[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 196 (Thursday, November 20, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            CARELESS PEOPLE

  (Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, for more than 40 days, 
families across our country suffered through the longest government 
shutdown in history.
  How did our President and Congressional Republicans respond?
  They responded by amputating the East Wing of the White House to make 
way for a $300 million gilded ballroom.
  They responded by throwing a lavish Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-Lago 
where the President's wealthy friends toasted with champagne mere 
moments before 42 million Americans lost their monthly food assistance.
  They responded by inserting a disgusting, corrupt provision into a 
so-called clean spending bill that allows for a slush fund for eight 
Republican Senators at the last hour to each collect as much as a 
million dollars or more--one million taxpayer dollars each--because 
their phone records were lawfully seized in connection with the January 
6 insurrection.
  The President and Congressional Republicans aren't looking for ways 
to feed people or lower costs. They are thieves lining their pockets.
  I believe F. Scott Fitzgerald would have called them ``careless 
people.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities towards the President.

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