On the recordJuly 13, 2022
The intolerance we just heard, referring to this amendment as ridiculous, coupled with the admission by the gentleman from Tennessee that he wants congressional review so that it is zero. Art is a powerful tool fighting war. Look at Picasso's Guernica; maybe the most evocative anti-war painting ever. I was in Madrid for the NATO Summit where I spoke about war and peace to the heads of state at NATO just 2 weeks ago. I visited the Prado, and I looked at one of the most powerful pictures I've ever seen by Goya about Napoleonic occupation of his homeland, Spain. He witnessed that horror, and he depicted it, and it drove him almost into madness, what he witnessed. Maybe my friend thinks that art ought to be zero, but I believe millions of Americans would disagree, and so do I. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to adopt this amendment and not to go the route of zero art in America, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1224, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly). The question is on the amendment. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
