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House floor actionsOn consideration of the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 211 (Roll no. 139).
Library of CongressPassed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 217 - 212 (Roll no. 142).
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House floor actionsThe House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 119-113, by Mrs. Houchin.
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What Congress Said
Members who spoke about this bill on the floor, in their own words from the Congressional Record.
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I rise in strong support, Mr. Speaker, of this one big, beautiful bill, this bill that is going to deliver on so many promises that the American people asked us to do for them.
Pursuant to House Resolution 436, I call up the bill (H.R. 1) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
This bill includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and provides tax relief for seniors on Social Security. This will protect the largest tax cut for middle-class and working families in American history. Americans will see a double-digit percent decrease in their taxes.
To put it simply, this bill gets Americans back to winning again, and it has been a long time coming. This one big, beautiful bill is the most consequential legislation that any party has ever passed, certainly under a majority this thin.
Working families, farmers, and small businesses win with this bill. We expand and make permanent the small business deduction and increase the child tax credit, the standard deduction, and the death tax exemption.
I rise today in strong support of the rule and the big, beautiful bill because this is not just a budget bill. This is the beginning of a great American comeback. That is what the people demanded when they went to the polls last November.
This bill is about fundamental conservative principles, regular things that the American people appreciate. This bill cuts taxes. This bill requires work for able-bodied adults in our welfare system. This bill gives school choice to parents. This bill secures the border.
Today I rise in support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a title from the Energy and Commerce Committee that unleashes American energy, promotes American innovation, and protects care for our most vulnerable Americans.
For months, the House's committees, chairmen, Members, and staff have worked to craft this legislation. Let me tell you something, Mr. Speaker, it is truly big and beautiful.
I rise in support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that will halt the largest tax increase on American families, bolster our hardworking farmers and rural communities, and give President Trump the tools he needs to make America safe again.
I rise today in support of the opportunity we have to not only provide historic tax relief for hardworking Americans but also to spur investments in our economy by developing the resources of our land.
This is supposed to be a challenge because the rule says that we waived earmarks, but the gentleman is not talking about earmarks. He is talking about process that he doesn't like. He is talking about parts of the bill that he doesn't like, but he has not mentioned any specific earmark.
This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term but promises our government will be fiscally responsible 5 years from now. Where have we heard that before? How do you bind a future Congress to these promises?
I rise today in support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which fulfills President Trump's agenda by securing our border, keeping taxes low for families and job creators, and restoring the Nation's energy dominance in cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
I rise tonight in support of this reconciliation effort, and I thank my friend from west Texas, the home of national security, for supporting this bill and working hard to bring it to fruition, bringing it to the House floor.
This bill is our opportunity to deliver on the promises we made to the American people. It is our chance to put working families, small businesses, and communities back at the center of our economic future.
In this bill, we are providing real tax relief for hardworking Americans, middle-class families, and our senior citizens, not the billionaires like the Democrats claim.
Strengthening our economy starts at home. I am proud to rise in support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which delivers much- needed tax relief to the American workers, farmers, and families.
Tonight we have the opportunity to deliver on a promise made to the American people on border security, energy independence, and tax cuts for working-class families.
It also gives small businesses the type of tax environment and certainty they need and deserve, not one where they are slammed by major tax increases which would occur by voting ``no'' on this bill.
By expanding and improving the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, H.R. 1 will jump-start the development and construction of affordable housing nationwide and support the needs of our growing workforce.
President Trump won a decisive victory on creating jobs, lowering costs, and making his signature tax law permanent. This resolution advances his full agenda that the American people overwhelmingly elected us to enact.
I rise today in strong support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Ways and Means Committee Republicans have worked tirelessly for 2 years, traveling across America, and hearing from real people about the impacts that the 2017 Trump tax cuts had on them.
Despite the claims from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, this bill will give huge benefits to everyday working Americans in all of our districts.
The American people have heard a lot of lies about this bill. The left and their friends in the media have settled for demagoguing and fear-mongering to try to stop President Trump from delivering on his promises to the American people.
We are charting a bold new course today for American prosperity. This bill not only builds on the progrowth legacy of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it prevents the largest tax hike in American history.
What is compassionate is to tell someone who is a waitress, working hard to support her family, that she doesn't have to pay taxes on her tips. It is compassionate to someone like my father who is blind to know that he might not have to pay taxes on his Social Security.
I rise in strong support of this package, which fulfills commitments to secure our border, rein in waste, and strengthen the economy for American families.
Let me be clear: My colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't like this bill because it puts hardworking Americans first, not the bureaucrats, not special interests, and not those who break our laws.
I rise today in strong support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on behalf of these people and thousands of others like them. They are not millionaires or billionaires. They are family farmers.
This bill expands the child tax credit, makes the small business deduction permanent, and boosts the standard deduction with a new enhancement for seniors. It restores immediate expensing for R&D and increases access to tax-free health savings accounts.
First, let me outline what this bill doesn't do. It doesn't take away Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security for Americans who need it, and it doesn't give lavish tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
I came to Congress to deliver real results, and that is what this bill does. In the defense portion of the bill, $34 billion is allocated for shipbuilding and the maritime industrial base in my district of Virginia and the United States.
If this bill fails, an average family's taxes will rise 22 percent next year, about $1,700 a year. It would be the biggest tax increase in American history.
What they don't want Americans to know is that without this bill, families face a 22 percent tax hike. House Republicans are making sure that does not happen. Republicans are cutting taxes, boosting take-home pay, and securing millions of American manufacturing jobs.
Medicaid is critically important for countless Americans, and this bill will ensure that those who truly need it can continue to access the care they depend on.
It is essential that the House of Representatives pass this bill today to cement a progrowth tax code and usher our Nation into a new era of prosperity for all.
This bill also fixes a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act to ensure that new, innovative therapies for rare diseases are brought to market, restoring the hope of future cures for millions of Americans.
What are my colleagues voting for if they vote against this bill? Democrats who aren't going to vote for this bill will be voting for a $4.5 trillion tax increase. They will be voting for waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid. They will be voting for illegal immigrants stealing from Medicaid.
When I ran for Congress, I said that I would never support a tax bill that did not adequately lift the cap on SALT. This bill does that. It increases the cap on SALT by 300 percent.
You see, Mr. Speaker, it doesn't matter if you have two college degrees, no college degrees, Brown, Black, White, Trump's policies lifted all boats. That is why I encourage my colleagues to join me, pass this bill, and vote for Main Street.
They said: I have been studying the tax bill. The current tax rate on the wealthiest Americans is 37 percent. The new tax rate, so to speak, will be 37 percent.
I hear a lot of hyperbole today. Of course, we understand the louder we speak, the more fear we produce in people and the more ultimate power there is over them.
I rise today in strong support of the big, beautiful bill which will cut rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in critical government programs so they are protected for vulnerable Americans who need them most for generations to come.
It is a scary time for taxpayers in the United States or those who own small businesses. Both are facing a tsunami of tax increases, the largest in U.S. history.
President Trump's one big, beautiful bill delivers on the promises that we made to Iowa's workers, manufacturers, farmers, small businesses, and our families.
I rise today in strong opposition to this reckless, regressive, and reprehensible GOP tax scam. This is one big, ugly bill that House Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people under the cover of darkness.
We will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight, and because this resolution waives the earmark rule, it is not in order for it to be considered on the floor.
This is one of the most significant pieces of legislation we will ever vote on. This bill will bring about the greatest loss of healthcare in American history.
I rise in strong opposition to this Big Ugly GOP Tax Scam. It's the biggest cut in health in our history. It's the biggest wealth transfer in our history. It will hurt hard working families to pay for tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk.
This bill makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. It boosts billionaires by dramatically cutting food, health care, nursing home service, and education from tens of millions of children, seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, and workers.
This is a moment I am never going to forget because, tonight, hundreds of Republican Members of Congress are wanting to line up to vote for the biggest transfer of wealth from the working poor and the working class to billionaires and megacorporations that we have seen in this country's history.
The reality is that Republicans are cutting both Medicaid and Medicare in this bill. They are essentially repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act. This bill will destroy the healthcare system of this country. It keeps getting worse with each GOP amendment.
Hiding the consequences doesn't make them less real. Their own State legislators, Democrats and Republicans, oppose this plan. The National Conference of State Legislatures calls it fiscally unsustainable and warns it will harm the very people SNAP is meant to help.
Gerry was especially grateful for the Federal workers at the VA and the Walter Reed Medical Center, especially the nurses, therapists, physicians, and support staff who care for our veterans and active military.
We saw today that the President has said that a vote against this legislation represents an ultimate betrayal. The real betrayal, Mr. Speaker, is to the working people of this country, who will pay the price so that billionaires can pay less in taxes.
However, truly, it is the cruelty that is the worst part of this bill. When I was first elected, I told the people of Ohio's 13th Congressional District that it may be my name on the ballot, but we are all going to Congress together.
13.7 million Americans are the number of people in this country whose healthcare is going to be stripped in this bill. Now, Republicans are going to try to say every single distraction in the book from that essential number.
I get that this bill is about fulfilling the President's promises, but like the President, we can't rely on it for working families, as the bottom 10 percent would lose basic services so that the top 10 percent can increase their wealth.
I rise in strong opposition to the one big, billionaire, boondoggle bill. We are here because, according to President Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans in Congress, billionaires and giant corporations don't have enough money.
Americans are worried about their future. People are afraid of losing their jobs, their healthcare, student aid, and food assistance. This bill brings that pain.
Last week, I sat down with a constituent of Laconia, Donka Facciolo, who lives with a disability. Thanks to Medicaid, she receives skilled nursing, transportation, and employment support. Because of that help she can live on her own.
I rise in opposition to this bill and in support of America's working families, families who are trying to provide healthcare, feed their children, and secure their futures.
This bill will make someone who earns up to $300 a week pay a copay of up to $35 because they need to have skin in the game, ignoring the fact they also have to pay their rent, childcare, utilities, and on and on.
Let's get it straight. This is one big bill, but it is a bill that steals Medicaid. It steals SNAP. It steals all the assistance for working people in order to give tax breaks to the billionaires in this country.
The U.S. national debt stands at $36 trillion, and this bill will raise it to over $40 trillion. Historically, Republican administrations have ballooned the debt--Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump--through tax cuts to the very rich coupled with endless wars. It is clear where the debt has come from.
This bill makes the deepest cuts to nutrition assistance in U.S. history, ripping food from the mouths of kids, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities.
This bill is a massive betrayal of working people and poor people across America. It strips at least 14 million Americans of their healthcare. It slashes food for the hungry, and it cuts basic needs for Americans across the country.
My Rhode Island values are healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and uplifting the poor, ensuring that there is opportunity in this country for everyone, especially the working people in the middle class. You have my word that I will never stop fighting for vulnerable Rhode Islanders and against this dangerous bill.
This bill takes healthcare away from 14 million people. With this bill, 9 million people lose food assistance. It adds $4.3 trillion to the debt, and that is before the interest on that.
One of the very first bills I ever voted on as a Representative in Congress was passing the Affordable Care Act and bringing historic access to healthcare to millions.
This bill causes immediate harm by yanking money from locally selected projects that our constituents in Republican and Democratic districts alike are counting on. For what? To help pay for the tax cuts for the richest Americans and largest corporations.
There is nothing beautiful about this bill, but at least the deficit growth is big. Maybe that is why my Republican colleagues are debating it under the cloak of darkness again.
13.7 million Americans will lose their healthcare. We are going to gut America's premier antihunger program. It is going to add trillions of dollars to the Nation's debt. Mr. Speaker, you don't believe me? The Congressional Budget Office says it. My colleagues: Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Roy, and Mr.
Our dearly departed friend and colleague Gerry Connolly used to say our job was to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. This bill does the opposite.
I have a question for Republicans who are, under the cover of night, forcing this one, big, ugly bill on working families. What the hell is wrong with them?
We are talking border security, and the same administration just let in El Chapo's family. El Chapo's family. I rise today as somebody representing one of the poorest districts in this country. The individual median income is around $30,000. Mr.
My amendment would have used this opportunity to negotiate prescription drug prices. It would have saved us billions of dollars that we could have used for tax cuts for the middle class.
Ask yourself why. Why are we here at 3 a.m. fast-tracking this bill? This bill is nothing to be proud of. It is best to pass it in the night when most folks are asleep.
Number one, it defunds Planned Parenthood, which means if this bill passes, 1 million Americans will have no pap smears. They will have no breast cancer screenings. They will have no well-women visits. That is the first thing it does.
I rise against a Republican Party that is too afraid to do townhalls and face their own voters, too afraid to debate us in committees to support this terrible bill.
A mom from Kirkland told me recently that she was horrified to see what Republicans are doing to these programs. She raised two kids with the support of Medicaid, SNAP, and the child tax credit. She said that the supports that Republicans are cutting help real people live real, productive lives.
This budget creates red tape that would result in vulnerable seniors losing their healthcare. My amendment would have prevented that red tape unless the Congressional Budget Office certifies that this bill will not result in any senior losing coverage.
On October 1 of this year, every Medicare healthcare provider will see a 4 percent cut, and that will occur year after year as seniors try to find someone who will accept Medicare.
We are voting in the dead of night, out of sight of the American people, because the Republican majority knows that the public will be outraged after they find out what is in this bill.
The massive cuts to Medicaid within this bill will unleash catastrophic impacts across America and my district. Hospitals and nursing homes could close, and healthcare prices will rise as a result of these cuts.
The Republicans may think that they can hide what they are doing to the American people by voting on this one big, bad, beautiful, BS bill in the middle of the night. They need to think again.
I rise in opposition to this reckless attempt by Republicans to force through a reconciliation bill that makes life harder for the working families in California's 45th District.
I will just say this: The greatest trick that the devil plays is to convince you that it won't be you who he devours. It will be those others, those so-called illegals, those trans people, the welfare queens, and the boy in the basement who won't work.
We are here in the dark of night because President Trump has one goal: to pass massive tax cuts for billionaires by cruelly stealing healthcare away from millions of Americans.
It is hard to take my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seriously when they give speech after speech after speech complaining about the deficit and then support this reconciliation bill that adds trillions of dollars to the national debt.
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