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Download official House Record PDFReturn to issue contextMs. DEAN of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, this month, as our country celebrated 250 years of American democracy, a moment for profound reflection and unity, instead my Republican colleagues rejoiced in one year of the big, beautiful bill. It was anything but beautiful.
kicking 1.5
afraid for tomorrow. Because of this now-law, Medicare cuts have left seniors facing life-threatening barriers to healthcare.
Martin Luther King once said: “Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”
When you consider that this bill is on track to cost our Nation $3.4 trillion, it becomes even more nonsensical, destabilizing, and cruel. That seems to be the point.
on the unmovable belief of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for those fortunate to call our Nation home.