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Ralph Norman Comes Out Against Senate Version Of Big Beautiful Bill
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7/1/2025
At a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) spoke about why he is opposed to the Senate-passed Big Beautiful Bill.
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I want to thank all the committee heads, Chairman, for what you've done. The first
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bill that we put out, each of you worked hard to get. Each of you had things and
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were part of the process. Our Democrat colleagues, no one voted for our bill
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that the House sent over. No one agrees with giving money back to the
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taxpayer that they earned. And to have my good friend, Mr. McGovern, question
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whether they were really people who are able-bodied and it's not that many of
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them, you hadn't been in the real world. You go to that restaurant, you go to that
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electrician, you go to that tire manufacturer, every day the number one
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concern is getting people who are willing to do hot work. It's not there.
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You've been in government too long. And all I would say is that the founders
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and the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence would be astounded that we're
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sitting here talking about something that we hadn't read fully. We hadn't got a copy
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of it. Now, Mr. McGovern, I do agree with you on that, the fact that we should have it
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in hand. I think the founders and the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence
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would be astounded that we're adding debt to our children and grandchildren who are
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defenseless. Debt is a curse. And Jody, you were right. We got to reverse a curse. And what the Senate
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did is unconscionable. What they did to our bill was unconscionable. And that's why, you know, I will be
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unlike my Democrat colleagues. They will not support anything that's, I mean, their new leader in New
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York, Mondani, you know, government run stores, government run gas stations, government run
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apartments. I wonder how many U-Haulits are now leaving New York. And the theory, the socialist
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theory just does not work. So I'm against this because what the Senate did, I'll vote against it
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here. And I'll vote against it on the floor until we get it right. And the fact is, the good news,
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we're going to pass the tax cuts. The tax cuts don't expire until the December of this year.
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We're going to pass the tax cuts. And I think we're going to go back to the drawing table.
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It is my hope we'll go back to the drawing table and get very close to what we sent the Senate,
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because instead of each individual senator getting a goodie bag and sacrificing the health of this
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country is an abomination to, again, the founders and the 56 signers of Declaration of Independence.
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And so I do think that hopefully we'll get to that. We're not there yet. But I think hopefully we will
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be and the American people will be better off for it. I yield back.
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Thank you, Mr. Norman.
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