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Mr. Speaker, today I am proud to recognize and honor the retirement of Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. Starting out as a beat cop, spending every day on the front lines keeping our community safe, to serving as Walton County sheriff…
Mr. President, it is with a combination of pride and sadness that I rise to pay tribute to a truly extraordinary Senator and a good friend, Senator Mitt Romney. I rise to praise his intelligence, his imagination, and most of all his…
Mr. President, I rise to provide a brief statement on the rollcall votes on December 2, 2024. I was unable to attend the votes, but had I been here on Monday, December 2, 2024, I would have voted yea on vote No. 304, on the nomination of…
Mr. President, Senator Joe Manchin often recalls these words of wisdom from his grandmother: People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Knowledge and caring define Joe's public service, both here in the Senate…
Madam President, first, let me thank the Senator from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, for her extraordinary leadership on diabetes. She has worked night and day on this issue the entire time she has served in the Senate. Together we formed…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the previously scheduled vote occur immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on the House to prioritize disarmament diplomacy. Mr. Speaker, 2024 marks 80 years since the world was introduced to nuclear weapons. In that time, there have been several instances when complete…
Mr. President, I wish to recognize LaShawnda Smith on her retirement after 29 years of service with the Senate Appropriations Committee. LaShawnda first joined the committee in 1993 as a detailee from the Department of Veterans Affairs…
Madam President, before I begin my remarks on the continuing resolution to fund the government, I do have to take just a moment to note that today is National Lobster Day, and that is extremely important to the State of Maine. Just last…
Mr. Speaker, on October 25, 2023, America's gun violence nightmare became a living hell for the people of Lewiston, Maine, and everyone who calls our State home. At 6:54 p.m., a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle walked into a bowling…
Mr. Speaker, maybe my colleagues have heard of New York Fashion Week, which was at the beginning of this month, but this week is New York Climate Week, giving us an opportunity to spur climate action. The fashion industry is a massive…
Madam President, I do think it is important to point out that the House passed this bill by an overwhelming bipartisan vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Order of Business
Madam President, I rise today to introduce two bills: the Improving Retirement Security for Family Caregiver Act and the Catching Up Family Caregivers Act. These bills, which I am introducing today with my colleague from Virginia, Senator…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of a bill that honors the legacy of Colonel Joseph Kittinger, a former command pilot in the U.S. Air Force who lived in Altamonte Springs, Florida, in Florida's Seventh Congressional District. From a…
Madam Speaker, in John 15:12-13, Jesus says: ``This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.'' Madam Speaker, Greene County Fire…
Mr. President, I just want to thank the Senator from Alabama for her eloquent words, her passion, and her leadership. She is absolutely correct that there is no reason for us to be in the situation that we find ourselves in just 12 days…
Mr. President, I rise today to point out that we are only 12 days from the end of the fiscal year and to call upon the majority leader to bring the appropriations bills to the Senate floor. We have wasted the last 2 weeks. We have spent…
Mr. President, here is my point. It does not have to be this way. If the Senate majority leader had prioritized bringing appropriations bills to the floor, we could be in conference now with our Senate colleagues on some of the most…