Steve Lynch

We do not want to endanger our ability to support the people of Ukraine with appropriations that have already been made by Congress to support that just war of self-defense against Putin's invasion.

If this bill were to become law, Mr. Comer's fellow committee chairs would need to immediately set aside their agendas for the rest of the term to deal with the self-inflicted catastrophe of these reauthorization needs.

This GOP bill benefits absolutely no one but extremist mega lawmakers who want to defund programs and entire agencies and offices that they just do not like.

The H.R. 4435, the Unauthorized Spending Accountability Act, should perhaps be renamed the 'Dysfunction Proliferation Act,' because it would mire congressional proceedings down in a new and overwhelmingly untenable workload.

Why would we pass a law that specifically suppresses the knowledge that we need in order to address the climate emergency that is bearing down on us?

James Madison said that those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

We should be encouraging project labor agreements because on projects like Naval Base Kitsap in 2015, a multi-billion dollar project, it did not go over budget.

I absolutely oppose any efforts to rollback project labor agreements.

I want to actually thank President Biden and his leadership for the Inflation Reduction Act.

Eliminating PLAs across the board for projects with Federal funding is really an open attack on working people.

It jeopardizes the livelihoods of constituents in every congressional district.

When Republicans attack project labor agreements, it is not just an attack on working people.

PLAs work, and legalizing their non-use, mandating their non-use is fraught with problems.

That would take years and years and years and would not satisfy either the contractors or the people working out of them.

Dignity of work and respect for workers is paramount.

The Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act stops the Federal Government from ruling out people without a specific educational credential.

Today, I am happy to partner with Congresswoman Mace on legislation to allow just this kind of competition when it comes to our Federal cybersecurity jobs.

I thank Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace, and our Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, Connolly, for their leadership on this bill in the House.

It is ironic that when we passed Dodd-Frank and gave the SEC the responsibility for restoring trust in the markets, that the industry is pushing back.

The United States capital markets are the envy of the world because of the work the SEC does.

That is not capitalism; that is socialism.

We reverted to socialism when we took $700 billion from the people, taxpayer money, and gave it to the banks.

We fund about 25,000 job training programs, and according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), we don't do a very good job.

I can't help but see this as an opportunity to perhaps redouble our efforts to pull workers who don't traditionally have strong connections to the job market.

I always took a dim view of softening of the labor market because it reduced targeting power.