00:00A lady from New York is recognized for one minute.
00:03It is great. It is great that Democrats have a line of people who are willing to fight for working class Americans from coast to coast in this country.
00:12Because God forbid that we have a member of the Republican caucus who stands up and actually wants to extend the Affordable Care Act so that people with cancer, insulin, and issues across all sorts of health care issues across this country
00:27have their health insurance protected and extended throughout 2026.
00:30It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give eight members of the United States Senate over a million dollars apiece.
00:43And we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their health care to pay for it.
00:51How is this even on the floor?
00:53How can we as members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?
01:05That is what this legislation does.
01:08In fact, Senator Graham just went before the press earlier today saying he was going to seek well over a million dollars from the American people from this.
01:17We cannot support it and we cannot stand for it.
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