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Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. Build Back Better Act

Floor Speech

Date: Aug. 12, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of great things in this legislation. I want to focus on one thing that is important for San Antonio.

In 2019, my county, Bexar County, had the second-highest death toll from diabetes. My grandmother died from diabetes. My mom is diabetic. I remember going with my grandmother, and she would inject insulin into herself. Sometimes she had trouble paying for it and spent days, sometimes several days, at the hospital.

There are so many people--senior citizens--in this country who will benefit from the fact that we are capping insulin costs at $35 a month and prescription drug costs, humble, hardworking people who don't ask a lot from us or their government but will benefit incredibly from this legislation.

I say thank you to everybody who supported it and who is getting it across the finish line. It is going to be great for the country.

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