I am proud to join my friend Representative Rulli in supporting this effort to protect our children and national security from dangerous foreign actors. For years, China has been attempting to exert soft power over our country by forging…

What else can I say after hearing the true story of a true American hero and why it should be important for all people--Floridians, every veteran--to be able to access cannabis if, in fact, it is necessary and prescribed by a doctor and if…

I understand we want to use all the arrows in our quiver, and he wants to use all his.

I just don't think that there's anything to be gained from continuing down this motion to vacate. I think this political theater is lazy and it's not governing.

You tell us where you think we can help simplify those, and we will do the necessary work here to make sure that we make it easier for these communities to get those.

Discretionary grants are becoming more and more difficult for smaller communities to apply for...

We have a DA George Gascon who's like the Penguin of Gotham City. He actually helps the criminals rather than helps the victims of the criminals.

The open border policy is the source of the problem. China is the source of the precursors.

We just wish we had more money in order to accommodate those type of things.

Who better than your local representative working in concert with your State and local officials to discern where this money could best be spent?

This budget is not only full of gimmicks that mask the true cost of protecting the homeland, but it also fails to address the policy driven crisis that continues at the border.

The American people know that the border is not secure. It is a full-blown crisis that this administration has sought to downplay for years.

This request is not serious if the goal is to actually fix the problem and secure our border.

the non-detained docket has grown at an unprecedented and unsustainable rate because this administration refuses to use its executive authority to deter illegal migration and mitigate this chaos

Rather than create more new programs along with additional bureaucracy that would require our educational budget, needs to focus back on just barely the basics.

I hope your Department's delay in finalizing this misguided rule signals that the administration agrees with most of America that this proposal would harm women and girls in sports and set them back decades.

Last year, House Republicans proposed a destructive 80-percent cut to Title I, the cornerstone of our Federal investment in public education.

I was proud to work with Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate to complete the work on the fiscal year 2024 Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education funding bill.

Horace Mann called education 'a great equalizer of conditions of men.'

At a time when our Nation faces skyrocketing debt and inflation, we should be targeting investments in education in what works, not duplicative, ideological programs that merely sound great but no difference in the learning process.

Despite the tight fiscal constraints that were placed on us, I was also pleased to secure a $20,000,000 increase for IDEA grants to States.

I think you need to deliver to Congress a plan to replenish the SPR.

I am proud of where we ended up with the 2024 appropriations bill, but there is still unmet need in education.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 577. ____________________