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Hunger is an all-consuming pain. Many of us are lucky never to have known that pain. Yet, in my district alone, nearly 25,000 households rely on food assistance to stave off hunger. SNAP feeds seniors who live alone, children without…
It is very important that we here in the Chamber discuss the truths behind Medicaid and how we are working to save it. However, today, right now, Mr. Speaker, I rise with a heavy heart to honor the life and service of a local hero from my…
one-source hit piece, and it involved maybe two or three and anonymous disgruntled staffers saying just absolute false things.
Why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do?
Evidently, this is what gutting Medicaid looks like. You see it goes up 25 percent over 10 years. This only happens in Washington, D.C. Mr. Speaker, the difference between the last administration and the current one is the last…
I represent more than 180,000 people in western Pennsylvania who receive Social Security benefits. Those are earned benefits. My constituents receive more than $350 million of those monthly benefits. I join my colleagues in sounding the…
I am very proud to join my colleagues tonight in recognition of National Small Business Week, and actually, all the parts we have talked about are connected. National Small Business Week recognizes the importance of the small businesses…
I’m not worried. I got a vote, and if somebody’s gonna ask me to vote to bankrupt the country — I don’t know what that coalition is, but I’m not going to be in it.
I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 213, noes 209, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 118] AYES--213…
In January when House and Senate Republicans punted once again on passing a budget and instead passed a continuing resolution, they forgot to include the funding to operate the District of Columbia. The Senate moved to rectify that mistake…
This week we recognize National Small Business Week and, with it, the incredible contributions of our many small business owners, workers, and entrepreneurs across Pennsylvania and the United States. These individuals, Mr. Speaker, deserve…
On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. ____________________
If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up H.R. 2753, the Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Act, which will prevent the Republican budget from cutting Medicaid or SNAP benefits. Mr. Speaker, this week…
Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 117. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it. recorded vote
Donald Trump understood that anger. What does he offer? Snake oil of hate, division and autocracy. That’s not the way forward. We’re here to call out that bulls---.
What really matters is the things that are also happening simultaneously to undermine people having children.
Now is not the time to be a wimp, and that two, we’ve got to put the economic fight front and center.