Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6610) to provide for the modernization of the passport issuance process, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 6610 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Passport System Reform and Backlog Prevention Act''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Sense of Congress. Sec. 4. Standards for passport issuance process. Sec. 5. Enhanced information technology solutions to improve the passport issuance process. Sec. 6. Research on commercially available information technology solutions. Sec. 7. GAO Report. Sec. 8. Rule of construction. Sec. 9. Definitions. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a major backlog of passport applications and passport processing wait times of up to 13 weeks, exclusive of shipping times. (2) Over the past several years, the Department has experienced repeated delays in its attempts to modernize the passport issuance process.…”