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This week I proudly joined Senator Durbin and Senator Blumenthal in introducing the Corporate Crime Database Act, bicameral legislation that requires the Department of Justice to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish comprehensive data…
At this time, I would simply encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of Representative Pressley's amendment and the underlying bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the previous…
Last night, the temperature in my hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, was 28 degrees Fahrenheit. As a harsh winter arrives, the Biden administration has failed to address the skyrocketing heating prices that are set to affect people across…
As we here in the House and our country come near the close of 2022, the United States has gone through the worst year on our record for illegal border crossings. Meanwhile, we have a Homeland Security Secretary who tells us regularly that…
Every few weeks, we read headlines of another crisis: baby formula; fertilizer; and now another important input, diesel fuel. This administration not only continues to turn a blind eye but perpetuates harmful policies that worsen these…
I am looking forward to the fact that by the end of the week, the Speak Out Act will be signed into law. While these reforms to the nondisclosure agreements and forced arbitration agreements will only go so far, they will create a more…
Yesterday the Committee on Rules met and reported a rule, House Resolution 1464, providing for consideration of S. 4524, the Speak Out Act, under a closed rule. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1464 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1464 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order…
I thank Ranking Member Cole for yielding me the time. Under the Biden-Harris administration, we are seeing crises, manufactured crises. Let's just look at a few in turn. We have a manufactured economic crisis. The inflation rate has…
I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), the other gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert), and my good friend, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins). Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________
The gentleman is absolutely right. I am looking at what else is in the CR: $3 billion for Operation Allies Welcome. You know what that is? That is Afghan settlement. For 20 years, for 20 years this country has bled its treasure of…
I would just ask my colleagues, how many more times do we need to see it, the abuse of power by the Department of Justice? I am sure, just like I do, you travel your district, you talk to people. Some agree with you; some don't agree with…
I thank the gentleman for making the contrast. Here is what else it is more than: It is actually almost more than Russia's annual military spending. The United States alone, the United States taxpayer alone, is spending more in Ukraine to…
I thank the good gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy). He is spot on. It is tyranny. We use euphemisms around this town. We call it loan forgiveness. You took out the loan, and we are going to forgive you paying it back using someone else's…
Mr. Roy is absolutely right. Before I turn it over to the gentleman from Texas, I want to prime the pump here a little bit. The Department of Energy was created for one sole purpose, one purpose and one purpose only: To make the United…
I thank Mr. Arrington for leading this discussion tonight and for his kind comments. It is interesting, my friend talks about Pennsylvania's budget, and I was proud to serve there and be part of the process. I thought it was a difficult…
I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 460. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Bacon (Hartzler) Beatty (Cicilline) Bilirakis (Fleischmann) Brooks…
I can't tell my colleague that it is not tyranny. It certainly is. This is the same OSHA that at some point required reporting of adverse reactions to the so-called vaccine, the jab. In the dark of night, in the middle of the week, when no…