Chairman, debating this budget resolution
is a partisan and pointless exercise, and I will point out to the
chairman that it is October, after the fiscal year has expired and
after we have already passed every single appropriations bill out of
the House of Representatives, and, I might add, a continuing budget
resolution. Just as when we considered it in committee this summer, this
resolution stands as a demonstration of the
majority's willful and disgraceful neglect of the needs of the American
people. With so many critical legislative issues for us to discuss, the
majority has decided it is a better use of our time to discuss tax
breaks for millionaires and wealthy corporations; taking healthcare
away from 20 million Americans; blowing up our deficit with an
ineffective, immoral border wall; and gutting crucial investments in
jobs, education, and medical research. Instead, this House should be enacting legislation to expand
background checks and ban assault weapons to combat senseless firearm
violence after this Nation witnessed, once again, the deadliest mass
shooting in U.S. history. This House should be passing the Dream Act to protect DREAMers who
call this Nation home and protect them from this administration's
heartless deportations. Finally, instead of wasting taxpayer dollars and our constituents'
time with this harmful budget resolution, this House should be
reauthorizing CHIP, the bipartisan-backed Children's Health Insurance
Program, which expired over the weekend and which potentially is going
to leave children who badly need healthcare insurance twisting in the
wind without it. Congressional Republicans have chosen instead to bring this
incredibly irresponsible and extreme bill to the floor.
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