The chair now recognizes the general woman from Massachusetts, Ms. Clark.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

2-12, it's a New York area code, and it's our call for a speaker of integrity, intelligence,

and inclusion.

2-12 is our call for a speaker who will protect our children, our veterans, our planet.

2-12 is our call for a speaker who will grow the middle class, lower costs, create good paying

jobs, and make health care affordable. 2-12 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty,

justice, and opportunity for everyone.

Well, the unanimous call of 212 House Democrats has been answered.

By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from Brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic Caucus,

the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries.

Leader Jeffries has answered our call, but the majority's nominee is disconnected, disconnected from

the American people and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide, and it has broken

the Republican Party. Their nominee's vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights

of the American people, and he's got the record to prove it. The Republican nominee has voted

against health care for children, for veterans, even for 9-11 survivors. He has opposed

lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut social security and Medicare.

Don't take it from me. It was raised on the other side of the aisle just this week as a selling point

to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the House, the Republican nominee has never supported

a farm bill. What does that mean? What does that mean? It means he has turned his back on farmers,

on rural communities, and the 11 million children who go to bed hungry in this country.

The Republican nominee wants a national abortion ban, with no exceptions for rape,

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