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On the recordNovember 18, 2021
This is an incredible day. The House will pass the Build Back Better Act, President Biden's popular and necessary agenda, and say to Americans everywhere: We have got your back. Today, we say to families everywhere that we will cut your childcare costs in half and provide universal pre-K to 3- and 4-year-olds. Today, we are finally going to take on Big Pharma, cut the cost of prescription drugs, and make sure that people can afford the cost of insulin. This bill makes the biggest Federal investment in housing in our history and allows America to truly lead on taking on climate change, with half a trillion dollars of investment and 40 percent of those funds going to communities that are most disproportionately burdened by the effects of climate change. For the first time in 35 years, we say to immigrants: You are truly essential, not expendable. We will protect Dreamers, TPS holders, essential workers, and farmworkers. I thank President Biden for his leadership. We will provide transformative change for people across America and invest in our competitiveness; our thriving, not surviving; and our humanity.
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington
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Nov 18, 2021

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