Congresswoman Claudia Tenney: One Party Rule has Failed New York and it will Fail Washington

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) joined several of her House Republican colleagues at a press conference at the US Capitol to highlight the disastrous policies in the 1,500 pages of the Democrats trillion-dollar reconciliation package. Below is an excerpt from her remarks. Her full remarks can be viewed here. 

"I could highlight all the terrible things in the bill that many of my colleagues have, whether it's the IRS spying, whether it's the money being put in the IRS, the Green New Deal, or raising prescription drug costs, I've seen this before, and it's called New York State. We have a perfect incubator to show why it doesn't work. 

I served in the New York State Assembly under one party rule. We had three men in a room. We did at the time, have a Senate Republican that was in the room, but now we have no Republicans that are in the room negotiating this. This President and this Congress ran on being bipartisan. Where are the Republicans in the room while we're negotiating this? 

As someone from upstate New York where the Industrial Revolution was founded - the first shovel in the ground for the Erie Canal, which started New York on its path to being the Empire State - we now have the highest outmigration of people, among the highest taxes, we have the least friendly business state, and we have the highest amount of money in terms of what they call corporatism, or corporate welfare, spent in order to create jobs, and guess how many jobs are created...we have a net loss in jobs in New York State. It’s because our small businesses that we are keeping (our economy) alive. 

This bill will hurt small businesses, it will create a massive federal government, which will be controlled by bureaucrats and partisans in the executive branch here in Washington, not the people in our district, not even the people in New York. And that's what we do in New York. And that's what we're mirroring with this bill. It doesn't work, and New York State is a perfect example of that. And I just urge my colleagues to vote against it."

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