Madam Speaker, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Babin) to control the remaining time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas will control the time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to discuss what House Democrats are now calling the America COMPETES Act, and frankly, it is a shame. It is a shame that they are framing this as a bill…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul), who is the Republican leader of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, last year, the CCP's hypersonic weapons program successfully launched a…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the Republican leader. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. But more importantly, I want to thank him for his service to this…

Sir, I want to talk a little bit about 5G, FAA, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and a connection, a relationship between all of them and how they are working together in order to make sure that we have safe…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), the Republican leader of the Education and Labor Committee.

I condemn them in the strongest terms.

these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something to do with it, we are not playing their game.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Uncle Sam, also known as Pastor Terry Horn, on his longstanding and excellent work serving the children of our northeast Florida community. Pastor Terry and his wife, Cynthia, run an organization…

I would just ask--and I know Chairman Scott would appreciate this as well--any help that you and USDA could do to influence the Democratic leadership in the House to bring this very strong bipartisan bill to the table would be greatly…

If we would have taken the same disjointed approach back in the 1930s to electricity, I think some of our communities--probably the community I live in--would still be in the dark.

I have a real concern about overbuilding, and the relationship between USDA and FCC.

Going into farm bill season, this is extraordinarily exciting, even though I know it doesn't seem like that after 3 hours.

I just don't know how any of my colleagues would argue against the Zero For Zero legislation.

I hear continuously from various stakeholders... that the lengthy process, the approval process for broadband loan applicants, it is too long.

I feel like this is one of the areas where we can come together as Republicans and Democrats and really work to deploy this critical broadband across America.

It seems like virtue signaling and some woke ideology.

I would support moving or creating a secondary guestworker program under USDA, separate of H-2A, that gets rid of the adverse wage effect.