Before I get started, Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), who serves on the Education and Labor Committee. Free Speech at George Washington University

The threat of vaccine mandates continues to hang over the country, cruelly forcing Americans to choose between the freedom to make their own health decisions and their jobs.

Research gathered by my staff on the Joint Economic Committee Social Capital Project finds that social capital among older Americans has declined over time.

Government spending has stoked the highest inflation rate this country has seen in four decades.

Ultimately, a thriving, unencumbered economy is in fact the best way to allow older Americans to make their choices.

Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us.

Many say that we are saving less and less for retirement, and that fewer and fewer Americans, especially lower income Americans, have access to retirement savings accounts.

Americans have never saved more for retirement or had higher incomes in their golden years.

Many of America's seniors, and more and more of them in fact, are choosing to work because they find work to be a source of engagement and meaning in the transition into their golden years.

Thanks to improved health and less physically demanding jobs, many older Americans are remaining in the workforce longer.

Increasingly, older Americans also make vital contributions in the workforce.

Older Americans are the bedrock of our communities, and it is hard to overstate their role.

Your research in fact finds that Americans are actually more confident about their ability to retire comfortably.

A strong labor market with rising wages for all is the most effective way to create new opportunities that support older Americans.

Older Americans are doing better than they ever have before, thanks to improved health and less physically demanding jobs.

It could not have been a more inappropriate message. One, to sanction to people of character as they did. But number two, to suggest that a violent attack on the seat of democracy's legitimate political discourse, it's so far from accurate…

Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us.

I appreciate your comments and do share your frustration with the lack of consultation from this Administration on management decisions.