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On the recordDecember 22, 2022
I thank the gentleman from Texas, and I wish to offer him a Merry Christmas and a Merry Christmas to the people of the United States of America. Unfortunately, in your stocking is not going to be something you probably hoped for. I don't think it is going to be a lump of coal. It is $1.7 trillion that we don't have. $1.7 trillion, 4,155 pages plus, I don't know, a couple thousand pages of what is called report language that barely any of us had an opportunity to read, released in the--was it last night, Chip?
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Dec 22, 2022

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