My amendment simply comes in and establishes a threshold by which Congress must be involved in actually approving costs that are imposed upon our constituents. Mr. Chairman, we all represent somewhere in excess of 700,000 people, and…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for offering this amendment. Let's be clear: The only entity that has not done its job is NHTSA. They were directed by Congress to do a study to establish standards and failed to do that. Rather than them…

I want to put a face on it. The National Association of Manufacturers says that the average business has $10,000 in regulatory compliance costs per employee. If it is a manufacturer, it is actually double, or $20,000. To put a face on it…

we must strike the right balance for America, from the earliest ages of developing new products through deployment of an AI system or solution solving complex problems.

But it's just facts of political gravity here.

I think at some level -- and I do too. People really like President Biden. They think he's a great guy.

I don't know. It's been the same poll for the last six months. All of a sudden, everybody got up this morning and had, oh, my God. This is unchanged.

Nobody is saying, James, you're wrong. They're saying, James, you can't say that.

We have obligations, we have things that we can and should do around the world, but we have to take care of our own house first. If we’re going to take care of border in Ukraine, we need to take care of America's border as well.

I thank the appropriations chair, my good friend from Texas, for yielding and for bringing this important legislation, which I strongly support. We have seen the atrocities in Israel. We have also stood by Israel. In fact, the United…

The Biden administration has been quite focused on destroying the American energy industry. This entire insane focus on allegedly protecting a species of whale in the Gulf of Mexico has been used by the Biden administration to attempt to…

I am happy to yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) for the purposes of a colloquy. I still call him Leader Hoyer.

I appreciate the conversations that the gentleman and I have had. He has led many delegations to Israel. I think most of us have been to Israel and seen firsthand some of those towns. I have been to Sderot and other cities that have come…

For scheduling, the House tonight, after this vote series, will continue debating amendments to the Interior appropriations bill. Tonight's final vote series will start around 10 p.m. and end by 11:30 tonight. We expect to continue…

Once again, as the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins) and I have noted, we have watched as this administration has carried out energy policies that are some of the most inexplicable, incomprehensible energy policies I have ever seen…

I certainly do appreciate the gentlewoman from Maine's concerns, and I appreciate her understanding of one of the two components of what we are discussing today. The component that my friend from Maine is discussing pertains to…

This amendment is a funding restriction. Let me give you a little bit of background. What happened is the Federal Government was sued by a group of extreme environmental organizations claiming that a new species of whale was in the Gulf of…