And advocacy for not just a particular party to win, but for the type of country where it matters if, when you stand up, you tell the truth.

And advocacy for not just a particular party to win, but for the type of country where it matters if, when you stand up, you tell the truth.

When I watch the person who beat me give up on every important issue that he campaigned on ...

This is my last speech. The first time that I walked in here, I looked all around the Chamber the way that new Members do, and it really struck me that there are only two paintings in here. They are right behind me now. One is of George…

If you were in western Pennsylvania for the 2020 campaign season, you would have seen a lot of commercials about what Republicans were going to do on the issue of energy and for energy workers and what Democrats were going to do. The…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 2 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Oregon has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of the bill the following: SEC. 16. WORKPLACE IMPACT OF MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION STUDY…

I thank my friend from Michigan. This is the mask of the Allegheny-Fayette Labor Council, which represents the coal miners that President Trumka loved so well. Madam Speaker, before he was the president of the AFL-CIO and an…

This isn`t just not an audit. It is an attack. This is an attack on our system and our democracy itself.

I guess Trump and Robert E. Lee both know how it feels to suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of pro-democracy forces in Pennsylvania.

I will try to do it in 30 seconds. The bulk of our emissions reduction has come from the transition from coal to natural gas. Most of the critical science that is behind the shale revolution was developed within the national lab system…

Just kind of wrapping up everyone's comments today, I think that this bill is a significant down payment on the future that we are all working toward. The reality of American history is that the government often works together with…

I would just note for my colleague's edification the strong role that the Federal Government and national lab system played in the very energy innovation that he was mentioning in his remarks. It was not done by the private sector alone…

I am prepared to close whenever the gentleman from Louisiana is prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 5 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Louisiana has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

On June 11, 2021, western Pennsylvania lost Officer Jerrod Withrow of the Mount Lebanon police, who passed away after a heroic battle with cancer. Officer Withrow had a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, but one moment stood…

We have to figure out a way to make it without carbon.

There's a long history of U.S. Steel moving investment away from Western Pennsylvania, unfortunately, to other places.

I think the key term that Ranking Member Bost used was ``common sense.'' That can sometimes be in short supply around here. When we found out that the VA has roughly the same number of EEOC counselors today--38--that it had in 1997, you…

Bringing Members back into the discussion about how best to spend federal dollars in their district is long overdue and I applaud the committee for their efforts here.

As members of the Congressional Steel Caucus, we stand ready to work on a meaningful infrastructure package--one that prioritizes U.S. production and American workers.

Excited for it. You know, this is really what we ran on, trying to help areas like mine in western Pennsylvania get up off their feet, you know, not just after the pandemic but after 40 years of job loss and the collapse of the steel…

we're going to have the strongest 'Buy American' provisions of all time in this package and it's going to drive manufacturing and transportation business.

It finally directs the Corps to update its policies related to environmental justice and ensure water resources development projects can help to ameliorate disproportionate and adverse health and environmental impacts.