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On the recordJuly 28, 2022
Madam Speaker, in the first 15 months of the Joe Biden Presidency, over 8.3 million jobs were created, the most in U.S. history. For the last 6 weeks, because of the relentless efforts of the White House and of Joe Biden to reduce gas prices, those gas prices have fallen every day for 6 weeks. That is because Democrats are focused on putting people over politics, and we want to lower costs, have better paying jobs, and safer communities. What are Republicans focused on? They want to end Social Security; they are attacking our democracy; and they want to criminalize women's healthcare decisions. In fact, just last week, House Republicans voted ``no'' on providing access to birth control pills. Let me just repeat that again. We are in the 21st century, and House Republicans want government to ban birth control pills. ____________________
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Ted Lieu
Democratic · California

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