I will first thank my colleagues on the Democratic Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group for helping us with these various Special Order hours discussing the Trump administration's various reckless actions. Tonight, I rise…

At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. According to the Arms Control Association, this included approximately 1,900 strategic warheads, 176…

I rise as a Ph.D. physicist in Congress, who spent most of his career in the national laboratories of the Department of Energy, to share the story of a research engineer at a national lab who was recently fired without cause by President…

I thank Representative Tonko for holding this Special Order hour on preserving scientific integrity. Mr. Speaker, I am a scientist. For 25 years before entering Congress, I worked at Fermi National Accelerator Labs, smashing protons and…

I thank Representative McGovern for holding this Special Order hour to discuss the importance of nuclear security. As the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress, I feel I have a special responsibility to join this discussion and to ask what we…

1 year ago, UAW members across the country went on strike and won a historic victory by securing agreements with the Big Three auto manufacturers. That included an agreement with Stellantis to retool and reopen the Chrysler assembly plant…

I missed a recorded vote. Had I been present, on Roll Call No. 387, Brecheen Amendment No. 24 to H.R. 8998, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, I would have voted No. Moment of Silence in…

I missed a recorded vote today. Had I been present, on Roll Call No. 227, Ogles Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 5403, CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, I would have voted `no'.

I thank Chair Waters for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this bill. I am encouraged by the dialogue and collaboration that has taken place between the House Financial Services Committee and the House Ag Committee on this bill…

I have no further speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, my draft number was 321. Being born in 1955, I never was called to serve, and I always wondered what my service would be like had I been called. I…

Today, I missed a recorded vote. Had I been present, on rollcall No. 715, the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4531, the Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________