The people of Puerto Rico have told us time and time again through multiple plebiscites in recent years that they chose statehood. I think that we in Congress would be wise to listen to what the people of Puerto Rico are telling us.

I support H.R. 1522 and the right of Puerto Ricans to vote on their future.

The prior Administration did not live up to its responsibility to extend help to our brothers and sisters on the island.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, let us remember that the United States Senate in 2013, with 14 Republicans and the balance of Democrats, well over 60 people, voted for comprehensive immigration reform, as I recall, and…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I rise to join her in recognizing and thanking Latrice Powell for the extraordinary service that she has given to this institution. Members from both sides of the aisle have come to know and…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Hoyer moves that the resolution be laid on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, as we celebrate Women's History Month, we do so with an awareness that so much work in the fight for equality remains. Much has been accomplished, but much remains to be done. This is…

The gentleman was here in 2017, of course. There was a bill that approximated the size of this bill. It was about $1.5 trillion, $1.6 trillion. This is a little more--substantially a little more, $300 billion, $400 billion, but in the same…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I don't think there is a socialist agenda on this floor, any more than I think there is a fascist agenda on this floor. And we hear socialist. When Gingrich was here it was liberals. Now…

Everybody in America wants to get back to normal. Everybody in America. We agree with them, and we are hopeful that we will get there sooner rather than later, and we are making good progress. We just, yesterday, invested a large number…

I would tell the gentleman that would certainly be the ideal. There is no doubt about that. We would like to get to that position. We continue to consult the Capitol physician on his advice on what we ought to be doing. It would be a lot…

I thank my friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday, the House will meet at noon for morning- hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes expected no earlier than 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I agree with the Members, and I regret that we have had such a necessity on too many occasions to change the schedule. We did so, of course, to accommodate not only work done but also the very, very…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. Let me make a few comments. First of all, the gentleman mentioned about the White House and the President. I am going down with the President, who is going to sign the American Rescue Plan tomorrow…

My point on the White House was that a Member may decide that. And if they don't want to get a test, then they can't go to the White House, for the safety of everybody there.

Well, that is an interesting speech to follow. Mr. Massie was very energized. I haven't seen, of course, that which he submitted for the Record, but 90 percent of America thinks this bill makes sense, 90 percent. Take your own polls. Poll…

Some of us have been here for some period of time. Some of us have heard this debate before. My friend, Mr. Reed, from New York, opined, and others have opined, about how we passed a number of bipartisan bills, five to be exact. March 4…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I got here just a little before I was going to speak, and I heard the gentlewoman from Illinois speak. She talked about flexible work hours. I thought to myself: Who decides what is flexible…

It would be an irresponsible policy to defund the police. We are not for that. Hear me. You can say it over and over and over again. It will be a lie. No matter how well it serves your political purposes, it will be a lie. Mr. Speaker, I…

I think that is a legitimate debate to have. I think we have been having that debate. Very frankly, I tell my friend from Texas that I think we won that debate. We won it in the courts over and over and over again, but understand that does…

I thank the chairwoman for yielding, and I thank John Sarbanes, my colleague from Maryland, for all the work that he has done and the extraordinary leadership that Zoe Lofgren has done in bringing this bill to the floor last year and…

As you know, as a result of COVID-19 and our discussions with the Capitol physician, we have organized voting in a way that we have seven different segments at 5-minute intervals so that a limited number of Members will vote in every…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the sad things that is happening in America, Mr. Speaker, is that the truth is so often being perceived as fake news or that fake news is so often being perceived as the truth. Mr. Speaker, I am…

COVID-19 has taught us, there is a way not to be in physical place, but to virtually do one's job.

the Schedule F categorization that jeopardized the nonpartisan civil service and sought to intimidate Federal workers.