Sen. Tim Scott delivers GOP rebuttal to Biden's remarks | FULL

good evening i'm senator tim scott from the great state of south carolina we just heard president biden's first address to congress our president seems like a good man his speech was full of good words but president biden promised you a specific kind of leadership he promised the united nation to lower the temperature to govern for all americans no matter how we voted this was the pitch you just heard it again but our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes we need policies and progress that brings us closer together but three months in the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart i won't waste your time with finger-pointing or partisan bickering you can get that on tv anytime you want i want to have an honest conversation about common sense and common ground about this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation and how we move forward together growing up i never dreamed i would be standing here tonight when i was a kid my parents divorced my mother my brother and i moved in with my grandparents three of us sharing one bedroom i was disillusioned and angry and i nearly failed out of school but i was blessed first with a praying mama and let me say this to the single mothers out there who are working their tails off working hard trying to make the ends meet wondering if it's worth it you can bet it is god bless your amazing effort on the heart of your kids i was also blessed by a chick-fil-a operator john lennis and finally with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in america this past year i've watched covet attack every rung of the latter that helped me up so many families have lost parents and grandparents too early so many small businesses have gone under becoming a christian transformed my life but for months too many churches were shut down most of all i'm saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a single day locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future our public schools should have reopened months ago other countries did private and religious schools did science has shown for months that schools are safe but too often powerful grown-ups set science aside and kids like me were left behind the clearest case i've seen for school choice in our lifetimes because we know that education is the closest thing to magic in america last year under republican leadership we passed five bipartisan coveted packages congress supported our schools our hospitals saved our economy and funded operation warp speed delivering vaccines in record time all five bills got 90 90 votes in the senate common sense found common ground in february republicans told president biden we wanted to keep working together to finish this fight but democrats wanted to go it alone they spent almost two trillion dollars on a partisan bill that the white house bribed was the most liberal bill in american history only one percent went to vaccinations no requirement to reopen schools promptly covert brought congress together five times this administration pushed us apart another issue that should unite us is infrastructure republicans support everything you think of when you think of infrastructure roads bridges ports airports waterways high-speed broadband we're in for all of that but again democrats want a partisan wish list they won't even build bridges to build bridges less than six percent of the president's plan goes to roads and bridges it's a liberal wish list of big government waste plus the biggest job-killing tax hikes in a generation experts say when all is said and done it would lower wages of the average american worker and shrink our economy tonight we also heard about a so-called family plan even more taxing even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college the beauty of the american dream is that families get to define it for themselves we should be expanding opportunities and options for all families not throwing money at certain issues because democrats think they know best infrastructure spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense weakening our southern borders and creating a crisis is not compassionate the president is also abandoning principles he's held for decades now he says your tax dollars should fund abortions he's laying groundwork to pack the supreme court this is not common ground nowhere do we need common ground more desperately than in our discussions of race i have experienced the pain of discrimination i know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason to be followed around the store while i'm shopping i remember every morning at the kitchen table my grandfather would open the newspaper and read it i thought but later i realized he had never learned to read it he just wanted to set the right example i've also experienced a different kind of intolerance i could call it uncle tom and the n-word by progressives by liberals just last week a national newspaper suggested my family's poverty was actually privileged because a relative owned land generations before my time believe me i know firsthand our healing is not finished in 2015 after the shooting of walter scott i wrote a bill to fund body cameras last year after the deaths of brianna taylor and george floyd i built an even bigger police reform proposal but my democratic colleagues blocked it i extended an olive branch i offered amendments but democrats used a filibuster to block the debate from even happening my friends across the aisle seemed to want the issue more than they wanted a solution but i'm still working i'm hopeful that this will be different when america comes together we've made tremendous progress but powerful forces want to pull us apart a hundred years ago kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic and if they looked a certain way they were inferior today kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again and if they look a certain way they're an oppressor from colleges to corporations to our culture people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal you know this stuff is wrong hear me clearly america is not a racist country it's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination and it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present i'm an african-american who has voted in the south my entire life i take voting rights personally republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat and so do the voters big majorities of americans support early voting and big majority support voter id including african americans and hispanics common sense makes common ground but today this conversation has collapsed the state of georgia passed a law that expands early voting preserves no excuse mail in voting and despite what the president claimed did not reduce election day hours if you actually read this law it's mainstream it will be easier to vote early in georgia than in democrat run new york but the left doesn't want you to know that they want people virtue signaling by yelling about a law they haven't even read fact checkers have called out the white house for misstatements the president absurdly claims that this is worse than jim crow what is going on here i'll tell you a washington power grab this misplaced outrage is supposed to justify democrats new sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states it would send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with and make the bipartisan federal elections commission partisan this is not about civil rights or our racial past it's about breaking elections in the future and no the same filibuster that president obama and president biden praised when they were senators the same filibuster that the democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is now on the other foot race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants it's far too important this should be a joyful springtime for our nation this administration inherited a tide that had already turned the corona virus is on the run thanks to operation warp speed in the trump administration our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines thanks to our bipartisan work last year job openings are rebounding so why do we feel so divided anxious a nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so heavy-laden a president who promised to bring us together should not be pushing agendas that tear us apart the american family deserves better and we know what better looks like just before covid we have the most inclusive economy in my lifetime the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded for african americans hispanics and asians and a 70-year low nearly for women wages for hear me wages were growing faster at the bottom than at the top the bottom 25 percent saw their wages go up faster than the top 25 percent that happened because republicans focus on expanding opportunity for all americans in addition to that we passed opportunity zones criminal justice reform and permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities for the first time ever we fought the drug epidemic rebuilt our military and cut taxes for working families and single moms like the one that raised me our best future will not come from washington schemes or socialist dreams it will come from you the american people black hispanic white and asian republican and democrat brave police officers in black neighborhoods we are not adversaries we are family we are all in this together and we get to live in the greatest country on earth the country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to congress in one lifetime so i am more than hopeful i am confident that our finest hour is yet to come original sin is never the end of the story not in our souls and not for our nation the real story is always redemption i am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times i believe our nation has succeeded the same way because generations of americans in their own ways have asked for grace and god has supplied it so i will close with a word from a worship song that really helped me through this past year of covet the music is new but the words draw from scripture may the lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may his presence go before you and behind you and beside you in your weeping and you're rejoicing he is for you may his favor be upon our nation for a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children good night and god bless the united states of america hey 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Length: 14min 45sec (885 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021