I commend my friend from Louisiana for bringing our Members to the floor tonight to talk about something that is so essential to American life, our careers, our work, our independence, our ability to pursue happiness. This pandemic has…

Any raise in the capital gains tax is going to go hard against family forest landowners.

Thank you, Chairwoman Stabenow, for your interest and commitment in continuing this important conversation focusing on the forestry sector.

Resilience is a particularly timely topic given the ongoing national discussion concerning the important vulnerability of our nation's critical infrastructure.

Without additional investment in MILCON, we cannot adequately address all of these requirements.

I want you to tell those at the VA that I am very concerned about a bill that we are going to have this week.

To be resilient first requires that our national resources, infrastructure and installations be hardened against threats, both natural and manmade.

over the weekend, Israeli fighter jets demolished an office building in Gaza that housed the members of Hamas, the terrorist organization dedicated to wiping Israel and its people off the map, and they are actively pursuing that mission as…

We need a score. We need the VA to weigh in. This is major stuff.

We will work this out. We will work together.

I'm not attacking you. I'm attacking the system.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Padilla). Without objection, it is so ordered. Israel

This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. This is just the history of what we've encountered.

I thank my friend from Missouri for his leadership today on these House Financial Services Committee bills. I appreciate the hard work on a bipartisan basis on these measures. I have no additional speakers on the Republican side. I urge a…

I thank my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), for his hard work on this bill. I hope that we are able to get it over the finish line and to the President's desk. I appreciate Senator Thune working on this in the Senate…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. David Scott) for introducing this bill, which has been bipartisan for several Congresses. According to data from the FDIC's survey of unbanked and underbanked households, 5.4 percent of U.S…

I thank my friend from Connecticut for his vigorous defense, always welcome on the House floor, of Article I power here in the Congress. Both sides of the aisle are grateful for that, as we defend it on a regular basis. We thank him for…

In closing, I thank my friend from California for his attention to this effort, particularly with the Federal oversight of how the DPA is used; what we can learn in this extraordinary past year that we have experienced; and how we can be…