[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS REMAIN UNSPENT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Joyce) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, right now, as our country 
continues to suffer from the negative effects of the Democrats' 
previous reckless spending spree, it is clear that we do not yet need 
another reckless spending bill that would further balloon our debt and 
raise all inflation without actually addressing the issues that we are 
currently facing.
  Congress has already appropriated trillions of dollars that has not 
yet been spent. Again, trillions of dollars remain unspent. Instead of 
passing yet another trillion-dollar spending bill, of which only 10 
percent would actually go to true infrastructure, we can repurpose 
those earlier funds to meet the needs of our communities.
  I am proud to be joining my colleagues as a cosponsor of legislation 
that would use the money that Congress has already approved to truly 
help the communities that we serve; legislation that has already been 
passed by our colleagues in the Senate.
  Now is not the time to waste money on taxpayer-funded kickbacks to 
green energy companies or spend $50 million to monitor coastal erosion. 
We need to fund infrastructure improvements that our communities need. 
We need to do so without mortgaging our children's future.
  We were elected to be responsible stewards of the taxpayers' dollars, 
and passing the Green New Deal dressed up as infrastructure is not the 
way forward.

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