In House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) tore into Republicans' bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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00:00our reserve gentlemen reserves gentlemen California thank you mr. speaker I yield
00:07now two minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida who represents the Gulf and may
00:13have some wisdom to share with us about this subject the woman from Florida is
00:18recognized well I thank the ranking member for yielding the time and I
00:21wanted I rise in opposition to this farcical bill and I thought I'd share
00:25what I'm hearing from my neighbors across the Gulf Coast they want
00:31policymakers in Washington DC to tackle the cost of living and during this
00:35Congress the Republican-led Congress there has not been one bill brought to the
00:39floor of the house and here we are in May to lower the cost of living for
00:43families along the Gulf Coast and all across America in fact what the
00:48Republicans have been focusing on is a massive tax giveaway to billionaires like
00:53Elon Musk while they rip away health care from millions of Americans and in
00:59Florida we have about 4.6 million Floridians that rely on the Affordable Care
01:04Act for their health care and about 3.9 million Floridians who rely on Medicaid
01:11these are the the family members we love the most kids with complex conditions
01:16seniors in skilled nursing seniors that want to live in dignity in their homes
01:21with the home health aid but their priority is it to make people's lives
01:25easier to make people's lives better no it's been totally focused on how you rip
01:31that away make people's lives more expensive it it also means it for the
01:39Gulf Coast we are still reeling from Hurricanes Helene and Milton just like other
01:44parts of the country in Georgia and North Carolina we don't need Elon Musk creating
01:50turmoil and firing civil servants and public public servants who are helping us
01:55rebuild we do not need the Trump administration making people's lives
01:59harder to rebuild and to afford to stay in their homes we're preparing for
02:05another hurricane season and folks along the Gulf Coast need a National Weather
02:09Service that is functional that can warn us about the threats ahead we need the
02:14hurricane hunters out in the Gulf telling us how severe the storms are going to be
02:18but the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress seem to be
02:22turning away from the people along the Gulf Coast and along all across America to
02:28understand the threats of a warming climate
02:31gentleman's time is expired yield the gentlelady 30 seconds thank you mr.
02:35Huffman because you started this with saying that Gulf of America started as a
02:40joke this is not a joke to the people I represent they want help they want help with
02:48the cost of living and it seems like the Republicans are doing the last that's
02:52the last priority on their list instead they want to give a massive tax give away
02:56to the wealthy and the well-connected while people really need help with their
03:00pocketbooks they need help they want to retain their health care they want to
03:04make sure that the ocean waters are free of pollution the EPA and all of the
03:10Trump administration initiatives are to take the
03:12general woman's time is expired please vote no and focus on what's important