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Mr. Speaker, Orange County families are feeling the squeeze of higher gas prices. As a single working mom, I share their concern when I fill up my minivan. We can provide relief by holding oil companies accountable. These corporations are…
Mr. Speaker, porch pirates steal packages and make our communities less safe. Over 1 in 3 Americans, myself included, have been a victim of this theft, which costs us billions of dollars each year. I joined Democrats and Republicans to…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership in bringing this important legislation to the floor. Mr. Speaker, in his outstanding State of the Union Address earlier this month, President Joe Biden…
Our job is to tell the story and to make sure that this never happens again. That’s our objective and our goal.
If individuals didn`t even make an attempt, I think that`s pretty clear cut that they didn`t -- that they didn`t meet a level of compliance that`s necessary. So, they should be held to that same standard, and they should be held in…
Mr. Speaker, this is a great honor to be able to speak about the great people that feed our country. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent the farmers that feed the world. With less than 1 percent of our Nation's farmland, the Central…
natural solutions can and must play a key role in addressing some of the pressing environmental challenges.
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act. I will never forget the day a constituent in my district showed me his bottle of insulin. He told me that one day while traveling in Canada he…
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Ranking Member Lucas' motion to instruct. This motion will agree with section 2502 included in USICA, which prohibits entities identified…
Mr. President, I am pleased to join Senator Grassley in introducing the Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022. Human trafficking and modern slavery are abhorrent crimes that are a scourge on our country…
My constituents have endured more than seven years of unprecedented commercial aviation noise following NextGen implementation.
Madam Speaker, I rise in full support of this legislation. Seated here on the floor, listening to our Republican friends--price controls, socialists, killing innovation. I am not going to use all of my time using their language. How about…
We do not have in place today the fleet, the ships, the vessels, the personnel to sustain ourself.
The tanker program is a good start, but it is not even a sufficient start, just good to get started.
The budget for the Navy... doesn't seem to be enough. It will never be enough to build the fleet necessary.
The bottom line of this is if we develop a National Maritime Security Program that uses the Jones Act fleet, makes them militarily useful, along with the current MSP program, we could do this at a fraction of the cost, and those ships…
Madam Speaker, passing the Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 was an important step in addressing the ongoing economic crisis facing our country. This legislation includes my bipartisan proposal to establish a task force to…