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Mr. Speaker, I rise on the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to express my outrage over more broken promises. In my home State of Arizona, we are mourning the death of 14-year-old Emily Pike, a…

While Gov. Hobbs supports securing the border, she has been clear in her opposition to inhumane immigration enforcement practices.

--because, when it is that sort of money, you know they are going to-- You also saw the articles 3 weeks ago in The Wall Street Journal. There is criminal investigations now going on. Justice Department now is diving into these folks, so…

Yes. Just understand, in reconciliation, which is the one time where we are allowed to talk about mandatory spending, the majority of mandatory spending, we are not allowed to touch--

The MedPAC report, since I am the only idiot who came here to the floor with the MedPAC, but that is partially my responsibility being on the Committee on Ways and Means. The MedPAC report was all highlighted, and we showed the MedPAC…

You have to understand. Okay. You are not going to raise taxes. I despise raising taxes.

--The Wall Street Journal articles from the last year? I think they have done five or six major, major exposes on something we called Medicare part C. It is the Medicare Advantage. It was the sort of managed care version within Medicare…

Yes. You don't have to answer that because, the moment you answer, there will be an army of paid lobbyists, people running ads in your district, probably now beating the crap out of me on social media--

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Cathi Herrod, who recently retired from the Center for Arizona Policy after serving 20 years as president. Cathi dedicated her life's work to promoting and defending the sanctity of life, traditional…

It is just to be paid at a future date. Yet, because the curve is now steepening--remember that I just showed you some charts that says we may double U.S. debt this decade. The curve is like this. You don't think we are not going to reach…

--because, between Social Security and interest, that is probably 54 or 55 percent of all mandatory. Sorry. It is a weird way I remember numbers. Well, let's risk our political careers. How many of you have read--

The borrow is $250 million every hour. Watch out for the scam artists who play the game. They give you something that is outrageous. Okay. Get rid of it. Yet, sometimes the things that we will debate for hours here are minutes or sometimes…

Mr. Speaker, as always, I apologize to the bored staff, and I will try not to speak like a machine gun. Mr. Speaker, we are going to do basically three things. I am going to make fun of us. I am going to actually walk through some debt and…

Yeah. It blends out closer to the 70. Now, talking about the expansion population. That is where--

Mr. Speaker, it goes further. Have you had the occasion yet, Mr. Speaker, where a group comes into your office--somehow, they were put on a plane, put in a hotel, those things here, they have no understanding of the math, the mechanics…

Mr. Speaker, most of this was designed in the late sixties. I have this weird history. I was a child--in my early twenties. I was a temporary page at the State legislature. Arizona was the last State to enter Medicaid. It was bankrupting…

Yet, the big stuff, since there are so many lobbyists and constituencies who live off of that money, you are not allowed to talk about that. Mr. Roy, I am blessed. I have Phoenix and Scottsdale. I have one of the best educated districts in…

In the early days, it was like a 50/50, not 100 percent coming from the Federal Government.