On the recordMay 17, 2022
I agree with the gentleman. I support Ukrainians, but I represent Americans, and Americans want to stand alongside Zelenskyy and push back on Putin, but they want us to do our job responsibly. When I hear the majority leader of the other party say, ``a time of war.'' When I sat with the majority leader in a Rules Committee meeting upstairs, and he said: ``We are at war,'' I was wondering when we voted to go to war. If we are going to have a proxy war, and we are going to give $40 billion to Ukraine because we want to look all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons and feel good about ourselves, maybe we should actually have a debate in this Chamber, a debate in this body because the American people expect us to do that. When the border of this country is wide open, and cartels have control of it, and fentanyl is pouring in, and we have $30.5 trillion in debt, and gas prices are spiking, and it cost $1,100 to fill a tank of diesel, and we go, Oh, blank check, $40 billion. By the way, I am looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same point. The American people deserve and expect better than that. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
