I'm hoping that some of this money can be used in accordance with a bill that I introduced, H.R. 1897, that would do COVID-19 testing for those migrants coming across our borders, which is not done now.

Anyone that commits fraud and steals taxpayer dollars from hardworking Americans should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

It's time to reopen our states, even the blue states. We must get people back to work and get kids back to school.

please Mr Chuck Grassley, we met in 2017, can you do something for persons born in your state and living abroad?

Madam President, during committee review of Ms. Young's nomination to be the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, important questions were raised about whether she would uphold and enforce the restrictions of the Hyde…

Like many Americans, I cherish my right to bear arms. In a time when law enforcement response might be uncertain, the need for vulnerable populations to feel safe and be able to protect themselves is more important than ever.

A Civil War legislation called the False Claims Act has been on the books since that period of time. In 1986, I believe it was, I got some amendments to it that made it a much more valuable piece of legislation than it was before that…

I ask unanimous consent that my Judiciary Committee detailee, Joseph Routh, be given privileges of the floor for the remainder of the 117th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered ____________________

The filibuster forces compromises, and this is what Republicans did when they were in the majority in both the House and the Senate and holding the White House.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize a local hero in my hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. This coming Wednesday, March 24, Mary Margaret Butler of Ottumwa will be recognized as a 2021 Hero of the Heartland by the American Red Cross. Mary…

Mr. President, on March 6 of this year, the intelligence community issued its ``Intelligence Community Assessment on Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections.'' Based on that report, some in the liberal media have falsely claimed…

Mr. Speaker, I was going to ask for 1 minute yesterday, given that it was St. Patrick's Day and Pella High School Dutch's color is green, but they are the Pella Dutch, not the Pella Irish. Last Friday, the Pella High School Dutch of Marion…

Mr. President, it has been a year now since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. It put the world into an unprecedented global lockdown, and we are still in the dark about how the pandemic even began. Folks, this isn't…

We know that, in Brownsville, 108 migrants showed up in Brownsville and tested positive for COVID.

I fully support what you've said about community colleges and a pathway for education, especially for minority, for women, for under-represented groups of low-income.

PPP has provided essential assistance for our small businesses in Iowa and all across the country.

Mr. President, we welcome about a million immigrants every year. We welcome them because they come here, abiding by our laws, and we need immigrants. We have been a welcoming country for a long time, but I come to the floor to speak about…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate something that hasn't happened in Iowa for over 110 years. Last Friday night, two schools from the same community met in the Boys Class 2A State Basketball Championship. It just so happened that the…