I am very proud to see this legislation on the floor today, and I appreciate the support of both the ranking member and chair of the Oversight Committee. This bill is about recognition, recognition that is a long time coming, recognition…

I rise to object as our House returns after an unconstitutional, 2-week, forced recess. Rather than exercise his constitutional Article I duties, Speaker Johnson fell in step with warmongering hotheads in the executive branch. He failed to…

Mr. Speaker, it is all by design. It is all planned. For 4 years, it was a wide-open border, and 8 million to 10 million people entered this country. Then, when they got here, leftwing politicians all across the country said: We are going…

I would like to suggest that I go through this again about what is actually in this amendment because it was just misrepresented. This isn't the SAVE America Act. This is, frankly, me listening to the minority leader, what he said, and how…

I rise to recognize a dear citizen of Oak Harbor, Ohio, Roger Carpenter. He devoted 75 years of his life to shaping character, citizenship, and service in northwestern Ohio. Roger Carpenter was more than a Scoutmaster. For generations of…

I rise today to honor recognize and celebrate Ohio Extension Agent Amy Stone for 33 years of extraordinary, vigilant service to the agricultural community of Ohio through the Ohio State University Extension. Northwest Ohio says: Thank you…

I rise to honor Women's History Month with naming a steady trailblazer from northwest Ohio, Louise J. Brower. In 1975, Mrs. Brower broke barriers when she became the first woman to serve as a principal in Toledo public schools. In doing…

I wish to turn to honor the life of Robert Mueller. When I was very young, I aspired to become an FBI agent. Later, when in college, when I applied, I was told I was not qualified because I was a woman. But tonight, I rise to honor the…

tonight I rise on day 27 of President Trump's undeclared war against Iran. An immense cost is being imposed on our U.S. military and the American people by this undeclared war of choice. Already, this war has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $40…

more and more I am troubled by a simple question: Will Donald Trump be the last President ever elected by a free and fair election? That certainly seems to be the plan. In 2024, Donald Trump said: Get out and vote, just this time. You…

D.C. is a world-class city, yet this bill seeks to codify and encourage President Trump's efforts to control and transform D.C., as well as to demonize D.C. and its 700,000 residents, the majority of whom are Black and Brown. President…

let's just spend 60 more seconds here to recap what we have. So my colleague from Oregon representing the Democrats--who has been given a lot of time to kind to figure out how to come here--has said that what the position of the Democratic…

Please, let's maintain decorum here. I think the American people deserve public officials, who are receiving paychecks while they are not, to have a semblance of decorum and class with each other. I hope that I have displayed that thus…

I am suggesting that we fund TSA for the rest of the fiscal year, retroactively pay every worker, and do that for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for CISA, do that for Secret Service, do that for Customs, do that for Border…

I want to speak to you--honestly, speak to my Democrat colleagues--from the heart. We have a situation in America today in which 260,000 families are without a paycheck. This fiscal year, they have been without a paycheck for more than…

Is the Senator only suggesting right now, just to be crystal clear--crystal clear--a lot of people's lives are at stake here, by the way. Let me just clarify that a 2-week continuing resolution would pay people retroactively. See, they are…

so just to be crystal clear--because, again, this is getting a little deeply ambiguous--is the Senator from Oregon suggesting that we fund the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security--everything, everything, everything, the…

But I do believe it. Would you consider modifying the resolution to take that piece out, just to make it clear, the paychecks while we are here, whatever the wording--that you and I sit down and we technically fix that wording so it…