Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026

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Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. I rise to call to my colleagues' attention that they are no longer claiming that this is a clean CR. The truth is that it is a dirty, filthy, and stealthy CR that has been contaminated with millions of dollars for people who have not earned it. They want to take it from the taxpayers of this country because they have concluded somehow that they have been harmed where no harm has been proven or brought to our attention.

Mr. Speaker, I believe that healthcare for all is important because we in Congress have the best healthcare in the world. Yet, people with the best healthcare in the world do not see fit for persons who need it and who are among the least, the last, and the lost to acquire healthcare, something that they have.

Healthcare is becoming wealthcare for too many people in this country. We need to extend the subsidies. We need to make sure that everybody who can get to a doctor gets care. This is not a poor country.

Mr. Speaker, I refuse to take a poison pill and let my colleagues tell me I will regurgitate it next week. The poison pill has killed the CR.

Mr. Speaker, this is not a clean CR! This is a dirty, corrupt Continuing Resolution that I cannot in good conscience support. This CR does nothing to address the Affordable Care Act subsidies whose expiration Republicans refused to address. This CR includes a shameful stealthy provision that would allow eight senators to sue the federal government for millions of dollars. To allow each of the eight Senators to concoct legislation to benefit themselves and sue the federal government for a $1 million taxpayer funded giveaway would legitimize their blatant corruption in the so-called clean CR.

Millions of Americans deserve a permanent solution to the healthcare affordability crisis, much more than the billionaire contributors to campaigns who just received millions of dollars in tax breaks from their Republican accomplices. While the American people were working through the shutdown, President Trump partially demolished the White House and Senate Republicans negotiated a $ million-dollar gift to some of their colleagues.

This shutdown need not have happened. Republicans control the House, Senate, and Presidency. They could have kept the government open with a negotiated settlement, or in the same way they placed Mr. Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, by using a majority rule rather than a 60-vote rule.

I cannot support this corrupt and dirty CR, and I urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation too.

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