00:00Mr. Speaker, the sun is coming up, and soon it will be a new day in America, and the American
00:07people are the ones who are bringing the light.
00:09They voted against the chaos, the corruption, and the cruelty, and they voted overwhelmingly
00:16in red states and blue states, in small towns and in big cities, from sea to shining sea
00:24to reject this president and this failed administration.
00:28They voted to repudiate MAGA, to rebuke Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk, and Kristi Noem, and
00:36Kash Patel, and all the rest of the incompetent clowns empowered by Donald J. Trump.
00:44And the American people delivered their verdict on the work of this failed Republican majority
00:50here in this Congress.
00:52Come January, Republicans will no longer be in charge around here.
00:56Their incompetence, and their foolishness, and their obsession with culture wars and
01:03billionaire giveaways have cost them the majority.
01:07And what is stunning to me, Mr. Speaker, is that instead of taking the hint or listening
01:14to the overwhelming majority of Americans who told them to change course, Republicans are
01:21doubling down on the same tactics and messaging that have been jamming down our throats these
01:26last two years.
01:28And it's a perfect example of why they lost in the first place.
01:32They do not listen.
01:35Speaker Johnson said yesterday that the voters made the wrong choice.
01:42The voters made the wrong choice?
01:45I mean, are you kidding me?
01:47Now you might disagree with their choice, Mr. Speaker, but it's not wrong.
01:53You just ain't listening.
01:55And then to double down even further, the failed lame duck president appointed Stephen Miller,
02:01the architect of all the cruel policies that most people hate, as his new White House Chief of Staff.
02:09Mr. Speaker, what planet are these people living on?
02:14Republicans need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, because if they don't break
02:21with this delusional thinking and actually start listening, start rejecting extremism, it's
02:28going to be a long, long, long, long time before they are ever in the majority again.
02:35But let me be clear.
02:37It is not enough for Democrats simply to win power.
02:43Now we need to use that power to make a real difference in people's everyday lives.
02:49To put economic power back in the hands of everyday people instead of the rich and the powerful.
02:56For too long, for too long, the greedy crooks and out-of-touch Mar-a-Lago billionaires
03:04have gotten away with screwing over the American people.
03:07It is time to hold them accountable for ripping us off with their corruption.
03:13Groceries, gas, housing, health care, everything costs too damn much.
03:21And people are wondering why.
03:23Why in the richest country in the history of the world, it's gotten so hard just to make ends meet.
03:31Republicans chose to cut health care and food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
03:39They have let corporate greed run wild.
03:43They have spent the last two years looking the other way, while the rich and the powerful enrich themselves,
03:49while the rest of America falls behind.
03:52They have let this war in Iran go on and on and on, while the value of the President's own
03:58oil and gas investments
04:00goes up and up and up by tens of millions of dollars.
04:06Are you kidding me?
04:09And Republicans wonder why people are fed up.
04:12This whole damn system is upside down.
04:17And today, instead of doing something to address any of that,
04:22Republicans schedule a debate about a bill on investment plans that won't do a damn thing to bring down costs
04:29for ordinary Americans.
04:32And here's the thing.
04:33And here's the thing, Mr. Speaker.
04:36I don't think the American people voted last Tuesday just to trade one political party for another and go back
04:43to business as usual.
04:45They want things to change.
04:47They don't want us to nibble around the edges or just undo what Republicans did and call it a day.
04:54They want us to reject the broken status quo in Washington that for too long has stolen from those with
05:02the least to give more to those with the most.
05:05It is time for economic power in this country to return back to Main Street, to working people, to small
05:14business owners who have been screwed over and screwed over for far too long by the rich and the powerful.
05:22Democrats understand that.
05:25We know that through the results of Tuesday's elections, we have been entrusted with an enormous responsibility.
05:31My Republican colleagues apparently heard something else entirely.
05:37They can keep blaming the voters, but come January, things are going to change around here.
05:44And we're going to make damn sure that that change we fight for means something.
05:50That it means something to the people who sent us here.
05:54And I reserve my time.
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