Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. CLYDE. Madam Speaker, I say to my House and Senate Republican colleagues, it is time to put their vote where their values are.

Madam Speaker, you can't claim to be a pro-life champion and then fund abortion, abortion travel, and aborted fetal tissue research.

You can't rail against President Biden's intentional illegal invasion and then fund the policies that are causing the chaos without assuming the same responsibility. Just like you can't flaunt your vote to impeach Secretary Mayorkas and then fully fund his salary and his destructive border policies.

Madam Speaker, you can't defend America's Second Amendment liberties and then fund gun control by the CDC.

You cannot support science and protect young women and then fund transgender surgeries and fund educational institutions that allow biological males to compete in women's sports. I don't call them men because they are not real men. Real men protect women. They don't use their superior strength to steal the honor, hard work, and achievements of women.

Madam Speaker, you can't complain about the violation of America's First Amendment rights and then fund more disinformation governance boards and government by proxy censorship.

You cannot sound the alarm on our dire economic outlook and ballooning national debt and then rubberstamp spending higher than Nancy Pelosi's levels for FY 2023. The list goes on and on.

Republicans simply cannot righteously denounce Democrats' disastrous policies that are destroying our great country and then turn around and fund them. After all, if you fund it, you own it.

It is not too late. We promised the American people that we would fix these problems, not fund them.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the swamp's second half omnibus.

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