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Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 12, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member DeLauro for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, Congress should vote today for affordable health insurance for Americans and reduce its rising costs. Instead, in the dead of night, eight Senate Republicans slipped into this bill a payola for themselves, literally raking in millions of dollars to themselves.

This payola is called corruption. It is corruption. Millions of taxpayer dollars now are slated for Senators Graham, Hagerty, Hawley, Sullivan, Tuberville, Johnson, Lummis, and Blackburn. Each is teed up to personally rake in a minimum of $500,000 up to $1.5 million.

Meanwhile, the American people need more affordable health insurance, but these Senators, with their House allies, are lining their own pockets. I say: No more tax breaks to billionaires and no payoffs to U.S. Senators. This is what happens when power serves itself instead of the people.

This isn't leadership. It is corruption disguised as legislation.

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Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, let's cleanse America of disgusting corruption. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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