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illegal immigrants | illegal immigrant | anti-Latino | By underfunding and allowing the weakening of security in some States and localities due to their lack of reporting illegal immigrants to immigration officials. | 05/17/2005 | MARK UDALL | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Latino, especially Mexican, immigrants regardless of documentation | Formal | D |
broken families | broken family | racist | The Senator is correct. Most of these people come from broken families and from very bad community environments. Many of them are Illiterate or are only able to read up to the third- or fourthgrade level. | 05/12/1969 | ALAN CRANSTON | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Black families are dysfunctional | Formal | D |
urban | inner city | racist | The trip to the neighborhood grocery or supermarket has turned into a daytime nightmare for all Americans. In urban areas. where in normal times food costs are invariably higher than in rural areas. | 04/09/1974 | JONATHAN BINGHAM | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | D |
urban | inner city | racist | I fear the effect of all these proposals is to unduly restrict the use of IDBs for critical small business financings. or appropriate urban development. Mr. Speaker. | 05/04/1982 | JOHN LAFALCE | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | D |
Chicago | references to cities with large racial minority populations being overrun by crime, drugs, rodents | racist | Mr. Speaker. what is known around here as business as usual would make a Chicago alderman blush. In Chicago we have a pretty high standard. | 03/04/2004 | RAHM EMANUEL | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Minorities are dirty and criminals | Formal | D |
working families | working class | racist | We could save billions by pulling our troops out of Iraq. That could pay for Katrina relief and stop cuts to important programs for working families. Instead of handing out holiday tax breaks to rich Republican campaign donors. | 12/08/2005 | FORTNEY STARK | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | white working class | Formal | D |
bankers | bankers | antisemitic | whenever you get after the monopolies or the international bankers and companies that exploit the public. | 04/03/1934 | THOMAS CONNALLY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Jewish people | Formal | D |
entitlement | entitlement programs | racist | half the American households receive an entitlement check from the Federal Governmenthalf of the American households. | 11/18/2010 | SAMUEL BROWNBACK | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
government spending | entitlement spending | racist | The bulk of the tax increases are not being used for deficit reduction. they are being used for new Government spending programs. Although we have not been given any specifics. | 02/18/1993 | JOHN MCCAIN | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
government spending | entitlement spending | racist | As we wind up the 97th Congress. we having witnessed at best a small decrease in the rate of growth in Government spending. I intend to vote against every attempt at an increase in congressional pay and benefits until such time as Congress respects the will of the American people to bring spending under control and restore the health and vitality to the American economy. | 12/14/1982 | HAROLD DAUB | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
religious freedom | religious freedom | homophobic | I hope we can address that issue. It is the issue of religious freedom. If you do not define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. | 06/06/2006 | SAMUEL BROWNBACK | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Discrimination against LGBTQ people | Formal | R |
entitlement program | entitlement programs | racist | Instead. it takes $% trillion from Medicare to create a brandnew entitlement program. It punishes a group of people in order to benefit another. | 12/03/2009 | JOHN BARRASSO | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
entitlement program | entitlement programs | racist | This bil shakes down American famlies for snother $8 billion to create an addltonal $3.5 billion entitlement program. | 08/06/1992 | DAVE CAMP | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
affirmative action | affirmative action | racist | and I hope ultimately we will be able to eliminate affirmative action quotas in the Federal Government. | 09/17/1997 | FRANK RIGGS | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | White people are victims of racial mistreatment | Formal | R |
hardworking Americans | hard-working Americans | racist | Has this President chosen party politics and his unworkable health care law over working with House Republicans toward fair solutions that would help hardworking Americans keep more money in their pockets? | 10/14/2013 | RANDY WEBER | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | White Americans | Formal | R |
illegal aliens | illegal aliens | anti-Latino | for instance. the extension of Instant Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens. placing an additional burden on Medicaid. | 06/17/2003 | JAMES INHOFE | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous undocumented brown people | Formal | R |
illegal aliens | illegal aliens | anti-Latino | very few black aliens. but when we are talking about language minority groups. we are necessarily talking about a vast number of illegal aliens. | 06/04/1975 | ROBERT MCCLORY | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous undocumented brown people | Formal | R |
working class | working class | racist | Witnesses at that hearing also agreed unanimously that the wages of working class Americans are adversely impacted by large flows of immigrants Into our country. | 06/22/2007 | JEFFERSON SESSIONS | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | white working class | Formal | R |
entitlement spending | entitlement spending | racist | the liberal editors of the Washington Post state in their lead editorial that the current trajectory of entitlement spending will bankrupt the country. | 03/23/2010 | JOSEPH PITTS | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
take back | take back | white supremacist | that has been introduced year after year and passed by this House urging citizens to take back their streets from criminals. | 09/09/2009 | BART STUPAK | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Give white Americans back full social and political control over the country | Formal | D |
hard-working American | hard-working Americans | racist | This is our chance to deliver relief to hard-working American families and to help the middle class get ahead. | 11/30/2017 | Mr. McCONNELL | S | null | @unitedstatesproject | White Americans | Formal | R |
personal responsibility | personal responsibility | racist | Why should it work any different for someone trying to get off welfare? I believe it is a matter of personal responsibility. We need to address our illegitimate rate. | 08/08/1995 | CONRAD BURNS | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Opposition to public spending perceived to benefit racial minorities over white people | Formal | R |
criminal alien | illegal aliens | anti-Latino | This latest version of this legislation provides very few assurances that criminal aliens would be barred from applying. | 12/18/2010 | CHARLES GRASSLEY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous undocumented brown people | Formal | R |
voter fraud | voter fraud | racist | Some claim that enactment of H.R. 2 will lead to wholesale voter fraud and extraordinary expenses for the States in administering this program. | 02/04/1993 | JONAS FROST | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Disenfranchisement of minority voters | Formal | D |
entitlement spending | entitlement spending | racist | Entitlement spending limits our options for addressing important national needs by decreasing the pool of discretionary spending. | 02/21/1992 | ALAN SIMPSON | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
urban | inner city | racist | Most of it is because we do not want to spend any of our own money. And in our urban areas we put in about $80 million every 2 or 3 years in a bond election. We ought to put $250 million. | 10/09/1997 | PETE DOMENICI | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | R |
urban | inner city | racist | Tobacco is an easy target for you folks. Tobacco is an easy target for the urban areas because they do not care about it. Tobacco is an easy target because they do not think about the billions of dollars they get. | 06/12/1996 | HENRY BAESLER | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | D |
urban | inner city | racist | We must take seriously the threat of pollution to public health and act to alleviate the suffering of the urban minority and lowincome populations. | 04/19/2005 | DONALD PAYNE | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | D |
public school | public school | racist | The preliminary findings of our national survey indicate the incidence of violence and vandalism in our Nations public school system has reached critical proportions. | 09/10/1975 | BIRCH BAYH | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
terrorism | Islamic terrorism | Islamophobic | Middle Eastern terrorism has abated since President Bushs brilliant diplomatic achievements in putting together the international force that drove Iraq out of Kuwait. | 01/27/1993 | ARLEN SPECTER | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | R |
terrorism | Islamic terrorism | Islamophobic | during the last few days we have witnessed the nauseating spectacle of political terrorism at its worst. | 03/05/1973 | BERTRAM PODELL | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | D |
terrorism | Islamic terrorism | Islamophobic | and have vowed to replenish any losses to Qadhafi resulting from American sanctions. As we continue to tackle the problem of terrorism in the Middle East. we should not be providing the Saudis. | 05/07/1986 | THOMAS HARKIN | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | D |
public schools | public school | racist | the present bill merely restates language contained In the Educational Act Amendments of 1972. The 1972 act failed to curb the use of forced busing as one means to desegregate our public schools. Only through acceptance of the Gurney amendment. | 05/15/1974 | WILLIAM ROTH | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | R |
public schools | public school | racist | They do not want their property reserved for public schools in which they may or may not have any interest. | 06/01/1900 | JOHN LITTLE | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
terrorist | Islamic terrorists | Islamophobic | but what about other threats to the U.S. national security such as the use of conventional weapons or Iraqi terrorism? Iraq is a terrorist nation. Evidence exists that Iraqi operatives met with al Qaeda terrorists. | 10/10/2002 | HENRY HYDE | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | R |
public schools | public school | racist | Mr. President. recent reports have alerted us to the many shortcomings of public schools in the United States. Reading and comprehension levels of American school children are below those of many countries. | 06/26/1984 | JOHN GLENN | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
job creation | job creators | conservative | and enhance the retirement of our senior citizens. The Jobs and Growth package is $550 billion in job creation. It lets families keep more of the money theyve earned creating opportunities for every American who wants to work. | 05/09/2003 | ANDER CRENSHAW | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Wealthy people | Formal | R |
job creation | job creators | conservative | The weight of economic evidence from around the world strongly suggests that as the size of government increases as a share of national income. the rate of economic growth and job creation declines. I was sent here by people who think it is time to put the welfare of the general public ahead of the special interests. | 02/01/1995 | SPENCER ABRAHAM | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Wealthy people | Formal | R |
property rights | property rights | racist | we can make no law regarding their property rights that we could not make in reference to the property rights of any white citizen of any State of the Union. | 02/07/1907 | PORTER MCCUMBER | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Right of property owners to discriminate racially | Formal | R |
illegal alien | illegal aliens | anti-Latino | The alleged activities of the particular illegal aliens that caught our attention in these last days and weeks. is one symbolic and true illustration of harm to this country from uncontrolled illegal immigration. | 03/09/1993 | ALAN SIMPSON | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous undocumented brown people | Formal | R |
illegal alien | illegal aliens | anti-Latino | have wreaked havoc on our population and has the potential of doing great harm to the Nation. Over a million illegal aliens enter our country each year by coming across our porous borders. Immigration authorities do not know who they are or where they are going. | 07/16/2003 | THOMAS TANCREDO | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous undocumented brown people | Formal | R |
big government | big government | conservative | It analyzes his support of a new $100 billion Government energy corporation against the backdrop of heated advice to the contrary by his top advisers and his rhetoric about the evils of big government. | 10/23/1975 | JOHN MCFALL | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | D |
big government | big government | conservative | That is a pretty basic tenet of democracy. There is nothing here that avoids the fact that we want to be big government nannyist censors. We want to tell people what they can join. | 08/03/1995 | VICTOR FAZIO | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | D |
big government | big government | conservative | they took all of that Social Security surplus. they put it all in the big government checkbook. they wrote out checks out of the big government checkbook. | 09/16/1998 | MARK NEUMANN | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | R |
extremists | Islamic extremists | Islamophobic | it is becoming very clear that the environmental extremists have decided to adopt the big lie strategy to attack the clean water bill. | 04/03/1995 | ELMER SHUSTER | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | R |
job creators | job creators | conservative | The key to recovery is to create an environment where economic growth can flourish and provide certainty and stability to our Nations job creators. | 09/20/2011 | DEAN HELLER | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Wealthy people | Formal | R |
inner cities | inner city | racist | on the backs of my children. on the backs of the young people of the inner cities. I do not want anybody playing with me on this issue. | 09/20/1996 | MAXINE WATERS | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | D |
inner cities | inner city | racist | The reason is that rampant illegal drug use is spreading like wildfire throughout our country. affecting not only the Inner cities but spreading like wildfire into suburban and rural America. A recent report even showed significant Increases in drug use by sixth grade school children. | 06/22/1993 | GERALD SOLOMON | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | R |
handouts | government handout | racist | the taxpayer is really receiving virtually no return for his money. The Federal Government is merely giving handouts to companies which would have. based on raw materials. | 06/26/1963 | WALLACE BENNETT | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Any money that the government gives to support vulnerable people | Formal | R |
individual responsibility | personal responsibility | racist | and that is what has served our Nation so well. common sense and individual responsibility. That is what America is about. | 02/01/2000 | ROBERT SMITH | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Opposition to public spending perceived to benefit racial minorities over white people | Formal | R |
individual responsibility | personal responsibility | racist | America prospered. There was a minimum of government and a maximum of individual responsibility. free enterprise and freedom. | 12/07/1971 | JOHN RARICK | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Opposition to public spending perceived to benefit racial minorities over white people | Formal | D |
activist judges | judicial activism | conservative | While recent court decisions handed down by activist judges may not respect the traditional definition of marriage. | 06/05/2006 | WAYNE ALLARD | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Judges ruling in liberals' favor | Formal | R |
job creators | job creators | conservative | So until we understand that to create jobs and grow the economy we have to make it less difficult and less expensive for employers and job creators to create jobs. | 07/09/2013 | JOHN THUNE | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Wealthy people | Formal | R |
welfare | welfare | racist | The States cannot carry the burden alone. They are already hard put to support their burgeoning welfare roles. They must be assisted by the Federal Government. | 03/01/1971 | THOMAS ONEILL | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | racial minorities receive government aid that they don't deserve | Formal | D |
urban | inner city | racist | more and more I am distressed at the increasing degree of ignorance on the part of our urban population as to how their food Is produced. | 01/09/1942 | JAMES WADSWORTH | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | African American neighborhoods | Formal | R |
Chicago | references to cities with large racial minority populations being overrun by crime, drugs, rodents | racist | or they will infest the whole United States. as the Chicago cartel did back in the mob days. Families are not arming themselves for fun in south Texas. | 03/07/2012 | TED POE | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Minorities are dirty and criminals | Formal | R |
safeguard | safeguarding | transphobic | seemingly ashamed of them. have all too successfully tried to purge them from all areas of public life. My bill will help Americans determined to safeguard those values. | 03/18/1976 | MARION SNYDER | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Young people should not have access to
gender-affirming care | Formal | R |
balance the budget | balance the budget | conservative | One of the reasons that the President would like to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly is because social security is the second largest pot of money under the budget. | 05/12/1982 | MARY OAKAR | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | D |
balance the budget | balance the budget | conservative | The plan began to surface in midAugust and is a blatant attempt to help balance the budget by placing the burden on farmers and industrial employees of the Northwest and other regions. | 09/29/1982 | MAX BAUCUS | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | D |
balance the budget | balance the budget | conservative | They will say that those in favor of this amendment will balance the budget at the expense of older Americans by cutting Social Security. | 01/25/1995 | PHILIP ENGLISH | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | R |
working families | working class | racist | Madam President, today, actually, I want to talk about the Americans of the century, the Americans of the century. This is an iconic, iconic picture of the men--and, of course, women--who built our great Nation: the working families, the union members who built our great Nation, won World War II. This is, by the way, the Empire State Building. Some of our workers built that. I want to talk about that here in a minute. They are having a little bit of lunch. But these are the workers who built America, certainly helped us win World War II: the machinists, electricians, welders, builders. And, Madam President, next week, my colleagues are going to be put to the test, and it is going to be a simple test. It is a question that is a really important one right now: Where do you stand? Do you stand with the working men and women of this great Nation, the ones who built our country and their incredible heritage of building America, or do you stand with the coastal elites--represented by this individual--who are actually focused on not building the country but in many ways shutting it down? Well, I will tell you where I stand. I stand right here with the men and women who have built this great Nation. Here is what is going to happen next week. I am bringing together a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, what we call a CRA, that will be a simple vote to nullify a recent Biden administration regulation that clearly is going to make it harder in America to build infrastructure projects--to build buildings, to build energy projects. These regulations will waste taxpayer dollars, but the biggest thing they will do is they will prevent workers from working and building the country. So that is it. We are going to have a simple vote on whether you stand with the people who take a shower before work or the people who take a shower after work, the people who spend their day holding tools to build things or holding lattes--the people with dirt under their fingernails. The vote will answer the question posed by the late folk singer Pete Seeger: Which side are you on? Now, right now, there are 50 Republican Senators who are on the side of the working men and women. They cosponsored my resolution. So let's talk a little bit about the background of what we are going to vote on next week. This is a very famous structure in America, the Hoover Dam, and it is part of a great American tradition that we are all proud of--every single American--that we used to build big things: our roads, our dams, our ports, our bridges, our pipelines. We built engineering marvels in the world, a source of immense pride for all Americans. The Hoover Dam--look at that--5 years--actually, less than 5 years--to build that dam. The Empire State Building, you just saw a picture of men and women building that. It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building. The Pentagon, the biggest office building in the world: 16 months. Let me talk a little bit closer to home. The 1,700-mile Alaska-Canada Highway, through some of the world's most rugged terrain: 11 months. We did that. America did that. Workers did that. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline--think of this: 70,000 sections of 48-inch-wide pipe, joined and laid--70,000 sections--across three mountain ranges, 800 riverbeds, tundra, forests, lakes, from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific--800 miles--3 years. Incredible. The American worker can build anything, can build anything. And then the engineering. We put a man on the Moon in less than 10 years. We used to do big things, big infrastructure. And the men and women of America have always been the best, most productive workers in the country. Well, that is no longer, unfortunately, the legacy of America. And here is part of what is going to happen next week. Let me talk a little bit of a background issue here. And I know some of my colleagues aren't going to like to hear it, but the Democratic Party was once home to these great American workers. That is true. My family was part of this tradition--Irish-Catholic immigrants, Democrats. My great-grandfather Frank J. Sullivan was one of the founding members of the IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He passed on the values of hard work throughout his family. And the Democratic Party long supported the union members, the workers who built not just America but the middle class. And I think that is a proud tradition. I think that is a proud tradition--certainly something that my family was part of. But that has been abandoned. Right now, the focus is much more on coastal, progressive elites and what they want versus what these men and women want. That was yesterday's Democratic Party. You are seeing headlines more like this: ``The Democrats' Working Class Voter Problem.'' That is a headline from the Democratic ally blog titled ``The Liberal Patriot.'' Newsweek: ``Democrats Have Forgotten the Working Class.'' Here is a doozy from the Economist recently: Democrats in America are realizing they must moderate or die. Now, some attribute this problem to cultural issues. As James Carville said ``Wokeness is a problem.'' Cultural issues, wokeness, and all that implies are certainly issues driving the working class away from the Democratic Party. But I believe the problems that the Democrats are having with the working class run much deeper than wokeness. I believe they are structural. And at the end of the day, they are pocketbook issues. One issue that impacts everybody, but especially America's workers, is the regulatory system--the permitting system that we have in America. It hurt so much of our country. But I will tell you who it really hurts: the men and women who build things. They are on the ground. They see their projects being delayed when they are killed. They are the ones who get the pink slips when there is endless litigation on a resource development project in Alaska. They are the ones worrying about feeding their families because they don't have good work because they can't build things anymore. They are the ones who are attacked by the far left because they produce things like American energy, which we all need. We live in a nation now that is increasingly divided into two countries: one of builders and doers, of working men and women, of working families, and the other side that soaks up the spoils of those workers and then figures out ways to make their job even harder, oftentimes resulting in putting them out of work altogether. And I have seen this time and time again in my State--in my State. Whenthese men and women try to build things--and there is a choice with my Democratic colleagues between the coastal elites who want to shut things down and the men and women in America who want to build things--unfortunately, the default position for them is the coastal elites, forsaking the working men and women of our country. So why am I so animated by this? It is because our great Nation that built so many great things is now caught up in redtape. It is now caught up in redtape. So I want to talk a little bit more about my resolution and the vote we are going to have next Wednesday, or next Tuesday. The National Environmental Policy Act was a good idea when it passed in late 1969. It required environmental impact statements when things were being built so the public could be engaged. That act, called NEPA, resulted in people participating in the permitting process but not overburdening it. So normally, a NEPA Environmental Impact Statement--an EIS--at the beginning, when it was first passed, would take less than a year, a couple hundred pages. That was it. Now you look at the system in America. To try to build things, the average EIS takes 4 to 6 years to just complete--4 to 6 years to just complete. And it usually costs several million dollars just to build anything in this country. That wasn't the purpose of NEPA. We are killing ourselves as a nation with our inability to build infrastructure because we are tangled up in redtape. In his recent reporting, the progressive New York Times writer Ezra Klein looks at the cost of building things in America relative to other industrialized countries. Klein writes that Japan, Canada, and Germany build a kilometer of rail for $170 million, $254 million, and $287 million, respectively. That seems like a lot, until you get to the United States. One kilometer costs $538 million, way more than any other industrialized country. Delays are costs. Of course, we know that. According to the GAO--and this is a study several years ago; I am sure it is much worse--a new U.S. highway construction project, just to build a highway normally takes 9 to 19 years. Come on, America. We built the Alcan Highway, 1,100 miles, in 11 months. This is a topic that I am very passionate about. It sounds kind of geeky. Permitting, rules, regulations--it is the core of our economy, and it is the core of what is keeping so many working families down. Let me give you a couple of other examples. The new--not new now--recently expanded runway at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport took about 3 years to build. We had a hearing on the Commerce Committee. I asked the head of the Sea-Tac Airport, ``How long did it take you to get the permits before you could build that?'' New runway, Sea-Tac needs it. He looked at me, and he said ``Senator, 15 years.'' Fifteen years to get permits to do a runway expansion at Sea-Tac Airport. He actually said: By the time we got the permits and the construction time, almost 20 years. I think that the ancient Egyptians would have built the pyramids by then. This is what we are talking about. Every State, every city, every community sees this problem. Let me give you a couple of other examples. The Gross Reservoir in Colorado, which is going to offer clean water to all the people of Colorado, has taken two decades--20 years--to get this project permitted. California's bullet train that they are still working on--approved in the late 1990s--is still not built because of permitting delays. The costs have gone from $33 billion to $105 billion. The Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia, trying to transport natural gas--litigation is stopping that. Of course, in Alaska, we are ground zero for a lot of this. The Kensington Mine right now is producing gold for our country. Hundreds of people are working there. The average wage is $110,000. Those are good jobs. Twenty years to permit that line, if you include the litigation--20 years. Here is how James Callahan, great American worker, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers--the men and women who really build America, the operating engineers--put it in a letter supporting my resolution next week. You can see it right here. He nails it: Since its modest beginnings, NEPA has evolved into a massive edifice, capable of destroying project after project-- Destroying, not helping-- job after job, in virtually every sector of the economy. He goes on: Dilatory strategies employed by project opponents frequently exploit provisions in NEPA, weighing down projects, frustrating communities, and raising costs to the point that many applicants, whether public or private, simply walk away. By the way, when I talk about the coastal elites--the radical environmental groups--that is their goal, to use NEPA to just kill projects. And they are really, really good at that. So what happens, as James Callahan says--when that happens, when the applicants simply walk away--well, we know what happens. Work dries up. Layoffs happen. The dignity of work and hope that can lift entire communities dissipates. Families struggle. Communities struggle. When we talk about good-paying jobs in our country, we are talking about so much more than men and women punching a clock. We are talking about the health of families, the pride in communities, the pride in our country. Look at the pride of those men and women who built the Empire State Building, the pride of men and women who built the Alaska pipeline. We see it over and over again that communities without hope, without an economic future, without good-paying jobs, who get crushed by these burdensome regulations and groups that want to shut them down, are much more prone to experiencing violence, crime, succumbing to kinds of huge challenges like the opioid crisis. And so these issues matter across the country. But, again, they matter to working families more than anyone. So what are we going to do next week? Well, a surprise to me--and I must admit, it was a surprise; I came down here and talked about this a while ago--was that during the negotiations for the infrastructure bill that many of us voted on--I voted for it last year, in part because it had really good provisions--not as good as I would have wanted--but on permitting reform. These built on what I worked on with the Trump administration when they put out regulations as it related to building infrastructure that, by the way, was supported by millions and millions of Americans for the reasons I just talked about: streamlining permitting, getting projects online, not so costly. So some of the NEPA reforms that we got in the infrastructure bill were things that we had built on during the Trump administration. Let me give you a couple of examples: one Federal agency in charge of all regulatory decisions, timelines on NEPA, limitations on the pages required by NEPA. These were commonsense reforms that we worked on with the Trump administration and some of which we got into the infrastructure bill. So imagine, this is supposedly Joe Biden's top legislative achievement--4 months ago, kind of under the radar, the White House, the Biden White House--counts on environmental quality--put out new regulations. And here is the Wall Street Journal's editorial on what these new regulations were meant to do. And anyone who has read them--and I encourage all Americans to read them--these regulations have one goal in mind: slowing down the ability to build American infrastructure, especially American energy infrastructure. The new NEPA regulations from the Biden White House make it harder to build our country, when the President supposedly supported the infrastructure bill. I truly wonder if the President has any clue that his White House issued regs to undermine what we all viewed as a very important bipartisan achievement. Now, I gave a speech a couple of weeks ago saying: How did this happen? How are we killing infrastructure on the sly through these regulations when, supposedly, this administration wants to build infrastructure, wants to support the working men and women of our country? My view is like a lot of things. John Kerry, Gina McCarthy were probably behind it, but who the heck knows. But here is what I do know. The only people who like these rules--the rules thatare meant to slow down the building of American infrastructure--are certainly not the working men and women of America; it is the radical environmental groups, probably the trial lawyers. And I will give you another group that loves it when we do this to ourselves: the Chinese Communist Party. They look at us and go: Holy cow, these Americans can't get out of their own way. Nine years to permit a bridge. This is killing us in terms of competitiveness. Mayors don't like these rules. So what we are going to do next week, my Congressional Review Act resolution is very simple. It says, we are going to rescind this Biden rule that is going to make it harder to build American infrastructure. And here is the thing: Right now, we have a very big list of groups that are supporting my resolution. We got all the building trades of America; the operating engineers; the AFL-CIO of Alaska; the Laborers' International, LIUNA--the biggest construction union in America; and so many groups--farmers, independent business men and women. Dozens of groups are supporting our resolution to say we are not going to allow that. We want to build things. We want to build things. President Biden likes to talk about his supposed blue collar roots. Well, I wonder where the President is going to be on my resolution because all the unions in America that build stuff are supporting it. Again, maybe he didn't even know his White House put it out there. Maybe he wants to support my Congressional Review Act resolution. But I will tell you who this resolution is going to be really good for. It is going to be good for these men and women in America who built this country, who built this country. I will end where I began. Next week, there is going to be a big vote here, a simple vote. I have 50 Republicans who cosponsored my resolution to get rid of the Biden administration regulation that is going to kill infrastructure. If you support the building trades and the labor unions who built America, you are going to vote yes on my resolution. If you support infrastructure for America and building it in a timely fashion, you are going to vote yes on my resolution. If you support American energy that we need so much in our country, that we have right here, that we don't need to import from Saudi Arabia or Russia or Iran or Venezuela, you are going to support my resolution. If you support the men and women who actually build this country, all of whom who are supporting my resolution, you are going to support my resolution. But if you stand with the coastal environmental elites who want to shut down this country, shut down my State, shut down the economy, maybe you will vote the other way. Like I said in the beginning, it is going to be a test next week. Whose side are you on? Are you with these men and women and their heritage and their heroism who built this country, or are you going to be standing with this individual, the epitome of arrogant coastal elite, smugly telling Americans that they shouldn't build energy projects? I know where I am standing next week. I am standing with the great men and women who built this country, the great men and women who continue to build this country, the great men and women who are supporting my resolution. And I sure hope all my colleagues vote the same way. This is an easy vote for America. This should be 100 to 0. That is the reason why. I yield the floor. | 01/06/2020 | Unknown | S | null | @unitedstatesproject | white working class | Formal | null |
entitlement | entitlement programs | racist | The reforms in this bill will give the States more control over critical entitlement programs that have become inflated with the Federal bureaucracy mismanagement of many years. | 10/26/1995 | JOHN WARNER | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
quota | quotas | racist | we must demand that the promises made to women become a reality. The interim constitution sets a 25 percent quota for women in the transitional assembly. and the preamble of the document makes clear that Iraqis are equal without regard to sex. sect. | 03/09/2004 | PATTY MURRAY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity | Formal | D |
job creation | job creators | conservative | My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are bringing this legislation before the House in the name of tax relief for small businesses and job creation. | 04/19/2012 | GENE GREEN | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Wealthy people | Formal | D |
job creation | job creators | conservative | It will be remembered as throwing the extraordinary income inequality we see today into overdrive and fulfilling very few of the ambitious Republican promises about growth, job creation, and deficit reduction. | 12/21/2017 | Mr. SCHUMER | S | null | @unitedstatesproject | Wealthy people | Formal | D |
welfare reform | welfare | racist | they are paying taxes to support programs like this one which is subsidizing people to have babies that they cannot support. I think if we are going to deal with welfare reform. if we are going to have a bill worthy of the name. | 09/13/1995 | PHIL GRAMM | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | racial minorities receive government aid that they don't deserve | Formal | R |
handout | government handout | racist | and when the snows and the rains come I am forced to go back to my little home in the mining camp. and then go down to the Social Security office or some other handout agency and say. Here. | 07/30/1954 | HERMAN WELKER | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Any money that the government gives to support vulnerable people | Formal | R |
handout | government handout | racist | yet every day they are coming here for another handout at the expense of the taxpayers all over the Nation. | 04/08/1957 | ALVIN OKONSKI | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Any money that the government gives to support vulnerable people | Formal | R |
tax cut | cut taxes | racist | let me just say that data has come out now that the Bush tax cut has lowered the tax burden on the richest people in this country. | 04/05/2006 | TIM RYAN | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Don't spend tax money on minorities | Formal | D |
tax cut | cut taxes | racist | $112.925. that is the average tax cut that millionaires will see in their 2003 return. The second number is $676. | 03/10/2004 | JIM MCDERMOTT | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Don't spend tax money on minorities | Formal | D |
public school | public school | racist | those who oppose busing and abortion and who seek a return to prayers in public schools have turned their attention to a different tactic. | 03/17/1982 | JOHN CHAFEE | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | R |
public schools | public school | racist | the total of 11.270 received by the newspaper through May 5 shows that 98.4 percent registered a protest against forced busing of little children to achieve racial balancing of our public schools. | 05/24/1972 | RUSSELL LONG | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
food stamp | food stamps | racist | where does my tax money go? They think it goes to food stamps or they think it goes to welfare. and they are absolutely appalled when we tell them it is squandered on interest on the national debt. | 05/24/2002 | GENE TAYLOR | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government assistance for minorities | Formal | D |
balancing the budget | balance the budget | conservative | no. comec to Uncle Sam and get him to give you something for nothIng. Every day In the week I hear Senators talk about balancing the budget. I hear Senators talking about waste and fraud and abuse. | 11/04/1983 | HOWARD METZENBAUM | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | D |
balancing the budget | balance the budget | conservative | What this budget waiver does is ask our colleagues to waive the Budget Act. to give up on balancing the budget. to forget about our promise to the American people to end the deficit in the year 2002. | 09/27/1995 | CHRISTOPHER BOND | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | R |
balancing the budget | balance the budget | conservative | we have a budget on the floor that is courageous enough to say: It is time for Americas corporate welfare kings and bloated military to share in the burdens of balancing the budget. | 05/16/1996 | CYNTHIA MCKINNEY | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | D |
government spending | entitlement spending | racist | choking off initiative and burdening Americans with insurmountable taxes. As long as Congress continues to allow Government spending and taxing to strangle economic growth. millions of Americans will be forced to turn to the Federal Government for help. | 04/23/1980 | CLARENCE BROWN | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
big government | big government | conservative | DC. and in big government. but to move that wealth out to the country again and put it back in the hands of the people who are earning it and working hard. | 05/21/1997 | BOB SCHAFFER | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | R |
big government | big government | conservative | and to the American people it is another example of big corporate interest and big government joining together against the interest of the American people. | 07/24/2003 | JOHN TIERNEY | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | D |
big government | big government | conservative | it is inaccurate to measure a Presidents record without looking at the overall size and scope of government. President Obamas preference for big government is obvious to everyone. He usually argues for it. | 06/18/2012 | JON KYL | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Federal assistance | Formal | R |
middle-class Americans | middle class | racist | For so many middle-class Americans, the last decade meant a weak economy and a decline of opportunities. | 10/05/2017 | Mr. McCONNELL | S | null | @unitedstatesproject | White middle class | Formal | R |
welfare | welfare | racist | he said. by leaders who are more interested in catching welfare cheaters than feeding undernourished people. His singular exampleagain. | 06/26/1986 | JESSE HELMS | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | racial minorities receive government aid that they don't deserve | Formal | R |
public school | public school | racist | who was our leading writer of letters and political thought in the history of this Nation would be aghast to think that 10 percent of this country Is going through the public school system and graduating as functionally illiterate. | 09/13/1983 | JUDD GREGG | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | R |
public school | public school | racist | 303. and 304 of title III of this bill adopt the fallacious notion that public school students should be denied the right to attend neighborhood schools in their home communities. | 06/28/1963 | SAMUEL ERVIN | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
public school | public school | racist | Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, our Nation was founded on an incredibly powerful and truly audacious idea. The idea was that every single human being was created equal, with rights that come from your Creator, from God--not from the government, not from the laws, not even from the Constitution or your leaders. You are born with those rights. Inherent in that is our powerful national commitment that I think remains to this day, the belief that everyone should have freedom and that everyone--because freedom comes with those rights--and that everyone be treated fairly. For 244 years, our story has been that of a nation on a continuous and a steady march to live up to those ideals. Tomorrow, thousands will come to Washington once again for a different march but one that I believe is tied directly to this Nation's ongoing quest to fulfill the promise of its founding. Almost half a century ago, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that within our Constitution, there was the implicit right to end the life of an unborn child. Since then, every single day in this country, unborn human beings have had their life ended before they even drew their first breath. They are, in essence, denied the freedom to live, not because they did anything wrong; they are denied this most basic of rights unfairly because of circumstances they have nothing to do with and do not control. That this occurs here is shameful enough, and I believe that is how history will regard it; that we use taxpayer money to promote it and export it abroad is outrageous. Before we even passed a bill to deal with the pandemic or to bring back good jobs to the United States or any of the other major issues confronting our country, in one of his first acts as President, President Biden decided to prioritize tearing up the so-called Mexico City policy--a policy that rightfully bans our taxpayer dollars from being sent to organizations that use them to perform or promote abortions overseas. Abortion is a very difficult and uncomfortable topic. No one can pretend that if some 15-year-old girl is pregnant and afraid--afraid of her parents, afraid of what others might think, afraid for her future--that she faces an easy choice. It is not. It doesn't feel fair, it doesn't feel like freedom to have laws that tell people what they can or cannot do with their body, but in this case, the challenge we have is that it is a case that puts the fundamental rights of two people into direct conflict--the right, as most definitely exists, of a mother to choose what to do with her body versus the right of an unborn child to live. Itforces us to decide which one of these two rights wins out in those circumstances. I personally, for one, and those who march tomorrow have chosen life--not because it is an easy choice but because, to me, it is a clear one because the right to live is the one right upon which all the other rights we claim depend. Without life, there is no speech to protect, and there is no religion to practice. Without life, frankly, nothing else matters. I would point out that being pro-life is not just about the right to be born; it also means the right to live and to thrive. Once a child is born, that child depends on their parents or whoever their guardians are who are raising them, and they have a moral and legal duty to care for them--not just to feed them, not just to clothe them, not just to house them, but also to promote a safe and stable home and the chance at a good education and a better future. That is why I deeply believe that pro-life must also mean being pro-parent. Being a parent is the most influential role anyone will ever have. It is the most important job any of us will ever have. That is why I worked to and we were successful in expanding the child tax credit 2 years ago. That is why I stand ready now to work with President Biden to expand it even further. I am concerned about some of the details of the policies he has outlined. For example, his proposal appears to unfairly benefit parents who send their children to commercial childcare over stay-at-home parents or grandparents or other caregivers. But this is an area where we have a common goal and one where I believe we can find a way to work together. It is also why I support creating the opportunity for every parent in America to have access to paid family leave, because no one should be thrown into welfare or debt or bankruptcy because they got pregnant, because they had a child. It is also, by the way, why I support school choice. In America, rich parents can afford to send their kids to any school they want, and they do. Upper middle class parents can move to neighborhoods with good public schools. But it is unfair that the only parents in America who are forced to send their children to the school the government tells them--even if that school is failing their children--are the parents who don't make enough money to have another option. For 21st-century America to move closer to fulfilling our founding principle of equality, of freedom, of fairness, every child deserves the right not just to be born but also the right to live and to thrive, the right not just to exist but the right to pursue and fulfill their potential. I believe that what is at stake is nothing less than our identity as a nation. If we become a place where your right to be born and your ability to succeed is determined by who your parents are or by the circumstances of your conception, then we may remain, indeed, a rich and a powerful and an important country, but we will no longer be a special one. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 01/06/2020 | Mr. RUBIO | S | null | @unitedstatesproject | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | R |
entitlement | entitlement programs | racist | the majority wants to raise taxes and cut Medicare to pay for a brand new health care entitlement program. | 01/20/2010 | CHARLES GRASSLEY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
entitlement | entitlement programs | racist | infants. and children (WIC) program to entitlement status in fiscal year 1985. I strongly oppose creating yet another entitlement program at a time when Congress is struggling to hold the Federal deficit below $200 billion annually. | 04/10/1984 | ELDON RUDD | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
entitlement | entitlement programs | racist | It is true the proposals we have seen so far include about $ trillion in cuts to Medicare and massive tax increases to pay for this new entitlement program. | 10/27/2009 | CHARLES GRASSLEY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
religious freedom | religious freedom | homophobic | today the Obama Administration is following through on their HHS mandate that violates religious freedom as today begins the date where the rule goes into effect. | 08/01/2012 | MARSHA BLACKBURN | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Discrimination against LGBTQ people | Formal | R |
religious liberty | religious freedom | homophobic | to continue their fine service to the country in producing good young citizens. Passage of this bill will be welcomed by friends of religious liberty. In closing. | 01/21/1993 | J. THURMOND | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Discrimination against LGBTQ people | Formal | R |
family values | family values | homophobic | I rise today to pay tribute to a tradition that bespeaks the family values that our country was founded on. | 04/10/1992 | ALFONSE DAMATO | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Opposition to gay marriage | Formal | R |
entitlement program | entitlement programs | racist | well. Social Security is causing our deficit problem and we have to address entitlement programs. theyre not giving you the whole picture. | 03/15/2011 | MARK CRITZ | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | D |
entitlement program | entitlement programs | racist | Actually. it is the entitlement programs of America that are getting us the budget deficit that we have. And in the budget resolution. | 03/22/1993 | PETE DOMENICI | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving | Formal | R |
terrorists | Islamic terrorists | Islamophobic | The President continues to claim that we have a moral obligation to help these terrorists in the name of democracy. | 04/17/1985 | GEORGE LELAND | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | D |
terrorists | Islamic terrorists | Islamophobic | with all the rights that are afforded to us. when we grant terrorists who seek to end our way of life with those same protections. Why are we providing Miranda rights and other constitutional protections to terrorists at the expense of the security of the American people? | 01/22/2010 | GEORGE LEMIEUX | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Muslim people as a whole are a threat | Formal | R |
public schools | public school | racist | and they have less time for children. And our public schools are not equipped to fill the breach. What we are asking for is a sensible. | 10/19/2000 | RICHARD GEPHARDT | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars | Formal | D |
food stamp | food stamps | racist | About 20 million people are either unemployed or not working up to their potential because they could not find the job that fits them. There are record numbers of people on food stamps. So that is where America was then. | 11/18/2010 | BYRON DORGAN | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government assistance for minorities | Formal | D |
food stamp | food stamps | racist | How does the President feel about the fact that 3 years of his policies have left us with more people on food stamps. | 04/27/2012 | ALLEN WEST | H | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government assistance for minorities | Formal | R |
balancing the budget | balance the budget | conservative | How serious can we be about balancing the budget if we let billions in tax pork go virtually unchallenged each year? | 03/22/1995 | WILLIAM BRADLEY | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations | Formal | D |
government spending | entitlement spending | racist | The idea that Government spending can create genuine prosperity cannot be supported by any example in history. | 06/28/1961 | CARL CURTIS | S | null | Stanford Congressional Record | Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy | Formal | R |
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