It is an honor to join you in the Chamber this evening. I thank all of our professional staff, as well; our parliamentarian, our readers, our clerks, our typists for their continued commitment to this institution in this climate. It…

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1464, after line 17, insert the following: SEC. 33105. COMPREHENSIVE LEAD SERVICE LINE…

I urge my colleagues to really understand the human impact of not having clean water around our country. This would help 11,000 communities across our Nation. I urge my colleagues to support this and vote ``yes,'' and I yield back the…

First, I want to thank Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer for their leadership in bringing this important bill to the floor. I would also like to thank Chairman Pallone for working with me on this amendment and Chairpersons DeFazio, Waters…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed. Pursuant to…

I want to thank my friend from Minnesota for her wonderful words. Again, we think about all the need that is there, and we are here just trying to make sure that people can get their basics, such as food on the table for the kids. We are…

I want to thank my friend from Oregon for his comments and his ongoing leadership on the Appropriations Committee. It is incredibly important. Now, I am going to turn to the Senator from Pennsylvania, Mr. Casey, and thank him on so many…

first, I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his passion and for his being such a wonderful partner on these issues. I very much appreciate his speaking about the fact that there is an economic benefit. If nothing else, if someone wants…

I am going to yield to Senator Merkley in a second. First, I want to say to the senior Senator from Oregon, when you talk about the Oregon Way, this needs to be the American way. This is the American way. Right now, the average food…

My guess would be that everyone is like me, and, no, I have not experienced a sense of it.

I don't think hunger ever takes a vacation, if it is in the middle of the night, early in the morning, all the way through the week. I mean, the reality is, when we are here, there are people around this country who are hungry. When…

I want to thank Senator Brown for his eloquence and advocacy, and I want to thank him also for being an incredibly effective member of the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, as is our next speaker, the senior Senator from…

I agree with my friend from Kansas that we work together in many ways and have been able to get a lot of good things together by working across the aisle. I want to focus on just a couple of things to expound on what he said, though. While…

I rise today to be joined by my colleagues as well. I am very grateful to see the Senator from Ohio here. Thank you so much for being on the floor. Other colleagues will join to speak this evening on behalf of millions of American families…

I thank my friend and colleague, Congresswoman Tlaib, for her leadership and for bringing this amendment to the floor. I am proud to join her in it. As many of you know, I represent my hometown of Flint, Michigan. Flint is the community…

I thank my friend, the gentleman from Oregon, for yielding, but especially for leading us to this moment where we have the opportunity to do something big and meaningful that will put millions of Americans back to work in a meaningful way…

I thank the gentleman from Oregon for yielding. I rise in strong support of this en bloc, which includes an important bipartisan natural infrastructure amendment that adds H.R. 3742, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act to H.R. 2. When we…

I would like to thank Chairman DeFazio, for his leadership on this bill, and for the leadership of Speaker Pelosi, Chairwoman Waters, Chairman Scott, and Chairman Pallone for fighting to make sure we make historic investments in our…