Madam Speaker, for too long, big cats have been mistreated, exploited, and abused in private roadside zoos. Private possession of big cats is a tremendous risk to humans as well. On average, a 1-year-old tiger weighs about 200 pounds and…

Mr. Speaker, in my city of Philadelphia and across the country, people of color are thrown in jail more and with harsher sentences than White people for the same cannabis-related crimes. Cannabis is one of the fastest growing U.S…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the PIAA on seeing through a successful fall season for Pennsylvania high school sports in spite of the many challenges. We have some great sports teams in my district of Pennsylvania, and I would…

Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Alan Jennings, a constituent of mine and a very good friend, who has spent decades working to weed out hunger and poverty in my community. Alan joined the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley…

My official request is that you find the capacity for collecting that data and submitting it to this committee.

You are talking about individuals coming in contact with incarcerated persons, who can't walk away, can't get out.

What I would like to ask about and shift to is something I have been very concerned about, which is the use of shackling of pregnant women while in confinement.

When we talk about 18,000 people going to home confinement, they were going there anyway under the protocols as things were happening; they weren't as a result of COVID release.

I am worried about my time. Sorry to try to keep it tight.

I appreciate that and the balancing of the urgency of COVID against the assessment of whether a person is appropriate for compassionate release.

I thought this was a serious body here to talk about governing and protecting public health and protecting public safety, and not a campaign commercial.

There is absolutely nothing new under the sun. Joe Biden won.

Joe Biden won. And what's curious is that if the rest of these down ballot races aren't certified by November 30. We will have House, Pennsylvania House and half our Senate because the terms expire on November 30.

This idea that they have somehow uncovered any fraud, or there was any fraud is absurd.

You know, rhetorically I think Joe Biden has hit the notes very, very well. Substantively, as you can imagine, I'm not particularly excited about many of the things he is talking about doing. But I think his tone has been very, very good.

I think a lot of Republicans are actually cheering the President for bringing this to light.

I think hopefully the Republican Party will learn from that and be the party of Middle America again.

Mr. Speaker, 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: Strike sections 3 and 4, and insert the following: SEC. 3. RULES AND REGULATIONS. In…