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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentlewoman's comments, and the best way to help her constituents and to help those small businesses in the State of New York is to stop the lockdowns. Mr. Speaker, we have more than $1 trillion that is lingering out there…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

The last 2 weeks, working-class Americans have faced a great target on their backs from the new President. By the stroke of a pen--47 different executive orders and actions--he has fired hundreds of thousands of American workers. Mr…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts. I will remind him that the government there in his State has already received $7.5 billion in bailouts and, under this plan, would receive an additional $7 billion. During the lockdown there…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from New York. I will remind him that his State government has already received $28.5 billion in bail-out money and, under this proposal, would receive $20.5 billion under the plan; while that very same…

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Roy Blunt
@royblunt· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

Mr. President, this week, the Senate is engaged in what I personally believe to be a disappointing exercise of, really, partisan political power at the expense of American taxpayers. When it became clear that the Senate was going to be…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Texas. I will remind her, as we debate how to improve the economy, the administration's hostility to the energy industry, as demonstrated by his executive orders, threatens at least 120,000 jobs in the…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from California. I will remind him that his State government, yes, indeed, has already received $43 billion in taxpayer bailouts and will receive another $42 billion in taxpayer bailouts if this bill passes. But…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from Pennsylvania. I will remind him that his State government has already received $14 billion in bailouts. They will receive another $13.5 under this plan while that very same State government has enacted…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, but I would like to remind this Chamber again that the administration's hostility to the energy industry has demonstrated by just the stroke of a pen his executive actions have threatened at least…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 3, 2021

I appreciate the gentleman from Virginia. I will remind him that his State government has already received $6.5 billion in bailout money, and they will receive another $9 billion under this plan while that very same government has enacted…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Feb 2, 2021

I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding, and we are thrilled that he is on the Budget Committee. The rule puts in motion a process to spend trillions of dollars on a progressive wish list, all under the appearance of pandemic…

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Roy Blunt
@royblunt· Republican · MO· Jan 27, 2021

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

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Roy Blunt
@royblunt· Republican · MO· Jan 27, 2021

Mr. President, this week is the 48th annual March for Life. It is an event when thousands of Americans come together to advocate for the value and protection of unborn human life. They will be coming together this year differently than…

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Roy Blunt
@royblunt· Republican · MO· Jan 26, 2021

Mr. President, I request to have printed in the Congressional Record my full remarks delivered on January 20, 2021, at the 59th inaugural ceremonies. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as…

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Emanuel Cleaver
@emanuelcleaver· Democratic · MO· Jan 13, 2021

It would be an error to suppose that men and women can be courageous every day. It would be unfair to anticipate that I or any Member of this body could be a lion every day. No one is expected to be a lion day after day after day. But on…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Jan 13, 2021

If we defeat the previous question, we will amend the rule to immediately bring up the bill establishing a bipartisan national commission on the domestic terror attack of the United States Capitol. This has been a devastating week for our…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Jan 6, 2021

Mr. President, I want to begin this evening by saying thank you to the men and women of the Capitol Police, the National Guardsmen, the Metropolitan Police, and others who came to this Capitol and put their lives on the line to protect…

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Jan 4, 2021

I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Madam Speaker, on only day two of the 117th Congress, House Democrats are already attempting to strip Americans of the transparency that they deserve in order to push through an expensive…

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