House of Representatives
Page H4249 · Official textThe House met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Fleischmann).
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Vol. 172, No. 107 · 119th Congress, 2nd session
Designation of the Speaker Pro Tempore
Page H4249 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker:
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June 25, 2026.
I hereby appoint the Honorable Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day.
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Prayer
Page H4249 · Official textThe Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following prayer: Sovereign God, You are a jealous God, and You demand our entire being and our full measure of devotion. While we may not consider as idols the things that compete for our time or which distract us from even the simplest awareness of Your presence in our everyday moments, nonetheless, like gods in our lives, our desires have become more directive and Your direction less desirable. Shine Your light on those hidden affections that have, if we are honest with ourselves, overshadowed--or even eclipsed--our devotion to You. Help us take inventory of the things that have wended their way into our very being: our pursuit for success, our desire for approval, or our comfort with a certain manner of living. Call to our awareness how our fear of rejection, our paralyzing anger over our own shortcomings, and our cowardice in the face of evil have become stumbling blocks to the righteousness that You demand of us. How easily we have installed these false gods into our daily lives, allowing them to govern our behavior, to influence our decisions, and to stand in the way of our faithfulness to You. Enable us to turn our backs on these idols. For no thing, no one, is like You, O Lord. You alone are great, and Your name only is mighty in power. In the strength of Your holy name, we return to You and entrust into Your keeping the living of this day. Amen.
The Journal
Page H4249 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore
The Chair has examined the Journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof.
Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the Journal stands approved.
Pledge of Allegiance
Page H4249 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore
Will the gentleman from New York (Mr. Mannion) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Mr. MANNION led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows:
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I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
Page H4249 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore
The Chair will entertain up to 15 requests for 1-minute speeches on each side of the aisle.
Housing Affordability
Page H4249 · Official text(Mr. MANNION asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. I commend my colleagues for their months-long negotiation to get this done.
In central New York and the Mohawk Valley, we are ready for growth in the years to come, but we must meet the housing challenge.
Our community leaders need resources and more flexibility from our housing programs to make that happen.
Developers and builders want to be a part of the solution, but we need to remove the needless hurdles that keep projects from getting off the ground.
This bill incentivizes housing production, streamlines construction processes, and improves access to financing. It also helps repair aging homes and invests in community infrastructure. It finally prohibits large investors from purchasing single-family homes so that they remain affordable for families.
I was proud to vote in support of this legislation, and I urge the President to promptly sign this bipartisan bill into law and stop playing politics with affordable housing.
IMPEACHMENT OF SECRETARY McMAHON
Pages H4249–H4250 · Official text(Ms. BONAMICI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. Speaker, I call for the House to impeach Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, whose mission is to close down the Department of Education, which is something that she does not have the authority to do.
Secretary McMahon has betrayed students, families, and educators by dismantling and destroying the Department of Education without coming to Congress for approval. She violated Federal law and her oath of office, lied to Congress, and created chaos and disruption in education funding for the students who need it the most.
Secretary McMahon transferred more than 100 core programs and services, including the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the Office for Civil Rights, to other Federal agencies without congressional approval, creating more bureaucracy and chaos and putting the administration of the IDEA in jeopardy.
Secretary McMahon cut the Department's workforce in half so that they don't have the necessary staff to disburse congressionally authorized funding on time or to investigate civil rights violations.
Educators and parents, especially parents of students with disabilities, are distraught, and they are asking us to take action to stop these illegal transfers.
I hear them.
Mr. Speaker, I invite all of my colleagues to join me in support of this resolution impeaching Secretary McMahon for her illegal attempt to destroy the Department of Education.
Dismantling of Department of Education
Page H4250 · Official text(Mr. DeSAULNIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to strongly oppose the transfer of special education programs from the Department of Education to the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS Secretary Kennedy has troubling and ignorant views on disabilities and is woefully unqualified to oversee programs supporting more than 8 million students and their families.
This move, publicly opposed by multiple Bush administration education officials and Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, according to a recent story by The New York Times, will segregate special education from the larger education system in direct defiance of congressional intent.
Special education programs must remain at the Department of Education, where they are administered by expert staff that have a long understanding and longstanding relationships with States and local school districts.
If this move continues, all officials responsible should face the consequences, including impeachment of the Secretary of Education.
Lawful Permanent Residency for Ukrainians
Page H4250 · Official text(Mr. KILEY of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, as a cosponsor of H.R. 3104, the Ukrainian Adjustment Act, I am calling for prompt consideration and passage of this important legislation.
We have Ukrainians across this country who came here following Russia's invasion on humanitarian parole. They have contributed to our communities in countless ways.
They entered the United States legally. They passed rigorous vetting. They have created lives here, and they have contributed in so many different ways to both our communities and our economy.
There are 45,000 Ukrainian-American businesses supporting 300,000 jobs, $60 billion in economic activity, and $8 billion to $9 billion in taxes paid each year. Yet, these individuals right now are in a state of legal uncertainty that creates various problems for their families and their ability to plan for the future.
This legislation will adjust their status to lawful permanent resident. It is the right thing to do for these individuals and their families. It is the right thing to do for our economy and communities across this country, and I urge immediate passage of this legislation.
Honoring Currituck Jack
Page H4250 · Official text(Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, eastern North Carolina honored Currituck Jack, an experienced sailor and hero whose bravery during the American Revolution deserves remembrance.
His statue unveiling celebrates his legacy as an enslaved sailor who risked it all to reclaim his ship from British privateers in 1780 showcasing that heroes can emerge from hardship.
Currituck Jack's journey from enslavement to freedom, taking on the name John Jasper White, saw him become a respected captain and community figure.
His story highlights that ordinary people in eastern North Carolina can do extraordinary things.
Thank you to everyone who came out and to those who had a hand in sharing Currituck Jack's courage to inspire all generations.
Unnecessary Wars in Middle East
Page H4250 · Official text(Mr. MAGAZINER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, my whole life, politicians have been sending other people's kids to fight and die in unnecessary wars in the Middle East, and we are no better off for it.
In the 6 months since the unnecessary war in Iran began, over a dozen U.S. servicemembers have lost their lives. Countless civilians have been killed, including over 100 children bombed in their school. Tens of billions of tax dollars have been wasted, and gas prices are through the roof.
What do we have to show for it?
Iran still controls the strait. There are no guarantees for inspections of nuclear sites, and there are no guarantees that Iran will stop funding terror.
That is no surprise because the President's negotiating team is made up of his relatives and his real estate buddies, not seasoned negotiators. So here is what we need to do: Put real negotiators at the table. Work with our allies instead of constantly insulting them, and then we, as a Congress, need to use our authority to prevent this President and any President from getting us into more unnecessary wars.
The people have had enough.
Honoring Life of Theodore Larry Kirkland, Sr.
Page H4250 · Official text(Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of a remarkable leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Right Reverend Theodore Larry Kirkland, Sr.
As the founding pastor of Brookins AME Church, his powerful preaching inspired generations of Angelenos and helped build the congregation into the spiritual cornerstone it remains today.
In 1996, Bishop Kirkland was elected and consecrated as the 114th bishop of the AME Church.
Over the next four decades, his leadership touched countless lives across the globe from communities throughout Africa to right here on the West Coast.
His ministry was defined not only by faith but by action. He supported local businessowners, worked to combat food insecurity, and helped expand access to health services for the uninsured.
His passing is a profound loss, but his legacy will live on through his loving family and the AME community.
May he rest in peace in the presence of God.
Graduates Deserve Opportunities Over Barriers
Pages H4250–H4251 · Official text(Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today as students around the country celebrate well-earned graduations from high school and college and prepare to enter the workforce.
I remember when I graduated from Fordham University, a long time ago, you almost were guaranteed a job--the jobs were plentiful--that would allow you to make ends meet.
Now, the percentage of graduates with entry-levels jobs in their field was only 30 percent last year and represents an unsustainable decline.
This difficult job market has only been further strained by the Trump administration's dismantling of the Department of Education, the removal of necessary Department staff, a cap on student graduate loans, cuts to research, and other destructive policies that have left Americans worse off at every step of the way.
As graduates cross the stage and celebrate 4 years of hard work, they should be given opportunities to thrive rather than barriers to overcome.
Promoting Financial Stability
Page H4251 · Official text(Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, after the 2008 financial crisis, Congress tasked our financial regulators with implementing a rule that bans compensation packages for bank executives that incentivize inappropriate risk-taking.
But more than a decade later, a decade and a half later, we are still waiting for this rule to be finalized.
As the 2023 banking failure demonstrates--we just had one in 2023--improper incentives continue to pose a threat to our financial system.
That is why I am proud to be able to introduce the Fostering Accountability in Remuneration Fund Act. It requires large financial institutions to set aside a portion of executive compensation to be paid out, absent misconduct or firm failure, after a period of between 2 to 8 years depending on the size of the institution.
In the case of misconduct or failure, deferred funds would be used to be cover the costs of any fines levied on the bank and to make depositors whole. This is important because the American people are tired of bailing out folks who commit fraud and misconduct.
I urge my colleagues to promote financial stability for our residents and support this bill.
Recess
Page H4251 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore
Pursuant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair declares the House in recess subject to the call of the Chair.
Accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 15 minutes a.m.), the House stood in recess.
After Recess
Page H4251 · Official textThe recess having expired, the House was called to order by the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Murphy) at 1 p.m.
Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025
Pages H4251–H4252 · Official textThe SPEAKER pro tempore
Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 2478) to amend the Investment Company Act of 1940 to postpone the date of payment or satisfaction upon redemption of certain securities in the case of the financial exploitation of specified adults, and for other purposes, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore
The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
The question was taken.
The SPEAKER pro tempore
In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 414, nays 2, not voting 14, as follows:
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Biggs (AZ) Brecheen
Bost Dunn (FL) Goldman (NY) Gray Kean Kennedy (NY) Letlow Luna Mace Moulton Ogles Salazar Timmons Velazquez
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining. Ms. SIMON, Mrs. HAYES, and Mr. ROY changed their vote from "nay" to "yea." So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for:
Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY)1:29 p.m.
Mr. Speaker, I was absent from the floor and missed roll call vote number 227. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 227 on the Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass H.R. 2478.
Adjournment from Thursday, June 25, 2026, to Monday, June 29, 2026
Page H4252 · Official textADJOURNMENT FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026, TO MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet on Monday next, when it shall convene at noon for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business.
The SPEAKER pro tempore
Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Florida?
There was no objection.
Removal of Name of Member as Cosponsor of H. Res. 1110
Page H4252 · Official textMr. Speaker, I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H. Res. 1110.
The SPEAKER pro tempore
The gentleman's request is accepted.
Removal of Name of Member as Cosponsor of H.r. 2555
Page H4252 · Official textMr. Speaker, I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H.R. 2555.
The SPEAKER pro tempore
The gentleman's request is accepted.
Recognizing Rogers Family Farm
Page H4252 · Official text(Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the bicentennial of the Rogers Family Farm in Menard County, Illinois.
Founded in 1826, this farm is still operated by the Rogers family, making seven generations of stewardship. This family heritage includes Samuel Rogers, who serves on my staff as counsel for the House Agriculture Committee.
The Rogers family settled around New Salem, Illinois, the community that helped shape President Abraham Lincoln's early life. The family's founding patriarch cast his votes for Lincoln. In one extraordinary surviving affidavit, Lincoln himself signed Samuel Rogers' name, an enduring testament to the civic trust that bound citizens together.
Frontier families like the Rogers family didn't just build farms. They built schools, townships, church communities, and civic networks that helped form the ground for Lincoln's political identity and the principles of the modern Republican Party,
That same spirit lives on today in their descendants, including Samuel and his brother, Benjamin, a current University of Illinois veterinary medical student.
Mr. Speaker, today, we honor the Rogers family and, through them, the enduring strength of the American community. I congratulate the Rogers family on this milestone.
Honoring Life and Legacy of Allen Paul
Page H4252 · Official text(Ms. ROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and legacy of Allen Paul, a gifted journalist, author, and storyteller whose work helped preserve and illuminate the history of North Carolina.
Allen dedicated his career to telling important stories with depth, accuracy, and humanity.
Written alongside his son Mack Paul, one of his final works, "Miracle Road: The Story of Research Triangle Park," captures one of the greatest economic transformations in American history: the rise of Research Triangle Park from a landscape once described as "possums and pines" into a global center of innovation, research, and opportunity.
The book chronicles the visionaries, scientists, business leaders, and community advocates who helped build the triangle into what it is today.
Through meticulous research and compelling storytelling, Allen preserved the history that shaped North Carolina's future. His contributions will continue to educate and inspire generations to come.
Recognizing Lehigh Valley Firefighters
Page H4252 · Official text(Mr. MACKENZIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the members of the Allentown Fire Department, as well as the professional and volunteer firefighters from throughout the Lehigh Valley, who responded to last night's devastating fire in Allentown.
Under extreme circumstances, the firefighters and first responders on the scene of the Front Street fire successfully extinguished the flames, saved many neighboring properties, and, most importantly, kept every local resident safe. We also understand that one firefighter was injured during the blaze, and we wish him a speedy recovery.
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a ride-along with the firefighters from AFD Engine Company 6, based just a few blocks away from the site of the fire. Throughout the process, I got to see their professionalism and commitment up close. We are so grateful and fortunate to have these first responders working every day and looking after our community.
On behalf of the people of the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, I thank them for their service.
World Vitiligo Day
Page H4252 · Official text(Ms. McCLELLAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate World Vitiligo Day, raising awareness for the 3.7 million Americans living with the autoimmune condition that causes discoloration of the skin, like Erika, one of my constituents who sought a way to treat her vitiligo symptoms throughout her childhood.
Even though the FDA first approved a repigment treatment for vitiligo in 2020, access to treatments remained financially out of reach for constituents like Erika due to Virginia's classification of vitiligo as a cosmetic condition rather than what it actually is: an autoimmune disease.
Absent treatment, vitiligo patients face significant mental health burdens and stigma that contribute to their worsening health and less productivity.
While Medicare covers vitiligo treatment, Medicaid coverage varies State by State. Since Virginia classifies vitiligo as a cosmetic condition, Medicaid won't cover the treatment in our Commonwealth.
Today, I urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to certify that vitiligo is a noncosmetic autoimmune condition so that Medicaid recipients with this condition can access the life-changing treatments.
No matter where you live, you should be able to get the treatment you need when you need it.
Janet Mello Fraud Amendment
Pages H4252–H4253 · Official text(Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I have introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act addressing the massive Janet Mello fraud scandal at Fort Sam Houston and the broader pattern of abuse it has exposed.
This amendment simply requires a public, comprehensive report on how more than $100 million meant for the 4-H Military Partnership Grant program was stolen over several years. What red flags were missed? What reforms will prevent this from ever happening again?
It has already passed the House twice, most recently by a vote of 430-3, only to be stripped out by the Senate in their infinite wisdom for reasons known only to the Almighty. Meanwhile, yet another Fort Sam Houston official has been charged with stealing over $500,000 from Army family programs.
Mr. Speaker, I urge the Rules Committee to make my amendment in order for the third year.
Happy Summer
Page H4253 · Official text(Mr. CASTEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Happy summer. It is time to fire up the grill, fire up the air conditioner, and book some road trips, if you can afford to fuel them.
Since Donald Trump's election, gasoline prices have skyrocketed. Household energy bills are up by as much as 18 percent. In response to this, the President said: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation."
That is more than just a psychotic lack of empathy because he also said: ". . . when oil prices go up we make a lot of money." Who is "we" in this situation? In the words of Chris Rock: "It ain't us." But it is par for the course in a White House that has always put the interests of oil and gas producers ahead of consumers.
So I have got this crazy idea. What if we actually put forth an energy policy that unambiguously put consumers first, that always prioritized the most reliable, lowest cost sources of energy, even if that came at the expense of oil company profits?
That is exactly what Congressman Levin and I have put forward in our Energy Bills Relief Act, which has over 158 cosponsors in the House.
Your bills are too high. Our bills are too high. It is long past time for us to do something about it.
Congratulating Carolina Hurricanes on Stanley Cup Win
Page H4253 · Official text(Mr. McDOWELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Carolina Hurricanes on bringing the Stanley Cup back home to North Carolina.
On June 14, there was a storm surge for the ages. After 20 years, our guys once again showed the hockey world what hard work, pure grit, and teamwork are able to accomplish.
Led by Head Coach Rod Brind'Amour, who captained the Hurricanes' first championship team in 2006, this group of guys put together one of the most dominant playoff runs in recent memory.
From Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho to every player, coach, trainer, and member of the organization, this championship belongs to all of them.
But it also belongs to the Caniacs. To the fans who packed the Lenovo Center, who waved their towels, and who stood behind this team through all the highs and the lows: This victory is yours, too.
Mr. Speaker, the Hurricanes represent more than just a hockey team. Through their support of children and families of our servicemembers and first responders, they have become part of the communities across North Carolina.
Congratulations to the 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes. To the Caniacs everywhere, let us sound the sirens and celebrate hoisting the cup.
Go Canes.
Water Crisis in Puerto Rico
Page H4253 · Official text(Mr. HERNANDEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, Puerto Rico faces a water crisis, and, ironically, the Governor's office is drowning.
Last week, decades of mismanagement and poor maintenance left hundreds of thousands, including me and my family, without water.
There was a stench, but it was not just the stench of unflushed toilets. It was the stench of corruption.
The former Secretary of Economic Development filed a criminal complaint against the Governor's chief of staff for alleged intervention in a government bidding process.
When the Governor testified in the Senate last week, Senator Mike Lee asked her: How can Congress be assured that Federal funds sent to Puerto Rico are not being misused?
I would tell Senator Lee: The people of Puerto Rico share your concern.
On behalf of the honest, hardworking majority of Puerto Ricans, I tell this Chamber: We will not be quiet. We will not stand still. We will fight to restore integrity in public service in the great Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Recognizing Semyon "Simon" Vindman on His 94th Birthday
Page H4253 · Official text(Mr. VINDMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. Speaker, today I rise to recognize an individual who is brave, strong, proud, tough, and most importantly, loving: my hero, my dad.
At the age of 47, my dad, a widower, decided to uproot his life and bring his family to the United States in order to provide us an opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
Over the last 46 years, he has raised us, provided us support, love, and everything that a family could need.
Today, he is celebrating his 94th birthday. Happy birthday to my dad. I love him and here is to many more.
Honoring Eric Frank on His Retirement
Page H4253 · Official text(Mr. CRAWFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a true leader, public servant, and a pillar of our community, city of Carlisle Police Chief Eric Frank, who is retiring after more than 42 years of service.
He has served as an EMT, a Carlisle police officer, and as the department's chief for the past 25 years. That is a quarter of a century of leadership and a lifetime of sacrifice for the people of Arkansas' First District.
Chief Frank has been the backbone of public safety in Carlisle as demonstrated by his leadership in recent years through the challenges of the pandemic and during devastating storms.
In 2023 when severe weather took lives in Carlisle, he provided decisive leadership, coordinating with State agencies and always putting the safety of residents first.
Whether launching drug take-back programs, advancing child safety, or handling day-to-day work, Chief Frank approached every duty with the same unwavering commitment.
On behalf of the grateful people of Arkansas' First District, I thank Chief Frank for his service, his integrity, and his dedication. He has served with distinction, and I am proud to be his Congressman.
Honoring Gary Smith
Pages H4253–H4254 · Official text(Ms. HOULAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Gary Smith, a visionary leader whose 50-year career at Pennsylvania's own Chester County Economic Development Council has shaped the economic growth and prosperity of southeastern Pennsylvania.
A lifetime Chester County resident, Gary grew up on his family's farm in West Bradford Township, which he still owns today. He joined Chester County's Economic Development Council in 1976, and he became the CEO 2 years later.
Under his leadership, the organization expanded its programs and grew into a regional economic development leader and superpower.
Now, after 50 years, Gary is stepping down as that CEO, and he leaves behind an enduring legacy. Gary has led with unwavering commitment to our community, from small businesses to family farms to younger generations entering the workforce.
In recognition of his contributions, he was recently inducted into the Chester County Hall of Fame, and he couldn't be more deserving of that.
I congratulate Gary on this honor. I thank him for decades of service to Chester County and to our great Commonwealth. His impact will doubtless be felt for generations to come.
Moment of Silence Honoring Congressman Frank Guarini
Page H4254 · Official text(Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to an honorable, patriotic, gregarious American who dedicated his life to building our Nation and world into a more just, livable country and democratic world.
This past weekend, former New Jersey Congressman Frank Guarini passed away at the ripe age of 101 years old, just 2 months shy of attaining his 102nd birthday.
Frank was an American patriot, World War II decorated Pacific Navy veteran, successful lawyer, and business leader. His milestone life included service in this House from 1979 to 1993.
Hailing from Jersey City, New Jersey, Frank, like his father before him, distinguished himself as an honorable, extraordinary citizen, a champion swimmer, and World War II Navy combat veteran with three battle stars of the Pacific campaign. He rose to the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
He served as a distinguished probing member of the Ways and Means Committee, specializing in international trade and fair taxation.
Continuing to pursue business and philanthropic interests until his passing, he endowed his alma maters: Dartmouth College's School of International Relations, Saint Peters College, New York School of Law, as well as John Cabot University in Italy, the Italian American Foundation, and countless and endless works of good will toward others.
I send my heartfelt prayers and deepest condolences to his sister, Caroline; nephew, Peter; niece, Carol; many cousins; countless friends; loved ones around the world; and his beloved Jersey City community to which he dedicated his being.
May Frank's constructive and honorable life inspire future leaders in the generations to come.
Mr. Speaker, I ask for a moment of silence in his memory.
Congratulating Nba Champion Josh Hart
Page H4254 · Official text(Mr. RASKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise to celebrate 2026 NBA champion Josh Hart.
Josh just helped lead the New York Knicks to their first NBA championship since 1973. An outstanding shooting guard and rebounder, he is an essential force on the Knicks and, many say, the beating "Hart" of the team.
There might not be a lot of Knicks fans in Maryland, but there are a lot of Josh Hart fans. Josh's basketball career started in Montgomery County, Maryland, at the great Wheaton High School and at Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C.
Josh excelled off the court as a passionate student and an active citizen. He promised his dad that he would become an Eagle Scout. After a lot of hard work, he did Troop 1038 in Rockville proud by earning the Eagle Scout rank.
I also recognize Josh's parents, my constituents, Moses and Pat; Josh's siblings, Moses, Joseph, and Aimee; Josh's wife, Shannon; and their twin sons.
From the Eagle Scouts to the NBA, Josh has made the Eighth District of Maryland proud. We are happy for New York and the Knicks, but we send special appreciation to Josh Hart from his home in Maryland. I congratulate him.
Commemorating U.s. Navy and Suquamish Tribe Mou
Page H4254 · Official text(Ms. RANDALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the tremendous occasion that is happening in my district this weekend.
A memorandum of understanding, the first of its kind, between the Suquamish Tribe and the U.S. Navy has finally been reached after years of good faith negotiations. This MOU sets a new standard for how our U.S. military collaborates with Tribal Governments to respect Tribal sovereignty and to preserve treaty rights.
The Suquamish Tribe has stewarded the lands and waters of the Salish Sea or the Puget Sound since time immemorial and has been a gracious neighbor to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the U.S. Navy's Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton.
The shared waterways include Tribal fishing grounds and shellfish beds, and this MOU will compensate the Tribal members for the access that will be impacted during the construction of the Navy's proposed Multi-Mission Dry Dock.
The Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program and its M2D2 project are a once-in-a-century investment to modernize four aging naval shipyards into new, modern facilities that will serve our Nation into the future.
In my district alone, there are 12 federally recognized Tribes that often neighbor our four DOD installations, and this serves as a model not only for Washington State but the Nation.
I commend the Navy and the Suquamish Tribe for their years of leadership and perseverance in reaching this historic agreement.
Honoring Daphne Muse
Page H4254 · Official text(Ms. SIMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Daphne Muse, a daughter of Washington, D.C., who made Oakland, California, her home for more than 50 years. She recently transitioned at the age of 81.
Daphne was a mother, a mentor, an intellectual, an avid disability rights advocate, a writer, and a keeper of Black letters. She helped run Drum & Spear Bookstore here in Washington, D.C., a legendary Black bookstore here in the Capital.
For the crime of selling books to Black folks in the civil rights movement, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI placed her under surveillance.
She answered with a life's work: collecting and gathering more than 22,000 letters and papers documenting Black life across the diaspora.
At Mills College, she served as a leader, mentored countless young women, and gave her heart to the education of girls and women. I was one of the beneficiaries of her love and her brilliance.
Oakland, California, raised a giant, Mr. Speaker. May her name be in remembrance always.
Progressive Movement Is Winning
Page H4254 · Official text(Mr. KHANNA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. Speaker, the progressive movement is winning across the country, from the heart of New York to Michigan to Maine.
The people are saying no to foreign wars, and they are saying no to genocide in Gaza. They are saying no to the unfair and lopsided economy that has allowed a few people to hoard extreme wealth and power, and they are saying yes to Medicare for All, to unions for all, to childcare for all, to making sure that we have a housing guarantee for kids by the time they are 35 if they work hard.
Now, some of the oligarchs don't like it. Elon Musk has been threatening to sue me or jail me, but I will tell you what: They should judge us by those who are attacking us.
We will not be intimidated. We stand for transforming this country for the working class over the billionaire class.
Trump Housing Crisis
Pages H4254–H4257 · Official text(Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2025, Mr. Green of Texas was recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.)
Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. And still I rise, unbought, unbossed, unelected, liberated Democrat. And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding the fact that I have been censured by this House, censured but not silenced.
And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, because the housing crisis that we confront has taken on a new dimension. I am in full support of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, full support of it. Many others are, but I rise today to announce that this is now the Trump housing crisis. It is the Trump housing crisis, and I should like to present evidence to substantiate my claim.
It is the Trump housing crisis because, yesterday, the President declined to sign the bill that was voted on in this House and passed and in the Senate and passed, a bicameral bill. Rarely do we get such a thing, but this one also is bipartisan. It has huge Republican support and huge Democratic support.
Let me read from an official document. This is from Congress.gov. The indication here is that this piece of legislation had 191 Democrats vote for it and 166 Republicans, a total of 358 for the legislation. That is the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. In the United States Senate, it had 85 yeas and only 5 nays.
It had overwhelming support, the kind of support that would cause people to come to the floor of the House of Representatives, as they did. I was here. I came to the floor of this House of Representatives, and many persons on both sides of the aisle talked about the collegiality--perhaps not using that exact word, but the collegiality--and talked about how this was one of the rare moments when we have received bipartisan, bicameral support for a piece of legislation--a great piece of legislation, I might add. It is a piece of legislation that was a long time in the making, a piece of legislation that this House passed and the Senate passed, as I have indicated before, by large margins.
I heard persons stand here at this podium, at that podium, and the podium in the well and proclaim that this piece of legislation was indicative of what we can do when we work together, the symbiosis that was created by Democrats and Republicans working together.
Everyone was in a great mood, a celebratory mood. Persons were ready to move on to the next phase. After all, you have to have the House and the Senate to pass a piece of legislation, and there are many people who say that before you can get a House and Senate to pass a bill, they first have to have the will.
They demonstrated the will after having negotiated for some time. That was the first phase of it. The first phase of it included some persons who are of note and should be mentioned. The Honorable Maxine Waters should be mentioned and the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. The two of them worked together to bring this to fruition. They worked together after a chasm had erupted as it relates to the bill.
There was a chasm that many thought would be impossible to span, but I called them the Ws: the Honorable Maxine, I always say that because I have such great respect for her, and the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. I have great respect for the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. They were able to span this chasm and make this difference.
I would also mention that in the Senate it had bipartisan support because the majority leader and the leader of the Senate, the majority leader and the minority, they both signed off on it. This was something that took great work to accomplish.
I would also add this: It took people who were experienced. This is one of those times when experience with legislation made a difference. I am not sure that a neophyte could pull off what they were able to accomplish, and I am very proud to say that I support what we have done, and I support the bill.
So with all that said, everybody was prepared for the signing ceremony. It was going to be a celebratory time, and everyone prepared to receive an indication that the President was going to sign it at the White House. I think everyone was, I was, surely, prepared for this.
The President, in his own way, indicated that, no, it would not be signed at the White House. The President said that he would come to this Capitol and he would sign it here. Of course, the Speaker, in preparation for the President's arrival, decided to do all of the things to make sure that we had the proper pomp and circumstance available to the President, the President of the United States.
Everything was set. The flags were in place, the table was arranged, and people were notified. Everyone was prepared for the signing of the legislation saving the President. The President sent a message indicating that he would not, N-O-T, would not sign this piece of legislation.
The President indicated that he would not sign it and he had some things to say about it that were not flattering. He diminished the magnitude of the legislation. He went on to indicate that this was not something that he thought was appropriate.
I don't know what his rationale was. It never comes through clearly because the President contradicts himself in the sentence where he makes any given statement at any given time. I have no idea what that was all about, but I do know this: When he decided not to sign the legislation, when he decided that he would literally allow it to just linger in limbo, I suppose, when he decided to do this, he then took on the housing crisis.
The housing crisis is now that of the President of the United States. It belongs to the President of the United States. He decided that he would not sign legislation that is much-needed in this country, legislation that can make a difference in the lives of people in this country.
He put in petty politics above a piece of legislation that can make a profound difference, petty politics above a profound difference that can be made by him by only affixing his signature to a piece of historic legislation, landmark legislation in my world.
When he decided he wouldn't do it, here is what he also decided: He decided that he was not going to concern himself with the many people who cannot afford a home right now. Many people cannot afford a home. Affordability is a problem. It is a crisis. The President is well aware of this.
He either knows or should know that this is a part of the solution, this bill, and he has not given a rationale, a clear rationale, for why he would not sign it. However, he took on the notion that people who cannot acquire a home, that this is now a problem for him to have to resolve in some other way I suppose. I doubt that he will figure out a way to do it. But he is not supporting those people who are in need of a home.
There are people who live in areas where the homes are being purchased by corporate America, not all of corporate America, but various companies that are in the business of purchasing homes and then leasing or renting these homes.
He is not supportive of this. In something that he said, he was antithetical to that, he was opposed to, but he is now supportive of this because he won't sign the bill that deals with this very issue, the issue of the homes that could go to first-time home buyers being purchased by corporations. As a result, those homes are now being placed on the rental market.
The United States would become a country where the American Dream is a dream to rent a home if the President does not sign this bill. He now has embraced these people who would prevent persons from acquiring a home by simply buying up the property and leasing it.
He also has done something that I never thought I would see him do because he is, generally speaking, supportive of the construction industry. He says he is a person of great knowledge when it comes to construction and the whole notion of being a great builder. He considers himself a great builder.
He now is at odds with the builders in this country. The builders in this country are ready to build more homes. This bill would allow them that opportunity because it eliminates a lot of the red tape. I have had the builders come to me and tell me about the red tape they encounter when they are attempting to build a home on a piece of property. There is red tape associated with the codes across the 50 States, and this red tape associated with these codes across these 50 States is something that they encounter that makes it difficult for them to move expeditiously and construct homes.
This piece of legislation deals with this notion that 50 States are going to have 50 different means of getting something done, and it incentivizes the States to allow these homebuilders to have the opportunity to do what they do best, and that is construct homes for persons to purchase and some, of course, for rental purposes, but it would allow the construction process to move forward expeditiously. It may not be as fast as they might want it to move or I might want it to move, but faster than it is moving currently.
This would be the case, but the President now is at odds with the builders. He is at odds with those who want to buy homes. He is at odds with those who would like to build homes because he won't sign the bill that would make it easier for the builders to do what they do and for persons who desire to purchase homes for the first time to have the opportunity to do so.
This President is going to find himself helping persons who would like to avoid seeing this whole process develop because somehow they believe that if this process develops it will somehow hurt them politically. I don't see that, but the President seems to be siding with them. He is, in fact, not only siding with them, he is making it possible for the bill not to pass and not to go on to become law because he won't sign the bill. He won't sign it into law, so he is siding with those people who, for political reasons, simply believe that this bill is politically unacceptable for reasons that have not been explained.
Mr. President, here is also something that is important for you to consider: If you pass the bill by virtue of signing it and placing it into law, then you have an opportunity to vote on its final passage because you have a vote in this process.
If your vote is ratified by your signature, if you do this, then people will have more jobs. You will, in fact, help to increase the number of persons who are not only seeking jobs, but are acquiring jobs. Those people will be able to get jobs. You can't build millions of homes and not have these contractors and builders acquire additional personnel to help facilitate the work that has to be done.
This will happen. We will have more people employed. You are going to help with the unemployment issue in the country if you sign the bill.
By not signing the bill, you are, of course, continuing with the unemployment issue. In fact, you are facilitating the unemployment of Americans because they could have jobs but for your failure to sign the bill.
Your failure to sign the bill then would cause persons not to be able to sell some of the things that would be in a home if it is constructed. For example, you build a home. You are going to have carpet in many of them. Well, the people who sell carpet will not have the opportunity to prosper even more because of these millions of homes. The people who sell the washers and the dryers and the drapes will not have the opportunity to prosper as a result of your not signing the bill, and the people who build the homes will also make these homes a place such that persons will acquire equity for the future.
These homebuilders are building places that allow equity to be acquired by the home purchasers. This equity is something that can be used for many reasons and many things. It can be used to help a child go to college. The equity can be used in an emergency, some family emergency. Your equity in the home can be there for you, but it can also be the means by which you can pass on wealth to the next generation.
The wealth that you can pass on to the next generation is something that helps them get a start, a leg up in life, if you will. This won't happen if we don't sign the bill.
Mr. President, you can sign this bill and help those who would have the opportunity to acquire equity, help those who are in the marketplace selling the various pieces of paraphernalia, the various things that are necessary to have a home develop into the place that you consider livable: the washers, the dryers, all of these things. You are also going to prevent people from literally having the roof over their heads and a place that they can settle in and not find themselves moving about from one place to another, a place to call home.
Also, if you would sign the bill, Mr. President, you will find that this will give the country the opportunity to move forward away from this housing crisis and do some of the other things that are very important for us in the country. There are things that can be done, but this bill itself was something that took up an inordinate amount of time. We would be free of having to deal with it and we can deal with implementation.
This bill also, Mr. President, would allow persons who suffer from natural disasters--their homes are damaged. The roofs are torn. I have seen it in many cases. When Katrina came through, I saw the damage that it did. I have seen the damage that Harvey did.
This bill would help persons when they are confronting these natural disasters and they are suffering as a result of harm having been done to their property, this bill would help them because the bill has within it the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act, something that I am proud to say I am a sponsor of.
This bill has that act within it, and this act within it, this legislation within it, would allow persons to recover faster. The process that we have currently is one that has not been codified.
After each natural disaster, we find ourselves having to--to borrow a term--"reinvent the wheel."
We find ourselves having to start all over again after each of these natural disasters, and we have them across the country. We have the weather on the coast and then we have the tornadic activity. We have the fires. When we have these man-made--not man-made. Some of them are, but we will call them acts of God. Sometimes they are simply things that people don't perpetrate. There are things that nature itself will visit upon people. As a result of these things happening and people suffering from them, this legislation will allow them to recover faster because there would be a codified process that allows money to be acquired faster. Money meaning the money that persons will need to restore their lives to some degree of normalcy. You don't have that currently. This bill provides that.
It provides for a means by which money can be processed through the system. It can be acquired by simply following something prior to--a process in place prior to the disaster occurring and helping people to understand how they can acquire the necessary help that they will need.
This would be something that would be made known to States, made known to the persons who, in various municipalities, are in control. That would usually be your county judge in certain places, your mayors, but there would be legislation that they could look to to get a better understanding of what the process will be like in the recovery phase after a natural disaster.
I am very proud that this legislation is there. By signing the bill, yes, Mr. President, you would be signing a bill that has legislation in it that Al Green has sponsored. You know what, Mr. President. You are big enough to do that. You can do it.
I know it would be hard for you, but give it a try. I am going to be proud to say that you signed it and you ought to be proud to know that I voted for it, and this would be one of the few times that you and I would probably be on the same page, Mr. President. That in and of itself should be reason for you to sign the legislation so that we can both say that we did something together.
Wouldn't that be wonderful, Mr. President? Al Green and the President of the United States of America working together. It can happen, Mr. President, but it is up to you, not to me. I have done my part. It is now time for you to do yours, and you can. You can. I know. Just think about it. It can happen.
Continuing, though.
Mr. President, finally, as I come to my closure here, I must tell you that you have a great responsibility. The Framers of the Constitution were some brilliant people. They did prepare us for a time such as this and a President such as Trump.
Mr. President, these are some brilliant people. They knew that we might encounter a President who would not want to sign a piece of historic legislation, so there is a means by which we can move forward and that means is without your signature. That means is simply this: You don't sign it.
Once it is delivered to you, once you receive it, once it is sent to you, then 10 days later, if you don't sign it, it becomes law. Ten days later, it becomes law, not counting Saturdays and Sundays. Ten days later, it becomes law. Then when it becomes law, Mr. President, you didn't sign it so that gives you a way out.
You didn't sign it. It became law, and you can go out and tell people how you were opposed to the many things that I mentioned. How you were opposed to helping people who are renters acquire a place to call home. How you were opposed to helping the builders construct more homes so that people can have a place to call home.
You can go out and talk about that in your very own way. So you don't have to sign it, but it does have to arrive in your space. You have to receive it, and it has to be sent to you. If it is sent to you, then the 10 days will start from the day that it is forwarded to you.
My hope is that it would be done if it hasn't been done and that the 10 days would run. I know, Mr. President, that you enjoy having other people take responsibility for your inactions and your actions.
Since you enjoy it very much, my fear is that you will encourage that it not be sent to you. You will push back on it being sent to you so that later on, you will be able to say: Oh, I never got it, so I couldn't sign it. That would give you your way out. You would push back.
Well, I would hope that that pushback won't be sufficient. I would hope that you would receive it so that either you will sign it and move on, or it is not signed and it passes, or you can veto it.
If you veto it, I believe that with the number of votes that I have called to your attention for passage in the House and Senate, that veto can be overridden. Again, you are off the hook. You are off the hook, but my fear is that knowing you, you are going to do everything that you can to avoid having that get to your desk so that you can then blame someone else for your inaction, which really would be your actions because you would have rejected having it being sent to you in the first place.
Mr. Speaker, I close with this. I am proud to have been a person to vote for this piece of legislation. It is landmark. It is going to make a difference in the lives of people once it becomes law. My hope is that it will become law expeditiously because there are many aspects of it that will have to be activated, and it will take time for these things to be properly activated so that they become meaningful and can function.
I am hoping that you will sign it, but, Mr. President, if you don't sign it, here is what you are doing. You are providing another piece of ammunition for the countdown to impeachment.
Now, why would I say this? Because, Mr. President, you have angered a good many Senators. A good many of them who might have considered other things will give some consideration to this word: impeachment.
Impeachment starts in the House. It is the Senate that will vote to determine whether you are a person who should be actually convicted of the charge. The House acts as sort of a grand jury--not the same, but similar to. You have caused a lot of people in the House, Mr. President, who are going to give consideration to this word.
Now, you may not be impeached for this bill, but you are giving people reasons to consider your impeachment for legitimate reasons that already exist, by the way. For legitimate reasons, you should be impeached already, but you haven't been.
The countdown is still on. What you are doing is adding fuel to the fire of impeachment that may, at some point, become more than you can manage.
I really do believe, Mr. President, that this act can help you by signing it, this bill. It is going to hurt you immensely if you don't sign it, not physically. I don't want your FBI concluding that somehow I would cause you any harm. I would never want to see you harmed, and anybody that would want to see you harmed, I am absolutely opposed to whatever they might do. You deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I can tell you this: You also deserve impeachment.
The countdown will continue. I trust that you will stall it and do something to benefit yourself by simply signing a piece of legislation that the American people want. The American people want it to the extent that the builders, Mr. President, are going to contact you, or some aspect of your administration, about it.
You are going to have citizens calling your office at the White House. You are going to have people writing you letters. You are going to have plenty of communication to contend with because this piece of legislation is pervasive. It is huge. You are going to have people who have a vested interest in this legislation contacting somebody to let you know that you should sign this legislation.
And still I rise, an unbought, unbossed, unelected, liberated Democrat.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Haridopolos)2:20 p.m.
Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President and to direct their remarks to the Chair.
Presenting the Math
Pages H4257–H4260 · Official text(Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2025, Mr. Schweikert of Arizona was recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.)
Mr. Speaker, this is sort of our weekly attempt to see if we can use math to annoy people, so let's actually have some fun here. I am going to try three different things in this presentation.
One, we are going to actually talk about the real driver of interest rates, housing affordability.
The second thing we are going to actually talk about is sort of the cycle of fraud in so many of these government programs. Yesterday, in my Joint Economic Committee, we did a high-level fraud in government-sponsored healthcare, Medicaid, and other programs--some wonderful data.
Then, the third thing, we are going to step on one of the third rails of politics, and we are going to tell the truth about demographics and the financing of Medicare and some of the things we are going to have to do to actually keep it stable.
Let's actually start to tell the truth. How many of you have seen this chart? It has been one of my opening charts for year after year after year, trying to help everyone--staff, Members of Congress, anyone who is crazy enough to watch this--with the reality.
You see the blue area here? That is functionally the only thing a Member of Congress gets to vote on. You get to vote on defense and nondefense discretionary. Everything else is substantially on formula.
Why this is so important is that I keep trying to explain to people to understand that Social Security is the number one spend. It is going to come in about $1.65 trillion. Interest is the second biggest spend in our government at $1.2 trillion. Medicare is $1.1 trillion. Medicaid and ObamaCare, ACA subsidies, are about a trillion. Defense is actually number 5.
The thing that is in the Constitution is number 5 in our spending stack, and we have a problem. If anyone was paying attention in the math there, if we are going to take in $5, $5.5, $5.25 trillion in tax receipts, did you notice that by the time I got to the Medicaid ACA subsidies, we were out of money?
That means this year, my math is we are going to borrow about $2 to $2.3 trillion. Once again--think about this, Mr. Speaker--last year, for every dollar we took in in tax receipts, we spent $1.43.
Remember, Congress just passed the housing bill. I voted no on it because there are a number of things in there--being a guy who actually has a background and actually even a degree in finance and housing, I don't believe it built another house. It created some programs, expanded this and that, but it didn't produce another house. It didn't do the things necessary.
One of the hardest parts is having an honest conversation around here--I am going to show you. We have actually done some academic literature. Your 30-year mortgage today is going to be at 6.5 percent. Mr. Speaker, how would you like to be 5.5 percent? Do you know why it is a full point higher? U.S. government borrowing. When almost every single day we are borrowing about $7 billion, about $98,000 a second, you are competing with your own government.
Here, we put together a couple of helpful charts. Housing affordability sensitivity to interest rates--think about this. If we were at 5.5 percent--and this is sort of using what would be a mean mortgage size in my community, Tempe, Scottsdale, your house payment would be $2,828. Add in that extra 1 percent of higher interest rates because we borrowed so damn much money, it is not $2,800. It is $3,100 a month. That premium that you are paying is an object of our borrowing.
Did you hear a single discussion around this place saying, hey, we are going to talk about housing affordability, maybe we could actually convince the debt markets we are going to stabilize our borrowing.
Instead, every data point we have, it gets dramatically worse over the next 10 years, and it is the thing we are not allowed to tell the truth about, Mr. Speaker.
We have a problem. Some of the math says, next year, we will have fewer under 18 than we had 20 years ago, but we will have double the number of 65 and up. I will be one of them. If you look around somewhere here, I think my 4-year-old is running around--yes, my little boy turns 4 today. I am 64 years old, and I have a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old and a wife my age because we are really optimistic about the future, or we did really bad retirement planning.
Look, this is just math. I have tried presenting this, and Members of Congress get mad at me because the hallways here are full of people showing up at our offices right now demanding more money.
So let's actually have a little fun here. "Household Cost Impact of Legislative Fiscal Policy. Cumulative Legislative Contribution Since 2015"--what the hell does that mean? It basically is saying if you and I go back to 2015 and had 30-year mortgages, just the amount of borrowing the Federal Government does has made that 30-year mortgage $76,000 more over that 30-year time. That is what a single point of interest on an average loan is in my part of the country.
What is the likelihood that we are going to convince our brothers and sisters here that we are going to borrow less money?
The frustrating thing is you and I will go home, and we will have a townhall or meetings, and this and that, and the public will turn to us and say: It is all waste and fraud.
I am going to show you the slides. Waste and fraud are a big deal, but it is a sliver. Our problem is our government functionally is an insurance company with an army, and we are terrified to tell the truth about it.
So let's actually have some fun here. Let's actually try to understand where the real mismanagement of spending is.
We have more spending and leakage. What is leakage? I would argue leakage is what we in the Joint Economic Committee have identified over and over when we have written a piece of legislation poorly or the lawyers, or CMS, or the Treasury have actually designed it, where the smart lawyers out there find ways to exploit it.
We have done entire presentations here on something called Medicare part C, Medicare Advantage. Mr. Speaker, 55 percent of our brothers and sisters on Medicare use this managed care model. There is something in there called risk scoring. There's something called a MedPAC report. It is about that thick. We write it. We get it every year. No one bothers to read it.
It basically says: Hey, Member of Congress, there is $100 billion, $150 billion a year in what we would define as leakage, where these insurance companies are able to come in and score grandma as being sicker and, therefore, they get risk scoring, additional cash.
Well, that extra spending means we have to raise our borrowing. Do you understand the problem? I just showed you our borrowing is raising your interest rates.
We get over here, and higher interest rates cause us a real problem because we make everything less affordable, and now interest is the second biggest expense in our government. Some of the models actually say that in a decade, interest will be our number one expenditure.
Look, when you have an almost $40 trillion debt, CBO's own report said in 9 budget years--and this is without the recent higher interest rates, without some of the additional supplementals and other borrowing and spending we are about to do--in 9 years, the deficit is going to be $3.1 trillion, and $2.1 trillion of that was just interest. $1 trillion was actually the structural deficit. Hey, we are spending too much money. Over here was $2.1 trillion that was just interest, and there becomes the fragility.
I love that fancy word. Fragility means small movements of interest going up, and it is a technical economic term, Mr. Speaker. It means we are screwed.
The reality of it is, there is this whole concept--I have done presentation after presentation after presentation about it--that is called interest rate fragility. The bond market is about to run this country. We aren't. What are we going to do to convince that bond market--because, remember, we borrow money. The entire industrialized world is borrowing money. China is borrowing money. Japan is borrowing money. Now Germany is borrowing money. We are competing with everyone for what is left in the world's savings.
What happens in the industrialized world when people are getting older, and they are moving into their retirement years, and they are not saving in the same numbers? You start to have this stress. Ray Dalio talks about this all the time, and that is the world's savings compared to the borrowing appetite. We have got a mismatch, and that means interest rates go up.
Let's actually start to dig through some of the perversities we identified in our Joint Economic Committee hearing yesterday, when we were talking about where some of the leakage is in programs we have designed. This isn't a--well, some of it is. This isn't something where foreign nationals sneak into the country and set up a scam. Some of this is we wrote a law, and we just did a really crappy job writing it.
So High New York Caregiver Pay--Medicare actually has a program where States can set up a program where it is visiting. So you can have your child, your cousin, your sister visit you on your Medicaid. We actually have States like New York where the caregivers' salaries, just these people who are coming and visiting you, are 50 grand.
Well, what happens if I come to you and say, over the last 5 years, this program in New York City was the number one job creator? You start to actually look at what is happening by categories, so Federal outlays by major categories. We are going to bounce back and forth to try to make the point that it is how we have designed the policy.
In 2011, you actually start to see where the leakage was. Here we are in 2026, and we are spending $7.449 billion. Do you understand the problem? Our tax receipts are only going to be about 5\1/2\ if we are lucky. The rest of this ends up being borrowed.
So let's actually do the board that actually annoys most people here when we get behind these microphones and say: It is waste and fraud. We can balance the budget if we just got rid of that.
We can make a difference, but our best estimate is government fraud is almost 7 percent of the spending. Think of that. We calculated it at 6.9 percent of our spending.
Did I mention a little while ago that last year, for every dollar we took in, we spent $1.43? This is a hell of a lot of money, but it is 7 percent. Are you going to help me find the other almost 35 percent we need? That is actually structural. That is how we have designed programs. We have created incentives to basically exploit the system, not help people get healthier, not do the most efficient things, but the most profitable things. Then armies of lobbyists are all up and down these hallways to stop us from fixing this.
Once again, Mr. Speaker, our best estimates, fraud in the Federal Government, if you do everything, is under 7 percent.
Here are some of the numbers that get really uncomfortable: a large share of Medicare spending on age 65. So this is the distribution, just so you understand. We calculate that over the next 6 years, Medicare spending will double. We will basically go from $1 trillion last year to $2 trillion per year. It is not a conspiracy. It is not Republican. It is not Democrat. It is just we got older, and baby boomers are moving into the higher utilization year of their healthcare benefits.
I have had this question over and over, but what about all the people that aren't 65? Well, look, you have some of this population over here, renal failure, other certain categories, where you are able to enroll in Medicare, but it is still a very small population. The majority, 82 percent of the population, on Medicare is 65 and up. It is an earned benefit.
Here is one of the punch lines.
Mr. Speaker, anyone who is willing to listen--and this is just math.
It is not personal; it is just math--what do you think we spend as a Federal Government?
Remember, the Medicare trust fund only takes care of a portion of Medicare spending. The majority of Medicare spending actually comes out of the general fund and your copays.
So let's take a look here. Here we are in 2026. Your Federal Government spends about $20,000 per enrollee in Medicare. In 9 budget years, it is $34,000 a year.
Now, what, there are 67 million baby boomers. Does anyone start to see a math problem?
Medicare spending on people 65 and up will accelerate--and this acceleration is just demographics. As the baby boomer population gets older, they are moving into higher utilization years.
Okay. So we can actually take a look at this. Think of this. In 2035, $2.13 trillion. So in 9 budget years, over $2 trillion will just be the Medicare budget. Now you start to see what I mean when I talk about that the debt is substantially demographics.
Let's see how many more of these we want to torture you with.
Medicare spending will continue to expand. Look, this year, it is a little over 4 percent of GDP. In 9 budget years, it is over 5.6 percent of GDP. Do you remember how we in the House, the Budget Committee, the Treasury, we all talked about how we want to get down to 3 percent of borrowing--3 percent of the entire economy. Okay. That is great.
If you add up everything, including the borrowing from the trust funds, this year, we are right now getting close to 7 percent of the entire economy is being borrowed.
Does anyone see the irony? In a few years, just Medicare is taking 5.6 percent of the entire economy, just for that one program.
All right. Let's see what else we can do here that actually drives people a little bit insane.
This is how bad we have been in our projections and not understanding. Now, understand, since 2011, think of the things that have happened. We had the financing of the mortgage bubble from 2008. We had COVID. We have actually had these things hit. But debt held by the public per capita--and remember when we were in 2011, we were basically $33,000 per capita. Today, we are over $92,000, and that is a 176 percent increase since 2011.
This breaks my heart. When I got elected, I was part of the Tea Party wave. We basically were pledging fiscal sanity and fidelity to the U.S. Constitution. I am not sure we are doing either of those these days.
So when I am showing you those charts, I am using the CBO projections. Remember, they were saying this year we were going to borrow about $1.7 trillion. My math is saying we are up to $2.3 trillion. Maybe I am a bit pessimistic, but CBO's own calculation is, in 2035, we are over $2.5 trillion in borrowing. If you actually look at their February numbers, they had $3.1 trillion.
Okay. Let's see if we can make some of this make sense.
This is always difficult to talk about, and what I am arguing for is we, as policymakers--what can we adopt? What can we do? I have done entire presentations here week after week after week of here are ways we can get rid of duplicative MRIs, X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and put those scans on your device so that when you go to your next doctor, it is there and we get rid of the duplicates. We think that could be as much as $35 billion in 1 year, $350 billion over 10 years. The lobbyists hate that idea because of the excess spending.
My reason for my rambling is there are solutions. You are not magically tomorrow going to say that 40 years of falling fertility rates, 65 years of knowing we had baby boomers--the demographics aren't magically going to change.
What are we about to do to grow productivity so fast that we can make up for a country that is now at zero population growth and that Census had a prediction that sometime in the next 5 years, we will actually have 1 or 2 years with negative population growth.
You are not used to hearing that about America, but take a look at this. Seniors per 100 working age adults, and I go back to 2011. I had 21 seniors for every 100.
In 2025, the last year where we had the data, it went from 21.9 to 32.2. Just trying to make the argument, Medicare, Social Security, today's worker pays for todays' retiree. The total FICA tax and the total payroll tax don't cover the benefits going out the door.
That is why they have to reach in and cash in their special T bills, their special Treasury bills. That trust fund in the Social Security actuary report that came out a week ago basically says that in a little over 6 years, it is gone. The trust fund is gone.
Now, we can geek out for a while and explain that we already started borrowing that money internally because Treasury has already spent it, but Social Security holds those T bills so they cash them in. Treasury has to go out and borrow the money to send them the money so they can send their checks out.
But under current law, when that trust fund is gone in 6 years, 3 months, everyone over 65 getting a Social Security check under current law gets a 22 to 24 percent cut. We will double the poverty of seniors at that time.
The U.S. population age 65 and up in 2011, 41 million; 2026, so the year we are in right now, 63 million.
It is just math. What drives me insane around here, just makes me angry, it is math. Didn't we sort of know how old we were getting? Didn't we know about baby boomers?
Heaven, in the early 1980s, I remember sitting in a statistics class and the professor at that time was talking about this, and that is 40 years ago.
Here is one of the toughest things: The population of young people is in decline as the population of 65 increases.
For those of you who are uncomfortable with the discussions I have had on this floor of legalizing technology that could disrupt the price of healthcare, of moving to a talent-based immigration system instead of the migration of large populations of poverty into the country, of designing systems, of cures--see if I can make this make sense.
So much of our spending around here is to maintain misery. I would argue that the most moral thing we can do, particularly in healthcare, is the elimination of a disease, moving toward a cure. I will give you the classic example of 15 years ago, Hepatitis C, we had hospitals all around the country getting ready to put up liver transplant centers.
And then a drug comes along--it was expensive--what is it--Sovaldi, and then a competitor right after that crashed the price. Now those liver transplant centers are not needed.
Would you believe, Mr. Speaker, we had lobbyists here trying to slow down access to the drug so those folks who had built the liver transplant centers could actually amortize their costs?
If this is our demographics, are we going to design policies where we can actually disrupt the cost of delivering healthcare?
Yet, every time I talk about this, I realize we are not only talking about disrupting bureaucracies; we are talking about disrupting business models, particularly in healthcare. Cures are moral, and they are really amazing economics.
A while back, I did a series of presentations on something we are not supposed to talk about but we really should: that 47 percent of U.S. healthcare was somehow related to obesity.
Think about what I just said: 47 percent of U.S. healthcare was related to obesity. Maybe it would be moral and really good economics and just compassionate saying: What are we doing in nutrition support? What are we doing in gamification of helping people eat healthier, deal with multichronic conditions? What are we doing in access to new drug categories and other things that could help our brothers and sisters get healthier and the economic value of that?
It turns out being the single biggest thing you could do is to reduce U.S. borrowing. It turns out, Mr. Speaker, those folks who talk about MAHA and these things, they are actually partially exactly correct.
Health. If the biggest growth of our spending is within those healthcare categories, what can we do to lower the price of healthcare? Is it rationing or working for it using technology and other things to help our brothers and sisters get healthier?
All right. I am going to see if I have one last board here.
All right. Apparently, we didn't print it.
Mr. Speaker, we basically just ran through sort of three categories.
U.S. debt is raising the cost for all of you. You are paying higher interest rates on your credit card, your mortgage, and your car loan because of the insatiable appetite of the Federal Government. And, let's be honest, the insatiable appetite of borrowing from the Federal Government is because our public actually demands it. They want things. They don't want to be told no.
Number two, we talked about waste and fraud and how real it is, but it is structural in so many of our programs. It is a profit model for many of those who use these programs, but even then it is still under 7 percent.
The third thing is the reality of what we are as a country. It is demographics. We have a lack of young people. We are getting older. We have a whole bunch of benefits that we are obligated to because we made promises. We made a societal contract.
I can give you a path that we keep our promises, Mr. Speaker, but every day we refuse to deal with the reality of the math it makes it that much harder to protect the future.
The little boy that is sitting behind me, he turned 4 years old today. The math says if you use the 6 percent generational discount rate, which is reasonable in today's world, we need 104 percent of his lifetime earnings just to pay the pensions of the Federal Government. Is this really what we decided we are going to do to our kids and our grandkids? It is what we have done.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Adjournment
Page H4260 · Official textMr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn.
The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 54 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, June 29, 2026, at noon for morning-hour debate.
Executive Communications, Etc.
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EC-3925. A letter from the Senior Counsel, Legal Division, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, transmitting the Bureau's advisory opinion -- Equal Credit Opportunity (Regulation B); Special Purpose Credit Programs; Rescission received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-3926. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Pydiflumetofen; Pesticide Tolerances [EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-0183; FRL-13308-01-OCSPP] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3927. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Sodium Nitrate in Pesticide Formulations; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance [EPA-HQ-OPP-2023-0296; FRL-13292-01-OCSPP] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3928. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Finding of Failure To Attain the 2006 24-Hour PM2.5 Standards; California; San Joaquin Valley; Error Correction [EPA-R09-OAR-2026-1257; FRL-13247-02-R9] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3929. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; Connecticut; Ozone Ambient Air Quality Standard and Adhesive and Sealants Regulation Revisions [EPA-R01-OAR-2025-1311; FRL-13029-02-R1] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3930. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; New York; New York Metropolitan Area Second Ten-Year Limited Maintenance Plan for the 2006 24-Hour PM2.5 Standard [EPA-R02-OAR-2025-0256, FRL-12788-02-R2] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3931. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Partial Withdrawals of Findings of Failure to Submit State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revisions to Amend Provisions Applying to Excess Emissions During Periods of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction [EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0863; EPA-R03-OAR-2023-0179; FRL-12161-04-OAR] (RIN: 2060-AW38) received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3932. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Technical Amendments to the EPCRA Hazardous Chemical Inventory Reporting Requirements to Conform to the 2024 OSHA Hazard Communication Standard [EPA-HQ-OLEM-2025-0299; FRL-12698-06-OLEM] (RIN: 2050-AH40) received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3933. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; OR: Update to Materials Incorporated by Reference [EPA-R10-OAR-2026-1222; FRL-13248-01-R10] received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3934. A letter from the Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Management Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Resin acids, Esters with Glycerol in Pesticide Formulations; Exemption from the Requirement for a Tolerance [EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0354; FRL-13403-01-OCSPP] received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-3935. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-020, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) and 36(d) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3936. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-023, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3937. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-026, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3938. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-030, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3939. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-045, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3940. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-042, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3941. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-034, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3942. A letter from the Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 26-011, certification of proposed issuance of an export license pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-3943. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Division of Legislation and Regulations, Office of Chief Counsel, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Tanker Security Program [Docket Number: MARAD-2022-0247] (RIN: 2133-AB95) received June 22, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
EC-3944. A letter from the Paralegal, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule --Pipeline Safety: Class Location Change Requirements; Correction [Docket No.: PHMSA-2017-0151] (RIN: 2137-AF29) received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
EC-3945. A letter from the Director, Office of Regulatory Oversight and Management, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Grants for the Rural Veterans Coordination Pilot; Rescission (RIN: 2900-AS76) received June 17, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
EC-3946. A letter from the Senior Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Commerce, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Eliminating Outdated Regulation Related to Reports on Exports of Technology [Docket No.: 260413-0098] (RIN: 0605-AA88) received May 4, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and Means.
EC-3947. A letter from the Section Chief, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting the Service's IRB only rule -- Notice of Intent to Issue Regulations Under Section 4960 [Notice 2026-36] received June 11, 2026, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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Mr. SMITH of Missouri: Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 8884. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to reauthorize demonstration authority for the disability insurance programs, with an amendment (Rept. 119-714). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Public Bills and Resolutions
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By Mr. CLYDE (for himself, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Steube, Mr.
Rose, Mr. Perry, Mr. Bost, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana,
Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Moore of Alabama,
Mr. Cloud, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Van Orden,
Mr. Harrigan, Mr. Fine, Mr. Jack, Mr. Allen, Mr.
Collins, Mr. Fuller, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Ezell, Mr.
Cline, and Mr. Roy):
H.R. 9453. A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to preserve consumer vehicle choice, protect the electric grid, and impose limits on regulations under that Act, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Ms. BARRAGAN (for herself, Mr. Carter of Louisiana,
Mr. Mullin, Ms. Norton, Ms. Bonamici, and Mr.
Carson):
H.R. 9454. A bill to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to support the research, design, development, demonstration, and deployment of zero-emission vessels and retrofit or replacement of existing vessels with zero-emission vessel technologies and charging infrastructure or fueling infrastructure, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. BEAN of Florida (for himself and Mr. Alford):
H.R. 9455. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit eligibility for the premium tax credit to individuals enrolled in qualified health plans offered by health insurance issuers that offer at least one qualified health plan which provides the option to make monthly cost-sharing payments, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. BURCHETT:
H.R. 9456. A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to restrict the eligibility of aliens to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to aliens admitted to the United States as lawful permanent residents and who thereafter lawfully reside in the United States for at least 10 years; to the Committee on Agriculture.
By Ms. CLARKE of New York (for herself, Ms. Ansari, Ms.
Brown, Mr. Carson, Mr. Casar, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Davis
of Illinois, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr.
Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr.
Green of Texas, Mrs. Grijalva, Ms. Jayapal, Mr.
Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Mejia, Mr. Menefee, Mr.
Moulton, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Randall, Ms.
Schakowsky, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi,
Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Velazquez,
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Ms. Wilson of Florida):
H.R. 9457. A bill to protect the integrity of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, prevent unauthorized program-wide suspension, ensure transparency and congressional oversight of executive action, and reaffirm congressional intent; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Ms. DeLAURO (for herself, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr.
DeSaulnier, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Takano, Mrs. Hayes, Ms.
Norton, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Carson, Mr. McGovern, Ms.
Omar, Mrs. McIver, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Bonamici,
Ms. Salinas, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Pocan):
H.R. 9458. A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 to prevent wage theft and assist in the recovery of stolen wages, to authorize the Secretary of Labor to administer grants to prevent wage and hour violations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Education and Workforce.
By Mr. FITZGERALD:
H.R. 9459. A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to modernize disclosure requirements, establish materiality standards and safe harbors for mortgage disclosures, simplify waiting period requirements, expand tolerances for annual percentage rate accuracy, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Mr. FITZGERALD:
H.R. 9460. A bill to amend the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act and the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to specify requirements with respect to the ownership of certain mortgage assets for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Mr. FITZGERALD:
H.R. 9461. A bill to permit the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association to purchase and securitize certain residential construction loans; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Mr. FOSTER (for himself and Ms. Velazquez):
H.R. 9462. A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Mr. FOSTER:
H.R. 9463. A bill to establish the National Fab Lab Network, a nonprofit organization consisting of a national network of local digital fabrication facilities providing universal access to advanced manufacturing tools for workforce development, STEM education, developing inventions, creating businesses, producing personalized products, mitigating risks, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Ms. GOODLANDER (for herself and Mr. Pappas):
H.R. 9464. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from closing any research and development facility of the Forest Service; to the Committee on Agriculture.
By Mr. HAMADEH of Arizona (for himself, Mr. Vindman,
Mr. Mills, and Mr. Davis of North Carolina):
H.R. 9465. A bill to amend chapter 19 of title 37, United States Code, to provide for a one-time corrective increase and annual adjustments of certain special and incentive pays for members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed Services.
By Mr. HARRIGAN:
H.R. 9466. A bill to improve the integrity and oversight of the Foreign Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
By Mrs. HAYES (for herself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of
Georgia, Mr. Magaziner, and Ms. Tlaib):
H.R. 9467. A bill to strengthen and expand the Green Ribbon Schools Program at the Department of Education by boosting the capacity of participating States to expand the number of schools, applicants, and nominees engaged around environmental, environmental literacy, and environmental health goals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Education and Workforce.
By Mr. HERN of Oklahoma (for himself, Mrs. Miller of
West Virginia, and Mr. Smucker):
H.R. 9468. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust long-term care
hospital payment rates under the Medicare program; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mrs. HOUCHIN (for herself and Mr. Torres of New
York):
H.R. 9469. A bill to provide a consumer protection framework necessary to support the growth of outcomes-based student financing tools to support workforce training, postsecondary education, and economic development, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Ms. JACOBS (for herself and Ms. McClellan):
H.R. 9470. A bill to ensure the privacy of pregnancy termination or loss information under the HIPAA privacy regulations and the HITECH Act; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Mr. JOYCE of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Himes, Mr.
Davidson, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Mast, Mr. Correa, Mr.
Reschenthaler, and Ms. Titus):
H.R. 9471. A bill to create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. LAWLER:
H.R. 9472. A bill to prohibit Community Development Block Grant funding and Federal mortgage support in municipalities that allow squatting; to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ (for herself, Ms. Tokuda, Mr.
Ruiz, Mr. Figures, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr.
Horsford, Mr. Vindman, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Langworthy, Mr.
Hurd of Colorado, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Ms.
Garcia of Texas, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mr.
Cole, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. LaLota, Mr. Harder of
California, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms.
Stansbury, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Carson, Ms. Titus, Mr.
Sherman, Ms. Craig, Ms. King-Hinds, Mr. Ciscomani,
Mrs. Spartz, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Scott Franklin of
Florida, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. Lawler,
Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Shreve, Mr. Min, Mr.
Stauber, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Vasquez, Mr. Fallon, Mr.
Bishop, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Guest, Mr.
Babin, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr.
McCormick, Mr. Carey, Ms. Meng, Mr. Crow, Ms. Ross,
Mr. McGuire, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Mullin, Ms.
Norton, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Valadao,
Mrs. Grijalva, and Mr. Moulton):
H.R. 9473. A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the individuals who fought for or with the United States against the armed forces of Imperial Japan in the Pacific theater and became prisoners of war from December 8, 1941, to August 15, 1945; to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Ms. McDONALD RIVET (for herself and Mr. Thompson of
Pennsylvania):
H.R. 9474. A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Local Foods for Healthy Schools Program; to the Committee on Agriculture.
By Mr. McGARVEY:
H.R. 9475. A bill to establish the National Task Force on Caregiving Youth; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS:
H.R. 9476. A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to coordinate with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in administering the Veterans Community Care Program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. MORAN:
H.R. 9477. A bill to require certain artificial intelligence model developers to submit reports to the Secretary of Commerce, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Mr. MULLIN (for himself, Mrs. Miller of West
Virginia, and Ms. Salinas):
H.R. 9478. A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a research initiative to develop technologies to remove methane from the atmosphere, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
By Mr.
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OGLES (for himself and Ms. Mace):
H.R. 9479. A bill to establish grounds for revocation of citizenship and immigration status, to review certain asylum and refugee grants, and require repatriation of denaturalized individuals with their children, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. PERRY:
H.R. 9480. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for amounts contributed to home savings accounts, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Ms. ROSS (for herself, Mr. Panetta, and Ms.
DeLauro):
H.R. 9481. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve responses by the Internal Revenue Service to claims for refund, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Ms. SCANLON (for herself, Ms. Velazquez, Mr.
Espaillat, Ms. Jayapal, and Ms. Tlaib):
H.R. 9482. A bill to prohibit data brokers from selling and transferring certain sensitive data; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Ms. SCHOLTEN:
H.R. 9483. A bill to require the Corps of Engineers to carry out advanced planning for dredging activities in areas with known PFAS contamination, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
By Ms. SCHOLTEN (for herself and Mrs. Sykes):
H.R. 9484. A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study on the effect of new commercial and industrial water users on the amount of water maintained by Corps of Engineers reservoirs, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
By Mr. SUOZZI (for himself and Mr. Steube):
H.R. 9485. A bill to support modernization of the John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood to better meet the needs of older youth who experienced foster care; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. TAKANO:
H.R. 9486. A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to increase transparency of group health plan data, prevent discrimination, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Education and Workforce.
By Ms. TENNEY:
H.R. 9487. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit amortization of any professional women's sports franchise which allows biological males to participate, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. THANEDAR:
H.R. 9488. A bill to provide for the designation of areas as Health Disparity Zones to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes in such areas, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. THOMPSON of California (for himself, Mr. Steube,
Mr. Vargas, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Ellzey, Ms. Norton, Mr.
Buchanan, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Harrigan, Ms. Moore of
Wisconsin, Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, and Mr.
Thanedar):
H.R. 9489. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the time period for the contribution of military death benefits to Roth IRAs and Coverdell education savings accounts; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Ms. TLAIB (for herself, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Lee of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Green of Texas):
H.R. 9490. A bill to defer part of the compensation of senior employees of large financial institutions (and their subsidiaries), to use such deferred amounts to pay any civil or criminal fines that may be levied on the institution (or subsidiary), and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Ms. VELAZQUEZ:
H.R. 9491. A bill to amend the Small Business Act to provide re-entry entrepreneurship counseling and training services for incarcerated individuals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Small Business.
By Mr. WALKINSHAW (for himself and Mr. Bacon):
H.R. 9492. A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to produce a report that identifies gaps in resources, guidance, and policies to satisfy all event logging requirements for cybersecurity incidents at the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security.
By Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia (for herself, Mr. Jackson of
Illinois, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr.
Vasquez, Mr. Carson, Mr. Lynch, and Mrs. Hayes):
H.R. 9493. A bill to require the Comptroller General to submit to Congress a report on
the capacity of federally assisted housing to support broadband service, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Ms. WILSON of Florida (for herself, Mr. Bell, Ms.
Brown, Mr. Carson, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Davis
of Illinois, Mr. Figures, Mr. Frost, Mr. Jackson of
Illinois, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. Wasserman
Schultz, and Ms. Waters):
H.R. 9494. A bill to provide for adjustment of status for certain nationals of Haiti, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. SELF (for himself, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Clyde, Mr.
Gosar, Mr. Harris of Maryland, Mr. Perry, Mr. Higgins
of Louisiana, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, and Mr.
Cloud):
H.J. Res. 198. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the seventeenth article of amendment; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Ms. BONAMICI (for herself, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mrs.
Grijalva, Mr. Takano, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Escobar, Mr.
Huffman, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Simon, Ms.
Tlaib, Ms. Salinas, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Garamendi, Ms.
Matsui, Ms. Dexter, Mr. Thanedar, and Ms. Tokuda):
H. Res. 1391. A resolution impeaching Linda M. McMahon, Secretary of Education, for high crimes and misdemeanors; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. NORCROSS (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Norton,
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr.
Carter of Louisiana, and Mr. Keating):
H. Res. 1392. A resolution supporting the designation of a "National Learn to Swim Week" beginning on the 4th Sunday in June; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Constitutional Authority Statement
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Additional Sponsors
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H.R. 40: Mr. Conaway.
H.R. 212: Mrs. Dingell.
H.R. 569: Mr. Baumgartner.
H.R. 668: Mr. Lawler.
H.R. 1340: Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Sanchez, and Mr. DeSaulnier.
H.R. 1443: Mrs. Spartz.
H.R. 1509: Mr. DeSaulnier.
H.R. 1672: Mr. Evans of Colorado.
H.R. 1708: Mr. Feenstra.
H.R. 1849: Ms. Craig.
H.R. 2231: Mr. Van Orden.
H.R. 2251: Mr. Moore of Utah.
H.R. 2253: Mr. Grothman.
H.R. 2339: Mr. Bell.
H.R. 2555: Mr. Landsman.
H.R. 2657: Mr. Vasquez.
H.R. 2911: Mr. Landsman.
H.R. 2947: Ms. DeLauro.
H.R. 2964: Mr. Walkinshaw.
H.R. 3037: Ms. Leger Fernandez.
H.R. 3184: Mrs. Spartz.
H.R. 3218: Mrs. Beatty.
H.R. 3219: Mr. Messmer.
H.R. 3307: Mr. Messmer.
H.R. 3505: Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Davis of Illinois.
H.R. 3624: Mrs. McIver.
H.R. 4299: Ms. Van Duyne.
H.R. 4443: Ms. Williams of Georgia.
H.R. 4582: Ms. Wasserman Schultz.
H.R. 4583: Ms. Wasserman Schultz.
H.R. 4763: Ms. Johnson of Texas.
H.R. 4792: Mr. Langworthy.
H.R. 4876: Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mrs. Foushee, and Mr. Horsford.
H.R. 4966: Ms. Randall.
H.R. 5031: Ms. Tenney.
H.R. 5091: Mr. Crane.
H.R. 5162: Mr. Bacon.
H.R. 5269: Ms. Malliotakis.
H.R. 5356: Ms. DelBene.
H.R. 5490: Mr. Cline.
H.R. 5511: Mrs. Hayes.
H.R. 5543: Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Salazar, and Mr. Messmer.
H.R. 5791: Mr. Bacon.
H.R. 6182: Mr. LaLota.
H.R. 6255: Mrs. McIver.
H.R. 6371: Mr. Carson.
H.R. 6389: Mr. Walkinshaw.
H.R. 6400: Mr. Lawler.
H.R. 6615: Mr. Bell.
H.R. 6766: Mr. Balderson and Mr. Norman.
H.R. 6799: Mr. LaHood.
H.R. 7096: Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mrs. Fischbach, and Mr. Barr.
H.R. 7100: Ms. Meng.
H.R. 7187: Mr. Timmons.
H.R. 7417: Ms. McBride.
H.R. 7520: Ms. Salazar and Mr. Pocan.
H.R. 7545: Mr. Garcia of California.
H.R. 7549: Mr. Thompson of Mississippi.
H.R. 7897: Mr. Rogers of Kentucky.
H.R. 7961: Ms. Bynum.
H.R. 8036: Mr. Messmer.
H.R. 8044: Ms. Stansbury.
H.R. 8163: Ms. Wasserman Schultz.
H.R. 8273: Ms. Davids of Kansas.
H.R. 8303: Ms. Matsui and Mr. Casten.
H.R. 8375: Mr. Messmer, Ms. Davids of Kansas, and Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia.
H.R. 8501: Mr. Fitzpatrick.
H.R. 8582: Mr. Walkinshaw.
H.R. 8597: Mr. Nehls.
H.R. 8666: Ms. McClellan and Ms. Schrier.
H.R. 8694: Mr. Carson.
H.R. 8707: Mr. Walkinshaw and Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania.
H.R. 8730: Mr. Walberg and Ms. Scholten.
H.R. 8734: Ms. Bynum.
H.R. 8740: Ms. Norton and Mr. Doggett.
H.R. 8781: Mr. Goldman of Texas.
H.R. 8820: Mr. Guthrie.
H.R. 8897: Mr. Vindman.
H.R. 8924: Mr. Norcross.
H.R. 8938: Mr. Vindman.
H.R. 8939: Mr. Green of Texas.
H.R. 8955: Mr. Case.
H.R. 8964: Ms. Bonamici.
H.R. 9005: Ms. Budzinski and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania.
H.R. 9032: Mr. Green of Texas and Mr. Quigley.
H.R. 9034: Mr. Garcia of California and Ms. Lofgren.
H.R. 9035: Mr. Garcia of California and Ms. Lofgren.
H.R. 9110: Mr. Sherman and Mr. Deluzio.
H.R. 9123: Mr. Jackson of Texas.
H.R. 9125: Mr. Lieu.
H.R. 9131: Ms. Boebert.
H.R. 9132: Ms. Boebert.
H.R. 9154: Mr. Davis of North Carolina.
H.R. 9181: Ms. Castor of Florida.
H.R. 9182: Ms. Castor of Florida.
H.R. 9183: Mr. Casten.
H.R. 9250: Ms. Letlow, Mr. Bera, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Figures, Mr. Babin, and Mr. Crow.
H.R. 9251: Ms. Craig.
H.R. 9255: Mr. Tonko.
H.R. 9259: Mr. Foster, Mr. Smith of Washington, and Ms. Hoyle of Oregon.
H.R. 9270: Mr. Liccardo.
H.R. 9274: Mrs. Hayes.
H.R. 9281: Ms. Norton and Mr. Garcia of Illinois.
H.R. 9298: Mr. Cline.
H.R. 9309: Mr. Lynch, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, and Mr. Carson.
H.R. 9317: Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania.
H.R. 9319: Ms. Titus and Ms. Norton.
H.R. 9337: Mr. Gallagher.
H.R. 9340: Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania.
H.R. 9364: Mr. Jackson of Illinois.
H.R. 9369: Mr. Collins.
H.R. 9370: Mr. Latimer and Mr. Carter of Louisiana.
H.R. 9373: Mr. Garcia of Illinois.
H.R. 9401: Mr. Mrvan.
H.R. 9402: Mr. Carson.
H.R. 9404: Mr. Mills.
H.R. 9441: Ms. Castor of Florida.
H.J. Res. 14: Mr. Massie.
H.J. Res. 122: Mr. Scott of Virginia.
H. Res. 479: Mr. Kean.
H. Res. 527: Mr. Cline.
H. Res. 843: Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania.
H. Res. 1192: Mrs. Sykes.
H. Res. 1286: Ms. McCollum, Mr. Carson, and Mr. Cohen.
H. Res. 1356: Mr. Case.
Deletions of Sponsors from Public Bills and Resolutions
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H.R. 2555: Mr. Garcia of California. H. Res. 1110: Mr. Hoyer.
Discharge Petitions-- Additions and Withdrawals
Page H4264 · Official textThe following Members added their names to the following discharge petition:
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Petition 23 by Mrs. FLETCHER on House Resolution 830: Mr. Green of Texas, and Mr. Krishnamoorthi.