[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               ENACTING GREEN NEW DEAL WILL DESTROY JOBS

  (Mr. ALLEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLEN. Madam Speaker, just yesterday, the squad and other 
Democrats reintroduced the socialist Green New Deal.
  This dangerous proposal costs over $90 trillion and will destroy 
thousands of American jobs. But Speaker Pelosi and President Biden have 
no intention of stopping it. In fact, they are planning to use their 
partisan infrastructure package as a vehicle to enact several Green New 
Deal priorities.
  While details of what they consider infrastructure, and I use that 
term loosely, are not finalized, it does not inspire confidence that 
the Democrats are already turning away from regular order, which 
requires bipartisanship to get the bill through Congress.
  Here is what we know about the package so far. It advances $600 
billion to Green New Deal priorities. Only 5 percent will go toward 
roads and bridges and 2 percent for airways, waterways, and ports. They 
are planning the largest tax hike since 1968 to pay for their agenda, 
and an estimate from the National Association of Manufacturers shows 
that their proposed corporate tax hike would cost 1 million jobs.

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