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I think we have the right team in place. Very important hearing and well done.

For those who did not know, we had a very strong bipartisan partnership during a time where we flipped and did both chair and ranking members of the FSGG subcommittee.

We would all like to have clean vehicles. We would all like to have the--where it's perfect.

This Nation has been really, really, really good on allowing the free market to work.

We made the single largest investment in climate change.

In the wealthiest country in the world no child in this country should be living in poverty.

In the American Rescue Plan, we cut child poverty in this country by 50 percent through the child tax cut.

I am just back from a third trip to Ukraine during the war, and, yes, we saw evidence of Putin's war crimes--the mass graves and evidence of torture, religious persecution, and kidnapping of children. It reminds us that throughout our…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 8036. A recent survey showed the majority of Americans believe there is a 50/50 chance or greater of war between the United States and China. It is one…

I thank Congressman Garcia for his words. He is absolutely right. The rent is too damn high. With skyrocketing inflation and increasing rents, tenants are often finding themselves in a vicious cycle of being rent burdened and vulnerable to…

The truth is, as I hear my colleague from Minnesota (Ms. Omar) talk, there are bills prepared to bring solutions to this issue. What we need in Congress is the will and courage to prioritize our communities. I thank her for her leadership…

My colleague is absolutely right--``Ay, Dios mio''; ``Oh, my God''--the rent is too darn high. Today, we heard from Members from California and Congressman Bowman from New York. Mr. Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from Minnesota…

I thank Congresswoman Porter for her remarks. I could not agree with her more. That is why we are doing this Special Order hour on housing. We need our Congress to wake up. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine we were wrapping up a session, and…

The housing crisis impacts us all. Regardless of whether you live in a city, a suburb, or a rural town, many Americans are concerned about their housing stability. Homelessness has risen every single year since 2017. The shortage of…

I would like to recognize and celebrate the life of someone who served as a pillar of his community and beacon of light to the students of the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, Dr. William Patterson. Dr. Patterson was a professor…

We've lost John McCain, Ted Kennedy, and Bo Biden to glioblastoma, and I'm hoping even at Northwestern University, where there's some research breakthroughs that we can find a way to treat this malady in a more effective way.

I commend to my colleagues the theory that this is National Security. This is National Defense.

I applaud the Department for taking steps to offer group borrower defense discharge to students.