Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Grijalva for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I am excited to have the opportunity to speak on this bill, and I strongly encourage all of my colleagues to support this important lands package. Now, there is one…

My fear is that what will happen with these requirements is that ultimately what it will result in is more hunger, not more jobs, and ultimately penalize the people in our communities who can really least afford that.

Our growers are watching the USMCA as it progresses.

In Seattle proper you need to have a salary of at least $70,000 a year to afford a one-bedroom apartment.

$15, as we have heard many times, is a minimum for the whole country.

We are gradually increasing to a $15 minimum wage, and it has worked well for the State.

Madam Speaker, today is different because today I would like to honor my father, Joel Schrier, who celebrates his 80th birthday this weekend. He grew up in the Bronx in a one-bedroom apartment with his parents and his three siblings…

Madam Speaker, yesterday marked 1 full month of this unnecessary government shutdown, and 800,000 Federal employees are set to miss their second paycheck later this week. The shutdown is not only affecting those workers, but we are seeing…

Madam Speaker, I want to applaud my colleagues, especially Mr. Engel and Mr. McCaul, for sending a strong message with a vote on H.R. 221, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti- Semitism Act. Jewish people enjoy freedom, acceptance…

Mr. Speaker, on roll call vote 29, I was unavoidably detained and unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on HR 221, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti- Semitism Act. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

Mr. Speaker, I am honored to deliver my first floor speech today speaking about an issue that is deeply personal to me, to the patients that I care for as a pediatrician, and to thousands of my constituents in Washington's Eighth District…