Sheila was a fierce, fierce advocate for her constituents and an ardent defender of American civil rights, particularly voting rights.

Thank you, Representative McBath, for your leading role here.

The hardest working woman in Congress, everybody knows that.

The Chair of this Committee just said that he believes one of the biggest reasons for vaccine hesitancy is politics.

As the Chair acknowledged, we didn't start at 10. We started nearly an hour late or just over an hour late because he and his Republican colleagues had prioritized a meeting with Donald Trump over a Committee hearing and presumably they…

Madam Speaker, we are all very grateful to the House Armed Services Committee for the bipartisan product that they have put forward here, but as we said before, it is the inclusion of multiple poison pill amendments all put forward by…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I do agree with some of the gentleman's comments about the need to increase pay and benefits for our junior servicemembers and service families, but I have to…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Mrs. Fletcher) to discuss this proposal.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. As you may have guessed, I strongly oppose this rule. The rule likely guarantees that there will not be bipartisan support for the NDAA, and like last year, this means that the…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 208, noes 207, not voting 16, as follows: [Roll No. 251]…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, today's rule is a tale of two Congresses. On the one hand, we have the National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA, which is a bipartisan bill, the result of good…