significant barriers exist for them to participate in USDA purchasing programs and local markets, and these need to be addressed.

Ms. Schrier. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to our witnesses. I am very interested in how we can identify ways to better use our power marketing administrations to support the deployment of transmission, which I believe…

I have an amendment at the desk made in order by the rule. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE VI--OTHER MATTERS SEC. 601. STUDY AND…

I thank my colleague for his commendation on the amendment. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services.

I urge my colleagues to support this amendment that is a commonsense amendment to support our local small businesses. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 473, the previous…

a multi-year investment will reposition the United States for long-term success, competitiveness, and leadership in global agriculture and food research.

With current rates of disease, my assessment is that the risk of the disease, whether it is the acute or the multisystem inflammatory syndrome or long COVID, far outweigh the remote risk of mild myocarditis that might be associated with…

The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly supports the strengthening of the Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2021.

We strongly encourage parents to get the vaccine for themselves and for their eligible children.

We thank Representative Schrier, a fellow pediatrician, and Representatives Joyce, Butterfield, and McKinley for introducing this strong, bipartisan piece of legislation.

Our products, primarily Apples and Pears, are highly perishable products, which also happen to be produced by many, many other countries around the world.

I support any FMC enforcement action that will ensure ocean carrier compliance with the Shipping Act and bring desperately needed relief to our exporters.