Susan Davis

the FEC is a completely failed agency.

It is important that that not be permitted.

Well, I appreciate your response, and I think that we know that we have to do a far better job in being able to see through what is going on, and I think we have that experience now.

I withdraw my point of order.

I am really kind of shocked by those comments. It is judge and jury by innuendo.

I think what we are trying to do is think of a way that people can feel participatory in elections, including today they do not.

I just wanted to go back to the question that I asked earlier, if we can think of any excuse that would be acceptable.

We are certainly willing, and hopefully we will be able to come to agreement on some of the amendments.

I would urge a 'no' vote on this amendment.

the only allegiance of a State's chief election officer must be to the voters and not to any competing political agenda.

an inherent conflict of interest exists when a State's chief election official is responsible for monitoring and certifying the results of a Federal election while actively participating in the campaign of one of the candidates in that…

I think we need to go back a little bit and just think about in H.R. 1 we are concerned about people who are voting in our national elections.

I have advocated for some time making it impossible for the chief elections official to simultaneously engage in any sort of Federal election activity, and that provision is in H.R. 1.

I think even from a sense of entitlement that somebody might be expressing on Twitter, which isn't blatant, I guess I would read that and I would, you know, want to know a little bit more.

I can assure you that we don't have a barrier when we hire someone in our office. We let them know that we are going to take a look at their accounts.

So the Federal minimum wage has been stagnant for too long. It has contributed to income inequality, and I am glad we are having this conversation today.

In Oregon, more than 100 years ago, even before the Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted, Oregon became one of the first States to enact a minimum wage.

My constituents all live on the border, as does my colleague, Ms. Escobar. So how do we see that?

Is the nature of the asylum-seekers, though, is what they need something different? So if we had more judges and more processing capability, perhaps, that is really what is needed, not necessarily declaring a national emergency.

This Trump shutdown is forcing servicemembers and retirees to go without pay. Yes, our President is withholding Coast Guard pay because of his reckless demands. Who does that? A constituent wrote to me: As a Coast Guard retiree, I am…

We are about to witness the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees, many in my own district, are not certain when or if their next paycheck is coming, and for what? For what? For a border…

We continue to need a whole-of-government approach to adequately support national defense.

We have essentially been involved in the same war that was started after 9/11.

I often say to my constituents that I came in in 2001. Obviously, that day is an incredibly strong memory.

I thank Chairman Thornberry and Ranking Member Smith and the professional and personal staff for all of their hard work. Mr. Speaker, this year's NDAA is multifaceted, and it is complex. It contains many good things for our servicemembers…