Bob Good

I do have a bill, the Blue Ridge Safety Act, which would more clearly grant you the authority to issue one permit a year in cases where there was an emergency.

For purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), the ranking member on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. General…

What would happen if we took that $3 billion and gave it to caregivers that live in the United States? Anyone have a problem with that?

Because the Biden Administration does not want to do it. Am I correct? Am I incorrect on that? I didn't think so.

I don't think we can solve our debt problem unless we are really growing this economy, and I think immigration, legal immigration, where we are properly vetting immigrants as we always have done, is a really important part of that.

I look forward to welcoming another group among the million or so that we legally allow into this country every year.

Legal immigrants are Americans, aren't they? They wanted to be Americans.

There is no such thing as illegal immigration. Immigration is a legal, lawful process.

How many should we let come to America? I think that is a fundamental question.

This administration is trying to change the rules to make it harder to fire Federal employees.

I don't defend the performance of the speaker. I don't offend the actions that have been taken, including today. I think this is a terrible mistake.

We want our kids to have the greatest opportunity to build the character we need to have the kind of preventing Americans we need down the road.

I do not think the unlimited NIL, or the transfer portal, the recent developments that are so consequential, have improved college athletics.

It is abundantly clear the NLRB would rather pander to unions than prioritize the well-being of student-athletes.

Let us say you had to pay them 400 bucks a week times 500 student-athletes, that is $200,000.00 a week.

Most college student-athletes are in fact not on scholarship, and they are willing participants.

Most underprivileged student-athletes are on full scholarship, as football and basketball players, predominantly.

Now is not the time to scare our students with highly unlikely, worst-case scenarios and bad faith exaggerations of the impacts that this recent NLRB decision will have on collegiate sports.

I believe we can find ways to protect the interests of student-athletes and their universities without distorting their relationship and changing the nature of college athletics.

Employee status will hurt student-athletes too as they will have less freedom, lower educational standards and revoked, or even taxed scholarships if they become employees.

This is ridiculous and will expose institutions to massive new liabilities and much higher costs.

As is typical in the Biden administration, the National Labor Relations Board wants to take something we all love, hyper regulate it, and make it more expensive.

We could have utilized that momentum to attach border security to this continuing resolution. We could have then dared the Senate to vote against it and dared the Senate to vote against funding the government and securing the border, and…

It was $1.6 trillion, later increased and scored up to $4.6 trillion. And the deal that we heard about announced over the weekend, the deal between Senate and House leadership is $1.66 trillion, $20 billion higher than what the current…

Think about this, Mr. Speaker. If this Biden Federal Government was the local police and home burglaries were up, you have got rising crime, home burglaries, which are up under the Biden administration. In this case, if there were too many…