I’m a catalyst to provide them a megaphone to lift up their voice.

There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives.

The House Appropriations Committee worked in good faith throughout the FY25 process, and it was the Democrats who weaponized this process, holding up negotiations on demands that were completely unrelated to funding. If my colleagues…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, if you vote for this rule, then you own the tariffs. Republicans snuck in a provision that blocks this House from voting on…

Yes, you spend money here [Department of Education], because this is our future.

I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Leger Fernandez), who is a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.

The states can’t totally backfill everything, certainly on education.

If you just saw in a classroom surrounded by second graders, eager to learn, surrounded by professionals who have dedicated their life and their education to being there for our children and also understanding the science of learning as to…

I thank the gentleman from Arizona, my fellow member of Ways and Means, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate the Moorhead boys' hockey team on their first State championship, defeating Stillwater 7-6 at the Xcel Energy Center…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 211 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 211 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

Our core mission, as we talk about in schools, is to make sure that every child gets the opportunity to learn. It's in our constitution in Minnesota.

Saying she fired half the people but only the bad ones.

Linda McMahon might be the most unqualified person to ever speak about public schools in this nation’s history.

This is just another example of how talking points are written before they actually read the bill because this is about a government shutdown, plain and simple. We have to have the rule to pass the CR so that we can avoid a government…

I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), who is the Speaker emerita.

Minnesota cannot afford Trump’s billionaire-run economy. We have to put a stop to this madness.

Larry Summers just said, and I do not want this to be true. I want Trump to stop tormenting the economy like this. But he said just today that 50 percent chance we could be heading to a Trump session, to a recession, that's not what we…

I don't know, I'm not exactly the Putin whisperer, but what I know is that the Ukrainians want peace, that this is at least a good sign.