My amendment prohibits funds to implement or enforce the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule titled: ``Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.'' Mr. Chairman, that is a mouthful. Mr. Chairman, I would argue…

I respect and appreciate my colleague's comments. I would point out that the CFPB, which I would argue, is an unconstitutional bogeyman for so many small American businesses. They want to force lenders to report data from women-owned…

I thank my colleague for his comments, and I respect his opinion. Mr. Chair, I would urge adoption, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr…

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…

Our Republic depends on our bureaucracies faithfully implementing the laws and policies set forth by our elected officials. A misguided rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management could threaten a President's ability to ensure that…

I thank my colleague for his comments. We have civil service protections to protect career Federal employees from being fired or demoted just because the President or their supervisor disagrees with them politically. We must allow an…

I would argue that it is time that Congress empowers any President to be able to staff their office, and if they have a member of their administration who is undermining their policies that they are able to--and it is not that we are…

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…

Again, I want to point out in its Janus decision, the Supreme Court affirmed that employees have a First Amendment right to opt out. The decision didn't say that the employee has a First Amendment right 1 month out of the year. It said…

My amendment prohibits funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the CFPB's rule entitled ``Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders.'' Mr. Chairman, there is a recurring theme here. That is…

The CFPB is essentially orchestrating a name-and-shame scheme with this registry, and it is openly weaponizing the power of the Federal Government to target market participants. It could be weaponized, and it could be leveraged. So if they…

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. __. No funds made available by…

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 61, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000)(reduced by $1,000,000)''. The…

My amendment increases and decreases to emphasize the importance of restoring public safety and the rule of law on the D.C. Metro. While it primarily is focusing on crime on the Metro, I would be remiss if I failed to mention that law and…

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, before the short title, insert the following: mineral leasing act modernization Sec. ___. None…

The Environmental Financial Advisory Board, or the EFAB, was chartered under the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act. The EFAB boasts of making recommendations that would supposedly lower the cost of environmental protection…

At a time of, again, increased dependency on our enemies, my amendment addresses the royalty rates that were imposed by the Biden administration through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. We can see today that it did nothing to reduce…

I will point out that a $6.5 billion hike on oil and gas development isn't going to decrease inflation. It increases underlying costs. When you look at commodities across sectors, everything has gone up-- food, oil, et cetera--because of…

I thank my colleague for wishing that I find oil in my yard. I hope I do, but that being said, I joke. Mr. Chairman, let me just say that this is a step in the right direction to have a more responsible energy policy. It is lowering the…

My amendment prohibits the funds appropriated by this act from being used to enforce any COVID-19 mask mandates. I was fortunate enough to introduce this amendment during the Energy- Water appropriations, and I am happy to do so again…

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…

We may have had a hot summer, but I just went trick-or-treating with my kids and the low that evening was 29 degrees, so temperatures change. Temperatures have been changing for the millennia. That being said, it is this alarmism, this…

I think part of the problem in this country is that we tend to hold ourselves or the left tends to hold us to a standard that is really unattainable. Meanwhile, our partners, like China, are left to abuse the environment. They are the…

Let's take a look at the eligible recipients of this $27 billion boondoggle: State-sponsored green banks; nonprofit or quasi-government green banks--so much for the free market, Mr. Chairman--and nonprofit energy conservation funds and…

My amendment prohibits funds to be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, or the USGCRP. This program coordinates with 13 different Federal departments and agencies. Its focus as it relates…