What are we doing to protect them, and if you can look at this more closely.

We are fixing a bipartisan bill in 2007, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, to provide debt relief to educators.

It is important to retain quality educators, especially those that represent the community.

I am really delighted to see that the President's budget request includes the $21,300,000 in funding for strengthening HBCUs' Master Program.

I am working on legislation on my other committee to break down some of the permitting barriers.

I am leading a bicameral legislation with Senator Cortez Masto that would immediately authorize an additional $25 million for the WASH program.

So we have an investment in a group called Chicago Women in Trades that is demonstrating how when you give black women a chance, they can do any trade, any job, but a trades job that has a square path to the middle class.

We are extremely bullish about geothermal. Our goal is to get 90 gigawatts of geothermal.

We have to make sure that we are increasing salary, creating good working conditions, being intentional about recruiting.

Great. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member.

We are at the doorstep of another crisis if we don't think about educator shortages.

The President's budget provides over $15,000,000,000 to allow more States and schools to leverage participation in the Community Eligibility Program and provide healthy and free school meals to additional 9,000,000 children.

To the extent this is already law, fine. We shouldn't hesitate for a second in attaching a spending condition to this. The truth is it is not part of law; it is part of the Justice Manual. We ought to make it a condition of the spending…

at the end of the day, the American people understand something is terribly wrong. They understand that, when the Department of Justice is politically weaponized to prosecute again and again political opponents of this administration…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears be to a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 4366

for the past few years, Americans have watched with a certain degree of dismay and even horror as the U.S. Department of Justice--an institution that has long been revered by many Americans, including myself, now a former Federal…

I ask unanimous consent for an additional 15 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 30 seconds remaining.

just days ago, we saw the text of this legislation in its entirety. We saw that it contained, among other things, more than 600 pages of earmarks, totaling over 6,000 earmarks. It spends a lot of money. It is significant legislation…

I ask unanimous consent the cloture motion with respect to the House message be withdrawn and the only motions and amendments in order to the House message to accompany H.R. 4366 be the following: Hagerty No. 1634, Crapo No. 1625, Johnson…

first of all, with regard to the last unanimous consent request, it is important to remember a couple of things: First of all, we saw that the whole bill together, with the congressionally directed spending elements, for the first time in…

here again, this is unfortunate. We have a small handful of people who have negotiated this thing behind closed doors. They have agreed to what they have agreed to. They have taken out things that they themselves have found controversial…

I have come to the floor today to talk about some of the spending requests--known as earmarks--that are placed in this legislation. Earmarks have long been used by Members of Congress as ``sweeteners,'' as things that make the bill package…

there is also a measure in this legislation--a measure calling for $2.5 million to be set aside for outdoor recreation purposes--funding kayaking and slalom facilities in Franklin, NH. These sound like fun activities. They are fun…

I have a motion at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Lee] moves to commit the bill H.R. 7463 to the Committee on…