Let’s print it off so i can make sure that this whole committee knows what’s in it and i’ll read all seventeen hundred pages here unfortunately in forty five minutes we couldn’t print it and you’re having a hearing on a piece of legislation that we couldn’t even print off in enough time
This is all part of the sham it’s a complete sham back in september there was a fake artificial timeline that was set by the leadership of the democrat party that said we’ll pass the infrastructure bill by september 27th still haven’t been a vote on that infrastructure bill
Because she’s linked it to what we have right here folks to show fake momentum to show fake momentum leadership of the democrat party on a thursday afternoon in september said let’s do the markup for the reconciliation bill saturday afternoon over a month ago with less than 10 percent of the bill scored
Less than 10 of the entire bill was scored by the congressional budget office but she wanted it so she could send out a dear colleague letter to all of her democrat members to show fake momentum and to create new headlines showing good faith effort to the progressives the divisions that’s within this party
We all see it the american people see it and she tried to make the progressives think that she was moving forward much like this hearing today it’s nothing but a bunch of fake headlines she went out there on c-span to talk about this bill that none of you have read
None of you have read just to create new fake headlines and false momentum to allow the media to think that they were doing something but in fact there’s no agreement if there’s agreement we’ll have a vote today my prediction is there will not be a vote today
Probably not even a vote in this committee to pass this 1700 page bill because you’re still going to have to rewrite it because you have some senators on the other side of the building that will say thumbs down and you won’t be able to pass it because you’ll have moderates of your party
Saying no i don’t like it and then you’ll have progressives saying no it doesn’t go far enough let me tell you we are facing multiple crises in this nation as a result as a direct result of your policies the direct result of this administration’s policies whether it’s the border crisis whether
It’s the inflation crisis or whether it’s the energy crisis and you know what what you’re doing with this i don’t know what’s in your 1700 page bill but i’ll talk about the 2400 page bill that we marked up in the budget committee a month ago that bill
Makes every one of those crises even worse for working class families and you should be ashamed of yourself i have people in my congressional district that is doing everything they can to put food on their table clothes and their backs and gasoline in their car in our state
Because of executive orders that joe biden did in the first week in office has resulted in the gas prices to go up 80 percent since january 20th in the state of missouri and in this bill you have policies and regulations that will only make gas prices go up even higher
You have taxes on natural gas when people’s worried about how they’re going to heat their homes this winter and you’re trying to make it more expensive on them and you know what when you talk about the border crisis we’ve had more than 1.4 million illegals across the southern border since january 20th
January 20th as the direct result of president biden’s executive orders to eliminate construction of the border wall by rescinding the remaining mexico policy which the supreme court said was wrong and now he has to backtrack and by reinstituting the catch and release and they wonder why 1.4 million illegals
Have been crossing the southern border and guess what the 2400 page bill that we marked up a month ago which i’m sure there’s a lot of the same provisions in the 1700 page bill only will incentivize people to cross the southern border even more it provided free college to illegal
Immigrants free college to millionaires too that’s what your bill that passed out of the budget committee did and you know what it also provided amnesty using 109 billion dollars to 10 million illegals making the border crisis that much more worse and then you want to talk about the inflation crisis folks
Before you pass the biden bailout bill in march it was projected by cbo that inflation would be 2.0 it’s tripled it is tripled after you passed the biden bell out where you spent 1.9 trillion dollars to reward your political friends allies and donors and now we’re facing the largest
Inflation we’ve seen since 1981. that is a direct result of all of my constituents all of your constituents having higher prices to purchase food on their table clothes on their backs and gasoline in their cars and guess what you’re wanting to spend according to the bill that passed out of the budget committee
4.3 trillion dollars of reckless spending you talk about putting fuel on the inflation fire that’s what you’re going to do but why why rush it through today other than the false headlines of momentum maybe there’s an election across the potomac that’s happening on tuesday and you’re worried that you
Might need to push this through to show that you can competently govern or maybe as speaker pelosi said we’ll pass an infrastructure bill by the time that biden lands in europe 8 o’clock tonight my bet is no infrastructure will pass tonight because of the disarray in the division within the democrat party
And so it’s unfortunate it’s unfortunate that we were unable to read these 1700 pages because we had 45 minutes to do and let me tell you cnn cnn is not a media outlet that likes conservatives not at all that may be shocking two weeks ago they came up with a poll
And they said only 25 percent only 25 percent of americans said that they would benefit from this legislation 25 cnn that’s not a republican media outlet the reason why you want this bill to be moving today is so the american people won’t know what’s in it that’s exactly why you’re doing it it’s
Unfortunate that’s why it’s a sham that’s why i’m disappointed and that’s why i’m gonna make sure the american people finds out what’s in this hopefully before you all try to pass this piece of legislation
