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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize June as National PTSD Awareness Month, and this Saturday, June 27, as PTSD Awareness Day. We need to do more to defy the stigmas surrounding mental health. PTSD treatment is a crucial tool that helps…
Mr. Speaker, I thank our education Republican leader for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the veto override of H.J. Res. 76. The Department of Education first released borrower defense rules in 1994, which were rarely used…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Kaleb Farmery of Marion Center, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, for accepting a fully qualified appointment to the United States Air Force Academy. Kaleb is the son of Wyatt and Jessica Farmery and a…
Mr. Speaker, what started as a tragedy, then turned disturbingly into our streets, resulted with tonight's vote with a partisan bill to nowhere. The people we have been elected to serve have asked--in fact, demanded--that this Congress do…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share with you the inspiring story of a Philadelphia doctor who has gone above and beyond the call of duty in this extraordinary time to combat the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Brown…
Madam Speaker, on this busy legislative day, I would like to focus my attention on both the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and the Emergency Housing and Relief Act. The sickening police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask for answers from Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Wolf and his administration, answers as to why his administration allowed COVID-19 to spread like wildfire in Pennsylvania's nursing homes, long-term care and…
I am not actually thinking about markets or where they participate.
Mr. President, I rise this afternoon to speak about the bill that we voted on earlier today and the debate that has ensued prior to that vote and I am sure afterwards. This is a moral moment for the country. I believe most would agree with…
We have to ask ourselves, of course, how much does that matter to us?
As we pursue domestic terrorism, we cannot leave these vital--how should I say it--information points and potential danger to the United States and the world.
Those women were then ultimately elected to the parliament.
Unfortunately, as we deviated in policy from Afghanistan and went to Iraq, those same women, many of them as parliamentarians, were murdered in their home districts because of the rise of the Taliban, al-Qaeda.
I commend H.R. 40 to both of you, in terms of looking at it from your perspective on health care.
Our hospital beds are now overwhelmed. Our emergency rooms are overwhelmed with COVID-19.
So you understand reparations is repair, and is different from reconciliation. So I am talking about H.R. 40.
we ought to stay the course with what we have been doing prior to COVID-19 in terms of ladders of opportunity.