Steve Scalise

Because of the failure to communicate, thousands of enslaved folks remained in slavery for 2 1/2 years.

Their failures must be confronted in order for that trust to be restored.

Did China lie to the world about the virus and how it spread?

Obviously, we will continue to debate this. Hopefully, we will debate it over H.R. 6858 where we can actually be talking about how we work together to solve the problem. Of course, as the gentleman knows, Congress did come together…

The 800,000 leases--and I know we talked about this before. You can have 800,000 leases, but when you need, then, permits to actually utilize the lease--so you have a lease to go and develop oil, but you need to drill. You need to do…

I thank the gentleman for the confession about how many 60th birthdays he has shared. Here is to many more for you, but also for Bres. As the gentleman points out, a fair and free press is vital to democracy. It is the First Amendment to…

I am happy to yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my friend and the House majority leader.

The Biden stimulus made the U.S. inflation problem even more severe.

Gas prices have more than doubled since President Biden took office and launched a crusade against American energy production.

I hope that in our oversight of pandemic programs, my Democrat colleagues will be able to recognize the difference between what was needed to save the economy during unprecedented pandemic versus pushing a partisan inflation inducing…

Hopefully, we can get that addressed as well so that we can tackle some of these other problems: inflation, high gas prices, border issues that we are trying to bring legislation on. If the gentleman has nothing else, Madam Speaker, I…

I think it's obvious that the COVID lockdown policies that were adopted harmed parents and kids disproportionately.

We will continue this discussion. I would like to see us bring up the bill that would actually address it. We will see this debate go on next week and beyond. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

America knows how to do it better. By the way, it is American innovation that has opened up the ability to produce more energy cleaner than anyone else in the world, and the President of the United States is the one saying no to America…

I would yield. Especially if the gentleman would tell me we are bringing this up on the floor, I would be happy to yield right now.

I rise for the purpose of inquiring to the majority leader the schedule for next week. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the House majority leader.

So I would ask Mr. Dodaro, as you are talking about concerns about political interference, when we have that well-documented example of guidance from scientists getting ready to come out on opening up schools and then a union that wants to…

As we talked about earlier, we did have a hearing in this committee regarding, among other things, interference that was well documented by the Biden administration where the CDC was getting ready to come out with guidance for reopening…

I specifically asked Dr. Walensky for names of other organizations... and to this day... I have not gotten a single example back.

It was unprecedented to give that kind of access weeks in advance of a report coming out to then make line-by-line edits.

I hope that Democrats on this subcommittee will stop trying to sweep these Biden administration interferences that have been documented under the rug and finally start demanding transparency and accountability and have hearings on that.

I'm sorry that those comments cause him problems, because it was things that was conveyed to me from a number of places that we were -- and look, you can go back to those days after January 6, there are a lot of reports floating around.

Yes, that's -- I mean, it's potentially illegal what he's doing.

It`s potentially illegal what he`s doing.

Yes. That`s -- I mean, it`s potentially illegal what he`s doing.