the country. | ||
| And the last president did not faithfully uphold the laws of the land, nor did he take serious his constitutional mission to provide for a common defense. | ||
| That has to change. | ||
| It has changed on day one with the new commander-in-chief. | ||
| And we aim to give him the tools and resources to continue to do that job. | ||
| Secondly, they all suffered from the 21 percent, roughly, regressive inflation tax. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because of Democrats' failed policies and their wild, unbridled $8 trillion in deficit spending. | ||
| I'm sure we'll have some good back and forth, but let me be clear. | ||
| The American people and our great economy has suffered as a result of paying people not to work, of taxing and regulating small businesses, and then, of course, spinning us into 40-year high inflation. | ||
| That hasn't gone over well for the people in West Texas. | ||
| So they sent me here to make America stronger, safer, and more prosperous. | ||
| And that's the mandate they gave our President. | ||
| That's the mission I'm on. | ||
| And I'm going to work every day to that end. | ||
| I believe this bill gets us closer to that vision. | ||
| I believe that the most important thing we can do is equip our sons and daughters to be safe and successful in providing a common defense. | ||
| We are long overdue to invest in military readiness vis-a-vis our adversaries. | ||
| There are lots of things that go into unleashing economic prosperity, but a centerpiece of that is pro-growth tax policy. | ||
| We had the highest levels of investment, job creation, repatriation of capital after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, not to mention the lowest poverty rates and unemployment rates on record. | ||
| So this was after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, by the way, the people at the bottom half and the bottom 10 percent did far better than the top half and top 10 percent in terms of wages, in terms of income, and the top 10 percent or the top 1 percent paid a greater share of taxes after the tax cuts and jobs act. | ||
| So I think so much of this is misleading nonsense and ripping people off the safety net. | ||
| My last comment is this. | ||
| I heard quotes about the CBO and 7.8 million people being ripped off the safety net. | ||
| Let me tell you who those people were, according to the nonpartisan CBO. | ||
| People here illegally, people ineligible, people who have access to other subsidized government health care programs, and people who are work capable but refuse to work. | ||
| That's not me, Mr. Ranking Member, I assure you. | ||
| It's the CBO, the same source that y'all quote ad nauseum about us ripping the safety net. | ||
| Listen, the American people are for what we're doing. | ||
| They're on our side. | ||
| They don't want their tax dollars to flow to waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| They want to help people, and they want the program to help their fellow Americans into the future. | ||
| And none of this stuff is sustainable. | ||
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None of it. | |
| And we should do more. | ||
| You're right about the debt. | ||
| We should do more. | ||
| That is an area that I think we have to do a lot more or it's going to undermine all of it. | ||
| The economy, security, our leadership in the world, my children's future, all of it. | ||
| And every party, both parties, I should say, both parties have come up woefully short in that regard. | ||
| And so I hope we can get a commitment from our Democrat colleagues: let's work together on those things that we know will not be done unilaterally, and then we'll take a first good shot at cleaning up the waste, fraud, and abuse and the entitlements and the mandatory programs that are driving us closer to that dangerous and irreparable debt crisis. | ||
| With that, I yield back, Madam Chair. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Errington. | ||
| Mr. Boyle, you're recognized. | ||
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Thank you, Madam Chair, Mr. Ranking Member, and all the members of the committee. | |
| It is an honor to get to be able to testify before this committee. | ||
| It is an honor in this moment and a privilege to be here because the next 24 hours might be the most important of our entire careers. | ||
| The health care of 17 million people who have it today and may lose it by the end of the week, that's all on the line. | ||
| The food assistance that another 4 million currently get and may have taken away from them, that's on the line. | ||
| So I can tell you this: there is no place I would rather be than right here, right now, in this moment, when each and every one of us can make the critical difference. | ||
| When this bill passed the first time, it was only by one vote in the House. | ||
| Just an hour ago in the Senate, it was passed by one vote in the Senate. | ||
| I think this will come down to one vote yet again, whether or not this becomes law. | ||
| And if it does, it will be the greatest loss of health care in American history. | ||
| Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed 17 million Americans. | ||
| And let me explain how they arrive at that number. | ||
| Roughly half of that is due to the largest Medicaid cuts in American history. | ||
| But another half of it is due to changes and allowing certain tax credits and provisions to expire in the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. | ||
| I give the other side credit. | ||
| They have been working like hell for 15 years to do away with Obamacare. | ||
| This is the closest that they've ever come. | ||
| Millions and millions today currently on Obamacare will lose it if this becomes law. | ||
| And that's not all. | ||
| As we confirmed again from CBO a few weeks ago, due to the massive increase in deficit spending in this bill, there have to be 4% Medicare cuts. | ||
| That's over $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare. | ||
| So Medicaid cuts, Affordable Care Act, ACA cuts, Medicare cuts, the largest loss of health care in American history. | ||
| I referenced nutrition assistance moments ago. | ||
| Also, the largest cuts to SNAP in American history. | ||
| Cuts to higher education programs, cuts to Head Start. | ||
| It goes on and on. | ||
| And yet, As large as that is and as bad as that is, that still does not fully pay for the over $5 trillion in tax cuts that mostly go to the hyper-wealthy. | ||
| How is the rest of that financed? | ||
| Through deficit and debt. | ||
| The same crowd that would bemoan the last four years there was a Democrat in the White House about the deficit in debt is adding more to our national debt in this bill than any other piece of legislation to pass since I've been here. | ||
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We can do far better than this. | |
| The American people are smart. | ||
| When they have been asked about the provisions of this bill, I have never seen poll numbers. | ||
| Truly, I have never seen poll numbers this terrible. | ||
| By a roughly two to one margin, the American people oppose this bill. | ||
| They oppose millions of Americans losing their health care. | ||
| They oppose millions of Americans losing their nutrition assistance. | ||
| They oppose the idea we're racking up even more deficit and debt, which we both acknowledge is a serious problem in our country and bound to get worse. | ||
| They oppose making a bad problem even worse. | ||
| And why? | ||
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For what higher noble purpose? | |
| To give tax cuts that mostly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans. | ||
| This is going to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, votes in each and every one of our careers. | ||
| I am proud to be here doing everything I possibly can to say, hell no, let's kill this bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Thank you, Ranking Member Boyle. | ||
| Chairman Thompson, you're recognized. | ||
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Well, thank you, Chairwoman Fox, Ranking Member McGovern, and members of this committee. | |
| I appreciate the opportunity to come before you today concerning the agriculture title of the One Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| I'm proud of our product. | ||
| We're delivering $120 billion in net deficit reduction while delivering a generational investment in the farm economy, giving farmers the tools to expand international markets, and ensuring that top-tier agricultural research can be conducted here instead of China. | ||
| We saved close to $200 billion from the SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by making necessary changes to restore integrity to the program and preserve its ability to serve the most vulnerable long into the future. | ||
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These represent the largest and most significant reforms made to SNAP in the history of the program. | |
| This bill ensures SNAP works the way Congress intended it to by reinforcing work, rooting out waste, and instituting long-overdue accountability incentives to control costs and end administrative overreach. | ||
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This program is in dire need of reform. | |
| Since just 2019, SNAP costs have skyrocketed from $60 billion to $110 billion annually, an 83% increase while enrollment has grown from $36 million to $42 million. | ||
| And in 2024, over $10 billion in erroneous SNAP payments were sent out. | ||
| That's disgraceful not only to the taxpayer but also the SNAP recipient. | ||
| The agriculture title of the bill includes several improvements to the SNAP program, including preventing future administrations from unilaterally increasing SNAP benefits beyond inflation, focusing on a core principle that everyone receiving the benefit that can work should work, and modernizing the work requirement and closing loopholes that allow for widespread waivers. | ||
| Closing various loopholes that States exploit, such as gaming the system to artificially increase SNAP benefits, and creating incentives to ensure states run the program more effectively and more efficiently. | ||
| SNAP is the only federally funded State-administered entitlement program where the State has zero skin in the game on the benefit. | ||
| It's human nature to be more careful when you're spending your own money than when you're spending others. | ||
| And that's why we put forward a cost share structure that requires States with high error rates to pay a portion of the SNAP benefit beginning in fiscal year 2028. | ||
| In addition to the most significant reforms to SNAP in history, our committee was able to deliver a historic investment in the farm safety net and infuse critical investments into rural America. | ||
| It's imperative for Congress to rebuild the safety net, the farm safety net. | ||
| These much-needed changes mitigate further on budgeted ad hoc spending and prevent a full-blown financial crisis in farm country that could devastate the food and ag supply chain, let alone the economy. | ||
| Finally, on the investment front, we take care of a few other important items like investment in trade promotion, animal disease preparedness, specialty crops, dairy, research, and some programs that currently are without standing baseline. | ||
| In closing, I am proud to deliver a historic amount of savings to the taxpayer and to do so in a way that will ultimately have positive outcomes for low-income individuals who get back into the workforce while also standing by our farmers, our ranchers, and our rural communities. | ||
| This is a win-win. | ||
| I have great respect for the Chairwoman, the Ranking Member, and the members of this committee. | ||
| I thank you once again for the opportunity to come before you today. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Thompson. | ||
| Ranking Member Craig, you are recognized. | ||
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Thank you so much, Chairwoman Fox and Ranking Member McGovern. | |
| The more the American people learn about this big, ugly bill, and it's nearly $200 billion in cuts to food assistance, the less they like it. | ||
| I honestly don't know how a single one of my colleagues could vote for this bill. | ||
| 17 million Americans lose their health insurance or lose their health care. | ||
| Millions and millions of people across our country are going to lose access to food assistance. | ||
| You know, most Americans don't even know this yet in our country, but I promise you they will. | ||
| A recent Fox News poll found that 59 percent of voters oppose this bill. | ||
| The American people are not buying what the Republicans are selling, even on Fox News. | ||
| The American people, like House Democrats, want to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| This bill doesn't reduce waste fraud or abuse. | ||
| It gives government-sponsored tax breaks to the wealthiest among us, and you pay for it by taking food and health care away from seniors, children, veterans, and people with disabilities. | ||
| And it isn't even paid for. | ||
| It adds nearly $4 trillion to the national debt. | ||
| So much for fiscal responsibility here. | ||
| The American people, including Minnesotans, know the cost of living is too high. | ||
| This bill does not lower the cost of living. | ||
| It makes meeting the basic needs like groceries and accessing medical care more expensive. | ||
| I promise you this bill will raise health care costs for everyone. | ||
| The American people want efficient and effective governance. | ||
| This bill doesn't do anything to improve good governance. | ||
| It makes it worse by pushing billions in new expenses onto state and county governments, forcing our state and local governments into a position where they have to decide between taking food away from their friends and neighbors or slashing other local services or raising taxes. | ||
| And I mean that in 10 states across this country, folks are going to have to look at raising county taxes in order to pay for the administration and perhaps even the benefit of cutting food assistance. | ||
| In Minnesota alone, where the burden for snap cuts will fall to the counties, the Association of Minnesota Counties projects they'll have to raise property taxes by an average of more than 5 percent to pay for it and buy even more in some counties. | ||
| Many of you sitting here today do not even know the effect that this bill will have on your counties. | ||
| Republicans have managed to do almost the impossible. | ||
| Miraculously, you've created a bill that takes food and health care away from millions of Americans in a way that does not save taxpayer dollars, but instead adds trillions of dollars to the national debt. | ||
| Minnesotans and Americans in every corner of this country are asking, how is any of this actually possible? | ||
| It's simple. | ||
| You've picked tax breaks for large corporations and ultra-wealthy people in our country over hardworking families. | ||
| Republicans are selling the American people down the river. | ||
| This bill sells out our farmers and the families they feed. | ||
| Of course, we need all the elements of a farm bill. | ||
| Mr. Chairman talked about the elements in this bill. | ||
| We should be doing this in a farm bill, a full five-year farm bill with 12 bipartisan titles. | ||
| It sells out the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans struggling to keep food on the table. | ||
| It sells out more than 300 rural hospitals that are at risk of closing due to Medicaid cuts. | ||
| It also cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from SNAP, our most effective anti-hunger program, by taking $6 a day out of the pockets of vulnerable seniors, veterans, children, and people with disabilities, and putting that money back into the pockets of billionaires. | ||
| Taking food away from the people who need it forces seniors to choose between having a meal and paying for medicine. | ||
| And let me just say this, because we were in committee for over 20 hours. | ||
| And over and over, I heard my Republican colleagues talking about that this activity would not cut access to veterans' nutrition benefits. | ||
| This is exactly what the Senate version does. | ||
| And most of you, many of you don't even know what this version says. | ||
| We had one hour to come into this room. | ||
| Many veterans, as we know, suffer from behavioral or physical health issues connected to their service. | ||
| One in three working-age veterans with disabilities aren't sure where their next meal will come from. | ||
| One in four working-age veterans who can't find work are food insecure. | ||
| Our veterans can't pay for meals with support the troops' bumper stickers, and they can't eat thoughts and prayers. | ||
| And it doesn't stop there. | ||
| This bill takes food away from former foster youth leaving the foster care system who may not have the same level of support from families that many of us benefited from when we were just starting to make our way in the world as 18 or 19-year-olds. | ||
| I just don't understand where these values are coming from. | ||
| The American people are right not to trust this bill. | ||
| The bill doesn't save us a cent. | ||
| It adds to the debt. | ||
| If passed, it will pass millions and millions along to the nation. | ||
| This bill was a disgrace when it left this chamber. | ||
| Most of you haven't read it to know that it's even more of a disgrace now that it's back. | ||
| And folks, this is one of the worst mistakes anyone who votes yes for will make in your political career. | ||
| Thank you, and I yield back. | ||
| Thank you, Ranking Member Craig. | ||
| Chairman Guthrie, you're recognized. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good afternoon, Chairwoman Fox and Ranking Member McGovern. | ||
| Thank you for holding this hearing today. | ||
| And the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts wasteful spending, defends our nation's energy dominance, supports the rapid innovation of American industry, and preserves and protects Medicaid for the Americans who are most in need. | ||
| We will send a build a president's desk that delivers on Americans' leadership across industries, spurs technological innovation, and supports individual workers. | ||
| We will unleash American energy dominance through strategic investments while also putting an end to wasteful subsidies. | ||
| We will spur technological innovation by renewing American wireless leadership through Spectrum Auction Authority that protects national security. | ||
| This legislation begins to refill our dangerously low strategic petroleum reserve and creates new investments to generate reliable energy that will secure our grid and power AI. | ||
| This bill also raises $85 billion of new revenue through historic agreement reauthorizing the FCC Spectrum Authority while protecting U.S. national security. | ||
| Our priority has been to strengthen, secure, and sustain Medicaid for expectant mothers, children, people with disability, and elderly. | ||
| Our legislation stops billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program by beginning to close loopholes, ensuring states have the flexibility to remove ineligible recipients from their roles and removing beneficiaries who are enrolled in multiple states. | ||
| HR1 ends coverage for deceased beneficiaries, limits the ability of enrollees to obtain duplicative coverage, and ensures individuals with million-dollar homes are no longer eligible to qualify for Medicaid coverage. | ||
| These are all common sense policies that will return taxpayer dollars to middle-class Americans and families. | ||
| Republicans seek to return the core intent of the Medicaid program, which was created to protect health care for Americans who otherwise could not support themselves. | ||
| Democrats expanded the program far beyond this core mission, allowing spending to grow into trillions if not addressed. | ||
| Our common sense work requirements and community engagement policies for able-bodied adults who choose not to work encourage individuals to re-enter the workforce and regain their independence. | ||
| This provision speaks to Republicans' commitment to strengthening Medicaid to ensure it is available for those who need it most, and this is an issue that resonates favorably with the majority of Americans across Board. | ||
| H.R. 1 fulfills President Trump's promise of generational growth, prosperity, and health for the American people. | ||
| It fulfills our commitment to lowering taxes for working families, unleashes American energy and safeguards Medicaid for patients that need it the most, and supports the rapid innovation of American technology. | ||
| It's time to pass this file of legislation and see it sign into law. | ||
| And thank you, and I will yield back. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Ranking Member Pallone, you're recognized. | ||
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Thank you, Madam Chair. | |
| You know, I respect you a lot, but when I heard you in the beginning talk about Democrats' fear-mongering, I just want to assure you that when I went home on Friday and this short weekend that we had, I was not fear-mongering. | ||
| And I was actually shocked because I live in my district. | ||
| A lot of it is at the Jersey Shore. | ||
| You know, it's almost July 4th. | ||
| People were out at the beach in their bathing suits having a good time. | ||
| I thought, oh, I'm not going to hear much about this bill. | ||
| But in reality, it was the opposite. | ||
| I couldn't go anywhere without people talking to me about this bill. | ||
| First day, Friday, I found out that the county commissioners in my home county, which is a Republican county, consistently votes Republican, had passed a resolution unanimously opposing the bill, all Republicans. | ||
| Then I went to church, I guess, on Sunday. | ||
| It was a church, I have to be honest with you, that is most of the people there are Republican. | ||
| There aren't too many Democrats in the church. | ||
| And literally some of the trustees came up to me and said, I'm so glad that you're voting against this bill. | ||
| Please continue the fight against it. | ||
| I went to a concert. | ||
| This wasn't a rock concert. | ||
| This was the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. | ||
| Maybe the name will give you an idea, Methodist Camp Meeting Association. | ||
| And it was a classical concert. | ||
| I couldn't even get out of the room without the hall, without people coming up to me and saying, you know, this is a terrible bill. | ||
| I hope you can stop it. | ||
| Then I also met with the governor over the weekend because on Monday our state adopted the state budget. | ||
| It was about $57 billion state budget. | ||
| And he and the health commissioner said to me that we're not going to be able to deal with this. | ||
| We don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| They estimate about $3.5 billion cut for the state of New Jersey out of a budget next year that, as I said, was just adopted Monday, $57 billion. | ||
| What is that, about 6%? | ||
| They don't think we can survive. | ||
| So, you know, in all honesty, you know, you said, well, we're fear-mongering. | ||
| We're, you know, saying it's doomsday, destroying the health care system. | ||
| But that's what people are saying to us. | ||
| That's not what we're saying to them. | ||
| That's what they're saying to us, because they realize that hospitals will close. | ||
| They'll realize the shortfall in funding for nursing homes. | ||
| They realize that the deficit spending not only is going to lead to sequestration of Medicare by 4 percent across the board, but that it's going to hurt the economy. | ||
| And the economy could actually go into recession because of the level of deficit. | ||
| So I just want to assure you, this is what Democrats are hearing from our constituents. | ||
| It's not what we're necessarily saying. | ||
| It's what they're saying to us. | ||
| Now, the other thing I want to stress is that, look, the reality is that every time this bill moves forward, more and more people lose their health insurance. | ||
| I think when it was before our committee, the CBO figures, Mr. Chairman, were like 13.5 million people who lose their health insurance. | ||
| Then when it passed the floor, it was like 1415. | ||
| Now the CBO is saying that the Senate bill is almost 17 million people that will lose their health insurance. | ||
| So it becomes crueler. | ||
| I don't want to say ugly. | ||
| I'm going to say cruel, more cruel as we proceed. | ||
| And I don't know whether we read the bill or not. | ||
| This is what the C, whether you read the bill or not. | ||
| The CBO is saying that we're talking now about almost 17 million Americans that are going to lose their health insurance. | ||
| And what does that mean? | ||
| It basically means that the hospitals, the nursing homes, community health centers are not going to get the third-party payment that comes from people who have health insurance. | ||
| And so much of this is now uncompensated care, which means people will go to the emergency room at the hospital. | ||
| They can't afford to pay it. | ||
| And it comes to uncompensated care. | ||
| And then the hospital, what do they do? | ||
| They either raise prices, which means that insurance premiums and co-pays go up for people that have insurance. | ||
| You know, we still know the majority of Americans get health insurance for their job. | ||
| So those policies are going to be more expensive. | ||
| The co-pays are going to be more expensive. | ||
| And people, all these people that don't have insurance are going to go to the emergency room and they don't get care. | ||
| They don't see a doctor on a regular basis. | ||
| They get sicker. | ||
| And the consequences of the health care system really are devastating. | ||
| Now, the other thing I wanted to say, too, is that one of the things that got significantly worse. | ||
| And a vote here being held open on the floor. | ||
| We're going to take you outside the Capitol where Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and others are speaking. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| We are here today, united as House Democrats, to make clear to the American people that every single House Democrat will stand up for your health care. | ||
| Stand up for your Medicaid. | ||
| Stand up for your Medicare. | ||
| Stand up for the Affordable Care Act. | ||
| Stand up for nutritional assistance for our children, our seniors, and our veterans. | ||
| Stand up for our hospitals. | ||
| Stand up for our nursing homes. | ||
| Stand up for our community-based health senates and stand up against massive tax breaks for GOP billionaire donors. | ||
| And that is why Every single House Democrat will vote hell no against this one big ugly bill, and all we need are four House Republicans to join us in defense of their constituents, | ||
| who will suffer mightily from this bill. | ||
| Children will be hurt, families will be hurt, people with disabilities will be hurt, women will be hurt by what is an all-out assault on the health care of the American people, an unprecedented assault ripping health care away from more than 17 million Americans. | ||
| Premiums, copays and deductibles for other people on private insurance will go up all across the country. | ||
| Hospitals will close, nursing homes will shut down, community-based clinics won't have the ability to operate and, as a result, people are going to die. | ||
| Connected to this one big ugly bill, tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths per year. | ||
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Shame on Republicans for even bringing this bill to the House floor. | |
| So all we need are for Republicans to join us in support of their constituents, to have John McCain level courage and stand up in defense of the health care of the American people. | ||
| What type of party would bring a bill to the House floor that rips away Medicaid from those in need? | ||
| What kind of party would bring a bill to the House floor that literally robs food from the mouths of children, veterans and seniors, and all of this is being done to provide massive tax breaks to their billionaire donors. | ||
| It's unconscionable, it's unacceptable, it's Un-American, and House Democrats are committing to you that we're going to do everything in our power to stop it. | ||
| And all we need are four Republicans just four to show John McCain level courage. | ||
| Just four, there are 220 of them. | ||
| All we need are four. | ||
| And so all we have to do as a Congress is act in a manner consistent with the better angels of this country. | ||
| Stand up for everyday Americans, not the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected. | ||
| That's what Republicans are doing in bringing this one big ugly bill to the House floor. | ||
| Why would anyone vote for this dangerous and extreme bill? | ||
| Why would Rob Bresnahan vote for this bill? | ||
| More than 30,000 people would lose access to their health care in his community in Pennsylvania. | ||
| almost 60,000 households could lose access to food assistance in his community at risk of going hungry why would Rob Bresnahan vote for this bill Why would Scott Perry vote for this bill? | ||
| Almost 25,000 people in his community will lose access to health care. | ||
| In his community in Pennsylvania, almost 40,000 households would lose access to nutritional assistance. | ||
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They're at risk of going hungry. | |
| Why would Scott Perry vote for this bill? | ||
| You see, the difference between them and us, they work for the special interests, for the rich and the shameless, for the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected. | ||
| House Democrats work for the people. | ||
| And that's why we will continue to do everything in our power to stop this bill in its tracks. | ||
| Every single one of us will stand up for the health care of the American people, for the nutritional assistance of the American people, for efforts that actually should be designed to improve their quality of life, not hurt it, to lower the high cost of living, not raise it, to bring people together, not tear us apart. | ||
| John Lewis, who we all had the opportunity to serve with and continue to draw inspiration from, would always remind us that even in the face of what appears to be insurmountable odds, that we have a moral responsibility, and that certainly is the case right now, to show up and stand up and speak up for what we know is right. | ||
| With every single fiber in our body, that's what we are going to do. | ||
| Show up today, show up tomorrow, show up this week, show up next week, show up this year, show up next year, show up until we end this national nightmare in the United States of America and continue our march toward a more perfect union. | ||
| Now, my honor, to yield to our distinguished whip, Catherine Clark. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Leader, and good morning. | ||
| This week we will celebrate our nation's independence. | ||
| We will celebrate our freedom, the fact that we are not ruled by a king, but that the power belongs to the people. | ||
| We will celebrate the fundamental promise of the American dream, the idea that if we work hard, we can provide for our families. | ||
| We can have a life of dignity, a fair shot. | ||
| So it's especially shocking that the Republicans are rushing to sign this cruel bill by the 4th of July. | ||
| The largest cut to health care in our history. | ||
| The largest transfer of wealth from working families to the billionaire class. | ||
| A bill that makes Americans sicker and poorer. | ||
| A bill that takes food from the hungry. | ||
| There is no freedom in this bill. | ||
| Unimaginably, this bill is worse than when it left the House. | ||
| It cuts Medicaid by $1 trillion. | ||
| It kicks 17 million Americans off of their health care. | ||
| It threatens hundreds of hospitals with closure, along with a quarter of all nursing homes. | ||
| It hikes the cost of electricity. | ||
| It hands a 3% pay cut to hardworking people of this country and hands their children $5 trillion in debt. | ||
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Does that sound like freedom to you? | |
| No. | ||
| Or does that sound like a government of, by, and for the rich? | ||
| So who would vote for this bill? | ||
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Why would David Valladeau vote for this bill? | |
| Over 65,000 people in his district will lose access to health care if this passes. | ||
| 60,000 households will lose access to their food assistance. | ||
| And over 3,600 energy jobs will be lost just in California 22. | ||
| But why would Young Kim in California 40 vote for this bill either? | ||
| Over 31,000 people in her communities will lose their health care and 15,000 households could lose access to food assistance. | ||
| Why indeed? | ||
| But we've been told exactly where we stand. | ||
| The vice president said these cuts are immaterial. | ||
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Mitch McConnell says people will get over it. | |
| Joni Ertz reminded us we're all going to die anyway. | ||
| So at a time when most households are struggling to afford the basics, Republicans have a clear message for American families. | ||
| You don't matter. | ||
| The people that power America are nurses, our first responders, our small business owners, our veterans. | ||
| Under this bill, the Republican Party views you as expendable and that opportunity is reserved for the elite. | ||
| Freedom isn't something abstract. | ||
| It's something you do. | ||
| It's something you empower people to do. | ||
| You cannot shackle opportunity for the American people. | ||
| You cannot restrain their ability to be free and then drape yourself in the American flag on Independence Day. | ||
| So this 4th of July, House Democrats are going to stand in unity with millions of people across this country. | ||
| We are going to do what Americans have done for 250 proud years. | ||
| We are going to defend our freedom. | ||
| We will defeat its enemies. | ||
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And we will put the power with the people. | |
| And now it is my great pleasure to welcome Ranking Member of Energy and Commerce, Frank Pallone. | ||
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Thank you, Catherine. | |
| I just want everyone to understand why we as Democrats are so mad about this bill, because it's cruel. | ||
| Some people have called it beautiful. | ||
| Some have called it ugly. | ||
| I call it cruel. | ||
| It is the cruelest bill that I've ever seen since my tenure in the House of Representatives. | ||
| Now, why is that the case? | ||
| Because so many people will lose their health insurance. | ||
| And because of the lack of affordability, that's going to increase costs in so many ways for the average American. | ||
| Look, the bottom line is every time this bill moves forward, energy and commerce, 13.5 million people lose Medicaid. | ||
| And then it goes to the House floor, 15 million people. | ||
| Now the CBO says the Senate bill, 17 million Americans lose their health insurance. | ||
| And what happens when they lose their health insurance? | ||
| The hospitals have uncompensated care, the nursing homes have uncompensated care, and they have to push those costs on to everyone else. | ||
| And so premiums go up, co-pays go up, and people do not cannot afford their health insurance. | ||
| The same thing is true with the ACA. | ||
| You know, we as Democrats started years ago trying to make sure that so many Americans that didn't have health insurance did. | ||
| That was what Obamacare was all about. | ||
| And then we enhanced the tax credits and the subsidies. | ||
| So we got up to something like 95% of Americans had health insurance because of what we did. | ||
| But this is reversing that completely. | ||
| It is reversing that completely. | ||
| Because the average person now, without enhanced Medicare, without the ACA-enhanced subsidies, which they did not include in this bill, they could easily go from paying $100 a month for their ACA coverage, $1,200 a year, to something like $5,200 because they lose that $4,000 subsidy. | ||
| So I just want to say one more thing. | ||
| I know the Republicans are saying constantly that nobody's going to lose their health insurance if they work. | ||
| That is a complete lie. | ||
| That is a complete lie. | ||
| If you look at this bill, whether you're disabled, whether you're caring for an elderly, whether you're caring for your children, you are not going to qualify for the exemptions and you are going to lose your health insurance. | ||
| And the same thing is true with regard to affordability for the energy provisions. | ||
| We worked very hard to move towards clean energy because we knew it would be cheaper and they're getting rid of it. | ||
| We worked very hard to have environmental protections in place because we're worried about people's health and safety and they get rid of all the major environmental protections. | ||
| That is what the Republicans are about. | ||
| Cruelty. | ||
| This is unacceptable. | ||
| No one should vote for it. | ||
| It's the cruelest bill that I've ever seen. | ||
| And now I'd like to introduce the chairman of our ranking member of our Ways and Means Committee to talk to you about the tax issues, Richie Neal from Massachusetts. | ||
| Thanks, Frank. | ||
| So this is the worst tax bill that I've seen in all my years in Congress, and that says something. | ||
| So let's look at the numbers. | ||
| After the rejection of expertise, the Joint Committee on Taxation has scored it. | ||
| The Congressional Budget Office has scored it. | ||
| And now the attack turns to the Federal Reserve Board. | ||
| Do you know what that's about? | ||
| That's about the idea that they are going to borrow by raising the debt ceiling an additional $5 trillion to pay for a tax cut, as they did in 2017 when they borrowed $2.3 trillion. | ||
| The reality here is this. | ||
| If you made a million bucks last year, you're getting about $81,000. | ||
| If you made under $50,000, you're getting $0.68 a day. | ||
| A day. | ||
| The attack on the Federal Reserve Board is clear. | ||
| They want to raise the debt ceiling to borrow money, but they want the Federal Reserve Board to cut interest rates so they can say that this is about deficit reduction with lower borrowing costs. | ||
| Rural hospitals that we all have, they're going to close. | ||
| They're up against it. | ||
| Many of the hospitals I have, 68% in some cases, 75% in others dependent on Medicare and Medicaid. | ||
| The disproportionate share hospitals, this is where middle-class people get health care as well as the working poor. | ||
| Understand that this idea that they have today, they haven't thought through because they're all in subservience to getting it signed on July 4th. | ||
| They have no idea what they did in the Senate. | ||
| They have no idea what they're about to do here in the day because they haven't seen the particulars of this bill. | ||
| When you look at this, as earlier noted, 17 million people lose health care to provide a tax cut to the billionaire class. | ||
| Stand with all of us today and reject not only the health care policy here, but the economic policy as well. | ||
| He might be the ranking member on the budget committee, but we know him as a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Brendan Boyle. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, this is it. | ||
| Today is the day. | ||
| If Republicans and Donald Trump succeed today, it will produce the largest loss of health care in American history. | ||
| 17 million Americans will lose their health care. | ||
| The biggest cut to Medicaid in American history. | ||
| Millions taken off the Affordable Care Act. | ||
| And that's not all. | ||
| We have discovered half a trillion dollars worth of cuts to Medicare as well. | ||
| Again, all told, the largest loss of health care in American history. | ||
| And for the rest of us who maybe aren't on Medicaid, not on Medicare, not on the ACA, the quality of our care will go down while the costs go up. | ||
| So everyone will pay. | ||
| And why? | ||
| Why are they doing this? | ||
| To provide billions in tax cuts to billionaires. | ||
| That is not just bad economics. | ||
| It is immoral. | ||
| That alone will be bad enough. | ||
| But you heard others speaking before me about some of the other cuts that are in this bill. | ||
| Cuts to energy, cuts as they relate to construction. | ||
| More than 1 million jobs will be lost as a result of this bill, so it's also a job killer. | ||
| And again, why? | ||
| So the top 1/10, 100th, 1,000th of 1% can get more money. | ||
| Congratulations, Jeff Bezos. | ||
| This crowd's about to give you a great big wedding gift you don't need. | ||
| And it's going to be paid for by taking away health care from millions of Americans and making costs for the rest of us even more expensive. | ||
| So we asked the official scorekeepers, the Congressional Budget Office: okay, all told, with all the provisions in this bill, how do people do? | ||
| And what the Congressional Budget Office found was this: if you're in the bottom third of households, that's everybody makes under $55,000 a year, you will be poorer as a result of this bill. | ||
| If you're middle class, you get nothing. | ||
| And if you're in the top 1%, you get the biggest benefit of all. | ||
| So under the Republicans bill, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class is left behind. | ||
| We say hell no. | ||
| And it is now to introduce a great ranking member from Minnesota, Angie Craig. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| This legislation is nothing short than a betrayal of the American people, plain and simple. | ||
| The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, helps Americans meet their basic needs by making food just a little bit more affordable for families. | ||
| It's a program that provides $6 a day in help to those who need just a little bit of assistance. | ||
| The majority of people who need this food assistance in this country are children, seniors, and people with disabilities. | ||
| Cutting $200 billion from the SNAP program not only takes away food from our nation's children, but it also decreases revenue for our nation's family farmers. | ||
| All of this is to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest among us. | ||
| It is a betrayal that will have long-term consequences on the health of this nation. | ||
| And why would Republicans vote for this national betrayal? | ||
| Why would Marionette Miller-Meeks of Iowa's first congressional district vote for this bill? | ||
| 25,000 people would lose access to their health care in Iowa 1. | ||
| Almost 29,000 households would lose access to their food assistance in Iowa 1. | ||
| 1,300 energy jobs could be lost, and at least one rural hospital. | ||
| This is a betrayal of the American people. | ||
| It's a betrayal of the middle class, and it's a betrayal to the most vulnerable people in our nation. | ||
| The Senate's version of this bill, which House Republicans are now all too eager to pass, goes a step further by targeting our nation's veterans, our nation's former foster youth, and people experiencing homelessness in this nation as well. | ||
| Veterans like Yolanda Gordon of South Carolina. | ||
| Yolanda served our nation proudly in the Army. | ||
| When she transitioned back to civilian life, there was no daycare in Yolanda's rural House home care community. | ||
| Nothing that was equipped to meet her child's special needs so that she could only work part-time while caring for that child. | ||
| SNAP helped Yolanda keep her child safe, healthy, and fed. | ||
| Yolanda served our nation selflessly, and then she returned to serve the needs of her child. | ||
| And now Republicans in the Senate version take away all of the hard-fought negotiated exclusions for our nation's veterans to have those work requirements. | ||
| Now they want to take the dignity and respect away from Yolanda and veterans like her across this country. | ||
| You know, higher costs are already squeezing American families in Minnesota and across the country. | ||
| Too many Americans are just one paycheck away from disaster. | ||
| Instead of taking food away from tens of millions of Americans, we should protect and strengthen basic needs programs like SNAP so that food assistance is always there when we need it. | ||
| You know, we just need four patriots in the Republican Party. | ||
| Four patriots in the Republican Party. | ||
| Do we have four patriots left in this Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives? | ||
| We have four Republicans who represent my home state of Minnesota. | ||
| Our delegation is evenly divided, four Democrats, four Republicans. | ||
| I challenge my Republicans from the state of Minnesota to be the patriots we are looking for in our nation. | ||
| The families I represent in Minnesota, the elderly neighbors living on fixed incomes, the children whose parent is working two low-wage jobs, cannot afford this terrible bill. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to vote no. | ||
| And with that, I would like to introduce the closer, Chairman Aguilar, to close. | ||
| Thank you, Angie. | ||
| Donald Trump promised the American people that he would cut costs on day one. | ||
| Republicans in Congress swore up and down that their policies would fight inflation and make life easier for everyday Americans. | ||
| More lies. | ||
| But we've all seen under this president and this Republican majority, the prices continue to rise and the American dream slipping further from reach. | ||
| Today marks the culmination of Donald Trump's betrayal of working people across this country. | ||
| Because of this bill, your health care is going to go up. | ||
| Your electric bill is going to be more expensive. | ||
| The clothes and groceries that you buy are already rising due to his reckless tariffs. | ||
| The only people who make out in this bill are people who can already afford to pay a little bit more at the checkout line. | ||
| But that's not the reality for most people in this country. | ||
| This bill isn't for the American people. | ||
| It's a reward to the mega-rich campaign donors that bankroll Republican campaigns. | ||
| Why would Gabe Evans in Colorado vote for this bill? | ||
| 29,000 people will lose access to health care in his district. | ||
| 30,000 households will lose access to food nutrition programs. | ||
| And almost 1,000 energy jobs will be lost. | ||
| No one asked 17 million people to lose their health insurance. | ||
| No one asked for hospitals to close or nursing homes to be shuttered because billionaires want more tax breaks. | ||
| Where I'm from, that's not big or beautiful. | ||
| That's small and ugly. | ||
| No one asked for food assistance to be taken away from children to give handouts to the same corporations gouging the American people. | ||
| House Democrats believe that this bill fundamentally is un-American. | ||
| We're going to fight to make sure billionaires and wealthy corporations pay their fair share so that we can build an economy that works for everyone. | ||
| We're going to fight to make America less expensive, and we're going to fight to give working-class people more breathing room and opportunities to get ahead. | ||
| I want to thank my House colleagues for standing with us in this time against this bill. | ||
| I want to thank the community members who have joined us as well. | ||
| And members and members of the faith-based community, we're not here in a partisan exercise. | ||
| We're here because the American people don't deserve this suffering. | ||
| Now, we did take a little bit of liberties when we say hell no. | ||
| We didn't ask them, members of the clergy. | ||
| But we stand in unison against this dangerous bill. | ||
| And today, however long it takes, we will continue to vote against this bill. | ||
| We will do it together, and we will do it with the American people in mind. | ||
| you so much. | ||
| And here on the floor of the House trying to slow down the progress of the tax and spending cuts legislation making its way through the House by bringing up procedural motions. | ||
| This vote, though, being held open for more than an hour now. | ||
| Michael Schnell with the Hill Reporting Speaker Johnson has just left an off-campus meeting with House Freedom Caucus members and deficit hawks who are opposed to the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| The House Speaker was non-committal on getting that rule vote done today. | ||
| We'll see, he said when asked, he said the meeting was productive and that they're moving forward. | ||
| Freedom Caucus members are threatening to tank the rule. | ||
| Politico's Nicholas Wu also heard from Speaker Johnson who says he has attendance concerns today with bad weather affecting members' flights as they make their way back to Washington, D.C. for votes. | ||
| Also, we just heard this morning from Democrats on the steps of the Capitol about their opposition to the tax and spending cuts measure. | ||
| If you missed their remarks, we've got them on our app, C-SPAN now. | ||
| While this vote continues to be held open, we'll show some of the rules committee meeting on the tax and spending cuts measure from yesterday. | ||
| Thank you very much, Ms. Moore. | ||
| Chairman Smith, Chairman Arrington, I've heard hyperbole before, but to say this is the most dangerous piece of legislation in modern history really is beyond hyperbole, I believe. | ||
| But we're hearing this constant refrain that this bill benefits no one and harms everyone. | ||
| Can you expand on how this bill benefits low and middle income Americans? | ||
| I'll start with you, Chairman Smith, and then come to you, Chairman Arrington. | ||
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Thank you, Madam Chair. | |
| Let's first say if you vote against this bill, you're voting against the child tax credit being at $2,200 per child. | ||
| At the end of this year, it will drop to $1,000. | ||
| That makes a huge impact to 40 million hardworking Americans. | ||
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And it's simply when they vote no, they're voting against a $2,200 child tax credit and they're okay with $1,000. | |
| They're also voting against no taxes on tips. | ||
| There's a lot of millionaires and billionaires that gets tips. | ||
| No, there's not. | ||
| But if you listen to the Democrats here, they said this is all about billionaires and millionaires. | ||
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No tax on tips. | |
| No tax on overtime work. | ||
| How many millionaires and billionaires, Madam Chair, works by the hour? | ||
| I don't think there's one. | ||
| So by saying that this bill is for the billionaires and millionaires, it's just completely false. | ||
| Because no taxes on overtime, no taxes on tips, tax relief for seniors. | ||
| This affects real Americans. | ||
| You have permanency for paid family and medical leave tax credit, helping workers balance family and careers, partial refundability of the adoption tax credit. | ||
| Numerous items could go on and on, but they'll try to say that this is all about the millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| But let me tell you, in addition to stopping a $1,700 tax increase, we're stopping a $1,700 tax increase by passing this bill. | ||
| Working families making between $15,000 to $30,000 will have their taxes cut by 21%, the largest of any income group in the distribution title. | ||
| The largest. | ||
| And that's a fact from CBO. | ||
| As a result, the One Big Beautiful bill, the top 1% will pay more in federal taxes. | ||
| They did before TCJA, over 40% of all federal taxes. | ||
| And so it's important to know that 66%, 66% of the One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts benefits American families making less than $500,000 a year. | ||
| That's a tax cut for real Americans, and it counters the false narratives that we have heard this day. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman Smith. | ||
| Chairman Arrington. | ||
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Madam Chair, I agree with Chairman Smith. | |
| I can't imagine working families sustaining a tax hike after the inflation tax, which as I mentioned was 21%. | ||
| These good people from everyone's district have suffered a cost of living crisis the likes of which we haven't endured or experienced in 40 years. | ||
| So I agree with Chairman Smith. | ||
| I mean, let's start with do no harm. | ||
| Let's not have a 22 percent hike on top of the 21 percent hike, which is thousands of dollars from these families' pocketbooks. | ||
| But I think the best way to predict the future is past performance. | ||
| And if you look at what happened after TCJA was passed, I would say coupled with deregulation and other good economic policies, but we had the highest wage increase in a quarter of a century. | ||
| $5,000 for the median household. | ||
| The people on the lower end of the spectrum did better than those at the top in terms of the value of the tax cut. | ||
| And wages grew two times as fast in the bottom 10% as the top 10%. | ||
| The bottom 50% income grew, the bottom 50% of income earners grew three times that of the top 1%. | ||
| And as the Chairman Smith said, the top 1% actually paid a greater share of the taxes. | ||
| So not to mention small businesses that support working families and family farms. | ||
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And so the list goes on. | |
| But I would say for those lowest income earners and those that need the safety net, I think this helps them by not allowing illegal immigrants and folks who are otherwise ineligible from siphoning money off and jeopardizing the sustainability of these programs into the future. | ||
| And in fact, Numbers USA says that it's $9,000 in social services taxpayer funded for people here illegally. | ||
| That's more than we spend per American citizen on Medicaid. | ||
| So to Ms. Moore, who's a friend, to her comment about we will be known by our deeds, how about the Democrats in the Senate, all except four, who voted against the prohibition of illegal immigrants getting taxpayer-funded health care. | ||
| When we can't sustain 51 percent increase over the last four or five years, $400 to $600 billion roughly on Medicaid, it will be a trillion dollars over this next budget window. | ||
| It's not sustainable. | ||
| So, Madam Chair, this couldn't be a better time or better policies to strengthen working families. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Chairman Guthrie, out of all the fearmongering we've heard, the most ridiculous is the claim that people will die if this bill is passed. | ||
| The health care provisions in this bill target waste, fraud, and abuse in our Medicaid program to ensure it's sustainable for future generations and can continue to provide for our most vulnerable populations, such as women and children for whom the program was intended to serve. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| That is correct. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. McGovern. | |
| Thank you, Madam Chair. | ||
| I have questions for everybody. | ||
| But before I do, I have a question for you, Madam Chair. | ||
| I am just reading some of the this is a post from Fox News saying that Andy Harris, who is our colleague, the head of the chair of the Freedom Caucus, has said that he will vote no on the rule when this rule comes before the full committee. | ||
| He said that he voted no on the rule for the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| He said that I don't think it's going to be in the next couple of days, but it's going to have to be a compromise between the House and the Senate, basically saying we're not there yet. | ||
| I guess if the head of the Freedom Caucus is now publicly announcing he's against not the bill but the rule, then what the hell are we doing here? | ||
| Because if you lose three or four members, then we're spinning our wheels here. | ||
| So do you have any information on how many Republicans are going to vote no on the rule? | ||
| Because I can assure you, every Democrat is voting no on the rule. | ||
| No, sir. | ||
| And as you know, we are the Speaker's Committee, and it's our task to hold this hearing on the bill, and will continue until we're given directions that there is no chance that the rule or the bill will pass. | ||
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Okay, I just wanted my colleagues to know that. | |
| And I'll keep announcing as people on the Republican side announce that they're voting against the rule, because I think that's relevant information. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. McGovern. | ||
| I just want to say for the record, I mean, Chairman Smith said the Democrats said that this bill is only for billionaires. | ||
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That's absolutely not what I said in my opening remarks. | |
| And I'll say it again, it is mostly, this bill mostly benefits the well-off, but I said I would support some of the tax relief in this bill. | ||
| The bottom line is that I support extending the tax benefits for the middle class. | ||
| Told you I supported tax relief for, you know, on tips. | ||
| And, you know, and so I think we have some consensus there. | ||
| Where there is disagreement, I think, on the tax stuff is the millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| And I don't know whether you felt you were constrained for time in your opening testimony or not, but you didn't say anything about the benefits, why there's tax relief for millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| So you might want to, I'm happy to give you the time now to explain why do we need tax relief for millionaires and billionaires, especially when people are worried about increasing the debt and people losing health care and SNAP benefits, but this is going to cost us. | ||
| So why does Jeff Bezos need a tax break? | ||
| Ranking Member McGovern, usually when you hear people say that we're cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires, they point to Section 199A, which is the small business deduction. | ||
| Almost 80% of all businesses in the United States are pass-through entities. | ||
| And by making that permanent, that small business deduction, that is what helps create so many jobs. | ||
| And that is where your side of the aisle continues to talk about the millions and billionaires. | ||
| And the other section that you talk about it is. | ||
| Is Jeff Bezos not getting a tax break in this bill? | ||
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The other section that you all are talking about within tax cuts is that we're keeping existing tax rates as they are today moving permanently. | |
| We're not reducing those tax rates. | ||
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We're just keeping them the same. | |
| So the fact that we're keeping them the same, you're saying that we're giving Jeff Bezos a tax cut. | ||
| But he gets a tax cut in this bill. | ||
| I mean, I'm looking at some of the statistics here. | ||
| According to the way I interpret this bill, the top 1 percent get 22 percent of the benefit. | ||
| The top 5 percent get 43 percent of the benefit. | ||
| The top 10 percent get 52 percent of the benefit. | ||
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And the top 20 percent get 66 percent of the benefit. | |
| And I don't know about your district, but most small businesses in my district are multimillionaires or billionaires. | ||
| And you mentioned the child tax credit in your opening. | ||
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The child tax credit goes down next year because Republicans designed it that way. | |
| You made it temporary, but you made tax cuts for corporations permanent. | ||
| So that's why we're dealing with that. | ||
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Republicans want to pretend that this bill provides meaningful tax relief to families through their child tax credit modifications. | |
| This is patently false. | ||
| In fact, what Republicans are doing with the child tax credit in this bill is in many ways even worse than doing nothing at all. | ||
| Under this backwards proposal, one in three children in America will be ineligible for the full child tax credit. | ||
| That means millions of American citizens, citizen children, will lose access to this life-changing assistance that they're currently receiving. | ||
| In addition, families making more than $400,000 per year will be able to get the full value of the credit, but inexplicably, lower-income families will get nothing or just a fraction of that due. | ||
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$211. | |
| The question of consideration is decided in the affirmative. | ||
| Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. | ||
| The gentlewoman from North Carolina, Mrs. Fox, is recognized for one hour. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House. | ||
| Pardon me. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. McGovern, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
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Gentlemen is recognized. | |
| During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. | ||
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Without objection. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Republicans stand ready to deliver H.R. 1 directly to the President's desk for his signature. | ||
| Late last year, the American people rallied en masse behind the Republican vision for a renewed nation. | ||
| A nation no longer blighted by the cataclysmic failures of the previous administration. | ||
| A nation primed and ready to enter the golden age. | ||
| One of the many strong reinforced byproducts of our Republican vision is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | ||
| It is one of the most consequential pieces of legislation that any party has ever passed, and for good reason. | ||
| The provisions interwoven in this legislation are monumental. | ||
| They are what the American people voted for in November. | ||
| Historic tax relief for working families. | ||
| Massive investments to secure our nation's borders. | ||
| Capturing generational savings. | ||
| Slashing waste, fraud, and abuse in government programs so that they may run more efficiently for those who truly need them. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I could opine at length about the wins that Republicans have secured in this bill. | ||
| Wins that we've been highlighting to the American people for months. | ||
| Meanwhile, our Democrat colleagues have resorted to fear-mongering and wailing from their bully pulpits in the hopes of deceiving the American people. | ||
| For months, we've heard Democrats claim that the sky was falling, that all hope is lost because H.R. 1 will bring about the end times, and a litany of other outlandish and absurd claims. | ||
| They are so desperate to smear HR1 and deny the American people the policies that the American people overwhelmingly voted for in November. | ||
| But let's again focus on what this bill accomplishes. | ||
| It yields the single greatest cut in wasteful government spending in congressional history by slashing far more than a trillion dollars of bloat. | ||
| It preserves the greatest battle-tested set of tax cuts for working families that our nation has ever seen or our economy has ever realized. | ||
| It doubles down on the border priorities of the most successful enforcement efforts by a president in our nation's history. | ||
| It realigns our economy in defense of American workers, American energy, American businesses, and American job creators to unleash the engines of our economy, raise the tide of our economic standards, and bring a new definition of American greatness to the world. | ||
| Perhaps the reason why Democrats are so desperate to smear this legislation is because they are caught in their own self-inflicted malaise of denial. | ||
| Perhaps they still can't accept that Americans chose Republicans to lead the nation instead of them. | ||
| That said, Mr. Speaker, Republicans are not distracted by that fear-mongering and doom saying of those who want H.R.1 to fail. | ||
| The facts are on our side, and we've been cutting through the noise by bringing those facts to the American people for months. | ||
| So that the record is clear, a vote against this legislation is a vote to greenlight the largest tax increase in American history being levied against everyday men and women. | ||
| Decimate decimation of millions of jobs across America. | ||
| Kneecap the capabilities and readiness of the nation's military. | ||
| This is not fear-mongering like what our colleagues across the aisle have been engaging in. | ||
| These are just facts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the pathway forward is crystal clear. | ||
| The House must pass this rule and pass the Senate amendment to H.R. 1 so that more wins can be delivered to the American people. | ||
| The American people deserve to keep winning, and to deny them that opportunity is a flagrant disservice. | ||
| This legislation is the embodiment of the America First agenda, and we would all do well to remember that. | ||
| Failure at this critical juncture is not an option. | ||
| This clock is ticking. | ||
| The President and the American people are waiting. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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To balance our time, gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I want to thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
| Gentlemen's recognized. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, this process, an abomination, legislative malpractice. | ||
| Final text of this bill came out less than 24 hours ago. | ||
| We met in committee an hour after it was posted. | ||
| And now we're here considering a rule that only allows for one hour of debate. | ||
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This bill is within the jurisdiction of 12 different committees. | |
| One hour is ridiculous. | ||
| And every minute we're finding out new things that were snuck into the bill. | ||
| A tax cut for whalers, and now we're learning about a gambling tax. | ||
| Republican leadership and the White House are jamming this bill down our throats. | ||
| And for what? | ||
| We are not on a deadline, no looming crisis. | ||
| We're here because Donald Trump wants a 4th of July party to celebrate this garbage bill. | ||
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He wants fireworks and flags and cameras, not for this country, but for himself. | |
| So he says, close your ears, close your eyes, and vote for this bill. | ||
| Honestly, sounds more like a cult than a Congress to me. | ||
| Some Republicans promised their voters no cuts to Medicaid, no new debt. | ||
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Now they're flipping faster than pancakes at a campaign breakfast. | |
| The House passed it hoping the Senate would kill it. | ||
| The Senate passed it hoping the House would grow a spine. | ||
| Everyone is playing a game of legislative chicken, voting for a bad bill and thinking the other chamber will be the one to fix it. | ||
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This is nuts. | |
| And Trump says, have fun and vote yay. | ||
| Have fun gutting Medicaid? | ||
| Vote yay on taking away food from poor families? | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| This bill is catastrophic. | ||
| It is not policy. | ||
| It is punishment. | ||
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Let's talk facts. | |
| It slashes Medicaid, cuts Medicare, dismantles the ACA. | ||
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It shutters rural hospitals, closes nursing homes, wipes out health centers. | |
| It takes food off kitchen tables, throws clean energy workers out of jobs, spikes utility bills. | ||
| And why? | ||
| So billionaires and oil companies can cash in. | ||
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Big oil gets handouts. | |
| Billionaires get tax breaks. | ||
| Working families get scraps if that. | ||
| Jeff Bezos just had a $50 million wedding in Venice, and they want to give him another tax break. | ||
| Meanwhile, families making under $50,000 a year, well, they get less than a buck a day in tax cuts. | ||
| You can't even buy a cup of coffee with that. | ||
| And the cost, over $3 trillion added to the debt and a $5 trillion debt ceiling raise brought to you by the very people who won't shut up about so-called fiscal responsibility. | ||
| This isn't tax reform to relieve the middle and working class. | ||
| It is a robbery that will result in the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich our country has ever seen. | ||
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So let's not lie to the American people. | |
| This is about taking from the most vulnerable to pay off the already powerful. | ||
| It is about pleasing one man who's holding this Congress hostage with primary threats and social media tantrums. | ||
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This bill is cruel. | |
| It is cowardly. | ||
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It is a betrayal of everything this country is supposed to stand for. | |
| I reserve my time. | ||
| General Reserves balance of his time. | ||
| Gentlemen, gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I'm proud to yield three minutes to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Langworthy. | ||
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Gentlemen is recognized for three minutes. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Madam Chairwoman. | ||
| I rise today in strong support of the rule to consider HR1 the one big beautiful bill because the stakes for the American people could not be higher. | ||
| We are rapidly approaching a fiscal cliff. | ||
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If we do nothing, the Trump tax cuts, the most pro-growth tax reforms in generations, will expire. | |
| That means higher taxes on nearly every American. | ||
| That means a gutted child tax credit. | ||
| That means small businesses losing the tools they need to survive and to thrive. | ||
| That means less take-home pay for working families already that have been crushed by the Biden-era inflation. | ||
| This isn't some hypothetical scenario. | ||
| This is the Democrats' game plan. | ||
| They want to raise taxes. | ||
| They want to punish success. | ||
| They want more people dependent on government and fewer people building independent lives. | ||
| And Republicans will not let that happen. | ||
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With HR1, we're stepping to lock in the Trump tax cuts permanently and to provide targeted new relief to the workers and to the families who keep this country running. | |
| Seniors, tipped workers, and those putting in overtime to get ahead. | ||
| But Mr. Speaker, this bill also takes a critical step to protect and to strengthen Medicaid, a vital program for millions of Americans. | ||
| And let me be very clear about something. | ||
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This isn't anything radical. | |
| We're restoring the same common sense work requirements that President Bill Clinton signed into law into the 90s, one of the most popular things he did. | ||
| And back then, a Democratic president worked with a Republican Congress to say that if you're able-bodied an adult without dependents and you're receiving government assistance, you should be expected to work, train, or volunteer and participate in the economy. | ||
| And ladies and gentlemen, it worked. | ||
| Poverty dropped, employment rose, and millions of Americans moved from welfare to work and independence. | ||
| But Democrats today have abandoned that model. | ||
| They want permanent government dependency. | ||
| They'll oppose any form of accountability. | ||
| And they'll vilify anyone who dares to suggest that opportunity should come with responsibility. | ||
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Well, Republicans are standing up for what works and what's right. | |
| And we're saying Medicaid must remain a lifeline for the truly vulnerable, children, seniors, the people with disabilities, and low-income parents. | ||
| But for able-bodied adults without kids, yes, you should try to work, just like in the 90s, just like under President Bill Clinton. | ||
| This isn't extreme. | ||
| It's not partisan. | ||
| It's proven policy that respects both taxpayers and lifts people up. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, this bill delivers economic relief, fiscal sanity, and basic fairness. | |
| And it secures the future of our economy and our safety net. | ||
| Let's choose the path that's been tested and proven to work. | ||
| Let's approve this rule. | ||
| Let's pass one big, beautiful bill, and let's get this country back on track. | ||
| I yield back, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman yields back the balance of his time. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I want to alert all members to something about this rule. | ||
| It has a mistake in it. | ||
| Republicans have rushed this process from the very beginning to meet Trump's artificial July 4th deadline, and this rule is no exception. | ||
| We found an error in the rule at 2 a.m. this morning after the Rules Committee reported the rule. | ||
| This is going to sound a little in the wheeze, but they forgot to do something called considering the previous question as ordered on their big ugly bill. | ||
| Now, let me put that in English. | ||
| What that means is they won't have an escape hatch once they start debate on this bill. | ||
| So if they start it and they realize they don't have the votes, they still have to take the embarrassing vote. | ||
| There are also other consequences, but this Speaker's timeout authority is the one Republican leadership is most afraid of. | ||
| Now, I expect they'll try to fix this with an amendment, but I have a question for members. | ||
| If this Republican leadership cannot get a one-paragraph rule right, can we really trust them to get an 870-page bill right? | ||
| Not only are we going to find things that were snuck into this bill, we're going to find massive mistakes that have unintended consequences for people and industries across this country. | ||
| This whole process has been lousy, and this rule is no exception. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Scott. | ||
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The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for two minutes. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I appreciate the opportunity to address the American citizens for just a couple of minutes. | ||
| I know many of you are concerned about some of the language in the bill, and I think maybe the reason you're concerned is because the people that are telling you what's in the bill never bothered to read the bill. | ||
| So I thought I would just read to you the part, if you've read this, then you're lying to the general public. | ||
| Exceptions, and this is on the SNAP, exceptions. | ||
| Paragraph two shall not apply to an individual if the individual is under 18 or over 65 years of age, medically certified as physically or mentally unfit for employment, a parent or other member of a household with responsibility for a dependent child under 14 years of age. | ||
| So when the Democrats are telling you that we're kicking disabled people off of SNAP or we're kicking disabled people off of Medicaid, it is an absolute lie. | ||
| Page 16, page 17 of the legislation, it will take about 60 seconds to read it. | ||
| That's exactly what it says. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And I yield the remainder of my time to the gentlelady from North Carolina. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, there's a lot of low energy on that side, but I now want to yield to one minute to the gentleman from New York, the distinguished ranking member of the House Committee on House Administration, Mr. Morelli. | ||
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Gentlemen's recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you to my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts, the ranking member of the Rules Committee for yielding. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, as we reach the apparent conclusion of this absurd exercise, it's worth asking, what's the purpose of this bill? | ||
| This bill that will strip away health insurance from nearly 17 million people, devastating communities like mine in Rochester, New York. | ||
| This bill that will recklessly eliminate food assistance for nearly 3 million Americans, including nearly a million senior citizens. | ||
| This bill that explodes the deficit by $3.3 trillion. | ||
| But for what? | ||
| Well, Mr. Speaker, sometimes the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. | ||
| We all saw the gaggle of billionaires sitting behind Donald Trump on Inauguration Day earlier this year. | ||
| The driving force behind this entire legislative effort has been to grant handouts to those same billionaires and special interests, all at the expense of hardworking families. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will stop and think again before voting for the worst piece of legislation in generations. | ||
| But I know one thing for certain, House Democrats will never stop fighting for American families. | ||
| With that, I yield back. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. McDowell. | ||
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Gentlemen, Jack and Ash for two minutes. | |
| Thank you, Madam Chair. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, today we take another big step towards delivering a course correction for our country. | ||
| The American people sent us here with a mandate to fight back and deliver on a promise. | ||
| That is what the One Big Beautiful Bill is. | ||
| Americans should first know what my colleagues in opposition to this legislation are voting for and what they are voting against. | ||
| Not passing this bill means a $1,700 increase in taxes for the average American family of four. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, that might not be a big deal to the elites in Manhattan or San Francisco, but it does mean a lot to the people of my district in North Carolina. | ||
| Not passing this bill means our Border Patrol officers and our Coast Guard won't have what they need to secure the border and stop the flow of deadly fentanyl. | ||
| It doesn't stop there, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Opposing this bill also means protecting waste over purpose, fraud over fairness, and foreign interests over American strength. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I want to make sure voters in my district know what passing the One Big Beautiful Bill will mean for them. | ||
| It means you get to keep more of your hard-earned money. | ||
| It means that small businesses can spend more money on your employees instead of sending it to Washington. | ||
| This bill will make our communities safer by making a historic investment in our border security. | ||
| No more dangerous, illegal aliens parading around with no consequences. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, this legislation is one of the most consequential items we will vote on. | ||
| It is President Trump's agenda, and it is what we all told the people back home we would do. | ||
| Now, the House must get it done, and I urge all of my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule. | ||
| Let's choose our country over comfort and get the big, beautiful bill to the President's desk. | ||
| With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back. | ||
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Come here, back to Bounce Miss Time. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from North Carolina, I know a senator from North Carolina who disagrees with everything he just said, including a lot of hospitals in North Carolina that disagree with what he just said. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Maryland, the distinguished ranking member of the committee on the judiciary, Mr. Raskin. | ||
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Director Nash, for one minute. | |
| I thank the gentleman. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I found the preamble to this big, ugly bill. | ||
| We, the billionaires in our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their health care, increase co-pays, deductibles, | ||
| and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America. | ||
| Please include this preamble in the legislative record. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentlewoman Reserve, gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from California, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Mr. Garcia. | ||
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Gentlemen, recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Now, my Democratic colleagues and I believe in a country where we take care of our fellow Americans and the wealthiest pay their fair share. | ||
| But Republicans are fighting for the biggest ripoff in American history and the biggest attack on our social safety net in decades. | ||
| If this bill passes, 16 million people are going to lose their health insurance. | ||
| They will take away basic food assistance from millions of veterans, seniors, and kids. | ||
| Because of this bill, the poorest 10% of Americans are going to lose $1,600 per person on average, while the richer only get richer. | ||
| It's a transfer from the poor and the middle class to the wealthiest. | ||
| And it does all of this while increasing debt over $3 trillion. | ||
| What happened to fiscal responsibility? | ||
| That means that our grandkids will fund a tax cut for Elon Musk. | ||
| Now, while I'm proud that we are defeating a number of extremely concerning provisions in this House bill, this is our last chance to stand up for our values. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to vote no on this big BS bill. | ||
| The American people are watching, and I yield back. | ||
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Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Haradopoulos. | ||
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Gentlemen's recognized for two minutes. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Promises made. | ||
| Promises kept. | ||
| Voters wanted change for one simple reason. | ||
| It was too expensive to live in America the last four years. | ||
| Gas prices, rent prices, food prices up radically. | ||
| So this bill is designed to help those very people hurt the last four years. | ||
| People who earned tips, who earned overtime, people who earned Social Security get the big tax cut. | ||
| And let's be clear here so the American public hears it loud and clear. | ||
| The current tax rate on the wealthiest Americans is 37 percent. | ||
| Under this bill, it remains at 37 percent. | ||
| And at the same time, we're protecting the most vulnerable. | ||
| Please read the bill. | ||
| You'll see that seniors in nursing homes, unaffected. | ||
| You will see that persons who are disabled, unaffected. | ||
| Pregnant women on Medicaid, unaffected. | ||
| And low-income kids because their parents aren't making much, unaffected. | ||
| Isn't it nice to see that Washington actually keeps its promises from the campaign trail? | ||
| This is a welcome change because Donald Trump said we're going to bring America back by putting more money back in their pockets instead of sending it up here to Washington, D.C. | ||
| And he promised to secure border. | ||
| 99% reduction in the number of people coming across the border illegally. | ||
| That is action. | ||
| And what are we putting in this bill? | ||
| The money needed to make sure it stays that way. | ||
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I'm proud to support this bill because I went to Washington for one reason. | |
| Make promises, keep promises, and prove that the Republicans can lead and are willing to make sure that the great American comeback continues. | ||
| And with that, I yield back. | ||
| Gentlemen yields back to the balance of his time. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Yeah, Mr. Speaker, I read the bill too, and I want to know why Jeff Bezos and multi-millionaires and billionaires are getting tax cuts. | ||
| Last night, I offered an amendment to let Trump's tax cuts expire only for people earning more than a billion dollars a year. | ||
| And every single Republican voted against it. | ||
| I mean, what's that all about? | ||
| Follow the money. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Mississippi, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, Mr. Thompson. | ||
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| Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for the time. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, Republicans are openly bragging about how the bill kicks children and the elderly off Medicaid, nutritional assistance, and more, all to pay another tax break for wealthy Republican donors. | ||
| But my Republican colleagues are not talking about the trillions and trillions of dollars their political giveaway is going to cost. | ||
| In fact, Mr. Speaker, Vice President Vance has said historic levels of Homeland Security funding in the bill sweetens the deal for the devil. | ||
| This bill means billions of American tax dollars to build a wall Trump promised Mexico would pay for. | ||
| Billions of dollars for mask ICE agents to terrorize immigrant families who've been contributing to our country for decades, including law-abiding Marines and even American kids. | ||
| And billions of dollars for DHS to continue obstructing Congress and denying due process to legal immigrants. | ||
| My Republican colleagues may be fooled by one big ugly bill, but the American people are not. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to vote no on the rule and the underlying bill, and I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two and a half minutes. | ||
| The gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Alford. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Thank you, Madam Chair, for your work on this. | ||
| I raise today in support of the rule and in strong support of H.R. 1, President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | ||
| Today, Mr. Speaker, we face a watershed moment for the American people. | ||
| This Republican majority was given a clear mandate by the American people, the America First Agenda. | ||
| This bill is our opportunity to deliver on that agenda. | ||
| H.R. 1 stops the largest tax increase in U.S. history while providing the largest tax cut for working and middle-class families ever. | ||
| With no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and tax breaks for seniors. | ||
| HR1 protects the 87,000 Missouri farms and countless family-owned small businesses from double taxation by expanding the death tax exemption. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful Bill reverses four years, four long years of Biden's open border policies with a generational investment in border security, including funding to complete Phase II of the border wall. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful bill modernizes our armed forces for 21st century threats by properly preparing our military and funding the Golden Dome. | ||
| HR1 ends the progressive left's war on America energy by unleashing domestic oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy production, lowering energy costs, ensuring reliable and stable energy sources, and renewing not just energy independence, but making us energy dominant once again. | ||
| Finally, HR1 restores fiscal sanity by cutting almost $2 trillion in federal spending, rescinding billions in green news scam funding, and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse from numerous federal programs. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is a time for choosing. | ||
| We can choose to side with the illegal aliens, unelected road bureaucrats, and fear-mongering from the America left, or we can choose to side with the American people and deliver on the mandate that they gave us back in November. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to put America first, support the rule, and pass the one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman yields back. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, cult much. | ||
| You know, I mean, that gentleman's poster says it all. | ||
| It's not about American families. | ||
| It's about one big party for Trump. | ||
| It's about swelling up his ego. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentleman from California, Speaker Ms. Pelosi. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| One minute. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Suker. | ||
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Thank you for your leadership, Mr. McGovern. | |
| The gentleman just ended by saying to vote for this big, beautiful bill. | ||
| This big, beautiful bill? | ||
| Well, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then you, GOP, you have a very blurred vision of what America is about. | ||
| Is it beautiful to cut off food from seniors and children? | ||
| Is it beautiful to cut off 17 million people from health care? | ||
| Is it beautiful to do this to give tax cuts to billionaires in our country? | ||
| Is it beautiful to take money from education and the rest? | ||
| The list goes on and on. | ||
| Dr. King, nearly 60 years ago, said, of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. | ||
| We come to this floor with the moral force of Dr. King's words in our heart. | ||
| Let us not, with this bill, turn the American dream he talked about in a nightmare for America's seniors, the disabled, our children, our children, our children. | ||
| Let us vote no on this shameful bill and throw a punch for the children. | ||
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| Gentlemen from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlemen, reserve, gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from California, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Financial Services, Ms. Waters. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| This big, ugly bill straps health care from 17 million Americans, shutters hospitals, and will starve 12 million people by taking away their food stamps. | ||
| These cuts add up to $1.3 trillion, the exact costs of the tax cut Republicans are handing out to the richest 1% of Americans. | ||
| But that's not all. | ||
| The entire bill will add a whooping $3.3 trillion to our nation's $35 trillion debt. | ||
| So much for Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility. | ||
| They're also gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that returned $21 billion to families cheated by mega banks. | ||
| They're cutting housing funds during an affordability crisis and weakening oversight of Wall Street. | ||
| Maybe they've forgotten that the people elected them, not Trump, are the billionaire class. | ||
| And, Mr. Speaker, and members, it'll be a cold day in hell before we let Republicans get away with this. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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| Mrs. Speaker, if I can inquire the gentlelady, if she doesn't have many speakers, maybe she can lend us some time because we have a ton. | ||
| Nice try, Mr. McGovern. | ||
| In Congress, we can measure how much people really believe in their position by whether they're willing to come and join their leaders on the House floor. | ||
| Well, I count four members on the Republican side, and we've got over 75 over here. | ||
| But if I were them, I wouldn't want to be associated with this bill either. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I'm going to urge we defeat the previous question. | ||
| And if we do, I'll offer an amendment to the rule to consider amendment number 156, offered by Leader Jeffries, which strikes all provisions that would cause millions of Americans to lose health care and food assistance. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask your unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the record along with any extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. | ||
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Without objection. | |
| And Mr. Speaker, to discuss our proposal, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Casio-Cortez. | ||
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| Thank you, and I thank the chairman. | ||
| You know, President Trump had issued some statements throughout this process saying and urging, insisting that this bill does not cut Medicaid. | ||
| He's also said some things. | ||
| You know, he says he doesn't think I'm too much of a smart person. | ||
| And I'll tell you one thing. | ||
| It doesn't take a smart person to know if you're being lied to. | ||
| President Trump, you're either being lied to or you are lying to the American people because this bill represents in the text of this bill the largest and greatest loss of health care in American history. | ||
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17 million Americans will lose their health care on this bill, not undocumented people, not quote unquote the disgusting term illegal, but 17 million Americans will have their health care cut from this bill. | |
| On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam of that text, a little bit of the fine print there. | ||
| The cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the United States while taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid, while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions. | ||
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So if you're at home and you're living off tips, you do the math. | |
| Is that worth it to you? | ||
| Losing all your health care, not able to feed your babies, not being able to put a diaper on their bottom in exchange for what? | ||
| This bill is a deal with the devil. | ||
| It explodes our national debt. | ||
| It militarizes our entire economy and it strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? | ||
| To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation. | ||
| We cannot stand for it and we will not support it. | ||
| should be ashamed. | ||
| Members are reminded not to engage in personalities toward the president. | ||
| And members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Nels. | ||
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| Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss an important provision in the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| I was proud to introduce the Endowment Tax Fairness Act, which would tax the endowment profits of private elite universities at 21 percent, raising an estimated, listen to me, $70 to $100 billion over 10 years. | ||
| The Senate gutted this provision and reduced it to under $1 billion annually to protect elite universities that take hundreds of millions of dollars annually in federal tax dollars. | ||
| We were given instructions to generate revenue to pay for President Trump's wonderful priorities. | ||
| Folks, we're not taxing the endowment itself. | ||
| Harvard has $53 billion. | ||
| We're not taxing that. | ||
| We're just going to tax the net earnings on their investments at 21%, which was equal to the corporate tax rate. | ||
| And what did the Senate do? | ||
| They reduced it to 8%, just under 8%. | ||
| It is about time that we get these universities to pay the same that corporate America pays. | ||
| And with that, I yield back. | ||
| Gentlemen, yields back. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Florida, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise to oppose this vile Republican plunder of working families, seniors, and veterans. | ||
| All so the richest Americans can be showered with even more wealth. | ||
| This billionaire bailout would strip health care coverage from 17 million Americans, nearly 2 million in my state of Florida. | ||
| It will push millions into crowded, costly emergency rooms and saddle them with medical debt. | ||
| Trump's big, ugly bill also steals record food assistance from millions of kids, seniors, and veterans. | ||
| It makes cancer screenings and prenatal care harder to get by defunding Planned Parenthood. | ||
| It cripples solar and wind projects and kills millions of clean, green manufacturing and construction jobs. | ||
| All so the rich can get huge tax breaks. | ||
| And no family is unscathed because this bill also blows up the national debt by $4 trillion, which drives up interest rates on car loans and mortgages and triggers billions in Medicare cuts, cutting health care for our seniors. | ||
| This bill makes life less affordable, more painful, and instead of uplifting lives, it will end them. | ||
| When history looks back on this bill, its legacy will be Trump lied and people died. | ||
| Vote no. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Chair would remind members once again not to engage in personalities toward the president. | |
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentleman, reserves. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island, Mr. Megazino. | ||
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| When we say that the Republican Party has turned into a cult, this is what we mean. | ||
| Our Republican colleagues are pushing a bill that would throw their constituents under the bus, a bill that flies in the face of everything they claim to stand for, all because Donald Trump wants a bill-signing photo op by the 4th of July. | ||
| Our Republican colleagues know that this bill will cost 17 million Americans their health insurance. | ||
| They know that nursing homes in their own districts will have to close down. | ||
| They know that under this bill, $5 trillion of debt are being added that will be paid for by my children and your children and their children for generations to come so that today's billionaires can get a tax break. | ||
| They know that this bill is unpopular and many of their vulnerable members will lose re-election over it. | ||
| But the cult leader has decided he wants his photo up on July 4th, and our Kool-Aid drinking colleagues are going along with it. | ||
| They know this is wrong. | ||
| They still have a chance to do right by their constituents and their convictions. | ||
| Vote no on this bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson. | ||
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| Thank you very much, Chairwoman Virginia Fox of North Carolina. | ||
| And indeed, Republicans were elected last November with promises made, promises kept. | ||
| And despite the extraordinarily ignorant lies on the other side, the American people know that the bill that we'll be voting on today reduces taxes, creating jobs. | ||
| It's the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime. | ||
| It provides for securing the border. | ||
| It provides for energy independence. | ||
| It provides for the ability of having peace through strength. | ||
| All of this is in the bill. | ||
| And then compassion. | ||
| It's not compassion if you support programs that are ultimately going to fail. | ||
| But Republicans want people who need assistance to receive the assistance. | ||
| We already know Margaret Thatcher has identified what they're proposing, and that is socialism will work until you run out spending other people's money. | ||
| They are putting the poor people of America at risk. | ||
| We're the ones of compassion. | ||
| Additionally, with the promises made, promises kept by Donald Trump. | ||
| I've lived it. | ||
| I led the delegation to move the delegation, the embassy, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. | ||
| He did that. | ||
| People said you shouldn't do it, the State Department, because it leads to dislocation. | ||
| No. | ||
| It led to the embassy being in Jerusalem and it led to the Abraham Accords. | ||
| We know last week the President was advised do not bomb Iran. | ||
| It will lead to World War III. | ||
| No. | ||
| It has led to a ceasefire and the ability of having an Abraham Accords extended to other countries, including Syria. | ||
| And I'm really grateful that Lindsey Graham was such an advisor. | ||
| The President acted despite the naysayers that we have all around us. | ||
| I just appreciate Donald Trump. | ||
| Promises made, promises kept. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Kennedy. | ||
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| Thank you, Ranking Member McGovern. | ||
| I'm an occupational therapist. | ||
| I helped people live the fullest life they could, given the cards they were dealt. | ||
| I worked at a school for children with disabilities in a nursing home, helping seniors maintain their independence. | ||
| I know exactly what it means to cut a trillion dollars from Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act, which is exactly what this big, ugly bill does. | ||
| Taking away health care for 17 million Americans won't make us any healthier. | ||
| Stealing food away from the neediest children, seniors, and veterans won't make us any stronger. | ||
| Giving billionaires a tax break won't make us any richer. | ||
| Children will go hungry. | ||
| Seniors will lose their health care. | ||
| Students will lose their financial aid. | ||
| Hospitals will close. | ||
| Americans will die. | ||
| I urge my Republican colleagues to stand up, grow a spine, stop bowing down to your King Donald Trump, represent your constituents like you were elected to do, and vote no on this horrible, big, ugly bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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For the third time, the chair would remind members not to engage in personalities toward the president or they will be called out of order. | |
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the House is not in order. | ||
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| house will be in order. | ||
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Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, if there are no other Republican members willing to speak for this bill, we can send some members over to you just to state the facts as to what's in this bill. | ||
| Let's do the public a service. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Orshewski. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| I rise today to remind my colleagues that this bill is more than words on paper. | ||
| The policies we're debating today have real impacts on real people. | ||
| People like four-year-old Amir Rich, who visited my office earlier this month. | ||
| Amir was born at just two pounds and spent 452 days in the hospital. | ||
| Today, although he still depends on feeding tubes and oxygen tanks, he is thriving. | ||
| He's walking and able to speak. | ||
| He lit up my office with energy. | ||
| And that's thanks to the care he received under Medicaid. | ||
| Christina was forced to leave her 16-year career in corrections to become his full-time caregiver, placing a significant financial strain on their family. | ||
| In the face of rising costs for American families, Medicaid has become a vital lifeline, helping to cover the kind of care Amir needs. | ||
| The bill before us guts these lifelines like Medicaid and CHIP. | ||
| These programs cover nearly half of all American children's. | ||
| For families like Christina and Amir, today's vote is a matter of life and death. | ||
| I encourage my colleagues to look at Amir, look at him, and oppose this reckless bill. | ||
| Protect the vital support systems that serve millions of Americans. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Kennedy. | ||
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| Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| It's a pleasure to be here and speak in favor of the rule for the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| As a provider of health care myself, as a doctor, and as a recipient of Medicaid services, my first three children were born on Medicaid. | ||
| In addition to the fact that as a child I was receiving food assistance not only from free school lunch programs but church programs, recognizing the vital need associated with Medicaid as well as with these food programs, we need to right-size these programs. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, if we don't take a different trajectory, these programs will collapse under the economic failures of prior administrations. | ||
| The reality behind this is these bills, this bill that we're discussing today, is insisting on work requirements associated with the recipient of Medicaid. | ||
| If you're an able-bodied working adult, you should be able to go out and find a job. | ||
| If you can't find a job, you need to go to a training program and try to find training so that you can get a job and ultimately get off Medicaid. | ||
| One of the components about Medicaid, we all know it was formed in favor of pregnant women, disabled people, as well as the elderly. | ||
| And what the Republicans are trying to do is right-size the Medicaid program so that it survives through the long-term the vital needs of the people of the future. | ||
| With that, Mr. Speaker, thank you for the time and I yield back. | ||
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| If you can't find a job, just enroll in a training program. | ||
| Well, that's hard to do when Republicans are cutting and gutting the training programs that exist in this country. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Johnson. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| You know, I've been listening to this debate and I am struck by the appalling ability of the members of the other side who are so afraid of this president. | ||
| They are willing to lie to the American people because they fear the tweet of a president more than they fear the wrath of the voters at the ballot box. | ||
| This will come to roost because 17 million people are going to lose their health care. | ||
| And in Texas, we're one of the largest creators of clean energy jobs. | ||
| Texas is the energy state. | ||
| I'm proud to be an energy state. | ||
| We have vast amounts of oil and gas jobs, but we also are the largest creator of clean energy jobs. | ||
| And we will lose millions of employment in our state because Republicans of this delegation are going to vote for this bill. | ||
| And in response to Representative Nels, I'm a proud graduate of the University of Texas. | ||
| I think Texas AM and our elite University of Texas deserves to have the funding in our universities. | ||
| With this bill, we must vote it down. | ||
| And I condemn the Republicans in the state of Texas who are going to harm our state with their support of this bill. | ||
| And with that, I yield back. | ||
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Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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| Wow, okay. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Castro. | ||
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| Three years ago today, I was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. | ||
| That day, my youngest child, my daughter, turned two months old. | ||
| There's a drug that I have to take every month, every 28 days. | ||
| And the first time I saw the bill for that, the list price on that drug was $24,000 per injection. | ||
| For people that don't have insurance or Medicaid or aren't covered, they're not getting that shot. | ||
| They're not going to survive, some of them. | ||
| This is a choice for some of you between your career and saving people's lives. | ||
| There are so many folks who have reached out over the last several months, panicking about their disabled children, about their senior citizen parents who are in nursing homes, people struggling with cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, sickle cell, diabetes, all of these illnesses. | ||
| You have the power today to make sure that they can live with dignity and stay alive, or you can choose your career. | ||
| That is your choice. | ||
| We choose to keep people alive. | ||
| We choose to have health care in this country. | ||
| We refuse to cut health care for 17 million people and 1.6 million people in Texas because it's wrong and it's immoral and we can take a different course. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Washington, Mr. Baumgartner. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise in strong support of the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| At its heart, the Big Beautiful Bill is a measure that will make America both wealthier and safer. | ||
| And I'm inspired in thinking about the Big Beautiful Bill of not only this president, but two of my favorite former presidents. | ||
| The first would be President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who realized, who realized, who realized the negative impacts of high-tech tax rates. | ||
| Indeed, roughly 60 years ago, President Kennedy warned the largest single barrier, the largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistic, heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative, and incentive. | ||
| And indeed, I have little doubt that President Kennedy would be a big fan of the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| Similarly, President Reagan realized peace through strength was how America could defeat the Communist Soviet Union. | ||
| And he realized how missile defense was key to facing up from the challenge of the communists. | ||
| Today, the Big Beautiful bill puts much-needed funding into missile defense through the Golden Dome system. | ||
| And I encourage every American that cares about making our country wealthier and safer to support the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Michigan, Ms. Stevens. | ||
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| Mr. Speaker, this bill makes me sick to my stomach. | ||
| I have met with over 200 manufacturers in my district, and the one thing I hear over and over again is the cost of everything is going up. | ||
| And now this administration is yet again trying to raise prices on working Michiganders. | ||
| This bill in Michigan will kick 750,000 people off of their Medicaid. | ||
| It will eliminate critical investments in Michigan manufacturing. | ||
| It means for Michiganders the costs will continue to go up and up and up. | ||
| And as someone who served as the chief of staff on the U.S. auto rescue in the Obama administration, I know what it means to see Michiganders struggling. | ||
| I know what it means when Michiganders have to choose between paying their bills and paying for life-saving health care, all while billionaires get a tax cut. | ||
| This bill, Mr. Speaker, makes me sick to my stomach, and I urge everyone to vote no. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| I feel the excitement on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio, Ms. Sykes. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today to oppose this terrible bill that is a bad deal for Ohio and the residents of Ohio's 13th congressional district and the people of the United States of America. | ||
| When I was first elected, I told the people of Ohio's 13th congressional district that it may be my name on the ballot, but when I win, we are all going to Washington together. | ||
| I made that promise because as a representative of my district, it is my responsibility to make sure my constituents' needs are being addressed here in Washington. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th congressional district need lower costs. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th congressional district need access to care. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th district need opportunity, opportunity to work, to buy a house, to live their American dream. | ||
| But this bill does none of that. | ||
| Instead, it kicks 17 million people off of their health care and makes life more expensive. | ||
| People don't have extra money to pay for billionaires' yachts and two-month-long vacations. | ||
| This bill takes money away from hardworking Americans and gives it to the rich. | ||
| It takes food away from children, making their bellies hungry. | ||
| And in my district, Mr. Speaker, 30,000 jobs are in jeopardy. | ||
| So I don't want to hear another word from Republicans about people not wanting to work when they are sending them to the unemployment line. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, this is a bad bill. | ||
| Do not, do not allow the people in my district to be unemployed, hungry and without the ability to live their American dream. | ||
| Gentleman's time is expired. | ||
| Gentlemen, the live from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, my Democrat colleagues continue to rail against common sense community engagement requirements which require able-bodied adults without an exemption to spend 20 hours per week working, volunteering, enrolling in school, or participating in a work development program. | ||
| Let's be perfectly clear. | ||
| These work requirements apply only to able-bodied adults without young dependents who don't have a disqualifying condition. | ||
| Individuals that are exempt from these requirements include pregnant women, individuals under the age of 19 or over the age of 64, foster youth, and former foster youth under the age of 26, members of tribes, individuals who are considered medically frail, and individuals who are already in compliance with the work requirements under temporary assistance for needy families, TANF, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP. | ||
| The list goes on, but our priority remains the same: to root out waste fraud and abuse and to strengthen and sustain Medicaid for those for whom the program was intended to serve. | ||
| The expectant mothers, children with disabilities, the poor, and the elderly. | ||
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentlelady of North Carolina reserves her time. | |
| Mr. Speaker, Democratic from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, Democratic Leader Jeffries has an amendment to strike the devastating cuts to health care and SNAP. | ||
| And I yield to the gentlewoman from New York, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Ms. Clark, for a purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen of New York is recognized for one minute. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and to SNAP. | ||
| Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Does the gentlewoman from North Carolina yield for the purpose? | |
| All-time yielded is for the purpose of debate, and I do not yield for that request. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina does not yield, therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana, Mr. Carter, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentleman from Louisiana is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order, the amendment at the desk that protects against any Medicaid cuts and any cuts to SNAP. | ||
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North Carolina. | |
| Mr. Speaker, all-time yield is for the purpose of debate. | ||
| I do not yield for that request. | ||
| Chair understands that the gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia, Ms. McBath, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Once again, the chair understands that the gentlelady from North Carolina will not yield for the purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota, Ms. Omar, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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The gentlelady from Minnesota is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| North Carolina has expressed a desire not to entertain the unanimous consent request for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| To the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen from Pennsylvania is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order that the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicare and SNAP. | ||
| Given that the gentlelady from North Carolina will not accept the general the request for the unanimous consent agenda, the purpose therefore cannot be entertained at this time. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Meeks, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Once again, the Chair understands that the gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Speaker? | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| I yield to the gentleman from Nevada, Mr. Horsford, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen from Nevada is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Ms. Watson Coleman, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from New Jersey is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and to SNAP. | ||
| The chair understands the gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio, Ms. Beatty, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from Ohio is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Once again, the chair understands the gentlelady of North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina, Ms. Fouchy, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Chair understands the gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama, Ms. Sewell, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen from Alabama is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and to SNAP. | ||
| Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Waters, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentleman from California is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose. | |
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, you sure you don't want to check with the gentlelady of North Carolina just in case she changed her mind? | ||
| Chair is pretty confident. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina, Ms. Adams, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina, Ms. Fox, has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentleman from Maryland is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida, Ms. Sherfiles McCormick, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen from Florida is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Jackson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Crockett, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio, Ms. Sykes, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Connecticut, Ms. Hayes, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio, Ms. Brown, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia, Ms. McClellan, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Ms. Simon, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon, Ms. Bynum, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Ivey, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New Jersey, Ms. McGuyber, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island, Mr. Amo, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from California, Ms. Kemliger Dove, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Bell, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Torres, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana, Mr. Fields, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | |
| I request unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentlewoman from Georgia, Ms. Williams, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama, Mr. Figures, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, thank you. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make it an order, the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid or SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Davis, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rules to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington, Ms. Strickland, for the purpose of unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Green, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Bishop, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Ms. Lee, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Frost, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois, Ms. Kelly, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts, any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Conway, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Carson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Garcia, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask for unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from Oregon, Ms. Bonamici, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon, Ms. Salinas, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Johnson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Washington for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois, Ms. Brzinski, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Hawaii, Mr. Kuda, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady of North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York, Ms. Meng, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Michigan, Ms. Dingell, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania, Ms. Houlihan, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| You can breathe in and take your time up to the land. | ||
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Gentlelady is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Fletcher, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from Texas is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady of North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Tonko, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts, Ms. Presley, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry. | ||
| Gentleman state is inquiry. | ||
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Does one Republican member have the power to block an amendment to protect Medicaid and SNAP? | |
| Yes. | ||
| The manager of the pending resolution would have to yield for any such amendment. | ||
| Well, that kind of seems like a silly rule. | ||
| But anyway, Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York, Ms. Gillen, for the purpose of unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and to SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Minnesota, Ms. Morrison, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Ms. Brownlee, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Once again, the gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request may not be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Torres, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendments at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio, Ms. Captor, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Liu, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Can I direct the record? | ||
| I'm from Ohio. | ||
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No, no, yield your question. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order that an amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Chu, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York, Ms. Velasquez, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady is recognized. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon, Ms. Dexter, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Johnson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentleman from Georgia is recognized. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| From New York, Mr. Kennedy, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina is not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Landsman, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland, Ms. Elfrith, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Delaware, Ms. McBride, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. DeLuzio, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment of the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Oshewski, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. McGarvey, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Vermont, Ms. Ballant, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Soto, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask for unanimous consent to amend the rule to make it in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from Oregon, Ms. Hoyle, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Cisneros, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Norcross, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi, Mr. Thompson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlemen from Mississippi is recognized. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Menendez, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Tacano, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Ruiz, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida, Ms. Castro, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose. | |
| Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Desonier, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Matsui, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Hampshire, Mr. Pappas, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Nevada, Ms. Titus, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from Nevada is recognized. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Supermanion, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask for unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Ms. Sherrill, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Mannion, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Lynch, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid or the supplemental nutrition assistance program. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Clyburn, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you for yielding, Mr. Speaker. | |
| I request that we allow a vote to let the 10-2030 formula be applied to the low-income areas affected by this bill. | ||
| Was that UC? | ||
| Speaking unanimous consent? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| Does the gentleman, gentlelady from North Carolina yield for that purpose? | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| No, I do not yield. | ||
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To the gentleman from South Carolina, the gentlelady from North Carolina will not yield for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Okay, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts in Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Once again, the gentlelady has been clear. | ||
| She is not entertaining the unanimous consent request. | ||
| She will not yield to that point, and therefore it cannot be entertained at this time. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| I thank. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Carberhall, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts, any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielding for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas, Ms. Escobar, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielding for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Washington, Ms. Delbenny, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| The gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Washington, Ms. Jayapal, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Tennessee, Mr. Cohen, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rules to make an order the spirit of Jesus as it's spoken in Matthew. | |
| He was sick and I healed him. | ||
| He was hungry and I fed him. | ||
| Medicare and health care and SNAP payments, nutrition payments should not be taken away from fellow passengers on this earth. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina is not yielding for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the presentation. | ||
| If the gentleman would suspend further, the chair would advise members that although a unanimous consent request to consider a measure is covered by the Speaker's guidelines for recognition, embellishments constitute debate and as such can become an imposition on the time of the member who has yielded for that purpose. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina, Ms. Ross, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Whitesides, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Hampshire, Ms. Goodlander, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and to SNAP. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California, Mr. Thompson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Schneider, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island, Mr. Magaziner, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose, and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Kassara, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make in order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona, Mr. Stanton, for the purposes of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. | |
| I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid or SNAP. | ||
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from California, Ms. Pelosi, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. | ||
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Gentlelady from California is recognized. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to amend the rule to make an order the amendment at the desk that protects against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. | ||
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The gentlelady from North Carolina has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, over 100 Democratic members just asked to allow an amendment to protect Medicaid and SNAP just to give us a vote. | ||
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That's all we ask. | |
| And I will say we are here standing up for the American people no matter where they live. | ||
| And this is what it looks like to fight for the American people to make sure that this administration and this Republican Congress doesn't rip away their health care and their food benefits. | ||
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That is disgusting. | |
| In the gentlewoman from North Carolina's district alone, 142,000 of her constituents would lose some or all of their SNAP benefits. | ||
| And five rural hospitals are at risk of closure. | ||
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We're here to help people, not to screw them over. | |
| I reserve my time. | ||
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Gentleman's time is reserved. | |
| General Lee from North Carolina. | ||
| General Lee from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Wow, that gambit was riveting. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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The gentlelady reserves her time. | |
| We'll advise both sides of the time remaining. | ||
| Yes, what you're doing. | ||
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The gentleman from Massachusetts has seven minutes remaining. | |
| The gentlelady from North Carolina has seven and three-quarters minutes remaining in the debate. | ||
| The gentlelady has how many minutes? | ||
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Seven and three-quarters for the majority, seven for the minority. | |
| Gentleman, reserves. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I give one minute to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Fine. | ||
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Gentleman from Florida is recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| As I sat here and listened to that panoply of speeches or motions over the last few seconds, I was reminded of the fact that when we say there should be no cuts to Medicaid, we are saying there should be no cuts to illegal immigrants that are getting Medicaid. | ||
| Now, we live in a world where we spend more money than we bring in, and it is not fair to actual Americans to be forced to take on additional debt to give benefits to people who are not in this country legally. | ||
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And I would note that neither that the Democrats have not proposed a solution that would allow us to continue to give benefits to people who shouldn't be here anyway and pay for them without our children going into future debt. | |
| We must keep that in mind. | ||
| We are here to fight for Americans, and that is what this bill does. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I don't know if the gentleman's ever read the Medicaid statute, but undocumented immigrants are not entitled to receive Medicaid benefits, and they don't. | ||
| And our solution to make sure that our children are not saddled with debt is to not give billionaires and millionaires and corporations big tax cuts. | ||
| Jeff Bezos doesn't need a tax cut. | ||
| And why don't you come down here and explain to people why it's so important that you protect his tax cuts? | ||
| We tried to go after the billionaire tax cuts in the Rules Committee last night, and every single Republican voted no. | ||
| So that's how we're going to do it. | ||
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We're going to invest in people who need help. | |
| We're going to make sure people have health care. | ||
| We're going to make sure people have food assistance. | ||
| We're not going to screw them over. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from California, Mr. Sonye. | ||
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He's recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. | ||
| This bill would cause household resources for the poorest Americans to decrease while the obscenely rich will get richer. | ||
| I offered two amendments at rules, one to prevent people with disabilities from being kicked off Medicaid and one to help low-income students afford an education that they earned. | ||
| Unfortunately, Republicans refuse to consider them as they yet again work through the dead of night to rip off hardworking Americans and give tax breaks to the richest Americans who don't need them. | ||
| And even Fox News reports that it is projected to increase the federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade. | ||
| This bill is nothing more than a vanity project for the president, and it betrays the American people. | ||
| I strongly oppose this reckless legislation and urge my colleagues to do the right thing. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from Texas, Mr. Babbin. | ||
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Gentleman from Texas is recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today in very strong support of H.R. 1, President Trump's one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| Here we are, despite months of my Democrat colleagues' best efforts to delay, to fear-monger, and mislead the public about this bill, and we're ready to deliver for the American people. | ||
| But here's the thing about fear-mongering. | ||
| Can only say the sky is falling so many times before folks start waking up and looking and seeing for themselves exactly what's going on. | ||
| The one big, beautiful bill secures our border. | ||
| It prevents the single largest tax increase in American history. | ||
| It refocuses safety net programs for those who truly need them, not the ones shamming. | ||
| And then it reinvigorates our armed forces, where we saw a diminution for four long years under the Biden administration. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, it is high time that we deliver this to the President's desk for his signature. | ||
| This is promises made and promises kept. | ||
| And I'm very proud to support this bill and yield back. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts, the big, ugly bill is going to throw 16 million people off of health care and give people like Jeff Bezos, millionaires and billionaires, a tax cut. | ||
| If that's what you're about, I hate to tell you, that's all what the American people voted for. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Riley. | ||
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Gentleman from New York is recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Where I come from, we make things. | ||
| Generations woke up before the crack of dawn, went off to the factory, punched a clock, worked their hands to the bone, came home and counted nickels to make sure they could keep a roof over the kids' heads, keep food on the kids' tables. | ||
| We've kept our heads down, we've kept our sleeves rolled up, we've kept our shoulder to the wheel, and all we've asked for is a fair shot and for this place to stop screwing us over. | ||
| But you can't help yourselves. | ||
| You got us into terrible trade deals that made Wall Street rich and shipped all of our jobs overseas. | ||
| You bail out the banks while neglecting rural America. | ||
| You've rigged the economy so the corporate PACs that are funding your campaigns make huge profits, jacking up costs on folks who can't afford it. | ||
| And now this, this bill will kill good blue-collar manufacturing jobs that we need to rebuild the economy in this country. | ||
| It closes rural hospitals. | ||
| It defunds health care, all to give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to your cronies. | ||
| Don't tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you're doing is shitting on the middle class. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| Chair would remind both sides of two things. | ||
| Please direct your remarks to the chair. | ||
| That is a house rule. | ||
| And to avoid vulgar speak, we do have families in the gentleman who will not be recognized. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for reminding us of the language we should be using in this chamber and IRESE. | ||
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Gentlelady Reserves. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| With four and one-half minutes remaining. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I hope that when the President comes here next, you'll admonish him for the language he uses. | ||
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But I'd now like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Delaware, Ms. McBride. | |
| She's recognized. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this big, ugly bill. | ||
| And let's be clear, this bill is Trump care. | ||
| And Trump care means 17 million more Americans uninsured and all the rest of us paying higher costs and driving further to get care. | ||
| Over the last several months, I've met with hundreds of Delawareans, parents, patients, providers, hospital leaders, teachers, nurses, people across the state of Delaware. | ||
| Everyone asking us, pleading with us to kill this bill. | ||
| Are my Republican colleagues meeting with their constituents? | ||
| Are they ignoring them? | ||
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Do they even care? | |
| Every yes vote shows very clearly that they don't. | ||
| This bill is trickle-down cruelty, and people will die because of it. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentlelady of North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| As the President has said numerous times, there'll be no cuts to Medicaid. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for those who rely on it. | ||
| Pregnant women, children, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families, while eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful Bill removes illegal aliens, enforces work requirements, and protects Medicaid for the truly vulnerable. | ||
| And for our colleagues on the other side who say illegal aliens are not receiving this, we understand that 1.4 million people do not meet citizenship and immigration status requirements for Medicaid enrollment, but would be covered under current law and programs funded by the states. | ||
| And we know that because we have a CBO score. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlelady's time is reserved. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from California, Mr. Connor. | ||
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The gentleman from California is recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I never want to hear the Republicans lecture about fiscal responsibility again. | ||
| The last president to actually balance this budget was Bill Clinton. | ||
| And today, Bob Rubin and Larry Summers wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that every American should read. | ||
| Their budget will take the deficit up to 8% of GDP. | ||
| It is historically unprecedented in the history of our country during peacetime. | ||
| We've never had a more reckless deficit exploding bill than what they're posing. | ||
| The Democrats have a proposal to bring the deficits back down under 4%. | ||
| Bob Rubin and Larry Summers were the last ones who've done it. | ||
| Hakeem Jeffries is leading with a sensible proposal to lower deficits. | ||
| If you care about debt in this country, if you care about our grandkids being burdened with debt, if you care about a bond market devastation, then you need to recognize that this bill hurts America and you need to support the Democratic plan for deficit reduction. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | ||
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Gentlelady of North Carolina, with four and three-quarter minutes remaining. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Barr. | ||
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Gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for a half minute. | |
| With the One Big Beautiful Bill, President Trump is once again keeping his promises to the American people. | ||
| He promised he would stop the largest tax increase in American history. | ||
| He promised he would make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent. | ||
| He promised he would deliver the largest tax cut for hardworking taxpayers in American history. | ||
| And he promised to eliminate tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits. | ||
| President Trump is keeping his word. | ||
| He is delivering much-needed relief for the American people. | ||
| And this will produce an investment surge, driving real median incomes up by $10,000 relative to the scenario in which the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is allowed to expire. | ||
| And to my friend from California, if he cares about fiscal responsibility, stopping a $4.5 trillion tax increase stops a recession. | ||
| You cannot balance the budget without growth. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, we have like a million more speakers over here, but we're out of time, so I'm prepared to close. | ||
| So I don't know how many more speakers the gentlelady has. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, we're prepared to close also. | ||
| Looks like both sides are prepared to close. | ||
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts, you have two and one half minutes for me. | ||
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I don't want to close, but I'm prepared to close. | |
| Mr. Speaker, this bill is a moral failure. | ||
| It rips health care away from millions. | ||
| It pushes more families into hunger. | ||
| It leaves seniors stranded. | ||
| Also, billionaires can keep more of what they'll never spend. | ||
| Republicans say lose your job? | ||
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Too bad. | |
| Hospitals shut down? | ||
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Good luck. | |
| Can't afford groceries or insulin? | ||
| Figure it out. | ||
| But if you're a big oil, a CEO, or a trust fund baby, don't worry. | ||
| You know, we've got you covered. | ||
| This bill is about who matters and who doesn't. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Working people didn't make the cut. | ||
| But I want my Republican colleagues to know they don't have to do this. | ||
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They don't have to sell out their own communities. | |
| They don't have to vote for a bill that goes against fundamental things they claim to believe in. | ||
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Crazy as it sounds, they don't have to hurt people to keep Trump happy. | |
| Find a spine. | ||
| Find a conscience, for God's sake, because the American people are watching. | ||
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They know the difference between real leadership and bootlicking. | |
| A vote for this bill is a vote for cruelty. | ||
| It's a vote for fiscal irresponsibility and a vote to screw over your constituents to give more to the ultra-wealthy. | ||
| This bill is a middle finger to working people. | ||
| Now, we can still stop this. | ||
| We can still do the right thing. | ||
| Vote no. | ||
| Go back to the table. | ||
| Work with us on tax relief for people who are not making millions and billions of dollars. | ||
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Don't let this be your legacy. | |
| That so many of you are blindly going along with this just to please the guy in the White House is shameful. | ||
| You have a responsibility to care for the people in your districts. | ||
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And you're voting for a bill that's going to throw millions off of health care and rip food off kitchen tables all across the country. | |
| It's shameful. | ||
| It is shameful. | ||
| I'm disgusted that we are here debating this trash. | ||
| And with that, I urge a no vote on the roll and a no vote on the bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman yields back his time. | |
| Once again, we remind both sides, direct your comments to the chair. | ||
| Gentlelady from North Carolina, with four and three-quarter minutes remaining. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, people who have supported the Democrat Party policies for years cannot come to this floor and question the morality of Republicans. | ||
| President Trump has his pen in hand and is waiting for the House to complete its work. | ||
| We've championed this legislation for months, have guided it through the appropriate processes, and now we're on the one-yard line. | ||
| America deserves to move even further into the golden age. | ||
| HR1 unlocks the opportunity to do that. | ||
| It's time to get this done. | ||
| Let's be crystal clear about the content of this historic bill. | ||
| We're restoring our borders, once left defenseless and without redress. | ||
| We're protecting our great nation by investing in our military and military families. | ||
| We're preserving tax cuts that made the United States economy the envy of the world just eight years ago. | ||
| And we're reviving our nation's fiscal outlook by finally cutting wasteful spending and unleashing our economy from harmful restraint. | ||
| Restore. | ||
| protect, preserve, revive. | ||
| And the failure to act would yield only the opposite. | ||
| Our Democrat colleagues would tear down the border walls and return us to open border policies. | ||
| They would have us oversee a continued decline in our military readiness despite unprecedented theaters of global conflict. | ||
| They would destroy our economy in their unending appetite for continued tax increases to feed their spending binges. | ||
| The choice is clear. | ||
| We must deliver. | ||
| We must deliver a renewed, restored, revived nation and grant voters the America they stood for just eight months ago. | ||
| In a moment, I will offer an amendment to the rule which would correct a technical error in the rule. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to vote yes on the previous question, yes on the amendment, and yes on the rule. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I offer an amendment to the resolution. | ||
| The clerk will report the amendment. | ||
| Amendment to House Resolution 566, offered by Ms. Fox of North Carolina. | ||
| At the end of the resolution, add the following. | ||
| The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. | ||
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Gentle Lady of North Carolina is recognized. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield back the balance of my time and move the previous question on the amendment and on the resolution. |