{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2025-06-03-pt1-PgH2386", "2025-06-03", 119, 1, null, null, "ONE BIG, UGLY BILL", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H2386", "H2386", "[{\"name\": \"Joe Courtney\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"1\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"1\"}]", "171 Cong. Rec. H2386", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]\n[House]\n[Page H2386]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                           ONE BIG, UGLY BILL\n\n  (Mr. Courtney of Connecticut was recognized to address the House for\n5 minutes.)\n  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, today, June 3, Congress reconvenes after a\n12-day break. On May 22, the last time we were here, this Chamber was\ninvolved in a 2-day marathon. H.R. 1, the misnamed one big, beautiful\nbill, was jammed through in the dead of the night, as it was being\nwritten in real time, by a vote of 215 to 214.\n  During my time home, I held two townhalls. One was up in Tolland,\nConnecticut, near the border of Massachusetts. The other was down along\nthe shoreline in Madison, Connecticut. Both townhalls were well-\nattended.\n  Last night in Madison, it was standing room only. People were\nbursting with questions about how a bill that can change the tax code\nfor the next 10 years, that can intervene in terms of our healthcare\nsystem, in terms of taking away people's health coverage, can happen\nwith no transparency and no public input.\n  As I said, it was being written in the dead of the night prior to the\nvote on May 22. This is what we know now as the dust has settled in\nterms of what the impact of this bill is.\n  In terms of healthcare, the bill is going to cut our Medicaid\nprogram, America's largest healthcare program, and extract roughly $700\nbillion from the system over the next 10 years.\n  The Affordable Care Act, subsidizes premiums, which provides health\ninsurance for millions of Americans. Again, those premiums are going to\nbe cut. As a result, people are going to lose their health insurance.\nThat is not me saying that. That is the Congressional Budget Office,\nthe neutral umpire that calls balls and strikes around this Congress\nwho is saying that.\n  Again, they have calculated that 15 million Americans will lose their\nhealth insurance as a result of this measure which was passed by the\nmajority and jammed through in the dead of the night.\n  In Connecticut, we have already seen what the numbers mean in terms\nof this bill. The Kaiser Family Foundation is not a partisan group.\nThey have been studying healthcare trends and finance for decades. They\ndetermined that 140,000 citizens in the State of Connecticut will lose\ntheir health coverage as a result of this bill.\n  As the dust has settled, we now know of one thing that didn't get a\nlot of attention. As a result of the deficit impact of this bill, which\nis going to add trillions of dollars to the national debt, it is going\nto trigger a sequestration, an automatic cut to the Medicare system.\nMedicare is the system that provides health insurance for people over\n65 and people on disability.\n  That is $500 billion over the next 10 years. Again, it is going to be\na cut across the board to hospitals, to physicians, and to a whole\nseries of medical devices and pharmacy products that are covered by\nMedicare.\n  Again, this is because of the reckless deficit spending that this\nbill creates. That is not me saying that. The calculation of the Joint\nCommittee on Taxation was $3.7 trillion of new debt on top of the $36\ntrillion of debt that we have today.\n  The Wharton School of Finance, where President Trump attended school,\ncalculated $3 trillion, as well. When they added the interest costs\nthat are going to be paid on that additional deficit, that spending,\nthat is going to push the number closer to $5 trillion.\n  Again, today the deficit is $36 trillion. We are spending $89 billion\na month in terms of interest costs on the existing debt. That is larger\nthan what we spend in the Department of Defense on a monthly basis. It\nis bigger than any other account in the discretionary budget of this\ngovernment.\n  This bill accomplishes two harmful, damaging impacts to America which\nare, number one, 15 million people are going to lose their health\ninsurance. We are also going to see the deficit grow by anywhere\nbetween $3 trillion and $5 trillion. For what? It is to reward the top\n1 percent whose tax cuts are going to be extended and enlarged for many\nover the coming years, leaving working families and the poor in the\ndust.\n  We can do better than this as a nation. Again, it is not too late to\nstop this. The Senate is now going to take up this bill.\n  The external pressure is going to rise up with the American Hospital\nAssociation and with patient groups like the American Cancer Society,\nthe American Lung Association, Autism Speaks, and people who represent\ndisability groups. They are rising up now to stop this bill because of\nthe harm it is going to cause on individuals and families all across\nthis country.\n  It is time to stop this one big, ugly bill that is going to do so\nmuch damage to the American people.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2025-06-03-pt1-PgH2386"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9240510882809758, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}