At the appropriate time I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill. My amendment would insert the text of the…

I completely agree as well that we do have an issue that we must address in terms of improving our education system, investing in our students, investing in our schools, but does this bill do this? Absolutely not. Last night in Rules, we…

I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.

Yes, we have a broken immigration system, but whose fault is that? Last Congress, we passed several bipartisan immigration bills, including the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Did any of the…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Vasquez of New Mexico moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3941 to the Committee on Education and the…

I believe we must say that all the time, but I think even more importantly is that we need to recognize and provide the services and the honor and respect that our veterans deserve.

Maintaining strong relationships with the Freely Associated States is essential to countering this influence and to maintaining peace and economic stability abroad and at home.

These Compacts are essential for continued security and our ability to do our work from a national security perspective.

Obviously, the national security, not only of the United States, but of the globe, depends on our ability to address issues in the South Pacific.

I am deeply committed to making sure that we get these Compacts done.

But rather, it is the case that the United States will lose credibility within the region and beyond.

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in June, I went home to where Democrats announced $670 million of investments in broadband that will grow our middle class in New Mexico. Then, I came back to a Congress controlled by…

Social Security is the primary life and disability insurance for almost all American children.

I urge my colleagues to support these amendments.

Social Security helps 50 million American seniors stay out of poverty.

I certainly agree with the assessment from Senator Van Hollen that all of us with our observation with the State of Union, that the largest applause line, or one of them came bipartisanly Democrats and Republicans, not just clapping, but…

It means a lot that you are here, Mr. President. I think the power of your testimony and stories that have been shared already, I think what is best is just to let that sink in, to understand where so many across the Country can turn on a…

Without Social Security 38 percent of seniors would live in poverty.