On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote…

I thank Representative Tlaib for yielding to me. I rise today in opposition to H.R. 2799, the Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023, because it would remove critical safeguards against fraud and abuse in our financial markets at the…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Houlahan of Pennsylvania moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2799 to the Committee on Financial…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Ms. Tlaib The Acting CHAIR. It…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 29, line 25, strike ``and'' at the end. Page 29, after line 25, insert the following: (2) examining…

This bipartisan bill would provide $20 million in annual mandatory spending to establish a new, standalone program that prioritizes mechanization and automation for specialty crops.

This bipartisan bill would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct a study on the benefits of providing crop insurance for mushroom farmers.

I thank Representative Escobar for not only yielding her time but also for welcoming me and many others to her community just a few days ago. Last week, I had the opportunity to visit our southern border by way of El Paso. This was my…

To retain them you must retain their families. So ensuring that they have adequate access to quality health care, safe housing, affordable childcare, and the right pay and benefits package is critical to making sure that we sustain the…

What are each of these services, you guys, doing in terms of mitigating child care wait lists and burdens?

I am going to focus specifically on the fact that women who serve are now about 17.5 percent of our service and more likely to be single parents.

We really do ask a lot of our service members, and we ask them, of course, to risk their lives to protect our country; and, in turn, we must make sure that we have their backs and support them and their families.

To do this, it is essential that we deliver increased funding for the Food for Peace program.

This bipartisan bill would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct a study on the benefits of providing crop insurance for mushroom farmers.

This bipartisan bill would create a separate classification for industrial hemp and establish a framework that punishes bad actors.

As we consider the T-HUD appropriations bill, I stand here to remind this legislative body of the 3 of nearly 3,000 community funding projects that were rejected from this bill in July, including the LGBTQ Center of Reading in my home…

We cannot rely on words alone to repel Russian aggression in Ukraine nor to extinguish terrorism in the Middle East. Rather, we must also provide material support to our democratic partners, as well. We must not cleave Israel and Israeli…

I rise for the indefatigable, musical, mystical, magical Mr. Murray Savar. Murray, you have been the pied piper for more than 40 years--two generations--for our community's young women and girls. Students have been entranced by you and…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 10, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $50,000,000)''. Page 36, line 13, after the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Luttrell The Acting CHAIR…

Defense-centric, small businesses, and the industrial base face unique challenges in creating new advanced production lines, scaling, expanding manufacturing capacity, and in competing and leading to issues with how to best support our…

For years the military departments have chosen to take risk by underfunding facilities sustainment accounts and barracks have been hit particularly hard by this risk-taking.

I would like very much, Mr. Speaker, if I could ask you to ask my colleagues to not presume to judge who I am. I stand here as a woman who has worn the uniform, who has given birth while wearing the uniform. To have assumptions about who I…

Just a reminder that President Biden knows personally what it means to support those in uniform and to keep the administration's promise to make sure that our servicemen and -women are protected as they serve us all. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2…

I offer a motion to instruct. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Houlahan of Pennsylvania moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of…