During a debate on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) discussed the then-proposed budget resolution and it's benefit to American taxpayers.
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00:00Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to my good friend from Arkansas and Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, Mr. Bruce Westerman.
00:07Without objection?
00:10Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Senate Amendment.
00:14The American people gave Congress a clear mandate to lower costs, reduce burdensome regulations, and unlock American resources.
00:22Passing the resolution before us will allow committees to thoughtfully craft and debate legislation to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts,
00:32averting a $4 to $5 trillion tax increase on the American people, to use our resources to generate more revenue, and to cut wasteful spending.
00:40The resolution in itself is not the solution, but it unleashes committees to put pen to paper and craft reconciliation legislation
00:48that fully delivers on the promises the President and House Republicans have made to the American people.
00:56Mr. Speaker, if we look in this beautiful chamber, I've only located one quote from our past that's displayed in here,
01:03and it's up above you, up close to the ceiling.
01:06We're getting close to celebrating the 200-year anniversary of those words that Daniel Webster spoke in 1825,
01:12when he said,
01:15let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions,
01:22promote all its great ideas, and see whether or not we too, in our day and generation, can do something worthy to be remembered.
01:29Mr. Speaker,
01:31the House Committee on Natural Resources looks forward to taking action to develop our nation's natural resources,
01:37and to do that responsibly.
01:38resources that are known, that are among our nation's greatest assets and revenue generators.
01:46This resolution starts the process,
01:49the process to do something worthy to be remembered in our day and generation,
01:54a process to keep taxes low for working Americans,
01:58to unlock the full potential of our natural resources,
02:01and to deliver on Speaker Johnson's directive to have the bill on President's desk by Memorial Day.
02:07I support it and I urge my colleagues to do the same, and I yield back.
02:13I reserve.