Mary Gay Scanlon

I appreciate the thoughtful queries from the gentleman from Arizona, and that is precisely what this amendment is directed towards. It is an amendment to H.R. 1 which sets up a small dollar financing program, and this will allow us to…

My next amendment is Amendment No. 7. The amendment would require the Federal Election Comission to conduct a study to specifically assess whether the small donor match cap and the 6-to-1 ratio contained in H.R. 1 is appropriately scaled…

I have a second amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 454, insert after line 23 the following (and conform the succeeding section accordingly): SEC…

I urge a ``yes'' vote on the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 7…

I appreciate the fact that we share a common concern about our election security and an interest in using the best technology to protect that security. The intent here is to make sure that we are spending congressional dollars wisely as…

The intent of the amendment is to establish a committee that parallels the three existing committees and, therefore, would use the same properties as those committees for appointment, et cetera. The gentleman who argued against the last…

My first amendment is amendment No. 6. This straightforward amendment would establish a committee of election security experts to review grant requests to ensure that funds for election security infrastructure are best spent. This…

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 311, insert after line 8 the following new subtitle (and conform the succeeding subtitles…

May I inquire if the gentleman from Oklahoma has any more speakers.

Yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern). Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am confused when I listen to the gentleman from Illinois when he complains about process. He complains that we have over 70 amendments in…

On Tuesday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 172, providing for consideration of H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019, under a structured rule. The rule provides 2 hours of general debate equally divided and…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Rules, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 172 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 172 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

I urge this committee to fund these critical programs and agencies at levels appropriate to accomplish their important work.

I trust we can all agree that, regardless of how we believe immigration policies must be reformed, fair and timely adjudication of cases is necessary.

Just 2 weeks ago in my district, six lives and six families were forever changed by gun violence in a 6-day period. Four people were killed and two were injured in six different shootings. One person was 28. The other five were 16, 17, and…

This hearing is a recognition and an insistence on that humanity, a recognition that the Flores decision also addressed.

When the issue is framed as an invasion by aliens and when we refer to children as UACs, it is easier to pretend they are not human or worthy of compassion.

We want to know how this un-American policy got put in place in the first place and prevent it from happening again.

The opposite of wealth is poverty and the opposite of poverty is justice.

We can do it if we just put our will and our resources toward it and if we think in very innovative ways.

I want to thank you, like the others, for your commitment to ending homelessness.

Isn't it also true that the court found that the Department of Justice had not produced any credible evidence that undocumented immigrants committed crime at a higher rate than any other group?

Isn't it true that Judge Mike Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Department of Justice's attempt to withhold this money was illegal and unconstitutional?

It is time for our collective outrage to drive commonsense gun legislation and for that legislation to become law.