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We pray for the outpouring of wisdom, discernment, and divine understanding for Congress and the current Administration. Show them how to decrease our national deficit and protect our natural resources. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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The 2,700-page infrastructure bill should be concerning to many. It is packed with radical climate change policies.

“Climate change central planning is found throughout the 2,700-plus page infrastructure bill that President Biden is touting as bipartisan. The Senate bill uses central planning to re-engineer the electric grid and to eliminate carbon from the U.S. economy by offering large subsidies. There is $21.5 billion to create the Energy Department’s new Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which will provide for Secretary Granholm’s green-energy venture-capital fund. This funding should bring to mind the Obama Administration programs that funded with tax dollars, companies that failed including Solyndra, A123 Systems, Fisker Automotive and other solar manufacturers. Granholm’s fund includes $2.4 billion for advanced nuclear reactor projects, $3.5 billion for carbon capture, $8 billion for “clean hydrogen” and $5 billion for projects that “demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability,” according to the Institute for Energy Research.

The step-by-step plan to re-engineer our electric grid is deeply disconcerting. “ It would make it impossible for most Americans to meet newly implemented standards. The government would be incentivizing “renewable” energy instead of affordable energy,” said Beatrice Brooke of America First Policy Institute.

The current economy is showing on a daily basis an energy cost crisis as a result of bad policy and this big government socialism bill will make things worse. The Green New Deal policies that this bill will enact will devastate American energy independence. What Green New Deal policies are in the bill?

  • A natural tax hike which would be an attack on American energy and would limit traditional energy exploration and production.
  • Clean Electricity Performance Program
  • Civilian Climate Corps
  • Slush funds for environmental groups

“Higher energy costs are a tax on every American and particularly the most vulnerable,” Brooke continued. This bill is considered to bring the largest tax increase ($2 trillion) in American history plus it will give unions control of the economy.

Corporate welfare will also benefit from this bill. According to the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal, “Then there are the corporate subsidies, such as a $6 billion rescue for struggling nuclear plants such as Exelon’s in Illinois. Companies like Exxon Mobil that have been plowing money into experimental green technologies no doubt also hope to benefit. United Airlines is investing in flying electric taxis, which will be eligible for federal loan guarantees. Kenworth and Toyota are rolling out hydrogen-powered trucks to transport freight. The dirty little secret of the climate agenda is that it is marbled with corporate welfare.”

We need to be praying for this nation’s energy independence. Who are we going to be dependent on? China, Russia, and OPEC?

We need to be praying for God to protect our nation from a takeover of an independent, productive, and free energy policy we have enjoyed as a nation throughout our history. “The Clean Energy Performance Program would federalize the electric grid.  The responsibility of state utility regulators to ensure reliability and affordability would be over-ruled by federal requirements to increase renewable energy.  We are already seeing the results of doing this in states like California, New York, and Massachusetts, where electric rates are much higher than the national average and going up, while reliability is going down,” said Myron Ebell, Director for the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Chava
October 19, 2021

“THE CONTEST FOR AGES, HAS BEEN TO RESCUE LIBERTY FROM THE GRASP OF EXECUTIVE POWER!”

Daniel Webster

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Herb
October 19, 2021

besides what we already know,..being involved,..learning,..how to be involved-..it still,in my thinking boils down to prayer,and fasting.
I am ..So – weak,-.. at fasting..
To keep it simple, in my ..humble-well,not so humble opine- we need to concentrate on the basics,..prayer,..I need to be more persistent at fasting,and then,,being involved,for all of us- I believe that if our prayers are accompanied by involvement..we will start to sense ,..His movement in these things-INCREMENTALLY-..little at a time- one day at a time–remember ,The Lord is in charge of time..time is elastic, it cannot be overstated how important it is,..that He-..is in charge of time..
Remember when He caused the time to be suspended for one day?.. was that in Joshua?.. I dont remember-.
There is something else, as well- I have begun to listen/watch to the prophets,.. even given that may sound,..well- a little ..Off- however,it brings hope. Sometimes they say things that sound a little..questionable..however, Dutch Sheets, while I dont really think of him in that regard,( prophet)said something this morning that really hit home with me..and that was- (paraphrase) ..”it’s more of ..The Heart,of God,sometimes,that they(prophets) are revealing,than necessarily the exact wording”{or whether they ‘made a mistake’}..which ..Really resonated in ,..I guess- my spirit.Im starting to have more of an understanding what that phrase means..”In my spirit.”
These men and women who go by the title “prophet”..really have a generally positive outlook,..it has been very helpful for me.
I know The Lord is in charge,I look forward to His Imminent return,,and in the meantime- we,..are called to ..Occupy ,till he returns. I understand that to mean going about our normal daily business- with an eye on Him, our hearts raised in prayer, our hands on the plow..our feet on the ground.. &-..IF I tell you to have your mind in heaven,or your head in the clouds,..please DO NOT drive off the side of the road… 😀

one final thing,,until I understand that The Lord is telling us to assume a posture of receiving judgement or punishment,,rather than what seems to be the current,- now, of being- Warned-.. from further calamity,.. I must press on. If we, or I,..assume the worst ,are we, not stating- that God has given up on us?

Lord God ,Abba Father, have mercy of these ,,our sinful society of your children, whom daily press into repentance and prayer in beseeching you for help, and healing.
Please Lord buide these legislators, the ones that are already trudging on the path of righteousness for your namesake, Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Madison Cawthorn, Sam Brown Brownback, Tom Cotton, Doug Mastriano- and of course Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida-and all their families– bless their hearts and minds with extra portions of wisdom, strength, mercy and love, that they may continue to keep their eye on you and their hearts aright ,not growing weary in well doing,

and the evil regime of Biden, all rino’s, and other various humans in legislative positions who have allowed themselves to be on the wrong path,I pray You convict their hearts of the evil they are in, that they would turn from their wickedness, being convicted in their hearts to turn from evil, that their minds ,when pursuing evil, would be bound in confusion..and they would be caused to turn away from evil,being convicted in their minds and hearts to know your Son Jesus as savior,as a witness to Your Glory. Let the light of your glory fill the hall Washington D.C.
In the Mighty name of Jesus- Amen

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    Herb
    October 19, 2021

    Im going to a school board meeting..again.( this copming wed the 20th) I do not have,at this time, anything prepared to say, although i think just going manifests the holy spirit,as of course i will be praying.I hope i dont get hit with any flying debris,..all prayers appreciated

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Alma
October 19, 2021

This it what it fully includes:
1. Perpetuates labor shortage: Continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents at a time where there are 10.1 million job openings—more openings than there are people looking for work.
2. Commissions a climate police: Democrats stuffed $8 billion into the bill to commission a cabal of federally funded climate police called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) who will conduct progressive activism on taxpayers’ dime (pages 8, 21, and 926).
3. Pushes Green New Deal in our public schools: Requires funding for school construction be used largely on enrollment diversity and Green New Deal agenda items (page 55).
4. Pushes Green New Deal in our universities: Democrats include a $10 billion “environmental justice” higher education slush fund to indoctrinate college students and advance Green New Deal policies (page 1,935).
5. Forces faith-based child care providers out: The bill blocks the ability of many faith-based providers from participating in the childcare system and will lead to many of their closures (page 280).
6. Hurts small and in-home daycares: Requires pre-K staff to have a college degree. (page 303)
7. Includes new incentives for illegal immigration: Illegal immigrants will be eligible to take
advantage of Democrats’ new ‘free’ college entitlement (page 92) as well be eligible for additional student aid (page 147) and the enhanced child tax credit (page 1,946).
8. Includes legislative hull for Biden’s vaccine mandate: Increases OSHA penalties on businesses that fail to implement the mandate up to $700,000 per violation and includes $2.6 billion in funding for the Department of Labor to increase enforcement of these penalties (page 168).
9. Gives unions near-total control: The bill includes insane prohibitions that would bind employers’ hands in union disputes and dangerously tilt the balance of power, subjecting employers to penalties that exempt union bosses and officials… among other things this bill would prevent employers from permanently replacing striking workers (page 175). It coerces businesses to meet union boss demands by increasing Fair Labor Standards Act penalties by an astronomical 900% (page 168).
10. Makes unions bigger and more powerful: The bill would subsidize union dues that would only serve to strengthen the influence of union bosses and not American workers (page 2323).
11. Pushes Democrats’ wasteful and confusing school lunch agenda: $643 million for, among other things, “procuring…culturally appropriate foods” (page 333).
12. Furthers radical abortion agenda: Does not include the Hyde amendment and would mandate taxpayers pay for abortions (page 198) & (page 336).
13. Drives up costs on Americans’ utility bills: Issues a punitive methane tax (page 367) and includes a tax on natural gas up to $1,500 per ton that could cost the American economy up to $9.1 billion and cost 90,000 Americans their jobs (page 368).
14. Includes dangerous & deadly green energy mandate: Effectively forces Americans to get 40% of their energy from wind, solar and other unreliable forms of energy within 8 years (page 392). Reliance on these energy sources has proven deadly.
15. Includes kickbacks for the Left’s green energy special interest network: $5 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” (page 377) and another $100 billion in green energy special interest subsidies, loans and other carve outs.
16. Gives wealthy Americans tax credits: $222 billion in “green energy” tax credits will be given to those who can afford expensive electric vehicles and other “green” innovative products (page 1832). 17. Furthers Democrats’ social justice agenda: Includes “equity” initiatives throughout the bill and, in one instance, Democrats inserted “equity” language into a title which should have been focusing on
the maintenance of the United States’ cyber security efforts (page 897).
18. Grants amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants: House Democrats have included in their
reconciliation bill a plan to grant amnesty to around 8 million illegal immigrants at a cost of around $100 billion over ten years that would largely be spent on welfare and other entitlements (page 901). Trillions more would be spent long term on their Social Security and Medicare.
19.Opens border even wider: The bill would waive many grounds for immigration inadmissibility, including infection or lack of vaccination status during a Pandemic, failure to attend removal proceedings in previous immigration cases, and the previous renouncement of American citizenship. DHS may also waive previous convictions for human trafficking, narcotics violations, and illegal voting (page 903).
20. Increases visa limit: At least 226,000 family-preference visas would be administered each year (page 905).
21.Grants fast-tracked green cards for those seeking middle-class careers in America: Language included in the bill exempts certain aliens from the annual green card statutory limits and has been described as a “hidden pipeline for U.S. employers to flood more cheap foreign graduates into millions of middle-class careers needed by American graduates” (page 910).
22. Includes pork for Nancy Pelosi: $200 million is earmarked for the Presidio Trust in Speaker Pelosi’s congressional district (page 933).
23. Increases energy dependence on OPEC, Russia and China: The bill prohibits several mineral and energy withdrawals (page 979). It overturns provisions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that authorized energy production in the Arctic that will result in 130,000 Americans losing their jobs and $440 billion in lost federal revenue (page 983) and the mineral withdrawals it prohibits would, ironically, include minerals necessary for renewable energy sources (pages 934, 940, 943).
24. Exacerbates the chip shortage: The bill would mandate the conversion of the entire federal vehicle fleet from internal combustion engines to electric engines at a time when there is a global microchip shortage and crippled supply chains (page 1,043).
25. Democrats’ feckless China bill is included: Concepts from the insanely weak Endless Frontier Act included, including $11 billion in research funding that will likely result in American intellectual property going to China (page 1079 – 1081).
26. Chases green energy pipe dreams: $264 million to the EPA to conduct research with left-wing environmental justice groups on how to transition away from fossil fuels (page 1063).
27. Fixes “racist” roads and bridges: Adds a nearly $4 billion slush fund that would help left-wing grassroots organizations that, among other things, want to tear down and rebuild or otherwise alter infrastructure deemed “racist” (page 1183).
28. Punishes red states for failing to adopt Green New Deal provisions: Mandates “consequences” for conservative states that don’t meet the radical Left’s “green” climate standards while at the same time adding nearly $4 billion for “Community Climate Incentive Grants” for cooperating states (page 1179).
29. Includes new massive, bankrupting entitlement: The new paid leave entitlement would mandate workers get 12 weeks of paid leave and would cost $500 billion over ten years according to the CBO (page 1245). It would apply to those making up to half a million dollars a year (page 1254).
30. Advances a totalitarian and paternalistic view of the federal government: Includes grants for organizations to treat individuals suffering from “loneliness” and “social isolation.”
31. Further detaches individuals from employment and more reliant on government handouts: The bill spends $835 billion on welfare through manipulating the tax code [not including the expansions of Obamacare subsidies] (page 1943).
32. Tax benefits for the top 1%: The bill will possibly lift the SALT deduction cap meaning many of the top 1% wealthiest Americans would pay less in taxes.
33. Tax credit for wealthy donors who give to woke universities: The bill creates a new tax credit program that gives tax credits worth 40% of cash contribution that are made to university research programs (page 2094).
34.Expands worst parts of Obamacare: Obamacare’s job-killing employer mandate will become more severe by adjusting the definition of “affordable coverage” to mean coverage that costs no more than 8.5 percent of income rather than current law’s 9.5 percent of income (page 2041).
35. Increases taxes on Americans at every income level: $2 trillion in tax hikes will fall on those making under $400,000 per year, contrary to what the White House says. Individuals at all income levels will be affected (Ways and Means GOP).
36.Lowers wages for working families: The corporate tax rate will increase by 5.5%, meaning
American companies will face one of the highest tax burdens in the world. According to analysis, two-thirds of this tax hike will fall on lower- and middle-income taxpayers (page 2110).
37. Penalizes marriage: The bill would permanently double the EITC’s marriage penalty on childless worker benefits (page 2036).
38. Imposes crushing taxes on small business: Guts the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act small business
deductions that reduced pass-through entity taxes to keep them comparable to taxes imposed on corporations (page 2235) as well as hammer small businesses that file as individual tax earners with the 39.6% rate (page 2221) and Obamacare’s 3.8% tax on net investment income.
39.Crushesfamilybusinessesandfarms:Thebillwouldimposea25%capitalgainsrate (page2226) and makes alterations to the Death Tax including cutting the Death Tax exemption in half (page 2240).
40.Violates Americans’ financial privacy: $80 billion slush fund to hire an 87,000-IRS-agent army to carry out the Biden administration’s plan to review every account above a $600 balance or with more than $600 of transactions in a year. (page 2283).
41. Increases out of pocket costs for those who rely on prescription drugs: The bill repeals the Trump-era Rebate Rule which passes through rebates directly to consumers at the point of sale (page 2465).
42. Imports policies from countries with socialized medicine: The bill includes healthcare policies imported from systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom—all countries that have government-run healthcare systems (page 2349).
Conclusion: Each of these 42 bullets is enough to vote against the bill. Taken together—it’s mind- blowingly corrupt. We need to loudly oppose it. Democrats are scattered. The Biden agenda is in question. It’s the perfect opportunity to build public sentiment against this bill. The American people need us to be the vanguard against the Left’s radical plans.
FROM: Chairman Jim Banks
DATE: October 12, 2021

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Marta Gallegos
October 19, 2021

Earnest Prayer for none of this spending bills to pass To me this is a communist takeover Look around Only Hope is to look to Our Heavenly Father to give us Mercy and strength Amen

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Pauline
October 19, 2021

This Bill really has nothing to do with infrastructure. It is all about controlling EVERY ASPECT of our lives through their “climate change” rules. This Bill, if enacted, WILL DO IT! It will also unleash CRT, and many ungodly agendas on children, and us. They will use the ESG score to make everyone comply. This is one grand scheme, to destroy everything about America!! Did you know, their plan is for No ONE to own property or anything, by 2030?
These arrogant, evil, people have been planning this for YEARS! I’ve said this before, these people are ORGANIZED! (Remember, Obama, the “community organizer??) I’m told that they are getting ready to use climate change to make all corporations “comply or explain.” It all has to do with their ESG score. Look on Whitehouse.gov. They aren’t hiding it. Corporations, banks, all companies, everyone, has to comply with ESG or lose.
While these people were busy planning and organizing ALL of this, most of America had no clue! Many, in America, still don’t!! They think everything will one day be “normal” again. Sadly, we are not going back to normal. We have to be aware and learn how to stand against this! They may have lots of money and organization but…………..
We have someone they don’t…..ALMIGHTY GOD on our side. We need godly organizers and leaders to step up. There ARE more of us than them! We have to do our part, God will always do His!

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Vickie
October 19, 2021

Heavenly Father, please do not allow the enemy to prevail in this situation and show Your mercy on us once more. I pray for the outpouring of wisdom, discernment, and divine understanding for this current administration and congress. Show them how to decrease our national deficit and to protect our natural resources. In Jesus Holy Name and Authority, Amen.

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Christine Stott
October 19, 2021

Dear Heavenly Father, Please do not let the enemy prevail in this situation, please protect Americans’ freedoms that You have given us, our God-granted freedoms to breathe clean air and drink fresh water and live and move in freedom, please grant this request and have mercy on our wicked nation, thank You, in Jesus Christ’s name I make my request.

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brian
October 19, 2021

Anything that this Administration promotes is simply an attempt to control the lives of the American people. The very fact that this ridiculous, evil piece of trash has been allowed to “hang around” as long as it has, is a symptom of how far that this country has fallen .We surely don’t need this to be passed. We have more than enough issues in this nation to deal with. Our nation is so far in debt now- all we need, is for the Chinese to demand repayment of all the money that they have loaned us, and this nation is through. Spending this staggering amount of money, to give the government more control over us, is simply wrong and unacceptable. Wake up, America, and see what you government is all about! Lord Jesus, by Your great mercy and grace, please, let this proposed legislation die a merciful death. It has no place in our land. Thank You, Lord.

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Denise
October 19, 2021

Almighty God,
You are the Creator and Sustainer of Life. Please reveal the plans of the enemy to deceive and destroy our liberties. Please grant wisdom, discernment and courage to those who stand against these federal power grabs. They want to federalize these activities so they can tax us and control our consumption. This would move us one step closer to Globalism and the One World Government. This is all part of their “Great Reset” where all power and control will be given to a small group of elites. Father, You laugh as they try to put forth their great plans just as Nimrod did with the Tower of Babel. They will not succeed! You are greater and Your Word is clear that victory has been won through the Blood of the Lamb. Prepare Your bride, strengthen Your Church and be glorified as we watch, wait and stand! In the Power of Yeshua, Jesus Christ, our Lord, Redeemer and Savior by Your Name we pray! Amen!

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daniel
October 19, 2021

i haven’t been specifically praying for this bill, but now i feel i must, i pray the contents of the Bill would be broadcasted more to the general public, for i believe more would be against it. God will hear the prayers of His people, so let’s lean it and pray his manifestation to ptotect our economy and our independence to our abundant supply right here in our own country! In Jesus name

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