Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

the major threat to sustainable jobs, food, recreational opportunities, and revenue from U.S. marine fisheries is not overfishing, but underfishing.

If the gentleman has no other speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.

Democracy isn't the objective. Liberty, peace, and prosperity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy, rank democracy can thwart that.

I so wish that I had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. But the nation chose another leader. And so and I joined with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation.

Somebody like Senator Mike Lee saying democracy itself is a problem.

I rise today to express my support for the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. She is exceptionally intelligent, academically astute, and impeccably credentialed. She has a record of sound…

So let's show the country that there's a better way.

We can disagree without hating each other.

And I'm Spencer Cox.

I've stayed quiet with the approach of the election but I'm troubled by our politics. President calls the democratic vice presidential candidate a monster. He repeatedly labels the Speaker of the House crazy. He calls for the Justice…

Does that clearance have to be in the form of a written statement to the Chair? The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, that request cannot be entertained absent the appropriate clearance, which has not been received by…

Did you tell me the form the clearance has to have? In what form must it be? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has advised only that appropriate clearance must be provided. It has not been so provided, and so the Chair cannot entertain…

Since the minority leader is supportive, or I wouldn't be here, and I am the ranking member and I am supportive of it, and the Navajo Nation has been told. The chairman of the committee is in support of it, does that not constitute the…

Is the Speaker telling me that if the Republicans have cleared this bill and are in favor of it, it has to have a written clearance from the Democrat side more than simply verbal commitment to the Tribes? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair…

One final parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

I commend my colleague, Representative Malinowski, for working with all sides so hard.