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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

This amendment strikes the section that allows the administration to consider expanding the CLEEN Program. Now, as a reminder, in the CLEEN Program, the FAA provides awards to industry to develop and integrate technology that will reduce…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

We don't need to provide more subsidies to support this climate smart agriculture practice and production of aviation biofuel feedstocks. It actually makes your food more expensive because we are burning your fuel in an aircraft instead of…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 1132 of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 597, the gentleman from…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 11, line 14, strike ``4,000,000,000'' and insert ``3,800,000,000''. Page 11, line 15, strike…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

Just like the last amendment, this amendment recognizes the fact that our country is out of money. We are borrowing money to pay our bills, and we are paying for things that we can't afford. We are paying for things that these folks can't…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

I thank the gentleman from the other side of the aisle, but I want to clarify. It is not a cut. We are actually increasing the spend; just not as much. Now, I know in Washington, oh, my goodness, who knew the request was up to $4 billion…

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John Joyce
@johnjoyce· Republican · PA· Jul 19, 2023

Today President Biden's Department of Homeland Security announced that they did not know the location of nearly 40 percent of illegal immigrants who have entered our Nation. The failed catch-and-release policies that have been championed…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I am honored to be with my good friend from Texas, standing up for all Americans and all of America in the face of this place known as the swamp. There was a time when the country revered Washington, D.C., and no one ever would think of it…

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Chris Deluzio
@chrisdeluzio· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 338, expressing the sense of Congress supporting the State of Israel. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

There have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days. We do not have to live like this. Children are scared to go to school, parents are scared to put their kids on the bus, and teachers are scared that they will have to…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption of the…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

As I suggested, this is just about rightwing messaging, pushing a false narrative that anybody is advocating for an open border--they aren't--while still refusing to come to grips with what do we do with the people who come here? What do…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I am so sorry my colleague across the aisle misunderstood me. The fake crisis I was referring to was the crisis that this defund our schools bill is seeking to address, which is the use of active public school buildings to house migrants…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, with the two bills under consideration in today's rule, we have a striking example of the best and…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 213, noes 206, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 332] AYES--213…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I find myself in complete agreement that we should be addressing the actual issues, like student achievement, that are impacting our students, but, obviously, this bill does none of that. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Jul 18, 2023

As I was listening to some of the prior speakers, I started to understand why we have this defund the schools bill before us today. It is based upon a whole bunch of misunderstandings. The idea that migrants who are in the position where…

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Scott Perry
@scottperry· Republican · PA· Jul 18, 2023

I am thinking about Mr. Roy's comments. We say the Republic can't exist if our colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to dismiss the calamity that is happening on the border, the human tragedy, because it is not a dismissal. It is…

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