I thank the chairman for all of his leadership. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 4500, the Promoting U.S. Wireless Leadership Act of 2019, which we are considering now. This bill, on which my colleague and good friend from Michigan…

I am concerned that because the Census Bureau had fallen behind in the hiring for the 2020 census, it may not have the manpower it needs.

My home district is Detroit, a city notoriously undercounted in the census with a large minority population who speaks dozens of languages.

I thank the ranking member and the chairman for moving this bill forward. I rise today in support of H.R. 4500, the Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2019. I am pleased my colleague from Michigan, Representative Dingell…

I rise this evening to recognize a new year and a new decade in which we find ourselves, the second half of this session of the 116th Congress, an incredible delegation of individuals who have come together on behalf of the American…

This bill today was just something to remind everybody that we should be debating things like war and peace, and we should be following the Constitution and authorizing war if that's what we're going to end up doing.

What he just said right now is factually incorrect. The president always has the right to act in self-defense. The president always has the right to act when he sees fit as long as he notifies us afterwards within 48 hours.

I think we are underestimating what this really means.

If those undercount trends continue, my district will see hundreds if not thousands of individuals not counted in the 2020 census.

the Census Bureau has acknowledged that it is way behind in hiring.

I need authorization from Congress. And that's just the Constitution. That's not something new that we made up.

We are one of three sovereigns that is articulated in the U.S. Constitution: Federal Government, states, and tribal governments.

As Members of Congress, I must ensure that all hard-to-reach hard-to-count communities are included in this upcoming census.

I am very fearful.

Do you not think we have got to protect people from that?

I have asked that my name be added as a cosponsor to H.R. 2271, so thank you very much for your testimony.

But the line between what happens online and offline is virtually nonexistent.

I was chairman of the committee when we passed and signed into law Leader Steny Hoyer's School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act.