Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support raising the debt limit and to keep the main thing the main thing.

I really don't have time to address the Taliban, Afghanistan, the southern border, socialism, and all the rest of the stuff that has been raised. But I do have time to talk about blackmail that was raised here. This is the failure to join the Democrats in raising the debt ceiling to pay for one thing: the $2 trillion that Republicans ran up providing tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations and individuals.

The blackmail is that they want to force us to restore those cuts to the wealthiest people and to raise taxes on regular Americans by trying to upend our initiative to provide, for example, the child tax credit and to blackmail us into not providing those benefits.

We have heard a great deal, Madam Speaker, about how this will hurt the markets and how this will create chaos, but who will really pay the price?

It is everyday people and ordinary people, those Social Security recipients and veterans whose benefits will be delayed; people who won't be able to get a car or a washer and dryer at a reasonable interest rate; and those thousands of people who will lose jobs. That is where the damage will come in.

Madam Speaker, instead of paying these partisan games, I urge my colleagues across the aisle to act responsibly. The full faith and credit of the United States should never be put in jeopardy. And by the way, people are not leverage.

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