I thank our Ways and Means chairman, Jason Smith, not only for his strong leadership but for his support on this important legislation. Mr. Speaker, every year, more and more Americans are having their identity stolen. It is a sad fact…

People should not have to pay the federal government $200 to exercise your Second Amendment rights.

I thank Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith for his leadership and also his support on this legislation, and I thank our colleague, Judy Chu, for joining me in introducing what I think is an important piece of legislation. This…

I thank Chairman Jason Smith for his leadership on this issue and this important piece of legislation, as well as the leadership of Representatives Malliotakis and Sewell. Mr. Speaker, over the last several years, the number of government…

We have to turn that around. It is a national security risk. It is a national health security risk.

We need to do for pharmaceuticals, especially generics.

I have had that bill for years. I don't know why we can't get that through.

We have to turn this ship around.

Even a proposal that I advanced that wouldn't have raised taxes but would simply have required the filing of a tax form for alimony payments and generated $2 billion to protect our children was rejected.

In closing, please remember antisemitism is not just a threat to the Jewish community; it is a threat to our democracy.

Every member of this committee should be sickened by this. Every member of this committee should say so publicly.

Congress has passed--the House has passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and I encourage you to support and pass the Countering Antisemitism Awareness Act.

I think if we want to disrupt the financing behind terrorists and extremist antisemitism, we have got to know where the money is coming from in the first place.

I am proud that this committee passed that bill out of this committee by a vote of 41 to 0.

This antisemitic and anti-American incitement to violence can no longer be tolerated.

The people of Africa should be the beneficiaries of AGOA.

I appreciate the leadership of Representative Wenstrup on this and look forward to working with him regarding next steps on the program.

It is well past time--well past time--to resume negotiations of a comprehensive, enforceable trade agreement with Kenya, for example.

I once again call on the Biden administration to develop a coherent, effective strategy for pursuing comprehensive trade agreements and seeking congressional approval of such agreements.

I hope we can consider commonsense reforms to ensure they are not punished for success in economic development.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I do rise today in support of the Antisemitism Awareness Act. We all know that since Hamas' brutal and barbaric attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, we have seen an absolute explosion of…

I hope today we can get some answers on why President Biden insists on tax hikes for working families, while the wealthy and well connected receive cash handouts for their Green New Deal spending.

The President's budget proposes increasing the corporate tax rate--it is one of the highest in the world, even higher than Communist China--which will make it much harder to bring manufacturing home from China and to meet your desire to…

I believe that tax increases proposed by the President's budget and the failed global tax negotiations being supported by this Administration would severely harm our efforts to rebuild our domestic manufacturing and bring home critical…