Sheila Jackson Lee: “I urge my colleagues to vote against H.R. 788. Don't take that tool away. Help the American people. Mr. Speaker, I rise…”

“I urge my colleagues to vote against H.R. 788. Don't take that tool away. Help the American people. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 788, the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2023. This bill would undermine our ability to hold corporate wrongdoers accountable for unlawful conduct. H.R. 788, which otherwise could be called the ``Corporate Unaccountability Act,'' is another unconscionable attempt by some extreme members on the other side of the aisle to protect corporate wrongdoers at the expense of their victims and a continuation of this majority's dangerous quest to prevent federal agencies from enforcing key protections. H.R. 788 is yet another in a series of harmful bills that pose a direct threat to a broad range of critical protections Americans rely on in their daily lives by making it harder for federal agencies to implement, execute and enforce the laws passed by Congress. These bills are part of the extreme MAGA Republican agenda, which seeks to render the federal government ineffective by any means necessary. First, they proposed defunding and abolishing agencies that do not suit their radical views. Then, they broadened their scope and put forward their Default on America Act, and later their extreme CR, which would have massively underfunded the federal government, hurting its ability to address our nation's most important priorities.…”