I am proud to work with Chairman DeFazio in making that critical funding available.

I am really glad that the Federal Government has finally met its commitment to Amtrak over its life.

I can't understand why anyone would be against that.

I came here with ambitious goals, of course. And I think we met a lot of those goals: the biggest investment in American infrastructure in our country's history.

This is a travesty in this country to take from the poorest of the poor and to neglect what they have done. Brett Favre and that government should atone and pay for what they have done. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is no longer…

The political reality is we would have done it in the House. There was no way to get a bill through the filibuster in the Senate that is fully paid for.

I think most of the folks in my district who I represent, who have jobs today and would not have--I think we kind of agree some of them would not have jobs today--believe and would probably argue that it was worth it.

As you acknowledge, Republicans had 2 years to do something about the deficit, and you acknowledge they did nothing. We just cut it by $300 billion.

I thank Vicky Hartzler for authoring this very important and extraordinarily timely resolution. Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party is waging war against all faiths: Christians, Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, Muslims, Uyghurs. He…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, as the former chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the prime author of 14 major laws to assist veterans, including the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act…

We impose sanctions not to punish, but to constrain and ultimately change behavior.

I think we are anxious to know what more we can do, what more the Administration can do to make these sanctions even tougher, to make it even harder for Russia to operate.

The Administration has been rolling out a new sanctions package on average every 6 weeks, and I would expect that pace to continue.

I want to take a moment to commend the herculean effort that the Biden administration has led to impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion.

While we will continue to tighten the noose on Russia's imperial ambitions, we will do so in a way that addresses the impact Putin's war is having on some of the world's most vulnerable populations.

Thanks to our relentless diplomacy, the U.K., the EU, Australia, Japan, and South Korea joined the United States in sanctioning Russian financial institutions.

We didn't cause this problem, but we are doing our best to ensure that our response to Putin does not worsen food insecurity further.

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