On the recordJuly 18, 2023
I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and I want to pick up on what he has observed when he goes home to Pennsylvania, when he is traveling around this country. He has observed what I observe, having individuals pull me aside in an airport, on an airplane, driving around, at a gas station in Texas, at a gas station in Colorado, at a gas station in Virginia, all over this country, they pull me aside and say: Thank you. Keep fighting. Just like you said, they don't give details. They get it. They see it. They want someone to stand up and fight for this country because they see this country slipping through our fingers. As has long been said, where else are we going to go? What else are we going to do? As President Reagan said, there is nowhere else to go. This is it. We are the beacon of hope for the world, and we are still the greatest country in the history of the world, but we are giving it away. We are losing it through a cultural rot and decay where elites are telling us that we have to apologize for being Americans. In that museum that I walked through in Dubois, Wyoming, there is a great graphic--I don't have it in front of me, although I might be able to pull up a picture--that talks about the tens of millions of lives in this world that have been liberated by Americans. Yes, we are an imperfect country. Yes, we have committed sins because all of us fall short of the glory of God.…
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