The Chair again wishes to thank the former Members of the House and Senate for their presence here today. Before terminating these proceedings, the Chair would like to invite those former Members who did not respond when the roll was…

Thank you, Charles. It is my privilege, at this point, to recognize the Speaker of the House, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan), who will be joining the ranks of the former Members at the end of this year.

The Chair now recognizes the president of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, the Honorable Cliff Stearns of Florida, to address the Members.

Now, I would like to ask the Clerk to call the roll. The Clerk called the roll and the following former Members answered ``present'': Mr. Boustany of Louisiana Mr. Buechner of Missouri Mr. Carnahan of Missouri Mr. Clement of Tennessee Mr…

Now, those of you who know me know that I don't give long speeches. I do recall when Newt Gingrich became Speaker and he was asked to give his acceptance speech, he spoke for an hour. That was very unusual. Most new Speakers just say…

I don't know how many of you know the amount of time that Cliff has devoted to this organization. It is very, very impressive. He has a full-time job and has been an excellent president, has attended many, many of our functions, has taken…

The gentleman from Tennessee has a brief comment, because the Speaker has to go.

The Chair announces that 21 former Members of Congress have responded to their names.

I would ask that the gentleman suspend for just a moment. I know he is near the end of his report. We have been joined by the Speaker of the House.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate Immigrant Heritage Month. At a time when heinous action is being taken in the name of securing our borders--and we must secure our borders--I stand here to call on every one of my colleagues in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in fostering increased investment in the United States economy by one of our oldest allies, Portugal. As a co-chair of the Congressional Portuguese Caucus, I am proud to join…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be removed as a cosponsor of H.R. 2069. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Washington? There was no objection. ____________________

He has released an outrageous plan that will triple rents of the lowest income households and put 1.7 million Americans at risk of eviction and homelessness.

If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, in a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them. And you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.

So what we did is we sued on behalf of a group--and they were named earlier on.

you either manage it or it manages you.

what you're doing is you're locking people out of their livelihood. And what's going to happen, we're going to have a gunfight; someone's going to get killed; and it's your problem.

Isn't a lot of the underfunding fire borrowing, because you've seen its advent since you've been in the Forest Service, these huge catastrophic fires?