These are two companion bills. It has been good working with her. My hope is that we not only pass both these bills today unanimously but that we actually get the Senate to act. There is nothing more shameful than a homeless, disabled…

My district has been hit by wildfires that constitute the greatest fire, in terms of total property damage, in the history of America. There are those who say that California should not get aid unless we change--get this--our voter…

Due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 16, Motion to Recommit H.R. 30, and NAY on Roll Call No. 17…

Due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 13, H.R. 164; YEA on Roll Call No. 14, H.R. 144; and YEA on Roll…

Due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 10, H.R. 153, YEA on Roll Call No. 11, Motion to Commit H.R. 28…

Due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 8, H.R. 192 The Amtrak Executive Bonus Disclosure Act, and YEA…

Due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I missed the vote on final pasage for the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, H.R. 23. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 7.

We are told that Trump has a mandate and that, as a result of this election, the Republicans have a mandate to outlaw interstate travel by pregnant women, to deport 20 million people, to trash NATO, trash the dollar, and slash Social…

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool. It will be a more efficient tool. The question is, will it remain unaware? If it becomes aware, will it have objectives? Some have said that artificial intelligence will be the perfect Zen…

In May of the year 2000, I was at this podium talking about the dangers of what I called engineered intelligence, artificial intelligence from our computer engineers or new types of mammalian life from our biological engineers, say a…

I commend the people and the parliamentarians of South Korea. They inspired the world when they were faced with an outrageous declaration of martial law. The parliamentarians fought their way into their parliamentary building and voted…

I believe both bills I mentioned here have a zero score. Both are overwhelmingly supported by our veterans service organizations, including the VFW, Vietnam Veterans of America, The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, U.S. VETS…

Congress over the years has created Federal programs that help the housing insecure, particularly veterans. Of course, to qualify for these programs, you need to have income under a certain threshold. However, we have to focus on how to…

A decade ago, we faced a tough situation in Afghanistan. We could have stayed indefinitely at a cost of $50 billion a year and perhaps a dozen casualties a year, but then Donald Trump promised the American people that we would withdraw and…

Some say that we should have left Americans there for this or that reason or the Taliban are doing this or the Taliban are doing that. They are saying that Biden should have left those Americans there to die at the hands of the 5,000…

At least Mr. Trump was able to golf and didn't have to go to the return ceremonies. I would say that once you force the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters, it is very difficult to say things are condition-based because at that point, the…

Our capital markets and our capitalist system are the envy of the world. How does that system work? Investors decide how to allocate capital, not the government. Investors control the corporation through voting, not the corporate insiders…

We have someone running for President, a former President, who claims that there were no deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan for 18 months under his Presidency. Clearly false. Identified as false. We will see the statistics. We see that…

We have seen a discussion of cryptocurrency. It was the one thing the Biden-Harris administration agreed with Donald Trump on. We know that the Biden-Harris administration has been relatively tough on crypto, but here are the words of…

I want to focus on engineered intelligence. There are two groups of engineers who are in a race that they don't know about. One are the bioengineers creating new DNA, perhaps a new species. By the end of this century, who says they won't…

I join Vice President Harris in condemning yesterday's anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations. The demonstrators may not know that their leaders are funded by Iran and Qatar, which fund the organizations and the propaganda. These same…

I have cringed again and again when I have seen Republicans condemn immigrants by identifying individual crimes committed by individual immigrants. Madam Speaker, imagine how much crime is committed in this country by bald people. All…

This resolution is terrible accounting policy. It has nothing to do with whether banks are allowed to act as custodians since it has no effect on bank regulation, no effect on the calculation of their capital, and no effect on regulatory…

Let me address the Democrats in this Chamber and say: Sustain President Biden's veto. This is the worst possible week for Democrats to do anything else but to stand behind President Biden's veto. If you vote the other way, then you can…

Jewish Americans are facing a tide of hate in this country that we thought could only be in a different century, on a different continent. U.S. anti-Semitic incidences have skyrocketed 360 percent since October 7. Between October 7 and…