I ask unanimous consent to print and include in the Congressional Record, at the appropriate place, the joint explanatory statement to accompany H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024, with the technical and conforming edits…

Ranking Member Carbajal and I sent a letter to the Appropriations Committee last month urging the inclusion of an additional $21.8 million.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Kennedy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

Given the Coast Guard's past lack of transparency on these issues.

The decision by former Coast Guard leadership to conceal the existence of Operation Fouled Anchor hurt the Coast Guard.

Whatever we can do to expand affordable care, improve healthcare, strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and bring down costs is a win for our constituents. That is why I am excited to sponsor this bill, the Medicaid Primary Care…

Energy security should be handled by the Department of Energy. This is important for our national security. Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this bipartisan bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The Coast Guard deserves the support of Congress in addressing this issue.

Culture change can create a more tolerant, accepting, and supportive workforce.

I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record at the appropriate place the following statement regarding the disclosure of congressionally directed spending items under rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate. Disclosure of…

There is not a relationship between gender dysphoria, transgender people, and sexual assault and sexual harassment.

it has been several months now since Hamas carried out a truly heinous terrorist attack against Israel. The barbarity of October 7 should not be brushed aside and cannot ever be excused. We are talking about terrorists gunning down…

right now, our job is to avoid a government shutdown. The House has just sent us a very short, bipartisan CR to make sure that our Agencies and programs continue operating as we work together to pass the first six of our final funding…

I am really glad that we have cleared consensus that no one wants to see a government shutdown and that preventing one now will require a very short CR so we can continue making good progress on our full-year funding bills. I have been at…

the clock is ticking. We face a partial shutdown of the government tomorrow night. We cannot let the threat of that government shutdown be used as leverage to set aside the bipartisan agreement on the CR before us in order to jam through…

the House just voted overwhelmingly to send us this clean and very short CR to keep our government open while we work on passing final funding bills, which is exactly what we should all be focused on now. But this particular motion…

I encourage all colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this extension. We will get a bill by May 10, and we can all vote ``yes'' on that, as well. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

women of color, especially Black women, this is really worsened longstanding inequities that they have faced.