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Folks are struggling, Mr. Secretary. They are struggling in Iowa. They are spending more, they are getting less.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Rescue Road on rescuing 8,000 dogs. Rescue Road is a dog fostering organization based in Little Rock. Their mission is to place adoptable dogs in high-kill shelters into other networks in order to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate my friend, Executive Assistant to the Medical Director at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Debby Meece. Debby is retiring after 40 years of service to Central Arkansas Veterans Affairs…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the addition of Cleburne County to the Second District of Arkansas. Last year, during redistricting, the Arkansas State legislature added Cleburne County to the Second Congressional District. The…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day. I, along with my Democratic colleague, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, reintroduced our legislation yesterday that establishes March 9 as the National…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 2022 Miss Arkansas winner, Ebony Mitchell. Ebony was the 84th Miss Arkansas Scholarship Pageant winner, where she was awarded $30,000 in scholarship funds provided by the Ted and Shannon Skokos…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memory of Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Jack Holt, Jr., who passed away on March 5, 2023. Former Chief Justice Holt began his career in the United States Air Force where he achieved the rank of colonel…

Mr. Speaker, one year into Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainians' valiant defense has resulted in tens of thousands of casualties for the Russians. What the Russians believed would be a victory in a matter of days or weeks…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the entrepreneurial creativity of Ben Bell and Matt Bell, who recently founded Origami Sake in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Although they are unrelated, these two Bells share the same last name and the same…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the important partnership between the Arkansas Martin Luther King Commission and FOX 16 and KARK Television. In 2017, following the horrible shootings at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub in Little…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the practice of forced organ harvesting in China. I am a proud cosponsor of H.R. 1154, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act introduced by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), my friend…

Participants deserve clear rules and transparency in these marketplaces.

Good. No, I agree, and I think, importantly, the record shows that. That is really the key.

The CFTC is vital to our agriculture stakeholders who have used derivative markets for price discovery and risk management for over 150 years.

The CFTC was the cop on the beat, monitoring the futures markets to ensure that even in times of unprecedented disruption, end users' positions were safe.

I'm especially concerned with the safety of General Aviation (GA) pilots who are routinely flying to and from small, regional, non-commercial airports.

Well, Madam President, I am disappointed that our bipartisan bonhomie this week about carjacking only lasted as long as overturning Washington, DC's law. We should address how we can stop more carjackings. I don't think we should blame…