Our Federal employees work hard, contrary to public perception and political rhetoric, and they deserve the pay and benefits commensurate with their talent, education, experience, technical skills, and contributions.

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

The Federal employees were largely overpaid. That is simply not a fact.

If we wish to recruit and retain the best and brightest to serve in the Federal workforce, we must ensure that pay and benefits are competitive with the private sector.

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

we ought to stop it.

Federal employees have been treated as though they're expendable, even though they are indispensable to the operations of our Federal service.

If you have a system that allows the President unilaterally to change it and turn civil servants into political appointees... then you have undermined the whole point of having a merit system civil service.

Federal employees earned, on average, 26.7 percent less than their counterparts in the private sector.

We've seen that frequently in the last four years, unfortunately, and it has undermined the integrity and the role of the inspector generals.

The conduct we are judging today continued to occur even after Representative Greene became a candidate, and even after she was elected.

The conduct we are judging today continue to occur even after Representative Greene became a candidate and even after she was elected.

They`re people. They`re our colleagues. And, yes, you may have disagreements, but I don`t know anybody, including Steve King, who you precluded from going on committees, for much less, and this is an AR-15 in the hands of Ms. Greene. I…

This is a sad day and a difficult day for the House of Representatives and for our country. I have had the great honor of serving this body for 40 years and in that time, I have never encountered a situation like the one before us now…

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, we have passed four major pieces of legislation. They weren't partisan pieces of legislation. They weren't rushed through by Democrats and, in fact, a Republican President had to sign all four of those…

the imagery of Marjorie Taylor Greene holding an AR-15 with the sort of frightened faces of three Democratic congresswomen on the other side is the kind of thing that creates a culture of violence around politics.

Squad`s worst nightmare.

Mr. Roy is walking off the floor, but I am one of those Members that has sympathy for his frustration. I have sympathy for his frustration because I have served here for a long time when we did things in a bipartisan, regular order way…

if you don't do it, then we're going to do it for you and he is basically giving him about 24 to 48 hours to make that move.

I thank the chairman and Mr. Rogers from Alabama, the ranking member, for bringing this forward as a bipartisan effort. Mr. Speaker, I rise as one of those who opposed the waiver for General Mattis. People ask me, well, what is the…

the president of the United States summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.

This is not, as Liz Cheney says just some action. She characterize it as the biggest betrayal of any president of the United States in our history.

I thank the chairman of the Rules Committee for yielding. I congratulate him for his efforts down at the Rules Committee in acting and acting swiftly. I appreciate the remarks of Mr. Cole, for whom I have great respect, but I disagree with…

I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a troubled time, a sad time. It is a time where all of us have stood almost to a person and lamented the violence and the assault on this Capitol and the assault on democracy itself. It was right…

This would not be the time I would have chosen, but it may be the last time that we are in session before the new administration comes in. We are losing an extraordinary young woman who has been with me for over a decade and who is our…