The budget request for OCWR for fiscal year 2025 is $8.591 million, a 5 percent increase from fiscal year 2024.

I can't think of a better way to finish my final term in Congress than by bringing these recommendations home.

The COIL budget request for fiscal year 2025 is $7.2 million, an increase of 20 percent.

I would like to thank Ranking Member Espaillat and committee members and the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, and the Acting Architect, Joe DiPietro, for being here today.

Thank you for your efforts to support AbilityOne vendors and Americans with disabilities.

I just ask you to take a look at that.

It is tragic really.

The cost of that is roughly anywhere from half to 1 percent of the total DOD's budget to implement it.

We need more pull from the Secretary, we need more pull frankly from the President and prioritizing this pay gap.

We are putting them further and further behind the power curve.

Horrible things are happening in Ohio now in the Federal courts with the people that perpetrated these crimes.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to demand the immediate release and safe return of the remaining hostages in Gaza who have now spent half a year in captivity. The words of a mother: ``I love you. Stay strong…

the goal was simple, to lower taxes for the wealthiest individuals and the largest corporations.

A Tax Code geared towards corporations and the wealthy does not trickle down to small businesses and workers.

If you ask an 18-year-old if he wants to go work at In-N-Out for $22 an hour or join the Army for the equivalent of $12 an hour you are going to get 95 percent of them going to In-N-Out.

So now you have got an Active-Duty family going down to a single income for 2 to 3 years wherever they are based.

You all know my number one priority is our troops, especially our junior enlisted, E-1 through E-6. They are the most precious, they are the most potent, and they are the most powerful weapon system that we have.

Climate change is causing extreme weather events in every region of the world. It does not matter if you are in a blue State or a red State.