
Madam Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to an ongoing epidemic that is plaguing most communities across the Nation. I am talking about the opioid crisis. Far too many people have fallen victim to opioid abuse, and the statistics in…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to an ongoing epidemic that is plaguing most communities across the Nation. I am talking about the opioid crisis. Far too many people have fallen victim to opioid abuse, and the statistics in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 3525. Yet again, I fear that this partisan legislation is a missed opportunity to seriously address the humanitarian and security crisis that exists today on our southern border. All of us…

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require candidates for election for public office to refuse offers of assistance from foreign powers.

Nothing is more important than the security of our elections. Nothing in this democracy is more important than that.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Erin Willman of Warren, Pennsylvania. Just 22 years old, Erin is running her own business, White Cane Coffee. Erin founded her company with an important goal in mind: to provide people with…

We are just consistently putting profits over people.

I want to talk about diabetes and the price of insulin, and you said, Dr. Garthwaite, market competition will drive down costs.

I am not about to go back to them and say let's leave it up to the market to determine what the price of your insulin should be.

It is unconscionable and I can't believe we're even sitting here having this discussion.

This is a problem that our country is having. We have people dying because they cannot afford their prescription drug prices.

we should pass immediately red flag laws. Absolutely, we should have the ability to interfere, to intervene to save lives.

We cannot continue to have profits over people as the most important thing governing this discussion.

And I think that I would just say that is something that ought to be revisited because to have miscarriages or stillbirths is just not the right thing.

This is a Nation of immigrants and a Nation of laws, and all people must be protected.

We are all in the same boat. We all care about the same things.

I think we need to revisit how we are spending our money, and we are wasting huge amounts of the taxpayers' money locking people up who pose no threat.

I want to put on the record that I am against the NPP.