You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it`s not doing anything, and we have to stop with this COVID theater. So, if you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.

Madam Speaker, I thank the Resident Commissioner. Madam Speaker, for over 120 years, Puerto Rico, as we have said here, has enriched the United States with its culture and its people. The beautiful island of Puerto Rico that I know so well…

Madam Speaker, I thank the Resident Commissioner. Madam Speaker, here is my partner in equality in the Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon. And she is not the only one. Florida is in the House tonight in support of…

Mr. President, imagine this. You are a CEO of a company, and one day your CFO comes into your office with bad news. The company's costs are rapidly growing, and you aren't bringing in enough money to keep pace with the rising costs. The…

Madam Speaker, we are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans on the island of Puerto Rico are not recognized as a government by the people. Puerto Rican Americans…

I was incredibly disheartened to hear... that painted a picture of a fleet that remains overworked and understaffed.

I am concerned, and I share my colleagues' concern, that the Navy, to be candid, hasn't sufficiently addressed some of these chronic problems.

Congress is at its best when we are making laws that protect the interests of all small businesses.

We must help all small businesses.

As you said, contracting with the federal government is the American dream.

We have to increase participation within all of SBA's contracting programs and enhance diversity of awards.

Madam President, I thank my colleagues Senators Risch and Toomey for their leadership on these efforts. Americans are watching Russia's invasion into Ukraine, and they are looking to us for leadership. As an evil tyrant wages war, they are…

The problem is not that Putin is smart, which, of course, he`s smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.

classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The problem is not that Putin is smart, which, of course, he`s smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.

Congress recognized the adverse effects in learning loss the pandemic might manifest.

As a mother of three, I have seen firsthand how hard the past two years have been on young people.

Governor DeSantis must make these badly needed dollars available to Florida school districts immediately or our children, teachers, and local taxpayers will suffer and bear the long-term burden, and that will rest squarely on his shoulders.