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Representative Jim McGovern-Transcript This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. It is a scam. A scam. And I wasn't sent here to vote for trash like this. For the life of me, I cannot understand why you were doing this. Why the hell did you choose a career of public service just to do this? Just to rip away the health care and food assistance and security of working and middle-class Americans? Is that really what you came here to do? I don't understand this. I don't understand the cruelty. And let me say this to every Republican member who votes for this. You own it. You own it. You own every hospital that closes, every child that goes to bed hungry, every senior who loses care, and every American family forced to choose between groceries and rent, between their heating bill and their childcare, between their kid's birthday party and their parents' long-term care. So, you guys can force... You guys can force us to debate this bill in the dead of night. Uh, you can do it while the country sleeps, but the American people will wake up tomorrow morning and I guarantee you; they will wake up to how terrible your agenda is. They will remember this. moment. They will remember who stood with the billionaires and who stood with them. We will make sure they remember, and l'll be damned if we let this pass quietly. I'm going to fight like hell, and I know I won't be alone. This is a farce and outrageous insult to the people of this country to bring up a 1,000 page bill at one o'clock in the morning, a bill that's still being written, by the way, by Republicans as we speak in a back room somewhere, for God's sake, and then to try to jam it through Congress in the middle of the night when nobody is watching is just. unbelievably cynical. This is why people hate Washington. So if you guys think this ugly bill is so damn beautiful, like Trump keeps saying, you should have the courage to debate it in prime time. Madam Chair, we should reconvene at a reasonable hour. And debate your bill. in full view of the American people, not in the middle of the night like cowards. And for that reason, I move that the Rules Committee do now adjourn.