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Madam Speaker, in a peewee sports competition, you can make the case that if you are competing, you are winning. But when it comes to global standing, energy independence, and economic security, there are no participation trophies. Our…

Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Louisiana for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues on this House floor and remember our good friend, the dedicated dean of the House, Congressman Don Young, from the great State…

Madam Speaker, it is my honor to stand in this Chamber tonight and to pay tribute to one of the longest serving and I think one of the most effective Members to ever stand in this Chamber. Don Young was not just the longest-serving Member…

What we do not want to do is repeat the same implementation.

I think the reality is that kind of gets us out of the hole that we are currently in but does not do any for planning in the sense, you know, making the system where it works better.

We anticipate working hard, getting this done, another 500,000 or so a year?

It`s very important for the future that we continue to work together.

This is a mess, and I know that we are all committed to helping get it straightened out.

You really don`t -- you really don`t remember what...

Sometimes we do not do as good a job on the oversight as we--and that is nobody's fault. I mean, it is our fault.

Let us get it to the areas that do not have it, as opposed to the areas that have pretty good that want better.

You know, we say one thing, and yet--and again, you are the Federal Government. I am the Federal Government. We cannot continue to put additional burdens that actually go against what we are saying.

In 2019, there were about 16,000 murders in America. In 2020, there were more than 20,000. That`s a 25 percent increase in one year.

Judge, Congress did change the law after his sentencing in the FIRST STEP Act. That was a terrible mistake.