WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-6) called out the Democrats’ America COMPETES Act on the floor of the House of Representatives for doing more to further the Far-Left social agenda than it does to enable our country to compete with China.
The full speech, as prepared for delivery, is below:
Madam Speaker, Democrats marketed the America COMPETES Act as a bill that would decrease our economic reliance on China and ramp up our domestic production. However, a more appropriate title for this bill is The America Concedes Act.
Unfortunately, they employed the same strategy with this bill as they did with the Build Back Better Act: they used the legislation as a vehicle to ram all their Far-Left social policies through Congress without any Republican input.
Democrats claim this bill would crack down on the Chinese Communist Party, but it does nothing to prevent them from growing their influence in the United States, nor does it hold them accountable for their role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The America Concedes Act does more to advance the Democrats’ radical social agenda and further their massively expensive climate change schemes than it does to improve domestic production. Why does this bill, which authorizes or appropriates hundreds of billions of dollars, include $2 billion in foreign aid to combat climate change, or $8 billion for the United Nations Green Climate Fund?
These provisions, along with many others, have nothing to do with our economy but everything to do with the Democrats’ obsession with furthering their left-wing agenda. This bill is just another attempt to move toward changing our great nation into a mythical socialist utopia.
Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stop thinking about their woke political agendas and start focusing on getting our economy back on track.
Thank you, I yield back the balance of my time.
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