I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for yielding. Bentley University is a renowned business school in my district, and when a class from Bentley visited me just a few weeks ago, they were advocating for a critical underpinning of our…

As we look across our country and see almost 16 million children going to bed hungry every night...

There are too many, as we heard already, Bureau of Indian Education schools that are operating facilities that are in disrepair and need some work.

It is pretty clear that we have work to do both to improve the Bureau of Indian Education schools as well as addressing the educational outcomes for all American Indian and Alaska Native students.

This is an outrage. We are again debating a bill that takes away women's constitutional rights. I agree with the gentleman from Arizona that we are privileged. We are privileged to be Members of Congress and represent our districts and our…

Thank you to the gentleman from Worcester for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this rule and its assault on Americans' reproductive health rights. All women should have the right to make their own healthcare…

We are removing a barrier for many of them.

It is really in our best interest. In a country like ours where we have so much, it is just wrong for students to be hungry, for children to be hungry.

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts. Congress often talks about strengthening the middle class and growing our economy. For many years now, we have had an opportunity to pass a commonsense bill that will actually help us do just that…

I am really looking forward to working with all my colleagues to take ambitious steps to ensure that fewer children have to worry about where they are going to get their next meal.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the Kennedy amendment and ``no'' on the underlying bill.

This will be the second time that I have cosponsored an amendment to the Secret Science Reform Act with Representatives Kennedy and McGovern. I have spoken in opposition to this bill before, but so long as the House continues to consider…