00:00You know, Ronald Reagan said one time that no speech should be longer than 20 minutes,
00:13and unlike the Democrat leader, I'm going to honor my colleague's time and be a little
00:17more brief than that, all right?
00:23I just want to say something that many of us learned when we were children, we were
00:27taught, you know, it takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth.
00:57My friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle, we've waited long enough.
01:00Some of us have literally been up for days now.
01:04But this day, this day is a hugely important one in the history of our nation.
01:09We have a big job to finish, and that's why we're here on the week of July 4th, just days
01:14before, just a day before now, America's birthday.
01:18It was on that fateful day, as a Democrat leader acknowledged, that our founders pledged their
01:23lives and their sacred honor to this grand experiment in self-governance that we are now here to
01:29steward.
01:30It's an experiment that falls to us to guard and to protect it.
01:35We take that very seriously on this side of the aisle.
01:38And in just a few moments, we will remind the world why the American experiment still endures
01:45today and why its best days are still ahead of us.
01:53Mr. Speaker, with one big, beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer,
02:07and more prosperous than ever before, and every American is going to benefit from that.
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