Congressional Record, December 9, 2020 — House
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Page H7104 of the Congressional Record, House, for December 9, 2020, carries Palazzo's tributes to Staff Sergeant Robert E. Carter, a Purple Heart recipient who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and to Cannie Lee Cody, a Coast Guard volunteer who became a detective sergeant at the Duval County Sheriff's Office. Roy criticizes a 7-day continuing resolution and the lack of budget caps. The page ends with PAYGO estimates submitted by Yarmuth for H.R. 1570, the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2020, and for H.R. 3797, the Medical Marijuana Research Act.
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H7104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 9, 2020
I know many join me in wishing him are all indebted to the sacrifices he gentleman from Texas (Mr. ROY) for 30
a happy and restful retirement. It is made through his unwavering commit- minutes.
my honor and privilege to recognize ment to boldly defending our country. Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the
the remarkable career of Mr. Rupert H. It is an honor to recognize Staff Ser- gentleman from Mississippi for his
Lacy. geant Robert E. Carter’s life and legacy great remarks about these wonderful
HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF STAFF of service. heroes, men and women in uniform who
SERGEANT ROBERT E. CARTER HONORING THE WORKS OF CANNIE LEE CODY served our country valiantly overseas
Mr. PALAZZO. Mr. Speaker, today, I Mr. PALAZZO. Mr. Speaker, I rise and here in law enforcement.
rise to recognize the legacy and the today to honor the outstanding career I had the honor of attending the fu-
outstanding life of service of Purple of service of Mr. Cannie Lee Cody. neral of a constituent who passed away
Heart recipient Staff Sergeant Robert Mr. Cody hails from Jacksonville, when the helicopter went down in Sinai
E. Carter. Florida, and volunteered at 18 years old a few weeks back because he was one of
He was born September 2, 1986, in San to serve his country in the United my constituents in San Antonio, and it
Luis Obispo, California, to Rick and States Coast Guard. was a great celebration of his life.
Linda Carter. Staff Sergeant Carter at- After a few years, he decided to fol- I want to thank the gentleman from
tended Rio Vista High School and San low the path to become a detective. At Mississippi for honoring these great
Joaquin Delta College as a firefighter the age of 29, Mr. Cody graduated as folks, your constituents in Mississippi.
for a degree in fire science. He was also valedictorian from the Duval County I appreciate it.
in the process of completing his bach- Patrol Academy. He served as a high- Mr. Speaker, here we are, as predict-
elor of science in public health at The way patrolman for 5 years, eventually able as Christmas. We are at it again,
University of Southern Mississippi in reaching the rank of detective sergeant a 7-day continuing resolution, which
Hattiesburg, Mississippi. at the Duval County Sheriff’s Office. the American people look at in wonder
Staff Sergeant Carter joined the In the 1960s, riots began to break out and amazement during the Christmas
United States Army on April 25, 2007, in Jacksonville, Florida. One riot oc- season, that every year their illus-
and attended training at Fort Benning, curred on March 23, 1964, and on that trious leaders in the House of Rep-
Georgia, where he graduated as an 11 resentatives can find their way to be
evening, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Chappell, a
Bravo Infantryman. even more incompetent, year to year,
mother of 10, was shot and killed. Mrs.
Staff Sergeant Carter’s first deploy-
Chappell had returned home by bus and in how we conduct the affairs of this
ment was in 2007 to Baghdad under the
then walked to a local store. Upon ar- great Nation.
Dagger Brigade in support of Operation
riving home, she realized she had left We might as well call these funding
Iraqi Freedom.
His second deployment was from No- her wallet and went to look for it along debacles the Capitol Hill Christmas
vember 2008 to November 2009 for Oper- the highway. Pageant. We show up. We put on a
ation Iraqi Freedom as a rifle team According to witnesses, a dark sedan show. We sell out the American people.
leader and platoon designated marks- slowed down and a shot was fired from We close up and head home. And we do
man in charge of Small Denial Team’s the vehicle, which killed Mrs. Chappell. it like clockwork.
counteroffensive for IEDs. It was dur- The case was left open and unsolved. I don’t know if anybody has noticed,
ing this deployment on April 5, 2009, Five months later, Mr. Cody and his but we are almost at $28 trillion in
that he sustained injuries from an IED partner encountered a young man who debt. We are blowing past our gross do-
explosion while conducting dismounted they suspected was involved in the mestic product, a general sign in his-
clearance of a hostile village in Balad murder. This encounter led them to tory of a nation in decline, which none
Ruz, Iraq. three other assailants who also con- of us, of course, would want to ac-
His final deployment was in July 2011 fessed to Mrs. Chappell’s murder. knowledge that the United States of
to Afghanistan in support of Operation By this time, they had tracked down America would be facing.
Enduring Freedom. During this deploy- the murder weapon and enough evi- b 1900
ment, he created and implemented the dence to close the case. They gave the
uncovered information to the chief of I am in amazement as I watch my
Afghanistan National Army’s sniper colleagues running around talking
course. police, but sadly, they were removed
from the case and lost their jobs a year about budget caps. I am a fan of budget
His last assignment before retire-
later. caps, but there are no budget caps here.
ment was to serve as a sniper-observer
Mr. Cody had spent the following dec- Anyone who is talking about budget
course trainer.
A few of Staff Sergeant Carter’s ades trying to get justice for Mrs. caps, going over them or going under
awards and decorations included: Pur- Chappell and her family. For years, he them, we don’t adhere to budget caps.
ple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, sought vindication and to expose the We set budget caps in 2011, and had we
Army Achievement Medal, Valorous corruption of the officials involved. adhered to them we would have saved
Unit Award, National Defense Service Mr. Cody went on to write a book almost $800 billion since then.
Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, called ‘‘The 14th Denial: A Civil Rights But what do we do? We have these
Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Memoir,’’ which inspired the movie deals. We come together. We jack up
Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, NATO ‘‘Wanted Justice: Johnnie Mae Chap- the budget caps. We blow out spending
Medal, Expert Infantryman Badge, and pell.’’ Both the book and movie are in defense. We blow out nondefense dis-
Combat Infantryman Badge. thought-provoking and share an in- cretionary spending. And then we all
He earned each of these accolades credibly important story. kind of wave at each other and com-
and will be remembered for his unwav- For his service, Mr. Cody is being plain about spending and go home.
ering service to his country. honored by the Department of Vet- That is we do.
Staff Sergeant Carter was laid to rest erans Affairs for his dedication to our What are we going to do next week?
on October 19, 2020, at the Sacramento country and the civil rights movement. We are going to spend another $1.4 tril-
Valley National Cemetery. Mr. Cody has spent his life fighting lion, which, again, will bust existing
He is survived by his fiancee, Erica for what is right and serving others. It caps by at least a little, and then some
Farmer. Staff Sergeant Carter was a is an honor to recognize the heroic ca- will jockey around about that, about
beloved son, brother, and friend to all reer of service of Mr. Cannie Lee Cody. whether we should save the $12 billion
who knew him. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance and try to adhere to those caps, forget-
He accomplished more in just his 34 of my time. ting the fact that we are $300 billion
years on this Earth than most do in a f over the 2011 caps. In other words,
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lifetime. I had the pleasure of meeting there are no caps.
with and presenting Staff Sergeant CAPITOL HILL CHRISTMAS We have already spent $2.6 trillion on
Carter with his Purple Heart award on PAGEANT COVID relief spending.
January 24, 2020. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under So what does that mean next year,
He was a true American hero, moti- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Mr. Speaker? We are blowing past $30
vated by the love of his fellow man. We uary 3, 2019, the Chair recognizes the trillion in debt.
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Think about it. Yes, tonight con- the American way of life. We fund, as I we passed the authorization of force in
stituents back home, or anybody said, the tyrant mayors and city coun- 2001 under which they are operating.
watching, the 14 people watching C– cils, like Mayor Adler in Austin, Texas, What kind of a people’s body is it
SPAN right now, there is nobody else who are killing small businesses. The that won’t even debate an authoriza-
in the Chamber. This is our version of good mayor had the unbelievable tion of force? We are nowhere to be
debate, Mr. Speaker. This is what our hutzpah to record a video in Cabo San found.
constituents’ House of Representatives, Lucas telling Austin residents to stay Steak dinners or on airplanes flying
their people’s House, this is what we home. home right now, that is where the 400
do. This is what debate looks like. We fund the very schools that are colleagues are—if they were even here
So we are continuing to spend money failing our kids, the very schools that in the first place, because they have
that we don’t have, and we are going to are locking down our kids from an edu- been voting by proxy from home sit-
now debate another COVID relief bill, cation. Suicide rates are up, failing ting on boats.
another trillion-dollar bill. grades are up, fear levels are up among We fund election systems that fail us.
But we refuse to help the people gov- our children, and the very schools that What is this House doing to ensure
ernment is actually running over. We are indoctrinating our kids to hate this election integrity?
are not helping the small businesses country and what it stands for, to There is a lot of politics flying
that governments across this country apologize for this country, to declare around the air right now about elec-
are using their power to shut down. tions, but do you believe in our elec-
this country is evil, to tear down the
Small businesses are getting destroyed tions, I ask the ladies and gentlemen
statues in this country, the very edu-
by government tyranny. who are watching this. Do they believe
cation system doing that, we are going
Now, you can say, Mr. Speaker, and every vote is counted? Do they believe
to fund, while we blow past caps, pass-
pat yourself on the back that it is in that every vote was legal?
ing to those very children a massive In 2012, The New York Times admit-
the name of public health, and every- amount of debt. ted that mail-in ballots are a problem.
body can go back home and say: Oh, We fund the very local governments Votes cast by mail are less likely to be
aren’t we nice. But you are shutting that are defunding police but expect counted, more likely to be com-
people’s livelihoods down and walking them to enforce lockdowns. promised, and more likely to be con-
away, and yet this body is refusing to We fund corporate cronyism by giv-
tested than those cast in a voting
do anything about it. ing a bailout that undeniably favored
booth, statistics show. Election offi-
I was proud to work with my Demo- massive retail corporations that can
cials reject almost 2 percent of ballots
cratic colleague DEAN PHILLIPS this absorb the costs that small businesses
cast by mail, double the rate for in-per-
last summer to pass the PPP Flexi- can’t. Mom-and-pop shops are getting
son voting.
bility Act to try to keep a lot of these killed, and great big companies are The Carter-Baker Commission—that
businesses alive. I was thanked by hun- getting rich. is former President Jimmy Carter and
dreds, if not thousands, of people in my Where is this body? It is nowhere to former Secretary of State Jim Baker—
district for doing so. But what good is be found, an empty Chamber. was formed in 2005: ‘‘Absentee ballots
that if we are failing them now? We just passed a defense bill yester-
remain the largest source of potential
Mr. Speaker, 100,000 restaurants are day that will burden those small busi-
voter fraud’’—bipartisan, 2005.
already closed, and 10,000 more res- nesses even further with potentially Citizens who vote at home, at nurs-
taurants have closed since our last sur- more regulations. ing homes, at the workplace, or in
vey in July. Forty percent of remain- Mr. Speaker, you can’t even make church are more susceptible to pres-
ing restaurants were closed without this up. sure, overt and subtle, or intimidation.
more support. Jobs at bars and res- A defense bill has language in there Vote buying schemes are far more dif-
taurants are down 2 million this year. that will hurt small businesses even ficult to detect when citizens vote by
Seventy-one percent of hotels report when they are at their low point get- mail—bipartisan, Jimmy Carter, Jim
they will only be able to last 6 more ting beat up by a virus and tyrants are Baker.
months, and 63 hotels have less than shutting them down. Why won’t we even talk about it
half of pre-crisis staff. We fund an immigration system that here? Why are we making this all
Forty percent of small business own- fails immigrants, fails Americans, em- about the President, not the President,
ers report they will close in the next 12 powers cartels, and is a national em- the votes?
months if things do not improve. barrassment while we have people who We had a massive increase in mail-in
What did the Speaker of the House are held hostage in homes in this coun- ballots this year, and we are wondering
do? The Speaker of the House admitted try by cartel-driven illegal enterprises. whether our election system is even
that she withheld relief from small It is happening right now at our border, working.
businesses and struggling workers for and this body is empty. Mr. Speaker, Examples of known fraud: In 2016, 83
political gamesmanship. She acknowl- 67,000 people were apprehended at our registered voters in San Pedro, Cali-
edged it. She said it. border in October. fornia, received absentee ballots at the
Why aren’t we debating that? Why Where is this Chamber talking about same small, two-bedroom apartment.
aren’t we having conversations about anything about border security? It Prosecutors rarely pursue this type of
that? Why aren’t we debating a clean would be better for immigrants and case.
PPP bill right now? better for our country, but we won’t do In 2018, a North Carolina congres-
This Chamber is empty. We just ad- it. sional case, a Republican operative,
journed, passing a 7-week CR that We fund a massive healthcare system McCrae Dowless, Jr., had allegedly re-
blows our spending out of proportion, that reduces doctor availability but quested more than 1,200 absentee bal-
setting up the table for next week empowers insurance companies, and we lots on voters’ behalf and then col-
doing the same thing for a year, and are doing it by the second. You have to lected the ballots in voters’ homes.
this Chamber is empty. Everyone is ask an insurance company about how In 2017, an investigation of a Dallas
flying home. It is absurd. to get healthcare. city council election found some 700
The American people look at this Why? Because this body is failing. fraudulent mail-in ballots signed by
every day, and they wonder what in the We fund ongoing conflict in Afghani- the same witness using a fake name.
world, and now we are going to pass a stan, Iraq, Syria, and on and on and on I could go on and on. There are prob-
$1 trillion bill that bails out, in many in myriad countries around the world— lems with mail-in ballots.
cases, the very State and local govern- I can’t even count them—despite not What did we just see this year, Mr.
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ments that are shutting down these having passed an authorization of force Speaker? In Georgia, 2016 general elec-
local businesses with their tyrannical in almost 20 years. tion, 208,000 mail-in ballots; this year,
activity. World War II, Mr. Speaker, went 1.3 million mail-in ballots. In Arizona,
More than that, when we actually from December 7, 1941, to August of 2016, they had 2.4 million mail-in bal-
spend the money, we are going to fund 1945. We have kids today enlisting in lots; this year, 3.6 million mail-in bal-
the very institutions that are crushing the military who were not alive when lots. Pennsylvania, 2016, 314,000 mail-in
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ballots; this year, 3.1 million mail-in failing them, which brings me to my tives since May of 2016 where a Member
ballots. point, in my view, about 2021. could just come down, a bill is put on
I am not suggesting that I know what The Framers created this branch, the floor, a Member says, ‘‘I would like
the numbers should or shouldn’t be in Congress, to debate and deliberate, to to amend it.’’ No body functions that
Georgia, Pennsylvania, or Arizona in represent the people. But we pass pre- way—not the people’s House.
this case. What I am suggesting is that made bills cooked up behind closed Do we think things would be better
even minor changes in rejection rates doors by committee, in rules commit- or worse if we were actually down here
on these ballots—of which there are tees, and by a handful of committee offering amendments, offering debate,
very large questions right now about cardinals, and we never debate them or debating and discussing?
the rejection rates—would impact the amend them here on the floor of the When the NDAA was on the floor yes-
election. House of Representatives, and we are terday—and there was a provision in
Regardless of what you want to see increasingly passing by proxy vote. the NDAA to place massive burdens on
happen with the election, Mr. Speaker, For the American people back home, small businesses, but it was jammed in
do you not want to know that you can proxy vote means a Member of this there to get it across the line—if we
believe in your election? body whom you hired to do a job under could have had an amendment on the
Why are we not holding hearings? the Constitution—you gave them your floor, I could offer an amendment to
Have we had a hearing this week on vote under the Constitution—and that strike it, and we would know where ev-
this, bipartisan, calling it in, making Member comes to a Member of this erybody in this body stands on adding
sure that we believe in our elections? Is body and says: ‘‘I want you to vote for those regulations to small businesses.
the Senate holding hearings? me.’’ But I was denied the ability to do that
The American people are raising le- because we operate under a closed rule.
So your vote, citizen, that you en-
gitimate questions about our elections, Mr. Speaker, what kind of a people’s
trusted into your elected Member of
and this body is missing in action and House is that?
Congress is being given to another
doing nothing. You want to know why we are push-
But I will tell you where Congress is, Member here in the body.
We have been in session for fewer ing $28 trillion in debt, and we are
Mr. Speaker. It is passing bills like
than 40 days since March, I am told. about to blow past $30 trillion? You
yesterday which amount to political
Mr. Speaker, you can fact-check that, want to know why we never get really
garbage masquerading as defense au-
and you can go double-check it, but I good legislation?
thorization.
We passed the defense authorization can tell you we have been here precious Because I am never able to work with
bill which does, in fact, contain criti- few days. the Speaker or with any of my col-
cally important components to support Think about that: While in the mid- leagues on the other side of the aisle
America’s troops but, in fact, actually dle of a pandemic, while running $28 because we can’t come down here and
fails our troops in many respects. trillion in debt, while mounting up tril- offer amendments and have rigorous
Mr. Speaker, we were all told to vote lion-dollar deficits, multitrillion-dollar debate to force the conversations.
for it, you see. We were told to vote for deficits, while China is right at our We are ruled by a handful on both
it because you can’t vote against a de- heels, while we are dealing with men sides of the aisle who tell us what we
fense authorization bill because you and women in uniform in Afghanistan are voting on. They come in and they
are voting against pay increases and and the Middle East, while we have say, Here is your 2,000-page bill. Figure
you are voting against badly needed re- healthcare costs going up and crippling out how you are going to vote on it.
sources for your men and women in people, and while small businesses are Figure out how you are going to mes-
uniform. Yet the people telling us to struggling, the Speaker is playing sage it back home.
vote for it have no qualms about hold- games not bringing small businesses Mr. Speaker, for the first time in his-
ing our Armed Forces’ pay hostage relief to the floor. tory, we opened an impeachment in-
quiry without a vote in the House.
with no ability to amend the bill on b 1915 Now, I am not trying to open up im-
the floor and no ability to debate the
Mr. Speaker, we have been here for peachment. That has long since kind of
bill.
Has anybody seen an amendment fewer than 40 days. The Speaker broke come and gone from the minds of
brought down here to the floor, an open with over 230 years of precedent to au- Americans, it seems like, but that is a
amendment, saying: ‘‘Hey, I am Con- thorize the unconstitutional proxy vot- big deal.
gressman ROY. I have got an amend- ing scheme. In 2021, for the House to work, the
ment, and I would like to offer it?’’ Has Last week, ladies and gentlemen, for following, in my opinion, should be
that ever happened in this body? Has the first time in the history of the nonnegotiable:
anybody ever seen that happen down United States, the House of Represent- Members should have 72 hours to re-
here? atives used proxy votes—those are view the legislation in the form to be
It doesn’t happen. votes for Representatives who are not voted on before they are required to
We fund 20-year wars with no clear present in the Chamber to achieve a vote. That is not a very big ask, ladies
mission and no clear end date. We fund quorum, as the Constitution requires. and gentlemen. We should have time to
a war that is now older than millions Because the Constitution contemplates look at 2,000-page bills in the form that
of young Americans signing up to fight our being here, doing our job, I say we are voting on it to see what is in it.
in it, as I said before. ironically, with my voice echoing in We should have an open amendment
This defense authorization bill has a the Chamber. process, giving all Members an oppor-
cheap diversity officer and other race- Mr. Speaker, not a single floor tunity to amend bills on the floor. Bills
based programs in it, which I person- amendment, not a single open rule— should cover single subjects and not be
ally find deeply un-American, while de- the most closed rules since 1993. Now, subject to division of the test under
fense is increasingly challenged by that is boring for the people back rule XVI we are applying. We should
China and Iran. home. have single-subject bills, like the bill—
When you pass something like that, What does a closed rule mean? It is by the way—that DEAN PHILLIPS, my
Mr. Speaker, you are saying that the what I am saying. It means that Con- Democrat colleague from Minnesota,
body values waging a war with no clear gressman ROY cannot offer an amend- and I offered on the floor.
mission and appeasing leftwing diver- ment on the floor of the House of Rep- There was a PPP Flexibility Act, and
sity political mob rule more than pro- resentatives. That is what a closed rule it was 7 pages long. We should have
tecting the American citizens whose is, and that is what we operate under. that bill, put it on the floor, debate it,
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lives are threatened every single day We never have debate and deliberation. amend it, vote.
by cartel violence, by people coming We are ruled by a handful. And proxy voting should be prohib-
across the border, and by what is going As I said before, I am under the un- ited on the floor of the House of Rep-
on in Iran and by China. derstanding that we have not had a sin- resentatives. It is unconstitutional. I
The bottom line is the American peo- gle debate of an amendment open on look forward to the U.S. Supreme
ple hire all of us to do a job, and we are the floor of the House of Representa- Court taking that up, and I believe and
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hope that they will find it to be uncon- and pick up the garbage and serve Our own lockdowns that we have cho-
stitutional as it is. them while they pat themselves on the sen to do, predominantly by local gov-
Mr. Speaker, finally, a note about back for being enlightened. ernments have been devastating. We
the coronavirus. Many Americans have Mayors like Mayor Adler in Austin, have seen devastation in our schools,
been impacted by the virus. I have who I already said went to Cabo and re- devastation in small businesses. We
friends and family that have been im- corded a video telling us we should have seen people forced to die alone.
pacted by it. I have had staff who have stay home. We have seen increased suicides, people
been impacted by it. I missed Thanks- Mayors like the mayors in L.A. turn- that have died from diseases, cancer,
giving with my 78-year-old father and ing off utilities while policing people’s heart disease, and more, all because of
72-year-old mother because I had been home. virus policies. And to all of that, I say,
around someone who had been positive. Oh, my gosh, how many cars do you simply, ‘‘enough.’’
I wanted to protect them. We are all have in front of your house? Mr. Speaker, this body, this House of
doing these things. We are all making The mayor in Denver saying every- Representatives should no longer be
sacrifices, figuring out how to adjust to body has got to stay home, but what operating in fear. We are leaders. We
make sure we protect the vulnerable. does he do? should be here. We should be debating.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation should be He flies home. Rules for thee, but not
We should be present. We should be in
open. Our businesses should be open. for me.
My fellow Americans, these local ty- this Chamber, and we should not be
Our schools should be open. Our res- wearing masks. We should be looking
taurants should be open. Our baseball rants, tell them a simple word; tell
them ‘‘no.’’ You local businessowners each other in the face and in the eye,
and football and basketball stadiums and we should be doing our job. Take
should be open. Our churches should that are opening up, God be with you.
I am with you. Open up. We are Ameri- tests, take our temperature, whatever
never, ever close again. And we should
cans. We don’t close down. it takes, but lead.
use our own judgment to celebrate
Mr. Speaker, our Nation is a large We are running around in fear, and it
Thanksgiving and Christmas without
and vibrant economy and large and vi- is embarrassing. We have these fake
local, petty tyrants attempting to tell
us what to do. But here we are, as I brant country that thrives on free en- cleaning exercises between votes as a
hear Joe Biden and others talk about terprise, freedom of religion, freedom threat because of precious time if we
national mask mandates in 2021, and I to interact and engage as a society. It dare congregate for 5-minutes and de-
continue to hear about restrictions and is who we are as Americans. We will re- bate some issue that is on the floor of
social distancing, even if we get a vac- main the economic engine of the world. the House of Representatives.
cine. And I, frankly, don’t really care to This is no way for the House of Rep-
Have any of you been to the res- listen to countries around the world resentatives to function while we are
taurants that are shutting down? In lecture us about their alleged lockdown leading a Nation. We should reject fear
Arlington, Virginia, they run over and successes and results—much of which and favor of our faith, reject fear and
grab your beer or Diet Coke at 10 p.m. are easily disputable—when the world favor of our family, our friends, and
right on the dot. They can’t make lives off the very sacrifices we make. the thriving society Americans de-
money. They can’t survive. We fund the world’s defense, ladies serve.
Are any of the local, petty tyrants and gentlemen. We fund, through our And simply put, America must never
shutting them down going to pay their economic engine, a good deal of this again shut down. America must always
bills or are they going to come here to world. We feed a large chunk of this be open for business. And more impor-
this Chamber and expect us to pass an- world. We provide energy for an enor- tantly, America must always be open
other trillion-dollar bill to fund them mous part of this world. So forgive me for life.
because the local governments are if I don’t want to be lectured to by Aus- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance
shutting them down? tralia or anybody else about how their of my time.
Because that is what is happening. success in their lockdown worked out
The big businesses are doing fine. But for them. Because these things are all f
the small restaurants, the local dry interacting.
cleaners, the small hotels, the local When we make decisions, it impacts
ADJOURNMENT
music venues, the artists—the back- real lives. You read reports about 140
bone of this country is getting deci- million people that may be starving be- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
mated because we are shutting down. cause we are not distributing the same ant to section 4(b) of House Resolution
America doesn’t shut down. number of products because of the 967, the House stands adjourned until 9
Leftists run around bleeding about virus. And then you come talk to me a.m. tomorrow.
how we should be locked down, but ex- about a few thousand that are im- Thereupon (at 7 o’clock and 25 min-
pecting workers to bring them their pacted by the virus. We have got deci- utes p.m.), under its previous order, the
lattes or take-home Chinese or tacos, sions to make that impact people’s House adjourned until tomorrow,
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expecting workers to clean the streets lives, and we do it by staying open. Thursday, December 10, 2020, at 9 a.m.
BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF PAYGO LEGISLATION
Pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO), Mr. YARMUTH hereby submits, prior to the vote on
passage, the attached estimate of the costs of H.R. 1570, the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2020,
as amended, for printing in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
ESTIMATE OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO EFFECTS FOR H.R. 1570
By fiscal year, in millions of dollars—
2021– 2021–
2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2025 2030
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Impact ........................................................................................................................................................ ¥130 ¥220 ¥240 ¥161 ¥173 ¥75 ¥2 121 246 452 ¥924 ¥182
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Components may not sum to totals because of rounding.
Pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO), Mr. YARMUTH hereby submits, prior to the vote on
passage, for printing in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, that H.R. 3797, the Medical Marijuana Research Act, as amended,
would have no significant effect on the deficit, and therefore, the budgetary effects of such bill are estimated as zero.
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