John Rice Carter: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his leadership. It is extremely important. Madam Speaker, I rise…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his leadership. It is extremely important. Madam Speaker, I rise today in adamant opposition to what is a disastrous package. Disastrous. This very well may be one of the most consequential votes any of us, any of us have ever taken on this House floor. Yet, it has never, never gone through the proper process. It never received the proper consideration this body demands of any piece of legislation, the least of which would be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation that we have ever considered. I am sure most Members, on both sides of the aisle, do not fully know what is actually in this bill. Has anybody, has any Member actually read this bill? Anybody? My colleagues across the aisle are attempting to pass the most expensive bill, the most expensive bill, not by a little bit, by a lot. It is, yes, it is the most expensive bill by a lot that has ever been passed in American history. It has the largest tax increase ever considered and the biggest expansion of government in a generation; all while they have the slimmest of majorities. This is not a mandate. Look, what is going on? Look, what is happening here? The American people are rejecting this. You saw what happened in Virginia. You see what is happening now. We have got all these things going on. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”