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“SOCIALIST SPENDING” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the in the House section section on page H6889 on July 20.
More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
SOCIALIST SPENDING
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Rose) for 5 minutes.
Mr. ROSE. Madam Speaker, on many different occasions I have come to this Chamber to point out exactly how we arrived at this moment where we are experiencing record-breaking inflation. Each time, congressional Democrats' desire to recklessly spend trillions of taxpayer dollars continues to be the answer.
Here I am again, as the House prepares to vote on yet another spending bill costing hundreds of billions of dollars filled with socialist wish list items that increases Federal spending by double-
digit and triple-digit percentage increases in some cases.
I, of course, will vote ``no,'' not only because it increases the size of our government by increasing spending on non-defense programs by 14 percent, but because it also fails to include the Hyde amendment, which is a longstanding bipartisan agreement that protects taxpayer dollars for being used to fund abortions.
Overall, the bill would increase the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency by 20 percent, increase the budget for general government activities by 17 percent, and include a 10 percent increase for the Food and Drug Administration--the very same department that botched the baby formula shortage.
This funding bill rewards bad behavior by giving funding increases to departments that have failed the American people. It encourages illegal immigration. It discourages increasing our domestic energy output by restricting offshore oil and gas activities, and it fails to fund our national defense priorities like the sea-launched nuclear cruise missile.
It has been almost 2 years of complete Democratic control of government. Instead of addressing the root causes of the crisis Democrats created, this bill doubles down on their failed socialist agenda. Tennesseans are fed up with the out-of-control spending here in Washington. Americans all across the country are fed up with it, too.
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