[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     DEMOCRATS' TAX AND SPEND SPREE WILL DEFRAUD AMERICAN TAXPAYERS

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Madam Speaker, today, I stand here, in the people's House, 
entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring taxpayers' hard-earned 
dollars are spent appropriately and with the proper oversight in place.
  Yet, this week, House Democrats are pushing to ram through their 
fatally flawed, partisan, multitrillion-dollar tax and spend package, 
which uses taxpayer dollars and, no doubt, billions of dollars in 
borrowed money to fund their ultraliberal domestic spending priorities.
  The gigantic $3.5 trillion bill has apparently been cut down to $1.75 
trillion, which is still a lot.
  What is in the $1.75 trillion tax and spend spree? Amnesty for 
illegal immigrants, billions for tree equity, tax hikes on job creators 
and working Americans, and it doesn't end there.
  The Democrats' package leaves out critical funding for the Department 
of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
  Democrats have gone so far as to break over 40 years of tradition by 
stripping the Hyde amendment from their package, a longstanding 
bipartisan provision that prevents taxpayer dollars from being used to 
fund abortions.

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