On the recordMay 8, 2025
Mr. Speaker, live from Washington, D.C., it is ``Saturday Night Live.'' You can't make this up. Mr. Speaker, I rise in perplexion. I first will say how much respect I have for Mr. Westerman. He is my dear friend and one of our best Members. My, my, my, Mr. Speaker, Bruce is doing a lot of work this time. Is this infantile bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico really this House's top priority? I heard the gentlewoman say it is going to solve all the problems, of course, if we name it the Gulf of America. Golly day, why didn't we think of that? The economy is shrinking for the first time since COVID-19. Costs are going up. I think ``Saturday Night Live'' just called me. They want me on. Mr. Speaker, costs are going up, and small businesses are going under. American families are worried they won't be able to keep the lights on, keep food on the table, and keep a roof over their head, but they are happy about Gulf of America. That will do it. Millions of Americans risk losing their health insurance if Republicans' Medicaid cuts go through. Yet, Republicans think this juvenile legislation is the best use of this House's time. This is the only thing we are doing today, Mr. Speaker. What a sick joke this is. Republicans worry about 400-year-old words on a map. I worry about families in every community in America who are struggling to get by. This bill is obviously a distraction, a joke. Where is Trump's one big, beautiful bill that we keep hearing so much about, the one that cuts taxes for the wealthiest among us, threatens healthcare for millions, and pulls the rug out from under working Americans? {time} 0930 The majority still hasn't been able to put it on the floor. That is how divided, dysfunctional, and divisive they are. My dear friend, the late Elijah Cummings, with whom some of you served, said: ``We are better than this.'' The American people are counting on us to be better than this. We ought to be debating legislation to bring down costs, to pay our debts, and to fix our broken immigration system. Instead, MAGA Republicans waste our time with this childish drivel. Not only that, they give it a prime spot on the floor schedule. This is the only thing we are doing for America today, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, as if that is going to solve the problems. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
