[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 168 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5181]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE NATIONAL DEBT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Mrs. Greene of Georgia) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I would like to address the 
117th Congress and talk about our national debt.
  Currently, we are at $28,809,752,000,000. The numbers are rising so 
fast, I couldn't name them all. It is continuing to rise, yet we are 
considering a budget this week at $4.3 trillion, which would be the 
most expensive piece of legislation in United States history, which is 
mind-boggling, especially considering the fact that we also are looking 
at voting on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that is mostly 
socialism, giving things away for free and wasting the taxpayers' 
dollars.
  Considering the fact that we just abandoned Americans in Afghanistan, 
armed the Taliban, and 13 of our own military were killed in the 
process, we also just let in tens of thousands of Haitians into our 
country through our southern border, which is wide open and out of 
control. Also on Friday, the Democrats, all except one, voted for full-
term abortion and called it women's healthcare, then celebrated on the 
Capitol steps, which most people in this country find appalling.
  You see, abortion up until full term for a baby, at 9 months 
pregnancy, is evil and something that this Congress should have never 
considered. Yet, unfortunately, that is the bill that passed the House 
on Friday.
  So now we are looking at $4.3 trillion in new spending; $2.1 trillion 
in higher taxes; $2.4 trillion in new debt, with more interest; and 
$7.5 billion for a Civilian Climate Corps, which is part of the Green 
New Deal. Government doesn't need to be creating a climate police 
force; government needs to be getting out of the way of the American 
people and their businesses so that they don't have to compete with the 
Federal Government to hire people to get back to work.
  Businesses all over the country are struggling to find people to work 
in their companies. We need truck drivers. We need nurses.
  We need to stop vaccine mandates and silly rules requiring people to 
wear masks everywhere they go and children to wear masks. If vaccines 
work, then people who get them should trust them. And if people are 
still afraid, then they can wear a mask. And if they are still afraid, 
then they can shelter in place. But the rest of the healthy population 
in the United States should not be limited and held back. We should be 
able to go to work, go to school, go into restaurants and stores, 
without being shamed and divided among the American people.
  COVID-19 has been a terrible thing sent to us through China and 
actually funded, sadly, through the gain-of-function research through 
our own Federal Government at the will of Dr. Fauci. Yet, he still has 
his job, while hundreds of thousands of small businesses have failed, 
and they don't have their jobs.
  This government is failing the American people, and the more votes we 
take this week we are going to continue to fail the American people.
  This is why I walked in here this morning to make a motion to 
adjourn. But then I was told I couldn't make a motion to adjourn 
because we hadn't said the prayer or the pledge. It is very 
unfortunate. We should make a motion to adjourn because Congress should 
stop. Congress is the one ruining the lives of the American people, not 
helping them, like they claim to do.
  It is our Federal Government's role to keep our border strong, safe, 
and secure.
  It is our government's role to never abandon Americans in a foreign 
country ruled by radical Islamic terrorists that would like to kill 
them just because they are Americans.

  It is not our Federal Government's job to pass a bill or consider 
even making a law, abortion up until full term, and then call it 
women's healthcare. This is too much. It is out of control.
  So, simply, I would like to make a motion to adjourn. I think it is 
silly that I can't do so as an elected member of Congress representing 
the 14th District of Georgia simply because we haven't said the pledge 
or the prayer.
  As you can see, rules in Congress just don't work because the rules 
here in Congress are allowing everything to continue to go downhill and 
hurt the people that pay the taxes and pay for all of this up here 
anyway.

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