Betty McCollum: “Anything we can do so that our kids are engaged year round in school, it reinforces what they are learning.”

I rise in opposition to the slate of permitting bills that the Republican majority has brought to the House Floor this week.

This bill does nothing to address the health care affordability crisis and is full of tired, failed ideas from previous GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

H.R. 881 is a solution in search of a problem.

Mr. Speaker, last week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives decided that they know better than the residents of the District of Columbia what their local government needs.