Mr. Speaker, just over 1 year ago, we entered a COVID crackdown. Businesses and schools shut their doors-- some of them, sadly, for good. Communities across the Nation continue to feel this pain. For more than 365 days, far too many of our…

It has a perverse financial incentive to have law enforcement target people to get their assets.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. This act is big and bold, and it begins to keep our promise to Build Back Better. This is a historic bill, a policy revolution. It includes: cutting child poverty in half, expanding the…

It is a program that is designed to deal with the War on Drugs, but it has a perverse financial incentive to have law enforcement target people to get their assets.

That is what leadership at the EPA actually looks like.

This is a really important and exciting new subcommittee.

I look forward to reintroducing my bill on funding the UNFPA again.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the rule and underlying act, the American Rescue Plan Act. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of over 525,000 Americans. Our communities are struggling and our constituents are…

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 69. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS Allred (Davids (KS)) Babin (Norman) Baird (Walorski) Barragan…

Madam Speaker, I heard the majority leader speak about something that happened in 1870 and 1880, like the Pinkertons are still running around union busting. Well, it is not 1870. It is not 1880. It is not even the time of President Obama…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the most important pro- labor legislation in several generations, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, otherwise known as the PRO Act. For far too long, the deck has been stacked against the right to…

We all say that diversity is our strength. So I am glad we are talking about the need to recognize that strength and also promote it.

I introduced and will reintroduce the Restore America's Main Street Act to provide unrestricted direct cash relief to the smallest of businesses.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The University's Safety, Health, and Environmental Applied Sciences program recently received a national recognition. Universities.com ranked the program third in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and legacy of my dear friend and fellow Eagle Scout, Jim Kennedy. I got to know him well over the years through the Juniata Valley Council where he was the Council Scout Executive. Jim embodied…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from the great State of Texas for that introduction and along with my colleague from the great State of Alabama. When I had my first visit ever in my life to Alabama it was because of Terri Sewell who got…

Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Fischbach for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, the rule before us today makes in order two pieces of legislation that this Chamber already considered last Congress. I am incredibly disappointed, yet once…

Madam Speaker, here in this Chamber, I have pledged to support and defend the United States Constitution in its entirety. The Second Amendment is a key tenet of the U.S. Constitution and Americans' inalienable rights. The right to keep and…