Recognizing the Significance of Community College Month in April

Floor Speech

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Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 4956 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President, the President of the United States calls affordability a hoax, but 92 percent of Americans call it a crisis.

The President's tariffs, his healthcare cuts, and the unwanted war created a cost-of-living emergency. Mortgage rates are up over half a percent making it almost impossible for people to buy homes. Gas is up over $4 across most of the country. Electricity prices are climbing faster than inflation, and healthcare premiums have doubled and even tripled. Parents are worried they can't afford care if their child gets sick.

Farmers have all this and more. Fertilizer prices are up more than 40 percent. Diesel is up 50 percent. Together with what many scientists refer to as a climate-caused drought, farmers are wondering if they should even plant at all.

Our amendment is simple. It gives Congress a path to lower costs for Americans by investing in and supporting clean, affordable energy and other technologies without adding to the deficit.

Across this country, working families are struggling to make ends meet. Let's do our job and help them.

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Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President, pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of the applicable budget resolutions, I move to waive all applicable sections of that act and applicable budget points of order for the purposes of the pending measure. Vote on Motion

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