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Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 777, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019. The Debbie Smith Act, named for a courageous woman who has fought for the rights…
Madam Speaker, I remind my colleagues that the reauthorization of this bill has been sitting in the VAWA reauthorization bill passed by this House many months ago, it has been sitting in the Senate since then. Madam Speaker, I yield 3…
Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I am a little puzzled by what I am hearing on the floor today and, frankly, what I heard in committee this morning on a different bill. The gist of that is, well, we…
Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Madam Speaker, it is critical that we do all that we can to prevent sexual assault and that we ensure survivors receive the essential services they need, which is why we passed…
Madam Speaker, how much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 777) to reauthorize programs authorized under the Debbie Smith Act of 2004. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 777 Be it enacted…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2426, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019, or the CASE Act. This important bipartisan legislation would establish…
Madam President, I am rising once again to ask the Senate's consent to move to the H.J. Res. 77 condemning the President's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria. Despite the Pandora's box of problems the President's…
Madam President, I don't want to prolong this. I will make two quick points. No. 1, my friend from Kentucky thinks he knows what is better for the Kurds than the Kurds know. The Kurds hate going into the arms of Syria--hate it. Second, if…
Madam President, the Republican leader in recent days has charged that because the House of Representatives is now engaged in its constitutional duty to examine Presidential wrongdoing, that somehow Democrats are not interested in…
Well, you went to the European regulators and you said that it will not be linked, that it will be impossible, and yet, 18 months later, it happened.
So have you learned that you should not lie?
Mr. Zuckerberg, we do not want to break the international monetary system.
You are going to create a new currency. You are going to call it the 'Zuck Buck.'
The poor and unbanked need pesos. They need dollars so that they can buy something at a local store.
However, Facebook has had a history of problems safeguarding users' data.
Would you commit to a moratorium on launching Libra until Congress can develop... a legal framework?