What we owe the American people coming from Congress, coming from our government, is to talk straight about the challenges that we face.

I called the American Academy of Pediatrics and talked to them, and what I heard from them was a crystal-clear frustration on their part by having the Trump administration misrepresenting their position and using them as a political prop.

I personally believe that there is a common-ground approach to this that a lot of Americans understand.

Enough is enough, and we need to make sure that we're getting our kids the education that they need, and we don't need to have that politics as a part of that.

I also believe that many of us agree that there is no one-size-fits-all solution across this country and that states and local communities should be able to make these decisions.

Madam President, I rise today to join my Republican colleagues from Louisiana and Maine to make a plea for us to break any partisan logjam and support bipartisan, commonsense solutions. I want to especially commend Senator Cassidy, who…

I thank Chairman Visclosky for his hard work here. I rise in support of this en bloc package, which contains two amendments I introduced. My first amendment will give all of Congress access to weekly updates on inventory in our Strategic…

I thank the Member for yielding and including my two amendments in this package. My first amendment directs OSHA to implement an emergency temporary standard to protect employees, employers, and customers from COVID-19. In these chaotic…

When I talk to the people in my district, what they want to know is about capabilities, and they really don't want to just see this kind of blame game between different parts of our government.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 954, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by…

COVID-19 weighs heavily on our communities. The pandemic has increased isolation, anxiety, and economic stress for millions of Americans, and we have seen a sharp increase in overdoses across the country. The Overdose Detection Mapping…

I thank Chairwoman DeLauro for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am here today not just as a representative of New Jersey's 11th District, but also as a working mom with four children--a mom who knows how important childcare is for our families…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about the campaign currently underway to select the next president of the Inter-American Development Bank in September of this year. The IDB has served as the preeminent development bank in the Americas since…

Part of that is political, where we see a country such as Ethiopia, racked by civil disorder amid a health crisis.

I would point out that Mr. Barsa was here about a week ago and gave us an update on how the over $19 million at USAID is being spent.

I thank the ranking member of the subcommittee for yielding. I thank him for his leadership. I thank Chairman DeFazio so very, very much for his championing this legislation. I thank my good friend, Tom Suozzi. We have partnered before on…

We have also seen pretextual crackdowns on legitimate civil dissent, justified by COVID-19 concerns, in countries such as Zimbabwe and in Nigeria.

Please update us, if you would, today, on how and why--not why, but how the nearly $1.8 billion in foreign aid funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 is being spent.