Betty McCollum: “We can be short people when we need them the most.”

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.

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

Secretary Hegseth’s desire to conduct a public execution is disturbing and should be stopped. The Army has not conducted an execution by firing squad since World War II and the U.S. has not had a public execution since 1936.

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