I can assure you that is exactly why I ran, to make sure that rural America, rural Minnesota, we matter.

high-speed, dependable internet is not a luxury anymore. It is an absolute necessity.

How can we expect them to reach their full potential?

In America, one out of five children struggle with hunger, and for many of these children, the free lunch and breakfast that they get in school is often the only meal they get to have.

We should care about every single child arriving in that school having the resources that they need.

We are talking about America's most vulnerable.

I often say that budgets are a value statement, as you have many times in this Committee, and you said that we are committed to having promises kept.

My understanding is that we should care about every single child arriving in that school having the resources that they need to be able to get educated and be fully present.

Yet the budget that you are proposing, and this Administration and Trump is proposing, makes a $1.7 billion cut from school meals over the next 10 years.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Coach Mike Guzzo of Silver Bay, Minnesota, for impacting the lives of countless young athletes across the great State of northern Minnesota. When Mike and his wife moved back to his hometown of…

I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 514, insert after line 17 the following new section (and redesignate the succeeding section…

Mr. Chair, I want to thank Representative Sarbanes for his tireless work in bringing this important legislation to the floor and Chairman McGovern for making my amendment in order. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Chair, I appreciate the comments of my colleague from Illinois. However, to say that this weaponizes the FEC I do take exception to because, indeed, it is just the opposite. It empowers the FEC to actually do its job, which is to look…

Mr. Chair, I rise today to offer my amendment that would allow the Federal Election Commission to represent itself in actions before the United States Supreme Court so that it may fulfill its role as the people's top election watchdog…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to voice my full-hearted support of H.R. 1, the For the People Act. As I spend time with parents and business owners, retirees and millennials, Republicans and Democrats back home in Minnesota, one thing is clear…

nonpoint source water pollution is a big problem across the country. It comes from multiple sources...

I have worked with my Republican colleague, Representative Brian Mast of Florida, and we have introduced a bill that would reauthorize this program for the first time since it was established.