I hope the committee will explore how proxy voting, now shown to be effective and constitutional, can be incorporated into the House's work.

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

The voices of that district were heard.

It has been an honor working closely with you in this effort, and I hope we can continue to find ways to ensure that the people's House represents the people.

I want to thank this committee, again, and the chairman and all the members, for the work that you do.

What they care is Steny Hoyer stands up and expresses their views. That is what democracy is about.

We ought to be prepared for any eventuality, such as if a new variant or virus has emerged that is deadlier.

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

I think that is much easier.

this is one of the more productive Congresses in which I have served, and this is my 20th Congress.

I want to thank Chairwoman DeLauro, Ranking Member Granger, and all of the Members of the Appropriations Committee for their hard work to bring this bipartisan legislation together. I want to highlight several important inclusions in this…

I thank Mr. Scott, the chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, and the gentlewoman from Iowa for their comments. We join in unanimity in rejecting hate, rejecting bigotry, and rejecting threats based upon the color of skin or any…

I do not believe energy ought to be taken off the table. I want to assure my friend that is not my position, nor is it our collective position as a party. I understand what the gentleman said. I agree with the gentleman that to the extent…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. On Monday, Mr. Speaker, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning- hour debate, and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. On Tuesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, the Speaker just announced, minutes ago, she is opposed to importing any oil from Russia. So the comment I just made to the gentleman, if you are trying to project that we want to see…

I thank the gentleman for that question. The answer to it is the Office of the Attending Physician and the Sergeants at Arms in both the Senate and the House are looking at that, both from a health standpoint and from a security…

As I said, I hope we can be unified and seek to pursue that which unifies us. If we did everything that the gentleman suggests is in that bill, it would not make an immediate difference, and the gentleman knows that. The gentleman knows…

The equivalency that my friend from Louisiana tries to make between citizens, some who committed crimes, but citizens who are acting because they are seeing their children's lives taken because of the color of their skin and what happened…

Excuse me. Thirty million. So this administration has taken actions immediately to assist the Europeans. In addition, of course, the Europeans have done something. As the gentleman knows in terms of reliance, the Germans, in a very…

I thank Chairman Takano not only for yielding time, but much more importantly, I thank him for the extraordinary work he does on behalf of the Armed Forces and for its veterans. He is tireless in his advocacy of veterans' interest. I meet…

I thank my friend, the chairman of this committee, for yielding. We have traveled in various parts of the world together. We have seen pain, and we have seen progress. We are seeing pain now, and all I can say with respect to the remarks…

Congress has the authority to lift the debt ceiling to safeguard the full faith and credit of the United States and the responsibility to do so.

having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us.

the conclusion that we all reached was it wasn't the rules, it was the people.

They know that they can't purchase as many goods today as what they could a year ago and it is because of inflation.