[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5880]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ASSAULT ON AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from
Illinois (Mrs. Miller) for 5 minutes.
Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Speaker, we face an unprecedented
assault on the American way of life by the radical left.
Under President Biden's leadership, the left has weaponized the
Federal Government to go after the American people.
President Biden is building an IRS army of 85,000 new IRS agents to
investigate middle-class Americans and ruin their lives. The Biden IRS
wants the power to spy on private citizens' bank accounts and monitor
their transactions.
Biden's Treasury Secretary said her next goal is to create a new tax
on the value of farmland in America. This will destroy the American
family farm and eliminate independent food production.
The Biden-Harris administration is also weaponizing OSHA to fire
Americans who live paycheck to paycheck if they don't make a healthcare
decision about vaccines that leftwing politicians don't like.
Madam Speaker, I note this hypocrisy from pro-abortion liberals who
use the ``my body my choice'' slogan. We watched last week as Biden's
Attorney General tried to defend the use of the FBI agents who
intimidated, harassed, and want to spy on parents who show up to school
board meetings to speak in opposition to the Biden agenda.
Middle-class parents are rightfully outraged that President Biden and
leftwing school boards want to turn their children against each other
with racist curriculum or indoctrinate their young children with
perverted sexual content.
Americans used to be protected by the First Amendment. They were
allowed to speak freely in our society. Our Constitution and Bill of
Rights limit the power of the Federal Government because our Nation is
a place where people should be free to start independent small
businesses and raise their own children.
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The Biden administration and the radical left have a far different
agenda. They want to use the FBI to intimidate and harass Americans;
they want to use the IRS to spy on Americans; and they want to use OSHA
to fire Americans.
The Federal Government is now a tool, a weapon that they want to use
to make Americans obey. My constituents and the American people will
not be intimidated by the Biden administration or the radical left,
Madam Speaker. We are born free and our rights come from God.
Our response to a weaponized Federal Government is loud and clear. In
the spirit of freedom, we say: Let's go, Brandon.
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