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On the recordNovember 18, 2021
Madam Speaker, it must be easy to be a Republican in Congress these days because you can make things up. You can throw out numbers without any fear of being contradicted. But we will have, probably by the end of the day, a CBO score from the Congressional Budget Office which will undercut virtually every argument that the gentleman from Missouri made. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), who is the distinguished chairman of the Education and Labor Committee and also a member of the Budget Committee.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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