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On the recordJuly 22, 2025
we are going to adjourn and not do the people's business because we, thus far, have gotten an ``F'', an ``F'' for the work for the people of this Congress. We have taken healthcare away from hundreds of thousands of people. We have taken SNAP payments and nutritional sustenance away from tens of hundreds of thousands of people. We have made injuries to the Earth, God's Earth, which we are here to preserve and we only use. We have taken away women's rights to go to Planned Parenthood to have the healthcare that they need, important healthcare about their bodies. We have taken away protections for clean energy, to change the rate of growth of global warming that affects our planet and affects our future with hotter and hotter summers and more and more problems: flash floods, fires, and disasters. This Congress has earned an ``F.'' We do not deserve any more. I am ashamed to be a part of this Congress, but I will be because people need to stand up, speak the truth, and stand up for things that the American people have stood for for a long time like justice, due process, fairness, caring about the little guy, and caring about giving people something who have not enough but not something to people who have too much: millionaires and billionaires.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Criticizing Congress for failing to address key issues affecting the American people.

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