Vicky Hartzler

Thank you for your leadership. As a member of the Budget Committee and the Armed Services Committee, I am proud to support a balanced budget that stops spending money we don't have. It provides regulatory relief and promotes for a strong…

Well said. Thank you for sharing your story. I now have a friend from Kansas, Representative Tim Huelskamp.

Thank you, Representative Lipinski. It is so true that we are and have been the beacon of liberty for this world, and this Court decision tomorrow has implications for not only our country and its citizens but for those around the world…

Tonight I would like to share the tale of two garages: the American Dream and the threat to that American Dream. The first garage is down in Oklahoma, and it is owned by David and his wife Barbara. In 1972, David and Barbara borrowed $600…

Thank you, gentleman. A fundamental shift this would represent, you said. The relationship between the government and her citizens will forever change. That is chilling. I appreciate your sharing the story of the Little Sisters of the Poor…

Absolutely. This is a moment in history, a moment of opportunity, for this Supreme Court to stand up and to do the right thing. Half a billion dollars in fines, half a billion dollars in fines this company is facing. Thank you for bringing…

Thank you, gentlemen. So true. Family-owned businesses have a right to not be coerced into giving up their faith just for providing jobs. Now, I would like to turn to my friend and truly a leader here for families and life and common…

Thank you, Representative Lankford. I am so glad you shared about this family. You know them. What a treasure they really are to our Nation and the world, as you said, and truly courageous, standing up, putting their business on the line…

Thank you, Ann. That was great. It really goes back to people like George. The individuals are having their liberties violated, and it is wrong. It is just chilling what he said: Are we going to allow this government to discriminate…

I thank Representative Bachmann. Very well said. I thank God for Members here as well who are standing up for religious freedoms. I thought she said it so well: Is toleration going to be a two-way street, or are we going to allow this…

I thank Representative Bentivolio. Well said. Foundational principle: religious liberty. I thank you very much for that. Now I turn to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann) to share her thoughts on this historic moment.

I thank Representative Latta, and you brought up a great point, of how employees can lose coverage. They have health insurance now, these two families are offering it, but an option they have is to drop coverage completely. How is that…

Thank you, gentleman. Well said. We have been here, and we are not done yet. My time is about done, but we are going to continue on here because we believe in standing up for the Constitution. We believe in the First Amendment: religious…

It is time for Washington to quit wasting money. A good place to start is to eliminate duplicative programs. Why should we pay twice for the same thing? We shouldn't. Nonpartisan inspectors general found that management at Federal agencies…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 241, noes 123, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 66, as follows: [Roll…

Thank you so much, gentleman. Thank you for your leadership on that. That is a great bill, and we really need more of that to push back on these onerous regulations by the EPA, like you pointed out, that cost the taxpayers $1.8 trillion a…

We have turned sadly into a regulation Nation, and it is wrong, but some of us--and the ones here tonight speaking--are not going to sit by and allow this and stand idly by. We are fighting against it, and that is why we are here. I…

Thank you very, very much. I don't think anyone could say it any better than that. I appreciate as well your comments about coal because in my district, I have the only working coal mine in Missouri. In Missouri, 85 percent of our energy…

I thank the gentleman very much, and I want to follow up on exactly your same story. I hear the same from my farmers in Missouri. And this picture on this poster, I hope everyone can see, because I want to show what Representative Holding…

Thank you, gentleman. Thank you for your leadership on this. You have been at the forefront of this, and this is so, so important. I love what you said about the EPA is basing this on wishful thinking and not sound science. I think most of…

Thank you. That is why we are here fighting tonight. I would like to turn it over now to my friend from Arkansas, which is just a little south of me, to Representative Rick Crawford.

Your comments were very, very helpful to what we are doing tonight, which is making people aware of how these EPA regulations hurt real people. I think your example of the 2-year fight and the $200,000 fine just for a low area in your yard…

I am glad you are here tonight. I am glad you are here representing the common person in this country who is fighting these regulations every day, who has had real-world experience dealing with the EPA, like many of us have. You are…

Excellent points there. I think you are right; we need to make regulations that make sense. What the EPA is doing does not make sense. It does feed into the distrust of government bureaucracy by the American people, and well-deserved when…

Today, back in Missouri, this frigid cold snap is really making life miserable for everyone. We have below-zero temperatures and wind chills and a lot of snow. In fact, a lot of children are home from school today, and it is on snowy days…