How much time do we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 16 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Kentucky has 19 minutes remaining.

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for her remarks, and I reserve the balance of my time.

The good chairman of the committee invoked the name of Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, who sent us a letter with the chairman of the D.C. City Council, Phil Mendelson, which closes this way: ``Not only should…

I don't think that Chair Jordan's introduction of legislation constitutes a threat in violation of the First Amendment.

The legislation itself contemplated granting the District of Columbia a voting representative, but only in the House, not in the Senate.

Why wouldn't every citizen want to know if there is an officer coming from another jurisdiction who has been convicted of an assault?

It would be great if we actually had the Department of Defense here to speak to this question of what we are doing to compensate the newly recruited members of the armed forces.

The Army fell short of its recruitment goals by 15,000 last year. Why has it become more difficult to recruit people into the military?

It has been a historical struggle to desegregate the Army, to let African Americans into the Army, to let women into the Army, to let gay people serve in the Army publicly.

Potential recruits are not afraid of going woke. They are afraid of going broke.

We oppose H.R. 5 because we stand with the school boards and the PTAs, the parents and the teachers, the students, and 13,000 school superintendents whose letter opposing this legislation I would ask to be included in the Record. Mr…

We stand with local governments against this outrageous power grab by MAGA Republicans in Washington who are supporting book banning, suppression of historical facts about slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racial violence, and favoring…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chair, we need more politicians reading books and fewer politicians trying to censor books in America. It is amazing to me to see politicians who oppose a universal violent criminal background check and who…

Today's braces are largely used to exploit a loophole in the regulatory structure to allow owners to turn their weapons into short-barreled rifles.

There really is no difference in the power and potential violence of the weapon, and there is very little difference in the weapon's design.

I thank the distinguished gentleman from New York for his excellent leadership on this bill today on the floor. The distinguished gentlewoman from Colorado posed a question that I have been hearing my Republican colleagues utter over the…

I just want to echo the very important point you just made. We have a sequence of trivial amendments that have been added by the majority, and they refuse to consider what I think is the central amendment that this legislation would need…

The COVID-19 pandemic came to America in 2020, of course, when Donald Trump was President. And that President's policy failures, magical thinking, and total recklessness caused, according to his own special advisor on COVID, Deborah Birx…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR: The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

It is always a pleasure to hear my friend from Texas, Mr. Roy, who mentions something which sounded like a substantive suggestion about ending corporate subsidies, or perhaps I intuited or interpreted that. If he wants to work on…

I thank the gentleman for his extraordinarily insightful and significant remarks. The only exception I would take is when he referred to extreme MAGA. We actually had a colloquy about this yesterday with the good gentlewoman from Colorado…

So I believe our colleagues are coming clean. They opposed the American Rescue Act, which was absolutely essential legislation to get the country out of the Trump economic wreckage during the last administration. We had 14.8 percent…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Yakym The Acting CHAIR (Mr…

Now we move from the ludicrous to the absurd to the sublime. Yesterday, they wanted a report from the President upon issuance of an executive order for executive orders having an inflationary impact or having an economic impact of $1…

Yes, the prices of housing are too high, and the prices of groceries are too high. That is why the administration is working concretely to lower prices and why inflation is coming down now across the board. What do we get from the majority…