Mark Pocan

Thank you for not having cuts this year to special education and not cutting the Special Olympics.

How much does it actually cost to produce a pill?

Are you concerned that so many of our drugs or essential ingredients in drugs are made in places like China?

I feel like this is one where we are dropping the ball.

I support the bill before us today, but we all know it is not enough. Much more must be done. In the next comprehensive aid package, we must put people first. But something also must be done about the horrific Federal response to testing…

I think they deserve some bigger answers.

I don't see modernization, I just see straight-up deregulation in an industry that you want regulated.

As one of the few union members in Congress, let me tell you that the benefits that workers and families earn from being in a union are significant. Workers in a union make almost $10,000 more per year, and 70 percent of workers in a union…

I insert in the Record a letter from the AFL- CIO. AFL-CIO, January 30, 2020. Dear Representative: On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I urge you to support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, H. R. 2474, and to oppose weakening…

I just would really--have a little better understanding of why those are the areas that you cut, and why you think that those are not important.

I want to thank you, for one, the support for Moly-99. We really appreciate that.

Today, I rise in strong support of Representative Barbara Lee's amendment to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. We cannot allow this President or any President to use an outdated AUMF intended to address…

This July, President Trump blocked $400 million in congressionally approved aid that Ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against Russia because he needed Ukraine to do him a favor first. He asked the President of Ukraine to launch…

I thank the gentleman very much for all the work that he has done on behalf of his constituents, the people of Chicago, and really the people of the entire country. I know this is the gentleman's second event today alone on behalf of…

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

On July 10, 2018, a natural gas leak in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin resulted in an explosion that killed Fire Captain Cory James Barr. Captain Barr was a first responder on the scene of the explosion and gave his life while working to save more…

I want to thank my friend, Ms. Jayapal, for yielding me some time. I want to thank my friend from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman) for his supportive words. I appreciate that. I am happy that we here today to pass H.R. 2134, the Helen Keller…

Today we will be taking up a resolution to denounce the BDS movement, the boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. This region is not unfamiliar to me, as I have been there twice, in both Israel and Palestine. I do not support…

I think you have made a very strong case for why we want to have legal regulation of marijuana.

I would love to figure out how we would never have a facility like this again, period, given the conditions on multiple levels.

I thank Mr. Scott for yielding. I do find it interesting to sit and listen to a debate today where people who make $174,000 a year and half of which are millionaires are telling people they should be satisfied trying to exist on $15,000 a…

I thank the Representative for the time. The current field of Presidential candidates looks more like American society than ever before, and we are closer than ever to the possibility that a woman or LGBT person could hold the country's…

And we could have done that easily tomorrow or even next week.

So, again, the Trump administration is really where the problem is created.

It's the Trump administration's policies that were really aiming our fire at, but we wish that we could have the opportunity to make those bills better.