I think this is an extraordinarily important topic and I appreciate Chairman Thompson bringing this forward today.

FEMA needs to do a way better job of encountering, you know, future conditions into these flood maps.

The NFIP has been largely criticized because of communities of color and lower-income areas are disproportionately less likely to be covered.

I support vaccines and have personally administered them in all 24 counties in my district.

I thank Dr. Foxx for yielding me time to speak on this important issue. As a mother and a physician, I understand the tremendous value that nursing an infant brings both to the mother and the child. As the director of the Iowa Department…

Today, I rise to share a story about educators in my district literally going the extra mile to ensure their students' success. For the last few months, the Newton School District in Jasper County has reported a shortage of bus drivers…

I thank my colleague for yielding me the time on this critical issue. I would say to the gentleman from Massachusetts that I am also giving him the opportunity to urge all of our colleagues to defeat the previous question so we can take up…

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and I would like to take a moment to thank my district for their work in treating and researching childhood cancer. A staple to my district and to the Iowa City community is the University of…

I believe that testing of people coming across our Southern Border is one of the many keys to controlling the spread of COVID-19.

I expect that we will see changes in protocol and policy and I will reintroduce what legislation I can to force those changes.

I have been asking these questions since March and we have seen no policy or protocol changes.

Today I rise to remember the life of a beloved member of the Davis County community. Last Wednesday, Hall of Fame Davis County coach Dennis Anderson passed away after a battle struggling with stage IV terminal cancer. Dennis Anderson began…

I thank my colleague, the ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee, Representative Westerman, both for yielding and also for all of his diligent efforts in helping us pass the Alexander Lofgren VIP Act. Madam Speaker, our Nation…

I thank my colleague for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so we can take up H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act, which was introduced by my colleague and friend, Representative Yvette Herrell. As a…

I thank my colleague for yielding me time to speak. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in support of Senator John Kennedy's Dispose of Unused Medications and Prescription Opioids Act, S. 957, or the DUMP Opioids Act. Earlier this year…

In March, I introduced H.R. 1897, the REACT Act, which would require the Department of Homeland Security to test all migrants coming across our borders who are released into the U.S.

So essentially, what I am hearing as I am here is we are spending our time in a committee discussing an issue that, while it is very important, is only affecting a very small percentage of people and for which policies have been put in…

And it is important for public health, national security, and also for how our media treats information and where it comes from, that we know the origins of COVID-19, which we still don't have.

I thank my colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee, and I thank Representative Westerman for yielding me time to speak. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of my bill, H.R. 4300, the Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks Act. I…

I think this is a critically important issue for National security and for public health.

I do think that our response to this pandemic and future pandemics, in addition to supply chain manufacturing coming back to the United States, the origins of COVID-19, which seems to be an issue with our colleagues on the other side of…

Every State is a border State.

The Summer Olympics in Tokyo will kick off in less than a month, and I would be remiss not to mention a young track star from a college in my district who is making his first Olympic appearance. Kenny Bednarek, a 22-year-old sprinter who…

It should've been ended earlier so that people could see there was another benefit to getting vaccinated.

I just personally, as a physician and as someone who was inside this process, really, myself, don't understand why we haven't had more of an update yet.