Mary Gay Scanlon

We need to enact legislation to address border issues rather than just have campaign talking points.

This is an attempt to subvert our constitutional order for political purposes.

The extent to which States can act independently of the Federal Government with respect to immigration matters including border enforcement, has been well-settled law for over 150 years.

To discuss our proposal, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Pressley).

This letter expresses concern that this bill is based upon unproven anti-abortion rhetoric and seeks to limit students' ability to make reproductive healthcare decisions with a full range of information. It goes on to say that the bill…

This report studies crisis pregnancy centers in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Overall, its findings show that crisis pregnancy centers provided virtually no medical care, promoted…

I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, here we are, a little more than 48 hours from a devastating government shutdown. The deadline to pass a Federal budget is already 3 months overdue…

I am prepared to close, as well, and I yield myself the balance of my time. With the rule we consider today, the Republican majority ends a failed year in the choke hold of its most extreme members. They are finishing out 2023 as they…

The epidemic of gun violence has touched every corner of America, tragically devastating families, tearing apart communities, and scarring schoolchildren. In 2022, nearly 50,000 people died by guns, an average of one person every 11…

I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is here in the Capitol today. The President of Ukraine left his war-torn country…

The answer to the problem of gun violence in domestic violence is not more guns--although, it seems that more guns is the common Republican refrain for nearly every problem or issue our country currently faces.

Election misinformation continues to plague our country as leaders who know better repeat or fail to contradict baseless conspiracy theories and lies about the integrity of our elections. Not only do these lies and conspiracy theories…

While gun deaths in the United States far outpace those of other countries and now are the leading cause of death among children under 18, recent CDC data shows a glimmer of hope: Gun homicides are down slightly from 2021. We have seen…

The fact remains that under Democratic leadership, the House did pass budget bills. It passed the actual bills. What we are seeing here is a string of MAGA bills being brought to the floor and not passing and not leading to an eventual…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. For the past 6 months, the Republican majority, embroiled in chaos and dysfunction, has wasted valuable time. Because…

It is barbaric and unacceptable that they were taken.

My heart is breaking for the parents, children, friends, and neighbors in Lewiston, Maine, who woke up today to the unfathomable grief of yet another mass shooting. We do not have to live like this. My constituents know it, and, Mr…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 208, nays 218, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 518] YEAS--208 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong…

Funding the Federal Government is not a game. The American people who elect us to Congress depend on us to solve real problems. They don't send us here to play politics with their lives and our country's future. The incompetence…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, over the past month, House Republicans have plunged this Chamber into chaos. Whether it is the…

The last time the Republicans shut down the government in 2018-2019, we had to run food drives to feed TSA workers who were required to show up but were not paid. Some of them lost their jobs when they lost their cars, doubling down on the…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. We are 37 hours, 6 minutes and 25 seconds away from a shutdown, an unnecessary and devastating government shutdown after wasting weeks on rightwing messaging points and bills. Here, the majority has…

I find this hearing very disturbing in that we have elected officials misleading the public, attacking the foundations of our democracy.

I, like so many Americans, find this behavior contemptible and far beneath what we should expect from our country's leaders.

Those who are noisily and shamelessly trying to subvert our justice system are the same ones who seem to have both the most to fear from those ongoing investigations.