[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 6, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H494-H497]
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                      REPUBLICANS HAVE WORK TO DO

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Hageman). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 9, 2023, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Roy) for 30 minutes.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the remarks of the gentleman 
talking about the state of affairs. We disagree on a number of policies 
but might actually share some sentiment.
  I, too, believe that we have significant issues we need to deal with 
right now with respect to the economy, the state of affairs for 
American families, hardworking Americans who are getting left behind, 
Americans who are not of the belief that they can actually achieve the 
American Dream. We are raising a generation--or now two--who do not 
believe they will be able to live in an America stronger than the one 
they have inherited from their parents.
  That is true. I think the question here is: What is actually the 
culprit?
  I think it is worthy to have debate about tax policy and the 
implications of taxes on corporations and families. Where do you spread 
the burden?
  My Democratic colleagues are too often mesmerized by this attack on 
trickle down and corporate tax rates, and somehow that is blowing a 
hole into the revenue of the United States Government, which is simply 
not true.
  In 2022, the United States Government brought in about 19.6 percent 
of GDP in terms of revenue to the Treasury. That represented the third 
highest mark in American history--or among the three highest marks--at 
a level seen only right after World War II and the end of the dot-com 
boom and the end of the nineties.
  Now, why do I bring that up? Because my Democratic colleagues refuse 
to acknowledge that we are, in fact, bringing in massive amounts of 
revenue.
  Now, where I might agree is maybe that revenue needs to be allocated 
slightly differently in terms of the impact on corporations or the 
wealthy or middle class. We can have those debates, but we are bringing 
in massive amounts of revenue.
  I think the question here really is: What is making it difficult for 
American families to live? I think we all agree it is really difficult 
right now for an American family to live. I know my family feels it. I 
know my friends' families feel it. They are trying to figure out how to 
live, how to afford anything: whether they can send their kids to 
school; whether they can pay for healthcare.
  I would suggest, and my Democratic colleagues would disagree, but I 
think most of my Republican colleagues would agree, the fundamental 
problem is that we have inserted the government into every aspect of 
our life.
  Literally, every stinking thing we do the government has a hand. It 
is regulating us to death, choking out every bit of entrepreneurial 
spirit, every bit of the ability to get through the day without having 
to figure out what regulation or what law, what rule you have to abide 
by.
  I can't even get in my car and figure out how to turn something on 
without figuring out some safety device. I can't fix the windshield 
without having to fix some regulatory thing that is allegedly there to 
make me safer that makes the car twice as expensive.
  We are making ourselves absolutely incapable of achieving the 
American Dream. We are doing it to ourselves. That is what is 
happening. Yet, we just keep doing it over and over again.
  This is, I think, the question of the moment: What are we going to do 
to restore the American Dream for the American people?
  We, the Representatives, here in the House of Representatives, the 
people's House, what are we going to do?
  Today wasn't the best day on the political scoreboard for 
Republicans. I am not going to lie. We spent a day, we came down here, 
we had a vote on impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas. It was a tie. We had to 
pull it down.
  Then we had to vote on Israel, which was a suspension of the rules 
that fell short of the votes necessary to move on, so we are going to 
have to address all these things again.
  But there is a bigger issue at play right now. There is something 
much more important going on. This town has been badly broken. This 
swamp that President Trump ran against has been consuming any ability 
for representation, for a government to actually serve the people.
  What we have instead is effectively a bipartisan uniparty for decades 
now that has been driven almost entirely by spending massive amounts of 
money for government programs and for foreign aid, and for, most 
importantly, the defense complex, the defense world, driven heavily by 
war.
  We have done that, and we have been messing around with tax policy.
  What else? We pass a bill here and there; we do something here and 
there.
  The fact is this whole system has been focused for entirely too long 
on spending other people's money, borrowing money, to try to buy votes 
with programs or to use the threat and the fear of war or supposedly 
our need to stand with some other country. All of that has been used as 
a political weapon every year to spend your money and spend us into 
oblivion and grow government and not do the things we say we will do 
otherwise.

                              {time}  2015

  What do I mean by all of that?
  For the bulk of this entire century, we have been at war in some form 
or fashion. Not a declared war. We have had a couple of authorizations 
of the use of military force. We haven't declared war formally, but we 
have nevertheless been effectively at war for the bulk of the 21st 
century.
  We spent $7 trillion, $8 trillion. We lost almost 10,000 Americans. 
We have had 75,000, 80,000 injuries. That is not talking about post-
traumatic stress. That is not talking about the hundreds of billions of 
dollars we just set aside for burn pits. We have ongoing conflict right 
now.
  We just had the President of the United States engaging in Syria and 
Iraq because we have troops in Syria and Iraq getting fired upon, and 
nobody in America knows why. Shouldn't this body speak to that? 
Shouldn't this body do something about that?
  We are sitting back watching the President of the United States using 
powers under the Constitution to carry out defense of our men and women 
in uniform, which everybody in this Chamber with half a brain and heart 
wants to see us defend our men and women in uniform, but we are doing 
it because they are over there in a constant perpetuation of whatever 
this body did 20 years ago to sign an authorization of the use of 
military force for things that don't even exist now.

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  Saddam Hussein is dead. What the hell are we doing? When is this body 
going to actually stand up and decide what we are going to actually do 
and mean it?
  Right now, today, we had to vote on whether or not we are going to 
fund Israel. I am a Christian. Israel is at the epicenter of my faith 
and the epicenter of most people in this world's faith. I have Jewish 
friends who are absolutely devastated about what happened in Israel on 
October 7. Of course we must and should stand alongside Israel, because 
the attack against them isn't just an attack against Israel, not just 
an attack against our ally. It is an attack against our way of life in 
western civilization, nothing less. Of course we should stand by 
Israel.
  I voted to fund Israel in November, $14.3 billion. Today I voted 
``no.'' I did not want to vote ``no'' with respect to a vote about 
standing alongside our brothers and sisters in Israel, but the people I 
represent at home, the American family trying to get by, are sick and 
tired of this town continuing to do the same thing over and over again. 
Pick a conflict, fund it; pick another conflict, fund it. Send our men 
and women in uniform overseas, fund it, with money we don't have.
  We are not passing war bonds. We are not limiting sugar. We are just 
rolling around acting like nothing is actually happening, while we have 
$34.2 trillion of debt, and it is adding up something like $80,000 a 
second. What are we doing?
  We should pay for that. Now it is not $14 billion but $17.6 billion. 
We have loads of slush funds around this town just sitting there, we 
could go grab and pay for it. Our Democratic colleagues refuse to do 
it. Republican colleagues tried to do it. Now we are walking away from 
that. I disagree. I disagree with walking away from that just so we can 
try to send a political message over to the Senate and embarrass 
Schumer and embarrass Biden. I think we should actually mean it when we 
say we should pay for supplemental spending. I don't just mean it for 
Israel. I mean it for Ukraine.
  Senate Democrats, with a handful of Republicans, tried to just jam 
the American people with a $118 billion monstrosity that would fund 
Ukraine $60 billion; fund Taiwan; fund Israel at $17.6 billion; and 
fund, allegedly, border security to the tune of $20 billion. That bill 
is falling apart in the Senate because it doesn't actually secure the 
border.
  Most Americans are sick and damn tired of getting sold a bill of 
goods, a bill that wouldn't secure the border that costs them $120 
billion that is not paid for.
  God bless, I am not afraid to criticize my friends on this side of 
the aisle. Republicans united, at least here, to tell the American 
people the truth about the bill they are trying to jam through in the 
Senate, and it looks like it is dead.
  Going back to my original point, this town operates on autopilot, 
spending money to fund wars, spending money to fund government, to fund 
programs, and if you dare challenge that, the establishment bites back. 
That is what was happening in the Senate. That is what was happening 
with Mitch McConnell. That is what is happening with the cadre of 
people in this town who desperately want that $60 billion funding for 
Ukraine. It is not about the border.
  They head pat people and say: We will give you some crumbs on the 
border; give us our $60 billion for Ukraine. We will go out, thump our 
chest, put a blue and yellow flag pin on our lapel, say we love people, 
and then we are going to go out and keep the war machine going. That is 
the truth.
  Let's be very clear. I love Israel. If you talk to Israelis, they 
will tell you a part of our annual $4 billion that we send to Israel is 
a part of the same operation. That $4 billion, we will spend that 
money, it will come back over here to defense contractors to keep doing 
what they do.
  Are they getting the right planes? Are they getting the right 
supplies? Is it the right cost? Is Israel able to defend itself without 
the United States, or is that $4 billion annual MOU, which I support--
maybe that is counterproductive. Maybe we want Israel to be standalone 
over there. When are we going to do something different? When are we 
going to peel all of this back?
  I would posit, to great credit to my Republican colleagues right now, 
we are wrestling with changing this town. That is why it is messy.
  I am not afraid to criticize colleagues on both sides of the aisle, 
including my Republican colleagues, like I said. Right now, I am 
actually proud of a Republican Conference that is struggling to try to 
find a way to stop an out-of-control executive branch led by President 
Biden and my Democratic colleagues, trying to save this country, trying 
to step up and protect American families, trying to secure the border 
of the United States, trying to find a way to limit spending, trying to 
find a way to stand with Israel, but to do it responsibly.

  At every damn turn, my Democratic colleagues are trying to thwart us, 
because they are more interested in political posturing than figuring 
out how to stand up for the hardworking men and women of this country. 
They are more interested in advancing a radical leftist agenda that is 
advancing their crazy climate agenda, advancing wide open borders, 
advancing open streets where criminals are running lawless, judges in 
place that won't prosecute criminals, cops that are getting persecuted, 
walking away from Israel, and undermining Israel's sovereignty.
  That is the face of the Democratic Party: open borders, dangerous 
streets, undermining the American family, forced transgender surgeries, 
girls in boy bathrooms, boys swimming against girls in swim meets. It 
is a radical leftist Democratic Party trying to destroy the America we 
know, western civilization, and our way of life on a daily basis.
  Republicans are trying to stand to thwart that, with a bare minimum 
majority, and it is messy. That part is okay.
  The question here is what are we doing now as Republicans? We cannot 
lose sight of the unity we have as Republicans that there is a way to 
secure border, we know what it is, we are going to stand up for it, and 
we are going to fight for it. We are going to keep fighting for it now. 
We are going to fight for it in this Congress. We are going to fight 
for it through the elections. We are going to fight for it next year 
when, Lord willing, there will be a Republican President.
  No, we are not just going to pass the buck and say that any President 
can walk in and secure the border. I saw former President Trump make an 
allegation earlier today on one of his social media posts that all a 
President has to do is declare the border is closed and it is closed. 
With all due respect, that didn't happen in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. 
There were millions of people who came into the United States during 
those 4 years.
  What did happen was that that administration, led by the President, 
led by people who believe in America, led by strong leaders at DHS, 
worked to secure the border. They worked to get those numbers down, and 
they worked to force Mexico to hold people in place with the migrant 
protection protocols.
  Now, we have got a job here as Republicans. Are we going to stand up 
and pass legislation to force this administration to do its job and to 
set the stage for a future administration to do its job?
  There are loopholes in the law. I have many Republicans colleagues 
who will go out and say it is fine; we will just let the President do 
it. No. We have many things we need to fix in the law: asylum reform, 
parole reform, catch and release.
  Our job is to stand up and fight and not walk away from what we have 
accomplished. This whole debate has been on our side of the field, 
which is border security. We are not talking about amnesty. We are not 
talking about wild-eyed future flowing immigration. We are talking 
about border security. That is precisely where the American people want 
us to be. That is precisely where we ought to be. We just need to 
finish the job.
  You are not going to get solutions in this town with gangs of eight 
coming out of the Senate. All of these backroom deals that get cooked 
up and dropped on a weekend always fail, every time.
  They come through the hard work of doing the process. Let's rewind 
the clock to last year for a second. People criticized the debate over 
the Speaker. We had a fight over the Speaker a little

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over a year ago, and then we started working. We started working to 
pass bills through regular order, with single subject, with 72 hours to 
review it, and with amendments in committee.
  Guess what. We passed the best border security bill that has ever 
been passed, and it was focused on border security and it would work. 
We passed the best National Defense Authorization Act, and it undid all 
of the woke nonsense that is destroying the military and refocused it 
on its mission. We passed caps to spending. Not what I wanted. But 
through Limit, Save, Grow, we set the standard, and we ended up working 
out a deal that Democrats signed onto that put caps in place.
  We passed seven appropriations bills off of this floor and sent them 
to the Senate. We passed three other appropriations bills out of 
committee and to the floor. We had two others ready to go. We moved the 
ball forward. We processed 1,100 amendments. We were doing what we 
should do and it created unity.
  That is the process we must go back to. For the last 3 months, we 
have been passing legislation through suspension of the rules, jamming 
through big bills for political points, and that is when you fail. That 
is when things fall apart.
  The eyes of the world and the eyes of the American people are now on 
this place. There is no more hiding. There is no more cooking up 
backroom deals. The deals will be exposed, and the truth will come out. 
The bills that say they secure the border but don't will be exposed, as 
the one in the Senate just was. The big spending bills, the eyes of the 
world will see.
  People are capable of making a decision. They are able to look up and 
say: You know what? I love Israel. I want Israel to wipe Hamas off the 
face of the planet, but I am not comfortable with giving them another 
$17.6 billion unpaid for, borrowed, while our border is wide open, 
exposed to terrorists coming across, while the Democrat administration, 
funded by our own body, is funding UNRWA and the United Nations, giving 
dollars that are going to the Palestinian authority and Hamas. We are 
funding the enemies of our allies, while Secretary Blinken is going to 
Israel and going around the world and undermining Netanyahu, 
undermining the domestic tranquility of Israel, purposefully.

                              {time}  2030

  All of that is going on, and we are going around saying: Oh, we must 
pass this check, we must give them money for munitions. Meanwhile, our 
own administration is slow-walking the munitions getting from America 
to Israel.
  The American people get the joke. They see what is happening, and 
that is what you are seeing unfold on the House floor, Madam Speaker. 
People don't know what to do. The normal machinery in this place was 
designed to move large bills driven heavily by lobbyists, driven mainly 
by defense spending and some negotiation of defense versus nondefense 
in order to get a massive, bloated bill that would buy votes in 
November. That has been the MO of the United States House for as long 
as I can remember.
  The gig is up. The American people are on to it. The American people 
are getting tired of being taken for a ride. They want us to actually 
do what we said we would do. They want us to actually secure the 
border. They want us to actually cut spending. Yes, they want us to 
stand with Israel, but they don't want us to write blank checks. This 
is not that hard.
  Our colleagues in the Senate want to jam us here in the House. 
Democrat colleagues and some Republican colleagues in the Senate want 
to send over now with their border effort--not to secure the border but 
border political effort--very specifically designed as cover for our 
Democratic colleagues to have some reason to be able to run in November 
and say that it is Republicans' fault that the borders are wide open 
and not President Biden's.
  Our Senate colleagues want to send to us now a Ukraine package with 
Israel. So for all of the viewers at home, what is happening is that we 
are responding by saying: Well, we are going to jump in front of that 
by sending a clean Israel bill, so we can separate Ukraine.
  None of this is the regular order that the American people would 
expect. Put a bill on the floor, offer amendments, and let it rise or 
fall. Put Israel on the floor, put an amendment that would pay for it, 
and see what happens. Put an amendment on it that would cut UNRWA 
funding because why are we funding Israel while we are also funding 
their enemies?
  Why don't we just put that on the floor with amendments and see what 
happens?
  How about FISA?
  Do all you Americans out there love being spied on?
  Let's put FISA on the floor, let's put four or five amendments on it, 
and see what happens.
  See if the American people want us to have warrants when people's 
information is being looked at.
  Put the bills on the floor.
  Ukraine, put the bill on the floor. Make a decision: yes or no, up or 
down.
  Are we going to fund it?
  Where are we getting $60 billion?
  Are we just going to print it?
  Do you want to know why your inflation is up, Madam Speaker?
  Put it on the floor. Have a vote.
  Madam Speaker, $60 billion. What is the mission?
  What are we going to get out of it?
  What are the limits?
  Are the oligarchs getting it?
  Are we paying for pensions?
  Is it lethal aid?
  Are we expecting to get Crimea and Donbas back, or are we expecting 
just to have a sovereign nation and Russians to be pushed back out?
  Is that our call?
  Do the American people want to spend their treasure?
  Seriously. This is the question, and yet today we did it with Israel.
  Why?
  It is because we love Israel. Israel holds a special place in our 
heart. They are our friends and our allies, but, importantly, we all 
get the truth, it is our faith. We don't want to see Israel attacked.
  Many of my colleagues have a Biblical belief that they have to stand 
by Israel. I do, too. I think it is important, but if we don't have 
rules, then we lose our own country. There will be no America to stand 
with Israel if we don't have sovereignty and we have open borders and 
terrorists coming in who are undermining our security.
  There will be no America to stand with Israel if we are bankrupt and 
$34 trillion in debt and we are spending money we don't have even if it 
is for Israel. There have to be some rules. There have to be.
  We go home, and we campaign we are going to cut spending, but we 
don't do it. We are going to vote in 3 weeks allegedly on omnibus or 
minibus spending bills. What that means is a big package of bills all 
brought over from the Senate with maybe some policy changes for the 
next 6 months, I doubt much, that spends $30 billion more than Nancy 
Pelosi's bloated spending levels that we all campaigned against.
  How is that changing Washington or cutting spending or draining the 
swamp or fiscal responsibility or balancing the budget?
  It is none of those things. It is none.
  Yet my colleagues will run on passing balanced budget amendments 
which will not happen. We are going to go spend $17 billion and throw 
that out there to go fund Israel because they are our friend. I agree, 
but we are going to do that unpaid for.
  So we just racked up another $17 billion on top of the $13 billion we 
appropriated last November for hurricanes and emergency relief, and now 
they ask for $60 billion for Ukraine.
  When is that madness going to stop?
  Meanwhile, my people in Texas are saying: When is the border going to 
get secure?
  They want to know when the fentanyl is going to stop pouring into 
their communities and when migrants are not going to be walking through 
the streets grabbing people. An MS-13 gang member is grabbing young 
women and dragging them out of bathrooms. They killed a young woman, 
and a mom is saying: Where are you, America?
  Do we not have a duty to defend this country?
  Nevertheless, we are not going to do that.
  We are going to vote to fund the government in 3 weeks that leaves 
this country exposed to criminals, to terrorists, to cartels, and to 
fentanyl. We are going to do it, Madam Speaker, you

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watch. A bipartisan, uniparty bill will get voted off of this floor 
that does not a damn thing to fundamentally alter what is happening at 
the border while Texas takes it on the chin.
  Why should Texans pay their Federal taxes? Why?
  Why should Texans give a rip about what we do in this body when it is 
all against them? It is all against us as Texans?
  For that matter, why should anybody pay taxes?
  The rule of law matters if you want people to follow it. If we are 
printing money, destroying the dollar, and destroying the economy and 
bloating the government in hiring and funding bureaucrats to undermine 
your liberty to pass regulations to take away your happiness and 
undermine your ability to prosper, you are printing money and borrowing 
money to do that, what is the point of paying your taxes?
  It hurts to write that check. It hurts to lose that money to go to 
the Federal Government, but if the Federal Government is just going to 
spend money anyway, why do Americans believe that they have a duty to 
go pay their taxes?
  So we pay $2 trillion in taxes but borrow $2 trillion or pay $4 
trillion in taxes but borrow $4 trillion?
  That is crazy. I have got some colleagues who are waiting to come out 
on the floor, so I am going to in a few minutes yield.
  Madam Speaker, here is the thing. This country is not done yet, but 
it is getting damn close. That is where we are. We cannot be a free and 
secure country if we are $34 trillion in debt and bleeding $2 trillion 
a year.
  We cannot be a free, secure, and sovereign nation if our borders are 
wide open, terrorists are coming in, cartels are coming in, and 
fentanyl is pouring in.
  We cannot be a free, secure, and sovereign nation if we are printing 
money to fund foreign conflicts that we don't have an actual vested 
interest in or if we do we are not acting like it, when we never 
declared war and we never really specifically authorized the force and 
we continue to fund it so that the machine in this godforsaken town can 
keep making money.
  Why are the seven wealthiest counties in America right here?
  We are printing money and funding it.
  Three-quarters of the cars I drive by in this town are a hell of a 
lot nicer than any of the cars that I have got or that any of the 
hardworking people whom I represent have because we are printing money 
and funding this place to stick it to the American people every single 
day.
  This is what the American people are on to. They are sick of the same 
game. They are sick of bills that come to this floor and are designed 
for a political purpose rather than to achieve an end that is 
constitutional, that is paid for, and that is responsible.
  I was spending a lot of time in the last month out on the campaign 
trail, and my friend, the Governor of Florida, Governor DeSantis, would 
talk about his time in service in the United States Navy, but, more 
importantly, he would talk about when flying into Ronald Reagan 
National Airport looking out of the left side of the plane and seeing 
the Washington Monument, the United States Capitol, the Lincoln 
Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the White House, and all of these 
monuments to our ideals, who we are as a people, the inspiring white 
buildings. Nevertheless, then he would point out that if you look out 
of the right side of the plane, Madam Speaker, when you are coming in 
that northern route down the Potomac River, you see a whole bunch of 
other monuments, evenly distributed, small, and all identical of the 
400,000 men and women who are buried there having fought under that 
flag, the American flag, the 13 stripes and the 50 stars.
  When we come here on this floor, all 400,000 of them, all of the 
hundreds of thousands buried around this country, all of those who have 
given the last full measure of devotion for something bigger than 
themselves, we carry that burden. We have to actually do the hard work 
of representation.
  That does not mean flying here on Monday for a fly-in vote, having a 
dinner with some meaningless votes, getting up on Tuesday and Wednesday 
to do a series of preprogrammed votes for political purposes, and then 
flying out Thursday to go do a damn fundraiser back home.
  That is what we do.
  We have a responsibility to actually finish the work that those 
400,000 started, that George Washington called ``the sacred fire of 
liberty.''
  Liberty depends on us, though, and we are not going to be free if we 
are mortgaging our future.
  We are not going to be free if we come down here and we are forced to 
choose to stand by our friend Israel or print more money.
  That was the choice I was given. That is not a choice. That is not a 
choice we have to make; we choose to make it. We choose to take the 
easy path. We choose to fail to do our job and to actually follow some 
rules that will keep us somewhere close to the straight and narrow of 
caring for the legacy of those who came before us.

                              {time}  2045

  The hardworking American family out there today, right now struggling 
to get by, is looking to us to fix it.
  It is not acceptable for a migrant to come into this country 
illegally, beat a cop in New York, get sent out on no bail, flick off 
the American people. That will destroy our country more than anything 
else.
  That is not acceptable. It is not acceptable, and we have to end it, 
or we won't have a country left.
  We have to stop spending money we don't have. We have to. It is not 
hyperbole. You can't make a good decision here about balancing 
interests if you just write blank checks. You can't do it.
  One of my strong Jewish friends out in conservative radio was 
pointing out we are $34 trillion in debt--hell, $300 trillion in debt 
if you look at the entire Fed's balance sheet and everything that we 
have going on. What is $17 billion? That is exactly right, except I 
have to say it is exactly wrong, or we will never change this place.
  I came here and said I wouldn't vote for unpaid-for supplemental 
spending, and even if my best friend is out there getting hurt, I have 
to find a way to do it the right way, or we are going to lose this 
country. Then, as I said, there will be no America left to stand with 
Israel. There will be no America left for some people to go to, no 
America left for migrants to seek to come to, to live a better life 
because the rule of law will be gone. The fiscal health of our country 
will be gone. The American Dream will be unattainable.
  I think we can choose a different path, and I think Republicans are 
actually in the process of choosing a different path right now by 
challenging the status quo of this town that our Democratic colleagues 
want to continue to exploit to grow government and to regulate and to 
have open borders and to have our streets wide open. Republicans are 
standing athwart that, and right now is the opportunity for Republicans 
to make good on what we have been saying for my entire life. That is 
that the American Dream depends on what we do here to ensure that the 
Federal Government is not meddling in the lives of the American people, 
undermining their ability to prosper, undermining the American economy, 
making us less secure, empowering our enemies, emboldening those who 
want to do us harm, undermining Western civilization.
  We can stop that. We can, in fact, as William Buckley said, stand 
athwart history yelling stop. The progressive movement that is designed 
to undermine our very way of life needs to end right now, and it ends 
by Republicans standing up on the wall and saying no.
  That is our calling. That is what we need to do. If we do that and if 
we unite, then we will actually have the majority that we tend to try 
to buy with single votes on the House floor when, instead, you earn 
them by doing what we are supposed to do under the Constitution.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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