Betty McCollum: “This Subcommittee is united in its commitment to the social and economic wellbeing of Native Americans.”

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

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.

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.