I thank the chairman of the committee and I also thank the designee for yielding me this time. I am pleased to introduce two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act that deal with PFAS contamination issues. The first…

I thank Chairman Nadler, Chairwoman Bass, and my colleague and friend from Pennsylvania for their efforts in moving this important legislation forward. Every day our law enforcement professionals don their uniforms, show up for work, and…

There is a Gospel reading I like: Matthew 25: ``For I was hungry and You gave me food, I was thirsty and You gave me drink, a stranger and You welcomed me, naked and You clothed me, ill and You cared for me, in prison and You visited me.''…

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 11, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

This amendment would increase the amount of funds dedicated to financial and technical assistance for the people with disabilities through community development financial institutions, or CDFIs. People with disabilities and their families…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 33 will not be…

3 years ago, 49 innocent souls were gunned down at Orlando's Pulse nightclub. In my brief moment here with you, I lift up their first names and their lives. Edward, Stanley, Ramon, Christopher, Eric, Peter, Luis, Amanda, Jason, Cory…

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 49, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

Mr. LaQuita Brown, Ryan Keith Cox, Tara Welch Gallagher, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Joshua O. Hardy, Michelle ``Missy'' Langer, Richard H. Nettleton, Katherine A. Nixon, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Robert Williams, Herbert…

I am delighted to welcome to this Chamber my close friend, Rabbi Larry Sernovitz, whom we have just heard offer us a beautiful, wise prayer. I first met Rabbi Sernovitz in Abington, in my home district, where he served Temple-Beth Am. When…

There are hard votes and there are easy votes. The hard votes involve competing values and difficult tradeoffs; the easy ones give us a chance to express our core American values loudly and clearly. H.R. 5 is the right vote, and I thank…

One rainy afternoon during my campaign last year, I was out knocking on doors. I met a man and asked what he cared about. He paused as the rain poured down around us, and he uttered a single word, ``Decency.'' Mr. Speaker, over the last…