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Scalise: Republicans Continue to Get Answers & Deliver For American Families
Washington,
July 26, 2023
Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), and Congressman Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) to discuss the appropriations process, House Republicans’ efforts to cut wasteful spending, and rebuke the woke policies being pushed by the Biden Administration. As Congress heads into its district work period, Leader Scalise also highlighted legislative milestones passed by House Republicans to combat the Biden Administration's radical agenda, such as the Lower Energy Costs Act, and the Parents Bill of Rights Act which dismantles leftist, union-driven agendas in schools that put politics over students.
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Leader Scalise’s remarks:
“This week's another busy legislative week on the Floor. We are bringing two appropriations bills. We will start off today with the MilCon/VA bill – and as my colleagues talked about – a really important bill to make sure that we're fulfilling our commitments to our men and women in uniform who make sacrifices [and] who deserve to be taken care of. And we're going to be following through on that, while we also push back on some of this woke agenda that the Biden Administration continues to try to interject into our nation's military: trying to push [critical race theory], other items, instead of taking care of our men and women in uniform, making sure that our military is up to the threat that countries like China pose. “You look at the agriculture bill as well. [It] addresses the threat of China buying up farmland. In fact, China is buying up farmland – and other land – near some of our most sensitive military bases and it's going unchecked by this administration. We start to address those concerns in these legislative instruments that are coming to the Floor. “So we're going to continue to do our job, to move our agenda and – if you look at just the first seven months that we've been in the majority, and Chair Stefanik talked about this – we ran on a very specific agenda last year when we asked the American people to give us the opportunity to lead, to fire [Congresswoman] Pelosi as Speaker, and actually put House Republicans in charge. We said we would go and tackle some of the toughest challenges facing our country. We would go to bat, fighting for those families who have been struggling. Who have been pummeled by the rules, the regulations, the radical policies of the Biden Administration, and we've been fulfilling those commitments. “In fact, if you look at all of the agenda items that we moved, they all fit with the things we said we would do. H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, actually passing good energy policy so that families who are sick and tired of paying 50 percent more at the pump, or 30 percent more in their household electricity bills, or when they go to the grocery store to buy food that's more expensive because of President Biden's attack on American energy. We push back on that and that is over in the Senate. “We passed a strong border security bill: H.R. 2. We passed a Parents Bill of Rights to say the parents ought to be able to have more say in their kids' education without union bosses colluding with the White House – which we exposed, by the way – [which] happened under the Biden Administration's first two years to try to shut schools down and keep kids out of schools. We’ve now seen the devastation that did to millions of our young people who will never make up the lost ground that they lost when President Biden shut down schools, working with unions to go against the science. “Remember, when President Biden ran, he said he would let this all be driven by the science except when the science conflicts with the union bosses. And there were emails we uncovered that showed when [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] was getting ready to come up with guidance for opening up schools. President Biden worked with the union bosses, who gave very specific suggestions [about] how to make changes to the scientific guidance, to instead have politics involved to keep schools shut down longer. And President Biden sided with the union bosses and political science – against medical science – and to the detriment of our kids. Millions of kids who will never make that up. “We've continued to push back on so many of these radical policies that we've seen under President Biden by passing bills to fight for those families who are struggling. And it's an agenda that we're going to be talking about all around the country during these next few weeks as Congress finishes our work up here and goes back out into the real world, where people actually have to live by the rules and regulations that President Biden's unelected bureaucrats are imposing upon them. And we're also going to continue a very robust oversight of this administration, something that's been a long time coming. Something that's exposed many alarming, alarming things that you saw our freshman of the week, [Congressman] Kiley, talk about what's happening at the border as he [went] to that hearing with [Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security] Mayorkas last week. We had a number of hearings that exposed more things. You just saw more attempts by the team. Look at what happened. Just yesterday, you had one of the Biden team lawyers try to represent themselves as somebody else in court to get documents changed and the judge is dealing with that right now. This is something that continues to go on. “Republicans are going to continue to fight to get the facts out. That's our role. We're going to fight for families. We're going to fight to get the facts out.” ###
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