I think the affiliate program is very good.

If you are going to have separate ballots and you are not going to have those ballots be the same, then the Federal Government's responsibility is less.

What it says is, is that if you are going to--and certainly the State and local governments are able to do that, but if you are going to allow noncitizens to vote in your local and State elections, that you have to keep separate rolls, and…

What this bill says is we are going to have separate ballots.

We are trying to make sure there are free and fair Federal elections.

I offer this amendment to strip away the provisions of the bill that would punish election administrators at a time they most need our support.

If my majority colleagues will abandon denialism, conspiracy theories uprooted in fact, certainly untethered from this Committee's record that shows absolute dearth of legitimate reasons to contest the outcome of the 2020 election, then we…

We are just trimming it back a little bit and saying, We are going to pay the part that the Federal Government is invested in.

I understand the idea is to control the population, but what we are doing is not controlling the population. What we are doing is putting them into retirement homes that the American taxpayer is paying for. I am glad to be able to present…

It is prohibited by law. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $74,232,000)''. Page 2, line 24, after the dollar…

My amendment is just plain common sense. It addresses the importance of all types of research and development funding at the Department of Energy, specifically the energy research conducted at the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon…

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 25, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,100,000,000)''. Page 28, line 10, after…

I say to my distinguished colleague and my friend that we disagree, and here is why. We have to get to a point where we are at parity. Every time we look at it, the money for renewables is huge, and the money for fossil fuel research…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Roy The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

Here is the bottom line: We have EcoHealth that breaches their contract. While they may be working on some wildlife things--and having once been a pole holder on a mission with a team of British scientists to study bats in northern Burma…

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 132, beginning line 18, strike ``in China on research supported by the government of China''. The…

Section 8131 of this bill states: None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any work to be performed by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. in China on research supported by the Government of China unless the Secretary of…

It raises that question as to who is making that decision.

I just think we are going a little too far with this.

I have worked a long time to try to tighten up our germaneness rules.

D.C. voters are the perfect example of taxation without representation.

I think it is the right answer to a problem that this Nation has, when you take a look at the hundreds of thousands of people in D.C. who do not have representation.

I think that, in cases where you have large university communities, the local governments already make those decisions.

It is not right to suddenly create a whole new State out of an existing State.