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On the recordOctober 20, 2021
I thank my good friend from Louisiana for holding this Special Order and his leadership in our conference. It started off with the war on fossil fuel and then the border crisis. Now, this new deal is about a war on small business. And the Biden administration and Bernie Sanders' trillion-dollar tax-and-spend bill, it is not about addressing our Nation's urgent needs, which I have just described, like: rising inflation; supply chain crisis; illegal immigration--we should not say illegal immigration; it should be human trafficking and drug trafficking--or the crime rate in the country. It is a blueprint to bankrupt and fundamentally turn America into a Big-Government, socialist Nation. So what is included in their House Democrat bill? It includes a radical expansion of the IRS, granting them unprecedented access to the bank transactions of a vast majority of Americans. Again, a war on small business. It allows on-demand, taxpayer-funded abortions by excluding the Hyde amendment protections. Folks, we are just one of three countries that allow elective, full-time abortion. The other two are not good company: China and North Korea. It provides college financial aid for illegal immigrants. It advances Green New Deal priorities to the tune of $630 billion at the expense, again, of small businesses.…
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia

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