Mike Cloud

Ultimately, it is going to have to come down to us caring more about the country than we do being here.

It's so important that we remain the world's leader in innovation.

How do we make sure that the money we do--we are allocating is going toward rightful purposes?

If we keep pouring money into this bucket without shoring up, I mean, we're in a sense funding their innovation as much as we are ours.

What I know is that every year we spend more money than we take in. Americans, the people who elected me and us, recognize that we--this is unsustainable.

I think this proposal that I am proposing is one step to us being able to have the information to make those kind of decisions.

China...are stealing our innovation, to the tune of, some would say, $2 to $600 billion.

I thank the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse). Mr. Speaker, the Green New Deal is a bad deal for the people of America. Just days ago, we passed $22 trillion in debt for which we have no plan to begin paying off. The Green New Deal…

Due to personal illness, I missed votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 76 and ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 77. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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 2, after line 24, insert the following: ``(c) Annual Report.-- ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall…

I urge the passage of this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the chairman for his support. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. David P. Roe), the ranking member.

I am outraged out at House Resolution 1, which really should be called the Fill the Swamp Act.

the ACLU would have to be quiet on any kind of legislation they might want to comment on.

The fact remains that there is no constitutional authority for the Federal Government to come down and seize control of elections in Tennessee.

There's no doubt that government is broken. This Congress, I can tell you especially after being here for six months, my thoughts on that matter have only been confirmed.

This bill is wrong. It is a power grab. Politicians--politicians that want to give the Federal Government more power.

But for all what we'll assume are the best intentions, historically centralizing power has only led to more corruption.

These, freedom-and federalism-hating politicians can't seem to help themselves.

How dare you tell Tennessee what we can do with our elections.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 234, nays 170, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 26, as…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding. This debate over securing our border has become a debate over the morality of our efforts, and I welcome that debate. But if we are to debate this issue of border security on the basis…

I thank the chairman for recognizing me tonight. Mr. Speaker, tonight I speak to the humanitarian and criminal crisis at our southern border. This crisis has been permitted to exist because of Congress' failure to act. For over 30 years…

I do want to extend my sincerest appreciation and gratitude for the generosity and professionalism that you have shown to us as we have made this very quick transition. Thank you very much. All right, there we go. This is Ean over there…