Roger Williams: “That is so important because that converts to unemployment and employment and so forth.”

Due to a personal family matter, I was unable to vote on H.R. 881--the DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 120.

Small businesses do not have the resource to hire compliance officers, lawyers, or lobbyists to ensure that they understand and have their voices heard.

I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Williams) that the House suspend the…

I will have no choice but to oppose this bill.