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When a member of the House Judiciary Committee asked Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights and the Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, for her opinion of the Pro Codes Act, this is what she said: ``The public should have access…

I claim the time in opposition. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the motion?

Here is what they say: ``You didn't learn about incorporation by reference from Schoolhouse Rock, but it is one of the key ways policymakers create law. A huge portion of the regulations we all live by, such as fire safety codes, or the…

I note that in Veeck v. Southern Building Code, in the 5th Circuit, a more conservative circuit, they ruled that model building codes adopted by reference into law could be copied freely. The court reasoned that once a standard is…

I just note that when the standards setting organization sued Public.Resource.Org, the D.C. Circuit Court said this in ruling for freedom of the law: ``Once a standard is incorporated by reference into the law, it effectively becomes part…

Here is a paragraph that is important and really places the question before us succinctly: ``In the regime posited by the Pro Codes Act, if citizens, or advocates, or journalists, or business operators, or lawmakers, or even judges wanted…

I am glad we are considering a bill today to get us closer to parity between oil and gas and renewable energy.

This bill would help to bring renewable energy development up to par with other energy development on our public lands.

I thank Mr. Rouzer for being a perfect partner, and I wish him well in next year's WRDA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stanton).

frankly, you know, that trend with Russia in the lead. And I begin referring to my colleagues and to my friends in Europe as Russia today being a syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin, because he is a war…

Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law? Or a country of chaos, fear, and hate?

He and his extreme Project 2024 agenda will weaken the middle class, like we know we've got to take this seriously. I can't believe they put that thing in writing. When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security…

I tell you why we're not going back, because ours is a fight for the future.

We who believe in reproductive freedom -- will stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.

Joe's legacy of accomplishment over his entire career. And over the past 2-1/2 years is unmatched in modern history.

In this campaign, I promise you, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the panelists today. I am a farmer from California.

Today, we are discussing yet another dangerous Supreme Court decision, which reversed the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine.