Thank you, Chairman Carper. Thank you for holding this business meeting.

Madam Speaker, on April 18, five brave young girls had the courage to stand up for their rights in Harrison County, West Virginia. These 13-year-old girls showed more guts and courage in their convictions than most grownups. These student…

We all know that we will need significantly more reliable electric generation with the projected rapid growth in energy demand.

Thank you, Chairman Carper. Thank you for holding this business meeting.

Madam President, I ask that all time be yielded back. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the bill is considered read a third time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a…

Madam President, I rise today because I truly want to depoliticize this. I want to give you the facts because I was the one who negotiated the bill with the President. I negotiated the bill with the Speaker of the House. I negotiated this…

Mr. President, I rise to honor Mr. David M. Bearden for his lengthy career of public service to the U.S. Congress and the American people. After more than 33 years at the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, Mr. Bearden recently retired…

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

The challenges facing K through 12... are downright alarming for the current generation of our students.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Secretary, for being here.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

I do think the added investments in actual training programs that reach communities that have been left out in the past would also help to create, you know, a climate in which people understand that these are real options for them.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

Expensive new Federal programs, like free college, are ill-advised and unlikely to be considered.

The political leadership at the Department of Education chose to spend time, resources, and personnel to advance the administration's priorities around cancelling student debt.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.