This holiday season, many parents in Washington's Fourth Congressional District and across the Nation will struggle to afford a special holiday meal for their family or buy presents for their children. The hard truth is that under the…

I would point out that the money from the IRS was not a pay-for. It actually increased the deficit. Under the rules of the House, the people who decide how to score those things scored it as adding money to it. It wasn't a pay-for. It was…

As I understand it, I could go second to last, but I am prepared to close at this point, as well. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington is correct.

Extreme MAGA Republicans in the House are on a Donald Trump-directed fishing expedition. In fact, they have been on a fishing expedition for months with embarrassing results--nothing-- no bites, no evidence for anything that justifies…

In the Pacific Northwest and across the entire country, businesses and communities understand the critical importance of ports, harbors, and inland waterways to keeping goods that we rely on moving.

Through their collective power, unionized workers have secured record contracts that have dramatically raised wages and increased benefits.

Thank you, Chair Rouzer, for holding a second hearing on the development of the Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA.

Congress provided $530 billion in the BIL for roads, bridges, transit, buses, ferries, and other infrastructure needs.

It is unacceptable that my Republican colleagues want to chip away at these pro-worker policies, and it is our duty to stand with workers who buildup our economy.

I applaud the Department's efforts to date on this front and the steps taken to address the unacceptably high rate of deaths.

This June, the NLRB issued a pro-worker decision that rightfully reversed a Trump era policy that allowed companies to misclassify their employees as independent contractors.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I want to thank the chair and ranking member for having this hearing today.

As a pediatrician, I understand that sometimes competing concerns about making sure that children who are food insecure get enough good-quality food to eat at school, and at the same time making sure those meals do not contribute to our…

Unionization is fundamentally about workplace democracy, about the right to organize and that worker power helps not just workers, but our whole economy.

Today's hearing is another opportunity to highlight how federal infrastructure dollars are benefiting communities and building a cleaner, greener, safer and more accessible transportation system.

Our ferry programs are critical to coastal communities. And the new programs that were created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law really funded around the low-emitting electric ferry will really help improve and also help expand service…

The administration has created over 14 million jobs, kept unemployment under 4 percent for the longest time in nearly 50 years, and delivered the most pro-worker agenda in modern history.

If these dams were breached, either literally or functionally, those that would be negatively impacted would be electricity customers, transportation stakeholders, river-dependent ports, communities up and down the Pacific Northwest…