Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019

Floor Speech

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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to support a lifeline for our small businesses, for our first responders, for our hospitals, but I also rise today to say now is the time to stop writing checks on money we don't have that is mortgaging the future of this great country. I was not sent here to bankrupt this country.

Secondly, we need to get our businesses to open the doors and do what Americans have always been allowed to do, which is go to work. Now is the time. There is one person who can do that, and that is the Speaker of the House. I urge her to get us back to work.

We are getting paid; many Americans are not.

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