So, once again, a science-uninformed bill that once again the Committee is putting forth.

Every action that this Administration has taken virtually, has added up and resulted in greater greenhouse gas emissions.

It weakens NATO because our European friends, our NATO allies in Europe, they need additional conventional energy sources.

This is once again another piece of legislation that completely ignores facts. It ignores science, it ignores data.

Yet, we are watching this Administration go out and ask Venezuela, ask Iran and other countries for energy.

How has this law that is supposed to be protecting our wetlands resulted in the agency in charge of regulating them the greatest loss of wetlands in the United States history?

Madam Speaker, a huge thank you to our incredible leader, my neighbor, my friend, my colleague, my leader, the honorable Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who has the pulse of our country firmly in her grip. I have watched this woman go…

These are boneheaded decisions that are clearly outside of the scope of the Clean Water Act.

We have watched, the States have come in, misapplied section 401 in ways to achieve their objectives related to climate change goals.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my friend, the dearly departed Mrs. Mary Freeman Keller Zervigon, an outstanding, cherished public servant from my home State. A lifelong New Orleanian, Mrs. Zervigon was a policy advocate…

As we are more in the first half of September, obviously, this would all be at the very end of September. Hopefully, we wouldn't wait until the midnight hour. We are all aware of the deadline. Hopefully, we can get something brought…

We will continue to tell the truth about these policies. Clearly, there is a disagreement on many of them, but that is why we have this debate. I look forward to continuing it with the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my…

I yield to the gentleman from Maryland. If the gentleman has a number, please tell me because that is what we heard from the administration.

Mr. Speaker, we will continue to be honest with the American people. It was the administration that used the 87,000 number. If that number should be lower, I would love to hear what that number would be.

Mr. Speaker, if Joe Biden wants to keep producing more energy, we are giving him opportunities, but he says no. He said ``no'' many times, and he campaigned on that. We will continue to push to bring those bills to the floor. We are going…

And I won't say the gentleman did, but as the gentleman talked about all this production and drilling that is going on and all this oil that is coming out, it was Joe Biden who said, as a candidate, ``no more drilling on Federal lands. No…

Mr. Speaker, first, to clarify, it wasn't me who said that the IRS agents, this new army of 87,000 IRS agents, would be going after people to collect $20 billion more in taxes who were making less than $400,000. It was the Congressional…

In America. This is all in America. Families that we represent are facing the burden of all of these policies that started in Washington that are ultimately ending up taking money out of their pockets. When you go to the grocery store--if…