Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Franklin), my friend and colleague. He has served as a naval aviator in the U.S. Navy for 26 years. I thank him for his service.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Harshbarger). She has been a successful pharmacist and business owner for over three decades.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wittman). He is an experienced government official. We share a common background in local government, having both served as mayors.

Mr. Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). He represents California's First District. He serves on the Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, we…

I`m a marked man in Congress.

We obviously want our universities to be focused on critical thinking, academic rigor. We do not want them as basically hotbeds for stale ideology.

I look forward to working with the Army Corps of Engineers and local Miami leaders to find effective solutions to mitigate destructive storm surges along the south Florida coast.

I am concerned about the ability to fund the $7 billion needed to complete all of the Everglades restoration projects.

the White House has confirmed that whatever is asked for is going to be granted in terms of the longer term housing assistance, debris removal, the expenses that are obviously massive that no budget this small, like the City of Surfside…

I know a lot of parents, one of the things they worry about, you know, if you send a kid to a university, you know, are they just going to basically be indoctrinated?

The past year has disrupted the education of millions of students and placed a tremendous strain on our students, parents, and our teachers.

We can help close the 23 billion racial funding gap that exists between school districts serving students of color and those serving predominantly white students.

I am concerned about the raging, raging of mental health issues in our school districts and in our colleges and universities.

I would like to get you to today to commit to do everything in your power to expedite the discharge for these 500,000 Americans with disabilities.

Supporting Black men and boys in their path of higher education has been my life's work.

Thank you to today's witnesses for illuminating President Biden's budget priorities.

I've been working since I got on the ground and before I left Washington this morning, to -- you know, with the White House and with our State Emergency Management officials here to make sure that all the requests that are made by Miami…

We are not giving up regardless of their procedural votes to obstruct, regardless of the filibuster -- look, when the filibuster stands in the way of good legislation going forward, then we need to get rid of it.