7 billion fought for by Senator Casey in the American Rescue Plan for expansion of Medicaid home and community-based services is an excellent step forward to realizing the promise of Olmstead.

This pandemic is an inflection point for the United States. Do not let it go to waste.

We want to be fully transparent on what we see coming and we are trying to do that.

Madam President, I rise to speak this afternoon in support of the nomination of Xavier Becerra to serve as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Biden nominated Mr. Becerra, who currently serves as the attorney general…

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleague, Mr. Matt Cartwright, once again as cosponsor on the RECLAIM Act. This bipartisan legislation focuses on reauthorizing the abandoned mine land fund, or the AML fund. My district…

We are incredibly excited in Pennsylvania that both your budget and the American Jobs Plan propose significant increases in funding for AML projects.

My constituents and I value the forests in the region, and we want to ensure that the Forest Service has the funding necessary to carry out the important work of maintaining and managing our Nation's forest resources.

It calls for the Forest Service and the National Resources Conservation Service to promote the health and resilience of public and private lands.

There is no reason to wait. The need is there now, and the money is there now.

I am so thankful for him highlighting this need in both his skinny budget and the American Jobs Plan.

With crushing reclamation needs across the country and the AML fee set to expire on September 1 of this year, passing these bills and focusing on reclamation is an urgent priority.

Mr. Speaker, so many of the leaders we hear about are public figures, elected officials, people with loud voices in the community, but there are so many other kinds of leaders. In particular, in connection with this month's Women's History…

I have introduced the Trash Act to help promote recycling so less unnecessary waste makes its way into my community.

I dare say you have got to know Don Williams, Eric's father, since then, and you are very familiar with this whole story.

People want to get out, they want to see the country.

Well, I thank you, Secretary Haaland.

Many people don't realize Cornelia Pinchot was basically the leader of the suffragist movement in Pennsylvania.

Bipartisan legislation like the Built to Last Act...would ensure that standards-developing organizations that issue building codes have access to forward-looking meteorological information.