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Madam President, last week I held 12 meetings in Iowa. Those meetings are for the purpose of having dialogue with my constituents, mostly answering their questions. As many of my colleagues know, I hold face-to-face meetings with Iowans in…

As I discussed with Representative Fortenberry, you know, this is about making sure that this broadband is actually usable.

You can have broadband, but if the downloads and upload speeds are not significant or are not sufficient, you can check the box, but you actually haven't improved the quality.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the previous question. This is the third time here today that Republicans have called on this body to consider my bill, the Reopen Schools Act. It is a…

the Chinese Communist Party issued threats to cut off the supply of medicine to the United States.

I was concerned about our country's ability itself to produce medical supplies domestically.

I have referred to this pandemic as life versus life.

Mr. President, I come to the floor to reintroduce a bill that didn't get passed last Congress, a bill that deals with safety in our schools, a bill aimed at the disasters that come when schoolchildren are killed by shooters and to deal…

I thought I could trust that contact point because of Grassley's assistance to Dr. David Kessler.

I believe Congress must pass something like what he and I worked out last year in a bipartisan way.

This will maintain rural health services, short of residence beds.

I have been working on for 6 years, and you will be in a position to get the regulations and get it underway.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the accomplishments of someone in my district who is not as vertically challenged as I am. This past weekend, University of Iowa men's basketball player Luka Garza broke the University of Iowa's…

Madam Speaker, tonight, we are here to honor the life of Luke Letlow, who was taken from us far too soon. Luke led a life of public service, and he was dedicated to bettering the lives in Louisiana. I know he was so looking forward to…

Madam President, tomorrow we are going to be taking up the nomination of former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and now the nominee to be Secretary of Agriculture again. I fully support this…

This gives us a chance to discuss some policy, not necessarily whether you should have the job.

It will be one of the greatest mistakes this House makes to take up an election contest where the candidate sidestepped the courts and instead turned to a partisan process in the House.

Simply mandating how States run their elections is not only unconstitutional but it will lead to chaos and confusion for voters.