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Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: March 9, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Legislative Branch

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Mrs. SPARTZ. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and back in the classroom.

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Mrs. SPARTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule.

I am not going to talk much about the underlying bill since it will not change anyone's vote at this point. I would just summarize it as advancing a socialist agenda by putting temporary bandages on old problems without fixing them, at the expense of the middle class and the future of our children.

Madam Speaker, I mainly just wanted to express my strong disappointment with how broken our legislative process is and how dysfunctional Congress is. If we do not fix it soon and have some common sense, we are going to destroy our great Republic. We should be embarrassed to call ourselves policymakers.

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