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On the recordJuly 27, 2023
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the leader for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I think we have very different definitions of success for the American people. As Democrats, we have been focused and have been successful in growing our economy by growing the middle class, lowering healthcare costs, making sure that we are addressing climate change, and having safer communities. Now the Republican Conference is saying they are sending us home for 6 weeks without funding the government? We have 1 bill out of 12 completed because extremists are holding your Conference hostage. That is not the full story. The extremists are holding the American people hostage. {time} 1400 We will have 12 days when we return to fund the government and to live up to the job the American people sent us here to do. This is a reckless march to a MAGA shutdown, and for what? In pursuit of a national abortion ban? Is that what we are doing here? The American people see through this. They know who is fighting for them and fighting for solutions. Your time is coming, Mr. Speaker. The American people are watching, and they are going to demand accountability. We should be staying here, completing these appropriation bills, stripping out the toxic, divisive, and bigoted riders that have been put on these bills and getting back to work for freedom, for our economy, and the American family.
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Katherine Clark
Democratic · Massachusetts

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