Andrew Clyde

Acting Secretary Su, independent contractor work is a cornerstone of the American economy. Would you agree?

Whether it is a full-time profession, a second job, or part-time work, roughly 45 percent of the American workforce are pursuing employment as independent contractors to keep food on their tables and provide for their families.

These businesses should have the autonomy to determine their own hiring practices, wages, and benefits in compliance with current Federal law.

In the last 3 years, Americans have experienced sky high inflation. Our national debt has continued to climb as a result of the Biden administration's failed policies.

I am very thankful that the NAIA... has decided to only allow biological female student athletes to participate in female sports.

Do you think a woman's safety is in jeopardy by allowing biological males who claim to be women to compete in women's sports?

Female athletes are having their safety and rights violated by biological males competing in women's sports.

If you can't define what a woman is, how in the world can you determine that they get their fair share of funding?

In recent years, we have seen a drastic increase in radical gender ideology being promoted and pushed by government bureaucrats and educators.

We can do better, and we must do better, both to foster free speech at our college campuses while also pushing back against terrorist rhetoric that has no place in our schools.

This cancel culture is, ironically, increasing at a time when universities are failing to adequately condemn the rise of antisemitism.

Our colleges and universities should be places that support free academic inquiry and where different ideas can be expressed and can be exchanged.

It is clear that the Department's student loan forgiveness policies are unfair to Americans who did not go to college or that paid back their loans.

I think it is paramount that HHS vet not only the sponsor but vet the child or vet the UAC coming into our country.

Here you have illegal alien minors with gang tattoos being brought into our country.

In July 2022, Kayla Hamilton, an American, was sexually assaulted and murdered in Maryland by a 16-year-old alien, MS-13 gang member from El Salvador.

If there is one thing I want to make sure is that Health and Human Services is not the last link in the chain of child trafficking.

All right. You told Chairman Aderholt that over 300,000 UACs have been processed since the beginning of the Biden administration.

Okay. I think we have a little different viewpoint on that right there.

But when you send them to a sponsor is it not your responsibility also to ensure that the sponsors...will care for and support these unaccompanied children?

I am deeply disturbed by reports that your agency...has mishandled the flood of unaccompanied alien minors.

This is the most corrupt president. You just have to read the FBI's FD 1023 form of the interview with this - with the president of Burisma to see that Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, were bribing, were requiring from really extorting…

My colleague, the former majority leader on the Democrat side, just reminded us of our single subject rule that our Speaker cosponsored back in 2015. That is the current rule of the House, and yet my Democrat colleague wants us to violate…

I rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger), and I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.

It is vital that we unleash and support American energy, fossil fuel energy, and pursue pro-American energy policies. I am deeply concerned that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to put the needs of Americans first. Given…