Do you think we should welcome productive individuals who want to be productive members of our society to come here?

we have to fix this. We can do it. This panel isn't far apart.

So you think we should increase our legal immigration?

the Biden Administration has absolutely failed the American people with what they are allowing to happen on the border

I thank Mr. Guthrie for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this bill, the Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act, which I am proud to be an original cosponsor of. Now, we have heard of the many benefits of direct primary…

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act worked. It grew the economy. It increased revenue and it helped every American family to achieve a better life. It also, for those in opposition to this bill, for the first time, required a Social Security number…

We really need to stay the course in prioritizing family for young people and particularly connecting them to their relatives.

I think particularly, Mr. Smetters, what you have described, what could occur here, what will occur here, according to your testimony, over the next 20 years if we don't change course, is really--it is a five-alarm fire. It is cataclysmic.

I support Congress funding WIC to meet the needs of vulnerable families struggling to keep up with inflation.

Unfortunately, prices for foods covered by WIC have skyrocketed due to record inflation driven by 'Bidenomics.'

A sovereign debt crisis will occur when the capital markets--when investors no longer are willing to hold the U.S. dollar because they believe the government has the inability to pay or doesn't have the will to put ourselves on the right…

Food security is national security.

I am a proud cosponsor of the GusNIP Expansion Act of 2023, introduced by Representative Rick Crawford.

I want to talk just briefly with the Committee about today is the importance of encouraging nutritional food options for those who are facing food insecurity.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I have schools in my district that are providing great instruction. These schools are working well, and the students are taking advantage of them. They have great careers as a result of the instruction. As I mentioned, there are good…

Congressman Lloyd Smucker will reintroduce the Main Street Tax Certainty Act during the next congressional work period.

I have heard from so many small businesses in my area who benefitted from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

the provisions of the 2017 Tax Act reduced the total estimate of benefits from income tax expenditures by nine percent

There is one other thing in this bill which I think is very positive. We took action to preserve self-insurance. This is a system in which large and small employers pay for healthcare services directly instead of purchasing plans with a…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the premise of this bill is simple: Criminals and fraudsters should be held accountable for dollars that were illegally obtained, and we ought to ensure that this doesn't happen again. We can…

It is not about taking away unemployment benefits for those who relied on them. It is quite the opposite. This bill goes after those who robbed unemployment benefits from those who need it. Mr. Speaker, I am hopeful that my colleagues on…

Let me just ask you, Mr. Dutta-Gupta, what will be the effect on college students if, as you say, the cuts could be even as much as 33 percent if the Republican Default on America Act is adopted?

The last time the U.S. debt held by the public equaled our total economic output was just after World War II. After that, economic policies, fiscal policies that put our country on the right track resulted in decades of American prosperity…

It is 40-percent higher than you were projecting last year at this time.