
I thank Ms. Castor for yielding to me. I also thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and, in particular, my dear friend, John Moolenaar. We have been a team on this from the moment that we heard about this. Mr. Speaker, I rise…
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I thank Ms. Castor for yielding to me. I also thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and, in particular, my dear friend, John Moolenaar. We have been a team on this from the moment that we heard about this. Mr. Speaker, I rise…

I thank my colleague for yielding. I hope I am not too legendary. I rise today, and I also want to compliment my colleague from Michigan (Mr. Walberg), who I am proud to have worked with on this bill. I will miss him on the Energy and…

This holiday season, too many of our children are going to bed hungry while colleagues vote to pass nearly a trillion dollars for war. In the richest country in the world, millions of our children live in poverty, lacking access to…

This Congress is about to vote to pass another obscene military budget when the Pentagon just failed its seventh audit in a row. That is nearly a trillion dollars going to weapons and war. When it comes to the Pentagon budget, not a single…

I will read into the Record something from a recent report. It said: ``Israel has forcibly displaced 90 percent of Gaza's 2.2 million inhabitants, many of them multiple times, into ever- shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked…

They actually passed a resolution calling for your resignation.

I have never gotten this many complaints about our Postal Service until you were in charge.

It has been years that I have been, you know, trying to have you all move with urgency about the lack of staffing.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, and I thank my colleague from Florida, Representative Salazar, for her work on this important legislation that comes…

First of all, I thank my friend and colleague, Mr. Kilmer. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the House for the last time as a Member of this historic symbol of our democracy. It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve my hometown and…

Detroit is not only the most beautiful, Blackest city in the country, but it also houses the most important trade corridor in the Nation. Mr. Speaker, 27 percent of trade comes through our amazing city. Tariffs are one tool, but they have…

From Detroit to Bhopal, we have a right to breathe clean air. This week marks 40 years since the Bhopal chemicals disaster in India, and the survivors are still sick and waiting for justice. Union Carbide, driven by corporate greed, caused…

This is a plea on behalf 182,000 families who will have students with disabilities in Michigan. Year after year, we continue to fall short on the promise to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which many call IDEA…

I rise today to honor my friend, my colleague, the senior Senator from the great State of Michigan, Debbie Stabenow. Throughout her entire career, Senator Stabenow has been an absolutely tireless advocate for our State and an unrelenting…

first of all, I have to say, wouldn't you know I would get laryngitis, and for somebody who is in elected office, we know that that is not a good thing, so please bear with me; and I want to thank Chuck so much for his comments this…

I am so pleased that my bill to rename the Comstock Park, Michigan, post office after Captain Miguel Justin Nava is being brought up for consideration today. Captain Nava is an American hero. He represented the best of west Michigan. It is…

Without updated methods, which we need to update some methods--you know this, it is not just Detroit--many communities because of these policies, it is guaranteed that they will be chronically undercounted.

I grew up in the most beautiful, Blackest city in the country, the city of Detroit.