May I inquire as to the time remaining on both sides, please? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McEachin). The gentleman from Virginia has 9\1/4\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

As a Navy veteran representing Hampton Roads, I know America's military communities desperately need funding for infrastructure projects to promote readiness.

By making much-needed investments in our infrastructure, we can set our communities up for sustainable economic success.

I certainly agree with his comments and would like to enter into the record an outline of the original CDC guidelines from meat packing plants, and then the final CDC guidelines after the Trump administration White House got involved…

Farmworkers toil under difficult and dangerous conditions for long hours and low pay to ensure America has a safe and plentiful food supply. Because of the scarcity of domestic farm labor, for decades, the agricultural sector has depended…

The ABC test would destroy many of these independent jobs and kill the flexibility and the autonomy for many of the rest of those jobs, in addition to hiking consumer prices, despite the fact that more than nine out of ten independent…

Californians disagreed. They voted by a nearly 17-point margin last year to exclude base drivers from this new test, and lawmakers scrambled to include roughly 100 carve-outs in the law.

If you apply that test nationally, as President Biden has said he is committed to doing, you would forcibly reclassify as many as half of all independent contractors, if not more, and jeopardize up to about 8.5 percent of our Nation's GDP.

During the last Congress we held three hearings and considered 35 amendments. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Pocan), who is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and the…

Could you advise how much time is available on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cicilline). The gentleman from Virginia has 21\1/2\ minutes. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 20\1/2\ minutes.

How much time is remaining on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 7 minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 5 minutes remaining.

The gentleman's amendment was made in order, so we will be considering it. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Adams), the chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee.

Reference was made to union officials at the UAW. They were caught and prosecuted under present law. The Trump administration that prosecuted them did not make any recommendations for changes in the law. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield 1…

I urge my colleagues to support the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for her long career helping working men and women throughout the Nation. I rise in support of this historic legislation. Under this bill, we were able to secure expansion of Pell grants to make it…

The House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, includes many important provisions. Among them is Section 203 of Title II, Division BB, based on H.R. 7539, the Strengthening Behavioral…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise in support of S. 461, as amended, the HBCU PARTNERS Act. Since their inception, HBCUs have been engines of social mobility and a cornerstone of secondary education for underserved students…

I am the only speaker, so I will be closing when I speak. I reserve the balance of my time.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes.

I support the three amendments en bloc. I urge my colleagues to support the legislation, along with these three amendments. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1224, the…

As I indicated--and several have spoken on their amendments--I would hope that we would adopt the amendment en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 1224, I rise to offer amendments en bloc No. 1. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc. Amendments en bloc No. 1 consisting of amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10…

Could you advise us how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 16\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Could you advise how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cuellar). The gentleman from Virginia has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 3 minutes remaining.

These are expected to be noncontroversial. The amendments generally expand the industries to be affected by the opportunities for apprenticeships and adds veterans service organizations as partner organizations. I hope that we would adopt…