During a town hall on Tuesday, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) spoke about the GOP tax bill.
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00:00United States Representative, and I don't need to have to go.
00:10Check. I don't have a mic. Oh, wait. Is it working?
00:16We can talk loud enough. All right. Well, good evening, everyone.
00:20I am Congresswoman Melanie Sainsbury, and I am deeply proud to represent the Mexico.
00:26It is deep in the heart of our district, but a lot of people don't know this.
00:36We also have 10 counties across central New Mexico.
00:41Our district actually stretches all the way to Roswell and Lincoln County and all the way north to the boundary with Santa Ana and San Felipe Pueblo, and we are deeply honored to be able to represent our communities every day.
00:54But before I kick things off with a few comments to take your questions, I do want to acknowledge that we have several elected officials who joined us tonight.
01:04Mayor Keller, I saw you in the audience a few moments ago.
01:08I'm going to be second. Senator Pope, who is sitting here, and we need to go to the west side of Senator, my state House Representative, Miss Pamela Herndon.
01:21Woo!
01:22I'm going to turn to some others of you out there.
01:28Oh, I see another state out of Kevin Bregman's.
01:32And then Dorothy Sides, Representative Bregman, who's also with us with their babies with their babies.
01:39Yay!
01:40So I'm so grateful for all of you coming out tonight.
01:43I know many of you have questions about what's happening in Congress, what comes next, what we're doing to fight on the sublines to save our democracy, to defend our communities, and to stop this evil bill that the House
01:57Republicans are not only trying to shove through the House, but have sent now over to the Senate, and that we are counting on Senator Lincoln and Heinrich to fight against in this battle for the future of our country.
02:13So I know that many of you have been following what has been happening on social media and the news, but in case you haven't, let me just tell you a little bit about what is in this bill and why
02:26why the Republicans are so hell-bent on trying to get it across the finish line.