{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3359", "Trahan Slams Extreme Project 2025 Proposals During Speech on House Floor", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Lori Trahan", "T000482", "trahan.house.gov", "trahan", "https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) spoke on the House floor ripping the dangerous proposals laid out in Project 2025, the blueprint for the next Republican president to eliminate presidential checks and balances, roll back women\u2019s reproductive freedoms, and gut the middle class.\n\n\u201cProject 2025 will take us backwards to a time where life was great if you were wealthy or well-connected. But that same time was hard \u2013 it was hard for workers and parents like mine who wanted nothing more than to give their kids a better life than they had,\u201d said Congresswoman Trahan. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m here to tell you that we can\u2019t and we won\u2019t go back. House Democrats will move our country forward with a vision where people are proud to be an American again.\u201d\n\nFootage of Trahan\u2019s remarks on the House floor can be accessed HERE or by clicking the image below. A transcript of her remarks as delivered is embedded.\n\n------------------------------------------\n\nCongresswoman Lori Trahan\n\nRemarks as Delivered\n\nFloor Speech on Project 2025\n\nSeptember 24, 2024\n\nMr. Speaker, I rise today to sound the alarm about the dangerous and extreme policies put forward in Project 2025, the self-described blueprint for the Republican president to take over total control of the federal government and our lives. Spanning more than 900 pages, Project 2025 lays out not a concept of a plan, but a plan, for Donald Trump or another GOP president to ignore the Constitution and unilaterally turn back the clock on working families, on women, and on our children.\n\nFor families, Project 2025 calls to eliminate overtime pay and kick people with pre-existing conditions off their health care insurance. For women and girls, Project 2025 calls for taking the Republican abortion bans that are devastating women in Georgia and Texas and jeopardizing IVF in Alabama \u2013 and doing the same nationally. And for our children, Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Department of Education and defunding our public schools.\n\nEach and every one of these proposals would have been devastating for millions of Americans. I know that, Mr. Speaker, because every one of them would have ruined my life.\n\nMy dad was a union ironworker. He picked up overtime whenever possible so that he could keep a roof over our heads and put food on the table. Like so many families, Project 2025 taking away the chance to work overtime could have meant us losing our home or going to bed hungry.\n\nAnd when my dad was diagnosed with MS at just 48 years old, he needed his health insurance to visit the doctor and afford his medications. Project 2025 allowing an insurance corporation to kick him off his health care coverage just because he was sick would have been a death sentence, just as it could be for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.\n\nWhen my husband and I decided to start our family but struggled to get pregnant, we were forced to turn to IVF, and we were so fortunate to have our two beautiful daughters. But as we saw in Alabama, Project 2025\u2019s proposals that endanger IVF fertility treatments can be physically and mentally debilitating for couples turning to fertility treatment as their last hope.\n\nFinally, I am the proud product of Lowell Public Schools from elementary to high school. Like any public school student, I can tell you so many stories of teachers who made the most of the little resources they had to give us every opportunity to succeed. Ripping that lifeline away from working families, as Project 2025 proposes, is a horrible idea plain and simple.\n\nProject 2025 will take us backwards to a time where life was great if you were wealthy or well-connected. But that same time was hard \u2013 it was hard for workers and parents like mine who wanted nothing more than to give their kids a better life than they had. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here to tell you that we can\u2019t and we won\u2019t go back.\n\nHouse Democrats will move our country forward with a vision where people are proud to be an American again \u2013 proud because working families aren\u2019t just getting by or making ends meet, but getting ahead. Because women have the freedom to make their own health care decisions without the fear of politicians getting in the way. And because our children can go to class and thrive while us moms and dads don\u2019t have to worry about their school being defunded or worse, the next target of a deranged mass shooter.\n\nThat should be something all of us can get behind. And it\u2019s why I urge my Republican colleagues: Reject Project 2025, and work with us to build a future where people have every chance to get ahead.\n\nThank you, Mr. Speaker. 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