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  • 7/2/2025
During debate on the House floor, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) ripped into Republicans' reconciliation package, the Big Beautiful Bill.
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00:00I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I found the preamble to this big ugly bill.
00:07We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice,
00:14ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare and
00:20reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity,
00:25do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their health care,
00:32increase co-pays, deductibles and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of
00:39nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable energy systems,
00:48increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the constitution of
00:54the people of these United States of America. Please include this preamble in the legislative
01:00record. I yield back.
01:02Gentleman yields back. Gentleman from North Carolina.

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