Instead, the answer is to pour more money into a system that honestly is broken, and has been failing our students, and saddling them with tremendous debt.

I think that everybody agrees that Pell Grants have been an extraordinary and powerful tool in helping low-income students across this Nation access a post-secondary education.

Mr. Speaker, my amendment, amendment No. 5, seeks to draw attention to the need to resolve the significant delays in passport services at the Department of State. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on international travel. According…

This past summer, I introduced the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act, which would create a new program to provide high-quality, frequent public transit.

This is an issue that we should be able to embrace on a bipartisan basis.

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the distinguished service of Michael ``Mike'' Sprayberry who will be retiring as director of North Carolina Emergency Management on August 1, 2021. Every citizen of North Carolina is indebted to…

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this critical legislation. I want to start by thanking my partner, Ranking Member Mario Diaz-Balart, for his collaboration and his cooperation, which have made this a better bill reflecting many…

Madam Speaker, I rise to oppose this particularly reckless amendment. Surely, we can do better in this body than undiscriminating, mindless, across-the-board cuts. It doesn't matter what works or what doesn't. It doesn't matter what…

Mr. Speaker, my amendment defends religious organizations under attack from the radical left. Democrat politicians' distrust of religious entities does not entitle them to ban them unconstitutionally from participating in Federal programs…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, this funding bill insults the intelligence of every American. Democrats think they can trick the American people into supporting far-left initiatives if they propose enough…

Madam Speaker, I rise in favor of the rule and to highlight two amendments that I am offering to the minibus. In my home State of North Carolina, we lead the East Coast in offshore wind energy generation potential, and our manufacturing…

I particularly admire those line officers and the investigators that you have, sir, Mr. Condon, for the way they persist in the face of misguided policy.

Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to speak on the tragedy that is facing our Nation in the opioid epidemic. As a physician for over 30 years, there is nothing more important to me than the health and safety of our communities. Unfortunately, it…

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4502. This appropriations minibus makes historic critical investments in North Carolina's Sixth District and in all of our communities. This bill invests in new jobs and the future of our…

Madam Speaker, we should defeat the previous question in order to immediately consider H.R. 4698, Representative Burgess Owens' bill, called the Say No to Indoctrination Act. The Nation has awakened to the insidious ideology, or better…

Madam Speaker, CRT has nothing to do with teaching accurate history. It is impossible to overstate the danger of indoctrinating Americans with the belief that their race, or other group membership, is the primary determinant of their path…

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the rule, my amendments, and the underlying bill.

Congress must wrestle with this, and it is on us to legislate this into existence if that is the right thing to do.