[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7689-S7690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                           Government Funding

  Mr. President, on a totally different matter, last night was a 
difficult evening for Democrats. The Democratic Party has wildly 
misread their mandate and let the radical left run the country. Local 
Democrats let teachers unions keep schools shut months longer than 
necessary and told parents they didn't get a say in what their kids 
were learning. Washington Democrats have supercharged inflation, 
recreated welfare without work requirements, and made America 
significantly less energy independent.
  President Biden was only given a 50-50 Senate and a tiny majority in 
the House, but he decided to let the radical left run the country. 
Citizens wanted a return to normalcy but have gotten a never-ending 
series of government-created crises.
  So, look, the American people will not stand for this. That is what 
voters told Democrats last night all across the country. The results 
from different parts of our country demonstrate that this was, in large 
part, a referendum on national issues. But it is not too late. 
Democrats should listen to the voters, drop this reckless taxing-and-
spending spree, and stop trying to ram through a socialist 
transformation that the American people never asked for.
  The radical transformation that Democrats are writing behind closed 
doors would compound every mistake their party has made. Look at 
virtually any part of American families' lives, and Democrats' reckless 
taxing-and-spending spree would seize control of it and yank it way to 
the left.
  The same Democrats who don't want parents involved in schools want to 
take over daycare and pre-K, crowd out faith-based and family 
providers, and put this vast new system under the control of the 
culture warrior HHS Secretary, who sued the Little Sisters of the Poor.
  The same Democrats who pretend to defend working families are dead 
set on a massive tax cut that would overwhelmingly benefit rich people 
in blue States. One of the biggest pieces of

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their signature bill is now a huge tax cut for rich people.
  The same Democrats who say they support science and medicine want to 
slap arbitrary price controls on Americans' prescription drugs, 
reducing future innovation and, according to experts, literally costing 
Americans their lives who would have lived if not for this policy.
  The same Democrats who pretend they care about Social Security and 
Medicare want to stretch seniors' existing Medicare Program even 
thinner. Even though the trust fund is already just a few years away 
from running dry, they would do this in order to fund new giveaways.
  The same Democrats who talk a big game about competing with China 
want to raise taxes so high that our own American industries would face 
a higher tax rate than businesses have to pay in communist China.
  The same Democrats who are still trying to sneak forms of amnesty 
into this bill also want to make illegal immigrants eligible for new 
welfare.
  The same Democrats who pretend they are forward-thinking on energy 
issues want to hammer the U.S. economy with painful regulations while 
bigger emitters, like China, just keep on emitting--maximum pain for 
American families and no measurable gain for emissions or the climate.
  The bill our colleagues are writing behind closed doors is terrible 
from top to bottom--more debt, more taxes, more inflation, and fewer 
options for American families.
  This reckless taxing-and-spending spree would hurt families and help 
China. This radical social takeover is the last thing Americans need 
and the last thing Americans want. The voters of America just yesterday 
gave our colleagues a preview of that fact last night. It is not too 
late. They could still pull back from the brink while they can.