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I rise in support of the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2024. Three years after Hurricane Ida and months after Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana, communities are still recovering, and every bit we give helps. This bill allows Hurricanes…
It is my district that has been most severely injured by this pause which has in itself injured the planet.
I want to thank Chairman Westerman, as well as the House Committee on Natural Resources for moving this bill forward. I thank my good friend, Mrs. Dingell, for her strong support as well, as she just expressed. I am honored to speak on…
Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 479. Stated against:
before the Thanksgiving holiday, my colleagues--we--voted late into the night. And I have no problem with that if we are voting on meaningful legislation. But that is not what we have been doing. We are voting on last-minute, lameduck…
The mandate voters gave House Republicans to hold President Biden accountable.
We're going to work with facts and not fiction.
I ask unanimous consent that the bills, en bloc, be considered read a third time and passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…
as if in legislative session and notwithstanding rule XXII, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the following bills, en bloc: Calendar No. 451, S. 2546; Calendar No. 452, S. 3946; Calendar No…
There's got to be a graceful way for us to navigate these issues.
we just had an election 2 weeks ago. I am not here to lord it over anyone, to gloat or anything else, but it is an important observation that Americans let their voices be heard overwhelmingly to go in another direction, and they voted for…
There's a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the House Ethics Committee's jurisdiction does not extend to non-members of Congress. I think that would be a Pandora's box.
We'll evaluate all that at the appropriate time, and we'll make the appropriate decision. There may be a function for that, and we'll have to see how it plays out.
Now we live in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Now we live in the age of social media, the politics and the dynamics are very different.
We're committed to delivering results for the American people.
Since joining the United States Congress, I have sought to designate a postal facility in the name of Dr. Rudy Lombard in recognition of his legacy as a champion of civil rights. Simultaneously, I was exploring other options of honoring…
I'm going to strongly request the Ethics Committee not to issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set.