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With 115 justices having served so far in our history, you`re the first black woman. And it`s long past time.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the Hermantown boys hockey team, the 2022 Class A Minnesota State hockey champions. Minnesota is the State of hockey, and in northern Minnesota, hockey is not just a proud tradition of ours; for the…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Todd and Louise Malecha, the 2022 winners of Farm Journal's Top Producer of the Year award. Located in the heart of Minnesota's Seventh Congressional District in Villard, Minnesota, Malecha…

Madam Speaker, I rise today in solidarity with the Ukrainian people who are facing a cruel and inhumane war of aggression from a tyrant, Vladimir Putin. I also stand in solidarity with my Ukrainian-American constituents whose friends and…

Mr. President, I rise to bring attention to the need to support the Ukrainian people in the face of Russia's invasion. Over the weekend, I took part in a Senate delegation to Poland alongside my colleagues Senator Rob Portman, Senator…

This body functioned for over 200 years without proxy voting, and I think we should go back to those traditions.

But I think Mr. Perlmutter touched on it, it is the voters that get to decide.

But it seems to me that without some regulatory framework, without a cop on the beat, so to speak, we are at a great disadvantage in terms of cracking down on illicit use.

Madam Speaker, the prices American consumers are paying at the pump is directly affected by how much oil is produced domestically. Canceling American oil production jobs, while seeking it from dictators, is not only nonsensical, but it…

I think even into the future, I think this institution will suffer from the lack of relationships with that freshman class.

I do believe that we should be ending it and go back to the tradition of the institution, which is no proxy voting.

We need to get back to our business, get our business back to normal, and end the proxy voting.

I think this is the most collaborative committee in the entire Congress, and it is by design, thanks to you, Chair Kilmer, and you, Vice Chair Timmons.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, nays 207, not…

Madam Speaker, every action the Biden administration has taken since Keystone's cancelation has increased our foreign dependency on oil. June 2021, 5 months after canceling Keystone, the Biden administration suspends leasing of ANWR. Three…

I was very disappointed that Mr. Hoyer couldn't stay.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, how long will the House continue to attack the basic freedoms of the American people? It is not for Congress in Washington or some bureaucrat to tell the American…

Madam Speaker, while the majority is continuing their agenda of misguided woke policies, constituents in my district continue to send me photos of their energy bills and prices they are paying at the pump. Since President Biden took…