The DNC has actually done a good job trying to screen out people who really aren't working or aren't able to do the work.

Biden is the real deal as is Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth and Kamala Harris and Buttigieg and Beto.

as in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 2379. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R…

I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.R. 2379

this may seem like just a perfunctory thing, but I want to speak about what we just did. The Senate passed legislation to permanently reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program. This is the sixth time I have worked to…

How much time is remaining, Mr. Chairman? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 2 minutes remaining.

This legislation is going to help make healthcare more affordable and more accessible. There are two things: One, we finally are attacking the explosion in the cost of prescription drugs, and I thank my Republican colleagues for…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of title II the following new section: SEC. 205. PROTECTION OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE IN…

As I mentioned earlier, we just have a difference of opinion. We think the Affordable Care Act is important to preserve and important to improve. My colleagues, when they have had an opportunity, have voted to repeal it. Failing to repeal…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 2379) was passed.

I want to speak briefly about the courageous environmental activism of Alfred Brownell, a native of Liberia now living in exile in Boston. Mr. Brownell is an environmental and human rights lawyer and the executive director of Green…

One rainy afternoon during my campaign last year, I was out knocking on doors. I met a man and asked what he cared about. He paused as the rain poured down around us, and he uttered a single word, ``Decency.'' Mr. Speaker, over the last…

I would like to take a moment to pay tribute to a remarkable and unique person, Vermont Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Skoglund, who will soon be retiring after serving 25 years with the Vermont judiciary. Justice Skoglund is what we all…

today, I am honored to recognize the president of the University of Vermont, UVM, Thomas Sullivan, who is stepping down this June after 7 years as a remarkable leader for the university. Tom's tenure as the 26th president of the University…

But we know that 25 million Americans currently lack access to broadband.

they are fiction. They really are.

But you, I think, have answered my question that it is not new money.

But my point is this was--this was presented to the public as a big deal.