In September of 2020, as the El Dorado fire raged through California, Big Bear hotshot firefighter Charlie Morton said to his loved ones what he always said when there was a fire in the area: ``I've got to go protect my mountains.''…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. This is, of course, an emotional debate. Some have talked about fear, and they instill fear in the process. As Mr. Nadler has pointed out, no weapons are taken away. A number of Members on the other…

I regret that we find ourselves in this position of being divided on this bill. This, like every piece of legislation we pass, is not perfect. And very frankly, if we made a judgment on every piece of legislation that we considered that I…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I have three daughters. They are all adults. They are all amazed that we are here debating this issue. The ranking member said, me too; obviously, for different reasons. In 1965, the Supreme Court--long…

I thank the gentlemen for his question. Of course, we are hearing rumors all the time and press reports all the time about what may happen. I think most of us don't know actually what will happen. But to speculate, we clearly on our side…

I thank Mr. Scalise for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed, as usual, to 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at…

And it would surprise him. Mr. Speaker, we have had this discussion for over a month now about these bills, but also every time we have it, there is the plea that we produce, and if we would only produce. I bring this statistic up. As the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We are all very concerned about inflation, and one of the things that I talked about in the Affordable Care Act, a significant cost for Americans is their health insurance, and that bill is designed…

The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson demonstrated not only the extremist majority of justices' disregard for constitutional precedent; it also showed their disregard for the individual liberties of the American people. As if…

This is a bill that has to pass if we are going to keep the government operating. The chair of this committee has worked very hard to get that done, and she has been successful, as chair, of moving most of our bills through this House. The…

I thank my friend, Mr. Costa, for yielding this time. I thank my friend and the ranking member, Mr. Turner, for his role in bringing this to the floor. Mr. Speaker, as has been said over and over again, Vladimir Putin made a terrible…

I thank the gentlemen for yielding. Madam Speaker, as the doctor has just said, this is an extraordinarily complex and difficult issue for all. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill and the Women's Health Protection Act that…

I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I would like to speed this up, and with all due respect, not to yell anything else, but if we did eliminate proxies, we could go to…

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…

Reclaiming my time, I just admonished some people. This is a serious issue of how the House operates and how your time is respected. We have proxies. We are going to keep proxies. We can debate that, but the fact of the matter is, as long…

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

This is going to be a very busy week. There are over 600 amendments made in order to the defense bill. Clearly, if we do what we just did, and we do it too often--take three times the time allotted to vote; this took about 47 minutes, 48…

For years, the gun violence epidemic in our country has forced us to cope with immeasurable grief and loss. Throughout America, many communities have begun to erect memorials to remember those they have lost through gun violence. These…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Obviously, in order to serve the American people and to serve their needs, we take in a lot of information--in this case, voluntary information, to determine what we can do to assist and make better…

I thank the chairman and ranking member for the work they have done together and with the committee to bring this very important bipartisan bill to the floor. I thank them both for their hard work, and the committee for its hard work, in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We continue to talk about this as if this were the President's fault. First of all, in a much wider range, this is a result of the pandemic. Why is it the result of the pandemic? Not solely the pandemic…

I want to tell Mr. Bresnahan that he made the same promise to me, which is why we did this. If he was going to sing it, I was a little reluctant to do this, and he didn't. I join the whip in wishing John Bresnahan, a friend, a very careful…

I thank the gentleman for all of that information. It continues to befuddle me why our Republican friends would much prefer to blame President Biden and so avoid placing blame on Mr. Trump's friend, Mr. Putin. I don't understand that…

Before I start on the colloquy and go through the schedule, I was just talking to the Republican whip, my friend, Mr. Scalise. We were talking about a friend of ours, his name is John Bresnahan; he is a reporter. He has covered Capitol…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would simply observe, as I observed the other day, that we all want to make sure that our Justices are safe. Let me say, Madam Speaker, there is a very important reason for that. We want to keep all…