I have advised Members that, obviously, we have a lot of work to do and that we have scheduled a number of workweeks, committee workweeks--which, by the way, I think have been very successful. We started those in June of last year, and I…

It is my expectation that we will be getting a score. I want to tell the gentleman it is also my understanding that the expenditures that will be proposed will be paid for.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I will not characterize the substance of that argument. However, I believe it has no merit, Mr. Speaker, none, zero, zip. It is as if we Democrats, when we voted three times to assure that we didn't…

I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a serious issue. Some would say it is an issue about freedom, about individual integrity, as to who makes choices. I hear a lot about freedom, about government not interfering. Madam Speaker…

On Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning-hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for morning-hour and 12 p.m. for…

I thank the gentleman. It is hard to respond, Mr. Speaker, to a not-responsive issue on why we are not voting to extend the debt limit. McConnell said he wasn't going to vote for the debt limit long before there was anything about Iron…

The women of Texas are citizens of the United States, but they are being treated like outlaws by their own legislature. Under the Texas law, any person, including murderers, serial rapists, sexual harassers, January 6 insurrectionists, or…

Mr. President, we have been in session now for about 11 hours, and we have taken up a handful of noncontroversial nominees. The reason? The abuse by the Republicans of the rules of the Senate--filibuster after filibuster that require…

Mr. President, I rise today with my colleagues Senators Collins, Baldwin, Blumenthal, Brown, Casey, Hassan, Kaine, King, Klobuchar, Markey, Menendez, Rosen, Smith, Van Hollen, and Warren to recognize the week beginning September 12, 2021…

Mr. President, the United States of America has always paid its bills on time--always. It is an unbroken record that dates back to our founding--a 232-year streak--and that unbroken record has helped the United States become the anchor of…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is not a partisan issue. Very frankly, the CR that was brought to the floor the other day would have said we are going to pay the debts of the United States because we don't welch…

I look forward to the gentleman, not only being on the committee, but agreeing and certainly offering the invitation to work together. My hope is that this passes; and, if it does, then I would extend to him the opportunity to do that, and…

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add the following new section: SEC. 8__. MODIFICATIONS TO…

I would respectfully disagree with the gentleman in his opposition. There are a couple of things that I think are important to be pointed out. As the vice chair of the Small Business Committee of the House, I continue to hear the stories…

I thank the gentlewoman from Connecticut for yielding, and I want to congratulate her for the job that she has done not in only passing 9 of the 12 appropriation bills that are over in the Senate, which, unfortunately, have not been…

Madam President, I ask that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I rise to thank my constituent, Congressional Research Service analyst Eugene P. Boyd, on his four decades of service to the U.S. Congress. Mr. Boyd retired in January 2020, but, as with many other milestones, recognition of…