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I am hoping to leave my campsite better than I found it.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Congress has never awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to any group of Vietnam veterans. Today, we can change that by passing this legislation. I ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote…

You know, you mentioned the baseball field, you know, only because Leader Scalise was a Member of leadership was Capitol Police even present that day.

I am grateful to my colleague and friend, Congressman Brad Wenstrup, for serving on our first panel today.

The U.S. House of Representatives is not prepared.

One that certainly keeps me up at night is political violence and Congress' vulnerability to it.

Our role in this exercise is to ensure that the institution is capable of carrying out its constitutional obligations no matter the circumstances.

Social Security is more than a lifeline. It really is a promise we make to the American people.

Social Security is more than a lifeline. It really is a promise we make to the American people.

I thank the gentlewoman for sharing her experiences, and I hope those fires are extinguished soon. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse), one of my colleagues who has been an incredible partner when it comes to…

I thank the gentlewoman. I am so sorry to hear that she lost her own home in a wildfire, and I thank her for pointing out firewise and things that people can do to at least mitigate their own risk, although these fires are out of control…

I am so glad that my colleague, Representative Stansbury, mentioned the aftereffects of these wildfires. We all think about smoke and about forests, but we don't think about what happens when the rain comes and the mudslides that follow…

Social Security is more than a lifeline. It really is a promise we make to the American people.

If we are looking at ways in which the Federal Election Commission can be more effective, Representative Fitzpatrick and I have a bipartisan bill called the Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act.

It just seems to me, returning to a pre-Sackett system of uniform Federal protections would be better than a patchwork approach.

To make broad statements that projects are getting killed every day because of WOTUS does not actually line up with the facts.

Passing the Clean Water Act of 2023, a bill I introduced in partnership with Ranking Member Napolitano, would restore the historic, bipartisan protections that the Sackett decision removed.

After the Sackett decision, the robust Federal protections for our Nation's waters have been eliminated for more than 50 percent of wetlands and up to 70 percent of streams.