I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for his continued leadership. I want to underscore a couple of things that he said, and especially reaching out to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. It is not often that I think you see us…

Let me first, before we begin, given the tragedy that, once again, has visited our country over the weekend, pause and acknowledge--with Rabbi Lazowski from Connecticut in Washington, D.C., this evening and his son, Alan Lazowski, joining…

I believe this can be accomplished by modernizing the outdated federal cap on the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) user fee.

I urge you to address the critical infrastructure needs at U.S. airports as part of any comprehensive infrastructure bill.

It's time for Congress to reassert its Article I power over the purse.

We need to commit the type of investment that will allow us to take on transformational projects like the I-84/I-91 interchange in Hartford, CT.

We need real revenue and real funding.

Projects like dealing with the I-84/I-91 interchange in Hartford cost billions of dollars up front, but the long-term benefits of making a smart investment in transformational projects far-eclipse the upfront costs.

We must ensure that federal funding is being invested in all forms of transportation, including transit, rail, biking, pedestrians, aviation, and waterways along with roads and bridges.

It is interesting that the gentleman points that out because people, oftentimes, think of Social Security only as a pension benefit. As he just pointed out, one in five recipients are currently on Social Security who are not retired, who…

The gentleman makes an excellent point. There is nobody who is getting wealthy on the Social Security program, but it is essential to their very existence and essential to our economy. Every penny that goes into Social Security comes right…

I thank the gentleman for joining me. I thank Social Security Works, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, AFL-CIO, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Arc of the United States, American Federation of Government…

I am honored to be on this floor and to hear the eloquence of Jim Clyburn talking about a legend in Senator Fritz Hollings. Mr. Speaker, it gives us pause this evening, and I am honored to be joined by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, a…

No question about it. We were just at a senior center in Elmwood on Friday and had the same experience. I think, really, people find it annoying when this is called an entitlement, especially when they know they have worked all of their…

And I hear people say things which I don't appreciate, because in the line of civility to call something a scam, I don't know what some people consider a scam, but we just endured 2 years in this country of being told that the President…

we are pleased that you are here so that we can have a hearing on tax cuts that never took place when they should have.

Credit President Trump at least for standing up and saying that in a debate and saying it directly to the Republicans.

But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty.

Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. They are benefits that people paid for.

So to know--it is somewhat not heartening to all of my constituents to know that they are subsidizing the tax cut of the wealthiest in this Nation.

So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?

But we understand at its core what we are trying to achieve here.

How would your constituents act to that, Ms. Zapote?

We need to act now to address this.

Doing nothing means you are, de facto, in favor of 25 percent or at least 20 percent plus cuts come 2034.