Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), for the purpose of inquiring from the majority leader the House floor schedule next week.

Madam Speaker, I appreciate that update from the gentleman on the schedule. Obviously, next week we will have a number of other items. I yield to the gentleman.

Because it had poison pills in it. The level of funding wasn't the issue. It was the limitations on the Defense Department to be able to do their job properly that were added in, when everyone knew those were partisan additions that had…

Madam Speaker, again, we know the rules of the Senate. They operate differently. We might both agree that we would do things differently. We do things differently in the House than they do. Ultimately, both sides have to come to an…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for walking through the schedule. As we have been hearing about the CR, I express similar disappointment that we have not been able to get the full-year appropriations bill agreed upon by both the House…

Madam Speaker, let's be clear that we both know the Senate operates differently than the House. The Senate has a 60-vote requirement, which means for the Senate to move anything, it actually takes Republicans and Democrats to come to an…

Madam Speaker, I was just working with Mr. Mulvaney yesterday on USMCA, something I would hope to see us bring to this House floor. Clearly, by the end of this year, it should have been done a long time ago, but something I know he and…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Sergeant Joseph Richard III, a Louisiana native who gave his life fighting for our country during a third tour in Iraq in his 5 years of U.S. military service. Sergeant Richard was deeply…

we worked with this Committee and these members because OMSA understood that if changes to the Jones Act are necessary, Congress should enact them.

The first is that large Internet platforms deliver tremendous benefits to small business.

My point is simply this. The state of Texas I can speak to. I can't speak to the other 49 states. We take women's health very seriously, and we should.

I think it is reasonable for a businessman to know what the rules are for a platform and to have them applied with some consistency.

it is shocking that our department of health is headed by a physician, Dr. Randall Williams, and more shocking is that he is an OB/GYN. He knows better.

But unless there is a demonstrated unfairness in the rules of the market, in which case anti-trust already has the powers to deal with it, the government should leave well enough alone.

I think in general it is good to have a conversation between Congress and the industries.

I think that kind of informal dialogue can accomplish a lot.

I tend to be very skeptical of that. I think that the government's primary purpose should be to try and ensure a competitive market.

Yeah. And I think the central question we ask is what is going on hurting the customer?