Betty McCollum: “None of the VAWA dollars flow to organizations like the Seattle Indian Health Board because they go to the counties.”

We cannot afford to abandon these investments during a worsening climate crisis.

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.

I expressed my serious concerns with how this resolution was written then, but nothing has changed.

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