Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Floor Speech
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Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt we need infrastructure funding in this country. Too bad we couldn't have taken this bill through committee and debated that. But oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice first to deceive.
Mr. Speaker, my, my, what a tangled web of deceit House Democrats have woven, with this bill as only one of the threads. Let's take a brief look at a couple of the biggest lies that are spun in this dangerous web.
The first lie is that this is a bipartisan infrastructure bill. This bill is not bipartisan, and Democrats know it. You can't have a bipartisan House bill that didn't go through committee that will not go to conference and has no Republican amendments.
If you want a bipartisan bill, then stop the deceit. Pull this bill, send it to committee, and let's go through the bipartisan process.
The second lie is that this is an infrastructure bill. Mr. Speaker, a half truth is a lie, and saying this is an infrastructure bill is like saying that a hurricane is a rain shower. There are rain showers in a hurricane, but there is so much more, just like there is some infrastructure in this bill, but there is so much more.
In fact, this $1.2 trillion bill is just a down payment on the $5.5 trillion package that looks like it was developed at a socialist symposium on taxing and spending. It is deceitful to say that this is a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. It is only the beginning, and it is intricately linked to trillions more.
This is a down payment on trillions more spending that slaps American taxpayers in the face with line items such as the $200 million line item for Speaker Pelosi's neighborhood golf and country club, Presidio Park, that is surrounded by billionaires living in $30 million homes.
I urge my colleagues not to adopt this bill, which is just the beginning. Its passage would be the beginning of the end of our country as we know it. I urge a ``no'' vote.
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