Mary Gay Scanlon

I want to stress the importance of robust and dependable funding for our nation's airports.

I ask that you include language that would release the Banning Municipal Airport from its Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) obligations.

I strongly urge your committee to increase the PFC to fairly and efficiently meet these funding needs.

If this Committee wants to do something about violence in this country, about the horrific losses of life, do something.

This isn't governance. It's not working for the American people. It's grandstanding. It's a stunt.

Every day in Congress, we are seeing the right-wing extremists who control the House failing all of us.

We are failing our youth, and they know it. I rise today to share the voices of our children, the voices of those who attend schools where, once again this week, young lives were lost to gun violence that Congress refuses to prevent. My…

Social Security and Medicare are foundational to our constituents' economic and health security. Republicans have demanded unconscionable cuts to these programs in exchange for raising the debt limit and paying our Nation's bills. Some of…

Also, it is not the first time my colleague mentioned the book ``Flamer,'' which he described as a graphic book about a child at summer camp. In fact, it is a graphic novel, which is kind of a trend that he may not be familiar with. Mr…

I wanted to take a minute--or not even a minute--to correct a couple statements that were made. First of all, I include in the Record an article from Jax Today titled: ``Duval Schools to keep 73 `diverse, inclusive' books out of…

I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana for yielding the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I think we can all agree that public education plays a central role in our democracy, helping to ensure…

Last year, on my birthday, I was really excited to see that I had a kayak expedition on my calendar. I love getting outdoors and especially on the open water, but because I represent a district that has some of the oldest infrastructure in…

The Philadelphia Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl this weekend, and I want to recognize the team's 2022 Inspire Change Changemaker Award winner, Dr. Ruth Abaya, an emergency physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a scholar…

Last week was National Gun Violence Survivors Week, when we reflect on the toll that gun violence takes on all of us. It is disgraceful enough that our Republican colleagues are unwilling to confront gun violence as the leading cause of…

Social Security is the bedrock of our Nation's social safety net. Since its inception, it has lifted millions of our seniors out of poverty. Protecting the benefits that Social Security provides should be a priority for this Congress, for…

I am afraid we have to dig into the weeds a little bit with Rules Committee process right now. Earlier, the gentleman from New York said that with this rule, the new majority has tied the number of times that more minority amendments were…

I think we heard a statistic that only a small percentage of people seeking asylum are actually entitled to it. That is not true.

What I find particularly pernicious is the attempt to conflate the issues of migrants seeking legal asylum through our legal processes with the very real scourge of fentanyl trafficking.

Colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to have called this hearing to really promote fearmongering or disinformation to justify a radical plan that would effectively shut down asylum to everyone.

As chair of the Congressional Youth Mentoring Caucus, I rise to recognize National Mentoring Month to celebrate the impact of youth mentoring and ask caring adults across the country to consider becoming mentors as our youth face the…

As political violence rises in our country and abroad, our Nation's leaders should be united in condemning political violence in all forms, as well as the vile rhetoric that fuels it. From Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to El Paso, we have…

The American people expect Congress to address the issues they care about, kitchen table issues like being able to afford prescription drugs or get a good-paying job and addressing the gun violence that is plaguing our neighborhoods. But…

Our children deserve bright futures, not the traumatization of active shooter drills or actual active shooters, while learning their ABC's.

May not anyone's masculinity be connected to slaughter of children in our country.

In the face of such loss, in the face of something that is manmade and, therefore, could be man-solved, you are hearing that the root cause of massacres across this country like no other industrialized country suffers is evil.