Today the House took sweeping bipartisan action to address PFAS contamination that has proliferated across communities in America. These forever chemicals have been linked to negative health effects, including cancer, impaired child…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: SEC. __. CLEAN WATER ACT EFFLUENT STANDARDS, PRETREATMENT STANDARDS, AND…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Hampshire will be postponed. Amendment No. 14 Offered by Ms. Plaskett The Acting CHAIR…

I urge all of my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment. And I want to thank all of those who have stepped forward to address this issue, including the bipartisan Congressional PFAS Task Force as well as the coleads of this…

It is our job to be able to make sure that they are taken care of.

I would like to second that recommendation, that we continue to look for ways to listen to the veterans.

Certainly no one is getting rich on the four-to-five-dollar-a-day average that SNAP pays for food assistance, and if anyone thinks that is an overly generous benefit, they should try living on it.

I share the concern of many folks here that too many veterans are food-insecure.

I find it extraordinary, when I went to do the research after losing Leah to understand the scope of this, it is quite an extraordinary public health success that we cut the number of unexpected infant deaths in half.

I am here today on behalf of my great-niece, Leah, who passed from SIDS just over a year ago.

I want to support the additional research from the truly unexpected, unexplained deaths, but I also want to focus on this issue of education and training.

on rollcall vote No. 380, I was recorded as yea. It was my intention to be recorded as nay. Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to change my vote since it will not affect the outcome. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

Thank you. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I include my statement in the Record regarding the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in favor of the Articles of Impeachment. Madam Speaker, earlier this week, I returned from a bipartisan trip to Belgium to commemorate the 75th…

I came to the floor this morning to address what has been an alarming and inaccurate information campaign that is being spread about the international family planning amendment included in this year's State and Foreign Operations…

I have long called for Congress to take meaningful action to lower prescription drug costs by allowing the direct negotiation of prescription drug prices by Medicare. I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, and I am…

I come to the floor this afternoon to pay tribute to our good friend Senator Johnny Isakson of the great State of Georgia. I say ``ours'' because I know he is a friend to everyone in this Chamber. It was a real blow to me and, I know, to…

When I travel around New Hampshire asking constituents what is on their minds, there is no topic more urgent or more personal than combatting the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. I have heard from a senior who is unable to retire…