Steve Scalise: “I thank my friend from Missouri for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this massive non-COVID…”

“I thank my friend from Missouri for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this massive non-COVID spending bill. If you look over the last year during this pandemic, Congress has come together many times in a bipartisan way to specifically help families who are struggling, to help small businesses who are hanging on by a thread, and to try to put more money into finding a vaccine. Mr. Speaker, we were successful in those initiatives--in fact, so successful that we now have three proven vaccines that are out there working because of President Trump's Operation Warp Speed. We were able to help millions of small businesses stay afloat. There are still more struggling. In many cases, in States that are mismanaging this, you are seeing a disparate impact. Mr. Speaker, instead of working with Republicans and Democrats, President Biden tried this go-it-alone approach, to allow Speaker Pelosi to write a bill behind closed doors and bring the bill forward, not allowing a single Democrat to file an amendment on a $1.9 trillion spending bill in the House. When you look at what is in the bill--and many people reference polling, as if we should vote based on a poll that doesn't show the full story--we are starting to get the full story. Mr.…”