Mr. Speaker, we have no further requests, so I am happy to urge all Members to vote for the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this bill is an important one, the Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act, represented by two really impressive Members of Congress, Ms. Houlahan and Dr…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize one of the most dedicated public servants I have worked with, Stacey Leavandosky. Stacey has been on Capitol Hill for 27 years, including 18 years as my chief of staff. Her service to my California…

Mr. Chair, I am very pleased that this amendment, which I was proud to cosponsor with my colleagues Reps. Beyer and Trahan, was made in order. The amendment is quite straightforward. It would ensure that the Department of Energy's total…

Mr. Speaker, I note that in Veeck v. Southern Building Code, in the 5th Circuit, a more conservative circuit, they ruled that model building codes adopted by reference into law could be copied freely. The court reasoned that once a…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I would like to note that the idea that you could conceal your identity to access this material is not really a full answer to the fact that the Supreme Court has told us no…

Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record an article by David Halperin from this March titled: ``Congress Should Reject Bill to Let Private Groups Control Access to U.S. Laws.'' The article can be found at the following link: https://…

Mr. Speaker, here is a paragraph that is important and really places the question before us succinctly: ``In the regime posited by the Pro Codes Act, if citizens, or advocates, or journalists, or business operators, or lawmakers, or even…

Mr. Speaker, I just note that when the standards setting organization sued Public.Resource.Org, the D.C. Circuit Court said this in ruling for freedom of the law: ``Once a standard is incorporated by reference into the law, it effectively…

When a member of the House Judiciary Committee asked Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights and the Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, for her opinion of the Pro Codes Act, this is what she said: ``The public should have access…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill to defend Americans' right to access, understand, and debate the law. The Pro Codes Act threatens public access to the law and…

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has 11 minutes remaining.