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  • 5/20/2025
In House floor remarks on Monday, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) slammed the GOP reconciliation budget bill.
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00:00to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks without objection the gentlewoman is
00:04recognized for one minute mr speaker the american people deserve to know what is happening in this
00:11body this week as the gop is intentionally making moves in the dark of night last night at 10 p.m
00:20the budget committee passed the reconciliation bill by one vote while four republicans sat it
00:28out and tomorrow night they will move this shame-filled bill at 1 a.m in the rules committee what don't they
00:36want the american people to know that their bill will take away health care from 13.7 million people
00:42that it will take food out of the mouths of children that it will gut environmental programs
00:48that it gives giveaways to tech companies and their buddies or that it increases taxes on working
00:56americans who are struggling to put food on the table let me be clear when you convene in the
01:02dark of night or whether you do it or not we will be there fighting for our communities fighting for
01:08our elders fighting for our veterans fighting for our kids and fighting for the future and the dignity
01:15of this country and our communities because expired the gentlewoman's time has expired the gentlelady is
01:25no longer recognized before the house the following personal request

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