Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Floor Speech

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Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, protecting our country's full faith and credit requires accepting some unacceptable Republican demands.

As one cartoonist aptly described them, Republicans suffer from a form of deficit attention disorder. You see, when Republicans are in charge, they are absolutely obsessed with deficits.

Give them a little power, and their attention--poof. It just magically vanishes as they begin to deplete the Treasury with tax gifts for the well connected.

Like their multitrillion-dollar Trump tax giveaway, they are already planning in coming days to soon borrow more to reward those at the top.

Their boundless affection for tax cheats and for tax expenditures may increase the debt by even more than the cuts that they make today in education, healthcare, and environmental protection, which are so wrong.

As climate deniers, these Republicans sought to repeal our climate law but were held to one pipeline and a weakening of environmental review laws, a troubling setback that we can overcome.

We should be leaping forward instead of moving slowly. Ransom paid; America protected.

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