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On the recordFebruary 6, 2020
I appreciate the gentleman from Texas yielding to me. I rise in opposition to this rule. And I have a whole stack of things that I will raise, but in the time that is available, I will say this: We watched as the Medicaid program was opened up more and more under President Obama. And when that happened, it caused a significant amount of turmoil in my State and many States across the country. And so President Trump has stepped in and decided that he is going to offer an opportunity to have the equivalent of block grants going back to the States and let them make the decision, let them write the regulations because the States know best. This great experiment in Federalism that we have, where the closer to the people that the decision can be made, the more effective that decision is and the more effective the resources of our taxpayers are. That is the attempt and the endeavor on the part of President Trump, and I regret that so much politics have been churned into this, we have a hard time focusing on the policy. When I see what happened at the prayer breakfast, and when I listened to the statement that has been made by the Speaker publicly in a conference a little earlier today, it spills forth upon this. Some of her words essentially show up in this document. Madam Speaker, it is time for us to take a deep breath. Impeachment is over. Let's focus on policy. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Feb 6, 2020

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