Steny Hoyer

We need Active Duty National Guard.

I can't see the chart. Could you tell me what it says so I know what the gentleman is talking about?

Let me conclude, Madam Speaker, by urging everybody to stay on the floor. What we are seeing happen many times is somebody votes, they are registered, and then when you go to the next vote they are 10 minutes, 15 minutes late. That is not…

Ladies and gentlemen---- Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I thought the gentleman said yelling at one another doesn't help.

I thank the gentleman for his question. He has mentioned this before. I am talking to the committee whose jurisdiction this bill is in to consider what they want to do with it, and I am waiting to hear back from them.

Mr. Chairman, we need to be the agents of God to answer the prayers of the grieving.

How many more times, how many senseless, tragic deaths must occur until we abandon moments of silence and substitute lifesaving action?

How many more times will our Senate Republican colleagues express outrage at horrific shootings like the one today in Uvalde, Texas, and then sadly block meaningful bipartisan background check legislation, supported by 9 out of 10…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, before I start making my remarks, the gentleman who just spoke is a member of the Republican Party. The Republican National Committee passed a resolution telling the American people--and they…

On just that point, the gentleman mentioned this the last time we had a colloquy and pointed out that the drilling and processing of petroleum products are the cleanest in the world. You made that point last week, and you have just made it…

We take the oxygen, but we do not pay for it. So, this is not charity. This is not foreign aid.

The problem is the resource that we get from that rainforest is oxygen, which allows us to live.

If we need to buy fertilizer, and we need to buy oil, and we need to buy coal, or we need to buy some other source, we expect to have that taken out of the land or the mine and given to us, and we, in turn, pay for it.

We need to work together to get our house in order here.

We cannot be exporting bad forest management policies to the rest of the world.

We should be ashamed that we let this happen.

We have to take care of the forests we have, and there is hope.

If it hadn't been for him, we wouldn't have had the votes that day.

Well, I am not surprised that the gentleman, and many of the bills that he refers to, want to undermine the regulation to protect the health and welfare of the American people which those are designed to do, and most of which I think, you…

Which could have easily passed to say we are against discrimination? And because 188 Republicans voted ``no,'' this bill needed to come forward because, as the chairman has just pointed out, the law is in doubt because courts have taken…

Is it not correct, Mr. Chairman, the reason this bill is on the floor is because Republicans voted against a suspension----

I think that is much easier.

It is easier to demonize them when you are not there.

We responded in trying to make sure that we could keep Members, staff, press, visitors as safe as possible.

We gathered together in a relatively small room for 435 people.