Madison Cawthorn: “I thank my esteemed colleague for his leadership. Madam Speaker, this is my generation's long-form death certificate.…”

“I thank my esteemed colleague for his leadership. Madam Speaker, this is my generation's long-form death certificate. You endorsed it. You own it, and you will pass it. But I will be the one to pay for it. My generation, and if America still stands, my grandchildren, will pay for this Trojan horse of a socialist proposal, $3.5 trillion in unhinged, unconscionable, irredeemable spending. It is the final nail in the coffin of the American Dream. Karl Marx would even call this bill radical. Look at this. This is a pallet of $100 million and, for scale, beside that is me. And behind all of that is what the Democrats propose to spend. You have stolen my generation's checkbook, and, Madam Speaker, we want it back. No American who votes for this trash should ever see the inside of a legislative chamber ever again. They should never take another oath of office for Congress, for statehouse. Hell, they shouldn't even be able to get on the mosquito control board because they have endorsed the demise of the country they swore to protect. {time} 2100 This is what crushing, overwhelming, unrecoverable debt looks like. And we haven't even talked about the substance. This proposal is legislative malfeasance on the lifeblood of our country: energy independence, and more importantly, energy dominance. You show me a nation's energy policies, and I will show you the future of that nation. Under President Trump, our energy independence carved out our standing in the world.…”