I was proud to introduce this bipartisan measure to ensure the C&O Canal National Historical Park Commission continues its critical role of preserving and supporting the C&O Canal.

We have got to look at the whole piece. I mean, the revenue side, I mean we have got to have that on the table.

I urge the subcommittee's support for H.R. 1727 and the safekeeping of the canal for years to come.

Truth is what matters.

That is the kind of thing I think we should be doing, is helping folks that are really struggling, children in poverty.

Campaign season is over. It is time to govern. I urge my colleagues to reject this hyperpartisan bill and pass the bipartisan Senate bill.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Here we are, 3 days from a government shutdown voting again on extreme Republican-led bills that do nothing to prevent it. The ink wasn't even dry on the bipartisan debt ceiling bill deal…

I have good news. It is already happening: more than 13 million jobs created over the last two and a half years.

Inflation has now dropped for 11 consecutive months.

We need to make sure we don't do anything that would jeopardize that.

There was a victory on that front, a bipartisan one, that is, you know, not really talked about that often, and that was the revision of NAFTA, the USMCA.

Today, I rise to condemn the extreme Republicans' action to hold our economy hostage and their refusal to pass a clean bill to raise the debt. Today, we are 7 days from defaulting on our Nation's debt, 7 days from seniors losing their…

the richest five percent of Americans would receive nearly two-thirds of the benefit of the type of tax cut that he says he wants

I would characterize it as a very costly, failed experiment.

the current concern for budget deficits, which I share and which I think we should find a way to try to bring under control, is not brought under control by adding trillions of additional dollars in tax cuts.

So, it would undermine our future. It would undermine our ability to grow a strong workforce that can compete with the rest of the world.

We were called here today to talk about a woke government. Fascinating. Our government's barreling toward a default on its debt.

The Default on America Act would hurt our country, hurt our people, hurt our children, hurt our future, but extreme Republicans still voted to pass it.

You are sponsoring yet another massive tax cut that is estimated to cost about $2 trillion or more.

Bring our growth rate to a halt. Stop an economy that is growing.

That is the way it works.

The Department of Education is estimated, from the Default to America Act, to lose $4 billion cut from schools serving low-income students.

Just one last point. Mr. Harris, I would say to you, we ought to tax sugary beverages, which I introduced many years ago to do that, in which case that would cut down on some of the health impacts that we see today.

I believe--and I don't say this because I am not in the business of ad hominem efforts. But I think the fairy land has been the $1,700,000,000,000 that was dispensed to the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of the people in this country and…

So there hasn't been a partnership, so to speak. And I think a lot of Americans are fed up with it. We are fed up with 100,000 deaths.