Just a point of information for the chair from California: We have one more speaker, and I will be prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Barr).

I continue to support this amendment, and I am happy to accept it. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank our wonderful colleague, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, for this amazing, incredible effort, and for me to be here, and to actually witness this is an honor. The passage of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is long overdue…

I rise here today in strong support of Juneteenth National Independence Day. I want to say to my White colleague on the other side: Getting your independence from being enslaved in a country is different from a country getting independence…

I claim the time in opposition to this amendment, although I am not opposed to it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I appreciate the goals of this amendment, and I applaud my colleague from Washington. We should be concerned about the effects of this bill and ESG reporting on small businesses, and I would say that this is a step in the right direction…

To close. Madam Speaker, this was claimed earlier by one of the authors that investors wanted this information, I believe was the quote. Well, I ask the question: If investors want this information, as claimed, then they can bring a vote…

Can you see my confusion is if we don't have a crisis at the border why are you diverting funds?

Nothing is more apparent than that during COVID.

But it's coming at a cost to our non-crisis at the border, so if we don't have a crisis at the border why would we need to divert two billion dollars to take care of that non-crisis?

I agree as we sit here today, I think we have a crisis on the border.

We put in place the Child Tax Credit. We want to extend that further.

It is great to stand here with Representative Bowman, with our colleague Jan Schakowsky, with Mr. Kahele, with all of our brothers and sisters in Congress to say that we can and we must, and we will do so much better right now for our…

I really, truly want to talk about the human cost.

I was in the House of Representatives in 1997 when we balanced the budget for the first time in 30 years under a Democratic President, Bill Clinton.

If you want to look at the economy, how the cost to the economy is when we do nothing, and, really, the human cost, to me, is something that we can't look away...

What does it truly mean to be forgotten when it comes to policy and when it comes to when you look at budgets that are coming out of Washington, DC, and it leaves communities like ours behind?

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I introduced the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act II, or OPRA II, for three reasons: one, to ensure that the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant's waiver process is fair and efficient…