I thank the gentleman for yielding; and I do mean the gentleman. It has been an honor over these last 16 years to participate in this event. My record as a captain after the first 4 years was not very good; and, actually, John Tanner was…

Of course, congratulations to the victors. It is getting old. I had that trophy for a little while. I haven't seen it in quite some time.

I just want to clarify one thing. It seems to me that Republicans just don't want people to pay taxes even if they are owed. We know there are hundreds of billions of dollars of owed-but-not-paid taxes in this country every year. This is…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the motion. The text of the motion is as follows: Mr. Yarmuth moves that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376. The SPEAKER pro tempore…

We just heard the big lie a couple more times about 87,000 IRS agents that are going to be armed. It is total bunk. Nonsense. The Republicans should stop it and tell the truth. They are continuing to say it. I will say one thing. We were…

I want to respond one more time to these claims about 87,000 new IRS agents. The IRS has never made any announcement about plans to hire any number of agents. The Washington Post fact-checker has actually given that claim three Pinocchios…

My name is on it as the author, even though I didn't write one word of it.

Thank you, Mr. Malik, for your testimony.

That is not our party.

If every life were truly sacred in this country, we wouldn't be having a hearing about programs to keep mothers and their children healthy, fed, and cared for, we would be fully funding them.

Given the current rate of inflation, the idea we ought to pile more money into the system is an almost suicidal act of hubris.

We would need to hire 400 new teachers and build two new schools.

What we are lacking is the bipartisan support needed to get it done.

The fact is that the Clinton-Gingrich budgets worked, they reduced the inflation rate, they reduced the tax rate, they created jobs.

We were trying to get money to businesses, we were trying to get money to state and local governments.

We did not commit child abuse. That is an absurd statement. Forgive me, Speaker Gingrich.

When we passed welfare reform it was principled, work-oriented, a system wide overhaul, and it worked.

As President Ronald Reagan said, the greatest social program is a job.

We need to be much better at that.

We have 2 million people in the United States, 2 million people who should be getting Medicaid coverage that provides comprehensive coverage including mental health coverage, acute, and long-term care, they should be getting Medicaid and…

What was the effective rate that corporations----

Thanks to the Rescue Plan, unemployment is near historic lows at 3.6 percent.

A lot of companies were paying zero.

It is imperative that every person that has been sent to Washington to serve their communities, their districts, that they do the right thing when it comes to saving lives.