When Congress passed IDEA, they promised to cover 40 percent of the cost of special education.

I was proud to reintroduce the Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Research Act with my colleague from Ohio Congressman Anthony Gonzalez.

I would like to remind my colleagues about the 35-day-long government shutdown from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019.

Just this week, the GAO issued a report that concluded the DoD will have to significantly increase spending to clean up current and former DoD installations that are contaminated with PFAS.

85 percent of Americans--84 percent of Americans overwhelmingly want Congress to enact a national paid family and medical leave program.

I am proud to join several of my colleagues tonight to recognize our former colleague, Mr. Paul Mitchell. Paul was recently diagnosed with cancer, and so many of us wanted to send our well-wishes that we decided the best way we could do it…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Stevens).

But you have signaled a desire for that curriculum by the grant proposal that you have there.

this hearing, you know, for my residents is important, as we really do our due diligence to oversee--have oversight of what our policies are and what the impact is.

the best thing you could do is remove the U.S. Department of Education from as many areas of controlling what goes on at the classroom level.

I thank Mr. Reed for those heartfelt words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Phillips), another member of the Problem Solvers Caucus.

It's very clear from your statements, your history that you have a passion for education, and I like that.

Yet President Biden's budget calls for a 41 percent increase in funding, which is wonderful. However, the charter school program is flat.

I thank Mr. Walberg for those kind words. Paul, I hope you know the strength that we are sending you, all of us on both sides of the aisle. We feel it, we have been talking about you and Sherry and the kids constantly. And we hope that…

In honor of Mr. Mitchell, we will now start going Democrat-Republican, Democrat-Republican to demonstrate our bipartisanship. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Meijer).

Our Task Force has about 60 members because they are hearing from their residents about PFAS contamination.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 247, nays 178, not voting 5, as…

In Congress I have been working on this subject for a few years since it was brought to my attention. I co-chair a bipartisan task force, The congressional PFAS Task Force, along with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.