--we are not allowed to touch Social Security in the reconciliation process, and then interest is off of the table because you have to pay it. You can't just magically not pay the interest. That adds up to what? It is about 47 percent of…

Let's fast-forward. What we are really talking about--for everybody at home watching C-SPAN, all 14 of you--we have a situation where ObamaCare expanded the Medicaid population, and it expanded it massively to a population that is much…

Mr. Speaker, one place where the President has expressed concerns that ought to cause all Americans to want to see some change, to see him have to be dealt with for what he said and what he is doing. I have in my hand a passage titled…

They were basically partying on the taxpayers' dollars.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona for his steadfast devotion to highlighting for the American people the state of our fiscal health, which is not good, and the extent to which we are complicit in it. I would just point out…

So Medicaid was created, and Medicaid was created to ostensibly provide an avenue to healthcare for the poor and vulnerable, right, as a broad statement. Is that true?

Would the gentleman yield on that? One of the things that I have been saying in this building for the last several months is this debate about what we call, I think somewhat wrongly and incorrectly, ``mandatory spending,'' because it is…

It was supposed to then be a shared arrangement between the States and the Federal Government, correct?

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert). We have engaged in a colloquy on his time. I am going to start my 30 minutes. He, of course, is welcome to stick around a little bit if he wants. I am going to just jump off…

Now, fast-forward, and the current vulnerable population-- what we call the vulnerable population--the indigent, the poor, those who need it, single moms, people who are sick, the frail--that population, even under today's law, gets a…

Mr. President, I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows: A bill (S…

Musk’s DOGE helped crystallize the framework for what the Texas agency would do.

We shouldn’t have such high local taxes and the federal government shouldn’t subsidize it.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Takano for yielding. I am so grateful for his leadership and for bringing us together on the House floor to talk about what is happening here in our country every day. Americans are sounding the alarm about the…

I'm glad he's still going to be part of the administration.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, quite frankly, I can't even believe that our friends across the aisle are complaining. I guess that seems to be their habit, their modus operandi these days. Madam Speaker…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation I report favorably the following nomination list which was printed in the Record on the date indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 354 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 354 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…