It's unclear to me why we barreled ahead with a vote knowing that the votes weren't there. We did not need to embarrass ourselves.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of H. Con. Res. 85, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the title of the concurrent…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of H. Con. Res. 84, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the title of the concurrent…

Mr. Speaker, I remind my colleague that, in fact, I agree with him this one time. These events are connected, and the connection is the incredibly weak strategy the Biden administration has shown. That is why Putin invaded Ukraine and that…

Mr. Speaker, obviously the biggest issue facing America today is the huge volume of people coming across our southern border. We recently had 1 month in which 370,000 unvetted people crossed the southern border. In debating this topic, I…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. DeLauro for putting together this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, I felt really compelled to come to the floor because 1 minute last night during the tax debate did not seem to be an adequate amount of time to explain…

Will the gentlewoman yield? Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin for the purpose of a colloquy.

As you mentioned, I had a proposal, a compromise. Ms. DeLAURO. Your amendment. Go for it.

Sixty-one million children? Ms. DeLAURO. Yes. There was about 4 million kids lifted out of poverty, almost half the kids in the U.S. lifted out of poverty. Now, what we are talking about in this tax deal is 400,000 kids they talk about…

It was a compromise. It was not what I wanted. I wanted a fully refundable tax credit, but I was looking at our current work requirements for this tax credit and I said to myself--even though a work requirement really defies the whole…

For childcare. Ms. DeLAURO. Childcare was one of the biggest issues, because then it allowed people to go to work.

As a refundable tax credit, there are about 61 million children who are able to benefit from this provision, and yet I see through all of the talking points and literature and analyses of this proposal, that we are just supposed to be…

And it incentivized them to work. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. It is because they wanted to denigrate working folks. They say these corporations and these folks are the richest one-tenth of 1 percent who cut coupons, that is the work. They…

Mr. Speaker, my only proposal was to have a more generous phase-in. If you are going to require people to work, why not allow them to have 40 percent of the credit after the first $2,500 of income. That way, someone who was working and…

We pushed more kids into poverty. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. The kids have gone back into poverty, and it is preventable, as you pointed out. This is preventable poverty. We know the answer and we have refused to take that answer and move…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 29 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, February 5, 2024, at noon for morning-hour debate…

Mr. Speaker, I am going to comment on a variety of things. Like always, I like to use this time to bring the Chair's attention to stories that I don't feel our mainstream media is doing an adequate job of covering. A couple comments before…

I want to start talking--tell a little story.