Bruce Westerman: “Our friends across the aisle want to talk about being serious, but…”

On the recordMay 8, 2025

Our friends across the aisle want to talk about being serious, but when we marked up this legislation in committee, here are some of the serious amendments that they put out. Number one, they wanted to rename it not the Gulf of America, but the gulf of Helene, after a hurricane. That wasn't good enough, so they decided to file an amendment to name it the Gulf of America if we rejoin the Paris climate accord. That is real serious. As my friend already mentioned, they wanted to take this bill, it was obviously not germane, they wanted to rename the planet, planet Trump. That is how serious they are in their debate. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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Bruce Westerman

Republican · Arkansas

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May 8, 2025

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