Matt Gaetz

I don't think voting against Kevin McCarthy is chaos. I think $33 trillion in debt is chaos.

May I inquire as to my remaining time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 9\3/4\ minutes remaining.

My friend from Oklahoma says that my colleagues and I who don't support Kevin McCarthy would plunge the House and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker McCarthy. Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that…

The opening line of my colleague's speech was that Speaker McCarthy always overperforms expectations, but after tweeting ``bring it'' and after engaging in profane-laced tirades at House Conference, he just lost a motion to table. I…

The problem with my friend from Ohio's argument is that many of the bills he referenced as having passed are not law. We are on a fast track to an omnibus bill, and it is difficult to champion oversight when House Republicans haven't even…

There is nothing selfish about wanting a Speaker of the House who tells the truth. I reserve the balance of my time.

It is lovely to hear from the principal architect of Mr. McCarthy's debt limit deal, but here is the reality: The only Republicans in America who believe that the debt limit deal was conservative are in this Chamber right now because all…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 3 of rule XX, the Chair directs the Clerk to conduct the vote by a call of the roll. The Clerk will call the roll…

I think I have caught the signal, too. The signal is for $33 trillion in debt, facing $2.2 trillion annual deficits. Our fellow Americans may be watching and wondering, how does that happen? How does the greatest country in the world have…

I agree with everything that the majority leader said in those remarks, except one thing. It is astonishing to hear any colleague give Speaker McCarthy credit for moving on to the single-subject appropriations bills. As you heard my…

I am here to solve problems, too, but we have decade after decade of history showing us that you don't solve any problems with continuing resolutions and omnibus bills. That creates more problems, more debt, more inflation, more pain for…

There is nothing sober, wise, or cautious about the path we are on. We are on a path to financial ruin if this House does not take a different posture, a different procedure, and yield toward different outcomes and a better future. I…

Declaring the Office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant. Resolved, that the Office of Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under rule IX, a resolution…

I have enough Republicans where, at this point next week, one of two things will happen. Kevin McCarthy won't be the speaker of the House, or he'll be the speaker of the House working at the pleasure of the Democrats. And I'm at peace with…

The House of Representatives has passed funding bills to fund our veterans, our troops, our Border Patrol, our State and foreign ops. These are the core functions of government. The Senate should take up and pass those bills to make sure…

The continuing resolution being offered today is a bad deal for Republicans. The entire premise of this continuing resolution is that if Republicans surrender on every single issue except the border that it will be good politics because we…

It is hard to believe what I am hearing. The gentlewoman is saying: But there is malaria and tuberculosis and sickness and ailment all around the world. The gentlewoman need look no further than her home State of California where the human…

My amendment makes a $4.5 billion cut; $3.5 billion of that stops us from retiring global debt for Ukraine. Now, I don't think it is an unrealistic position to say that the United States of America should not deficit spend to retire the…

The reason we are here debating this issue is because my colleague from Georgia (Ms. Greene) has found there are distributions that could possibly go to Ukraine. She is fighting admirably, often alone, and she is the reason that we are…

This amendment reduces the amount of funding allocated to USAID by $4.5 billion. As I mentioned earlier, USAID is a vehicle through which the American taxpayer pays for economic development in other countries. I think instead we should…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 27, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $750,000,000)''. Page 32, line 18, after…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made…

This amendment ensures that none of the funds appropriated in this act will be used to administer the Paris climate accord. The Paris climate accord is the unilateral surrender of the American economy, not for the sake of any environmental…

It is neither moral nor smart to drive our Nation deeper into debt, to jeopardize the future of this country so that we can engage in a globalist virtue signal. If this global agreement were real and benefiting our country, I think you…

I would observe that we cannot have a goal of creating parity with the Ukrainian military and the Russian military. If that is the case, why not send nuclear weapons? These cluster bombs are indiscriminate. They have killed tens of…