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The government should not be the central repository for all financial data available on its citizens.

A massive new government-run database of consumers' personal financial information would be a sitting duck for bad actors.

Can you imagine the IRS, the Post Office, or the DMV compiling and maintaining your credit report?

It was Thomas Jefferson that said facts are stubborn things. And whatever may be our wishes or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Let`s cast our eyes over the facts, shall we?

I thank the Congressman for his remarks. Mr. Speaker, as I continue to consider that the Democrats' plan must be to destroy our economy by incentivizing laziness, by incentivizing people not going to work, I shake my head and say, No, that…

I thank the gentlewoman for her always incredibly accurate and fierce comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert), another similarly fierce Congressman.

I am disheartened to know that with this Federal unemployment stimulus that we are sending out around the country, although it might solve some short-term financial woes, it is creating a spiritual poverty in the hearts of men and women…

When we start thinking about what is going on here in our country with unemployment, in the week ending May 1, 2021, about 16 million people collected unemployment. Now, that is a staggering statistic when you realize that over 6.6 million…

When we started looking at the American Families Plan, we realized the tax hikes it would increase would raise capital gains and dividends tax from 20 to 39.6 percent, almost two times the normal price. It would impose capital gains taxes…

I believe we are created to work, and I believe we are created to work hard, and the right to work and the determination to build with one's hands is as foundational to the American ethos as it can be. We were not set in this universal…

I now yield to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Estes), a dear friend of mine who represents the Fourth District.

I can see why Pennsylvania loves their Congressman so much. When I think about what is going on in Congress and I see that Democrats are prioritizing wasteful spending over hardworking Americans' paychecks, I realize that the Democrats'…

Congressman Norman was elected to take care of the American people, but right now the Democrats in Congress-- although it is hard to call them Democrats because right now I believe that they have a socialist agenda, which is sabotaging…

Congressman, thank you for introducing that bill. If you think about it, $387 is the amount the average American receives from their home State in weekly unemployment benefits. You add to that the $300 boost that the Federal Government is…

Thank you very much, Congressman Bishop, for those words. I echo the sentiments of both Jodey Arrington and Dan Bishop of wanting to jump-start this economy again. With the fact that there are 9.3 million job openings in this country right…

We are writing to you in response to the June 9, 2021 announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the Agencies' intent to revise the definition of the 'waters of the United States'…

I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the amendments en bloc containing Representatives Allen's and Foxx's amendments, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Carter of Louisiana). Pursuant to House…

The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act establishes the use of a mixed-motive standard, settling the confusing separation of related civil rights claims and strengthening workers' rights. We should reject the Foxx amendment…