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On the recordOctober 23, 2023
This inability to govern has prevented us from doing our work for three weeks, despite an urgent need to keep our government operating, address the child care cliff, and stand by our allies.
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Jack Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Davis criticizes Congress for inaction on urgent issues like child care and poverty.

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This whole notion that somehow or another we need to be in bed with the same tax rate as the rest of the world is absolute lunacy.

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Every day we delay action, poverty poisons the future for millions of our children and for our nation.

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