[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 7 (Friday, January 9, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A CONFESSION OF OUR VALUES

  (Ms. SIMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about betrayal. Nearly 
14,000 veterans who served this Nation will sleep unsheltered tonight, 
not in beds. They will sleep on concrete, in cars, and under bridges.
  There are 37 million American children who depend on Medicaid for 
their healthcare, and this Congress just signed $1 trillion in cuts to 
that lifeline. Also, 12 million Americans will lose their health 
insurance, the largest rollback of healthcare in American history.
  Meanwhile, the Pentagon just failed its eighth consecutive audit. 
There are over $4 trillion in assets that they cannot account for. They 
are the only Federal agency who has failed to ever pass an audit, not 
once. We have got money for war, but we can't feed the poor. We refuse 
to fully fund cancer research. We refuse to house low-income elders in 
their final years, and we refuse to shelter the very soldiers we sent 
to die in wars that we keep funding.
  This is a confession of our values.

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