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Federal workers, including furloughed workers, are entitled to their backpay following a shutdown.

It is dangerous for us not to be having regular communications about our capabilities and intentions.

Our relationship is going to be the most consequential relationship in terms of what the world is going to be like for decades to come.

I rise today to honor a friend and a public servant in the Quad Cities, Porter McNeil. Porter served as a leader in Rock Island County for decades, most recently on our county board, but also as a leader and lover of democratic values…

We invite Republican leadership to finally join Democratic leadership at the negotiating table, which they have refused for weeks to do, to prevent a shutdown and begin bipartisan negotiations to keep the government funded.

In just 19 days, government funding expires. Right now, Americans across the country face rural hospitals that are closing, higher prices for back-to-school supplies, and double-digit increases in healthcare premiums. What is the…

I fully admit the left is wrong frequently. I think we ought to factually check that. Here, we are saying don't factually check that. While we are on the subject of facts, COVID played a little bit of a role in our recruitment problem. I…

I think the most crucial point here is that the United States of America is the most economically powerful country in the history of the world. That has been the case since the end of World War II. A large part of that is because of our…

Current law bans sterilization, so that is just a lot of crap about what this is about. Current law bans what she is talking about. What is being banned here is any treatment for gender dysphoria, and that is completely wrong.

Again, Mr. Chair, we are not talking about sex-change operations. This is just another example of the profound ignorance surrounding treatment for gender dysphoria. We are talking about any treatment.

Mr. Chair, do they sometimes make mistakes? I always like to say, I have had three hip surgeries including two total hip replacements. I probably didn't need any of them. It was probably a mistake. I don't see anybody on the floor talking…

But we know this means very little unless [House] Speaker [Mike] Johnson and Leader Thune agree with their approach.

The public would likely face severe consequences if the CDC becomes a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.

The Undersea Cable Control Act will ensure America, not the Chinese Communist Party, is connecting the globe with critical undersea cable infrastructure. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance…

I thank Representative Meeks for this fine piece of legislation and appreciate his bipartisan spirit. I urge my colleagues to pass the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act and make clear that the United States will expose and hold…

The Trump administration's cruel immigration policies now extend to individuals fighting forest fires.

I am demanding immediate answers from this administration about the circumstances of this incident.

This new Republican policy to detain firefighters on the job is as immoral as it is dangerous.