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I love our country—and when you love something, you fight for it.

This is really a bad vote for David.

Republicans may think the American people will just 'get over' the devastating impacts of this ugly bill—but Democrats are united For The Children in opposing this legislation and we will fight to reverse its damage.

The Big, Ugly Bill is a dangerous checklist of extreme Republican priorities: slashing funding for public schools, defunding Planned Parenthood, and making the largest cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP in history.

The Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill is the biggest transfer of money in history to the wealthy and well-connected—paid for on the backs of everyday Americans.

Today ushers in a dark and harrowing time for America's children, seniors, Veterans, working families, and the most vulnerable in our nation.

It's not enough that they've spent weeks violently ambushing people, now ICE and CBP agents are allegedly entering school campuses, pulling down their pants, and urinating on playgrounds.

The federal government illegally sidestepped him by deploying Guard forces without his permission.

I will pursue legal action to regain control of the guard.

Protecting Medicaid is essential for the vulnerable constituents we were elected to represent. Therefore, we cannot support a final bill that threatens access to coverage or jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers.

It was sad to see echoes of colonial rhetoric here in the halls of the United States Congress.

It’s just so un-American.

The reality is, the central issue for America is we can’t be a nation half-prosperous and half in decline and in despair.

We are creating in this country control over people. And that’s impacting not just the rights of immigrants, it’s impacting our freedoms as Americans.

It makes people in the country who are in the bottom 30%, working hard to pay their bills, poorer, because it’s stripping away healthcare from them, stripping away food assistance from them.

This partisan tax bill will be our Nation's single-largest self-inflicted wound to working families and our economy. It is the largest unfunded tax break for the wealthiest families and will lead to the largest number of working families…

Mr. Speaker, over 100 Democratic Members just asked to allow an amendment to protect Medicaid and SNAP, to just give us a vote. That is all I ask. I will say that we are here standing up for the American people, no matter where they live…

We aren’t delayed because moderates whose constituents will be completely screwed are holding out.