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Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, S. 989 will assist Native American resource centers in further aligning the resources they are provided by the Department of Education with the goals of the Native…
Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of S. 989, the Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022. This legislation will support Native American language centers toward…
Madam President, may I speak for a moment? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Carolina.
Madam President, I respect my colleague from Mississippi. We do great work together. This is an area where we have to agree to disagree. But, again, I want the Choctaw, I want the Chickasaw, I want the Cherokee, and I want every Tribe that…
Mr. President, I first want to thank my colleague Senator Sinema for her comments. I think that she has framed a lot of the challenges that we were seeking to address that are going to persist into the next Congress now. I think one of the…
Madam President, I want to take a moment to talk about history, and then I will be making a unanimous consent request. One hundred thirty years ago was the first time the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina sought recognition. But you have to…
Madam Speaker, the House is honored today to welcome a great theologian and humanitarian, my friend and constituent, the distinguished William J. Barber, II. I have known Bishop Barber since he was a college student. A native of Roper…
Madam Speaker, I rise to address an impending disaster that is about to face patient care in this country. Not just 2 years ago in this country, physicians were hailed as heroes for risking their lives to save others during the pandemic…
Madam President, we have heard a lot of great comments. First, we heard great words from Senator Burr. I hope that people yield and learn from the lessons. We have also learned a lot about his body of work over the 28 years that he has…
Mr. President, I rise today in the time-honored tradition of giving my farewell remarks to the United States Senate. This is an opportunity to thank my friends, my colleagues, and the voters of North Carolina who have supported me for 28…
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding. Madam Speaker, employee-sponsored coverage is the bedrock of our healthcare system, and it is under attack by President Biden and the Democratic Party. Despite its name, the Affordable Care…
Mr. Speaker, freedom of speech and thought on college campuses is essential to one of the most important missions of the university: the search for truth. While censorship can come from the right or left, many colleges and universities are…
This administration won't be happy until it controls how, when, and where you work. It is hard to know if it is sheer arrogance that drives this administration to think it knows better than you or if Biden is so beholden to Big Labor that…
Mr. Speaker, on December 8 the House passed the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023 on a bipartisan basis. I am particularly proud to see that my amendment, the Defense Maintenance Data Transparency Act…
Mr. Speaker, President Biden is turning the Federal Student Loan Program into a titanic heading straight for an iceberg. The Biden administration's changes to these programs will make a bad system worse. For starters, President Biden's…
It is good to see you. Today, I want to touch on an issue related to transparency and encouraging innovation and competition.
the work that you are doing is critical, from protecting our consumers to making sure that our financial regulators mirror the diversity of our nation, so thank you for your efforts.
Why wouldn't the next Director, with a politically-different persuasion, not abuse his or her powers with the precedent you have set?