On the recordMarch 14, 2019
Mr. Speaker, I rise to remind this House of the Democratic For the People agenda, which starts with rebuilding American infrastructure and creating good paying jobs doing so. It includes expanding healthcare so that it is available to more and more Americans, and bringing down the costs of healthcare and prescription drugs. It includes cleaning up our American democracy and rooting out corruption in our electoral process. We achieved the third one this month with H.R. 1, the For the People Act, but the other two took a serious blow this week when we saw the President's budget, which cuts Medicare to the tune of $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years, breaking a core promise of the President's campaign, and also cuts infrastructure spending. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to reject that shortsightedness in the President's budget, and let's go ahead and achieve the For the People agenda. ____________________
