Thank you, Chair Castor.

Tribal Nations are not stakeholders. A stakeholder is a member of the public. Tribal Nations are nations.

I thank Chairman Scott for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on this and so many important issues in the Education and Labor Committee. I rise in strong support of the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022 or SECURE 2.0…

Thank you so much to the Chair and Ranking Member, and thank you to the witnesses for your testimony and your expertise.

I look forward to working with you, your question to Dr. Spinrad, let me know, and I'm happy to collaborate again.

I thought the comment was unnecessarily confrontational. We are here to have a debate about policy, not personal attacks.

As the designee of Chairwoman Johnson, pursuant to House Resolution 900, I offer amendments en bloc. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc. Amendments en bloc 2 consisting of amendment Nos. 8, 15, 18, 25…

We have no further speakers, but I want to address the package of en bloc amendments. Again, these amendments will improve the America COMPETES Act, which is so important for United States leadership and to incentivize and ramp up U.S…

We can help address the need for emergency food bank support by providing an additional $900 million for food purchases through TEFAP.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. I do want to note with regard to my colleague's remarks, I believe there is a House rule about not impugning the motives of people who are here on this distinguished floor of the…

I have no further speakers on the underlying bill, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

The CSBG Program has a long legacy of reducing poverty in our communities, but we must not neglect the program's future.

I am hopeful that we can find common ground and discuss the shared policy goals.

This is a bipartisan legislation with no intention of removing faith-based organizations from participation.

Poverty is not inevitable in this country.

I've been a long-time supporter of helping borrowers with permanent disability.

I know we'll be following up on that to see how it's going throughout the process.

A recent estimate from the Federal Reserve found that Americans owe more than 1.7 trillion in student loan debt.

I remain concerned about expanding our current nuclear fleet with existing commercial technologies.

Small modular reactors, SMRs, have the potential to complement the use of renewable energy sources and support decarbonization.

I am glad the Biden administration has indicated they are going to re-regulate and bring back the Gainful Employment Rule.

So to protect students and taxpayers, the Obama administration implemented the Gainful Employment Rule, and that was so students would not take on debt for higher education that did not lead to good jobs.

Yet, Secretary DeVos completely rescinded the rule, to the detriment of students and taxpayers.

we're working with fishing communities due to--you may be aware that some of the crabbers off the Oregon coast now include dissolved oxygen sensors on their crab pots

what can Congress do to address these challenges?