mr. williams: i recognize mr. lalota as much time as he may consume. mr. lalota: thank you, mr. speaker, for recognizing the importance to the veterans' community. america owes a great debt of gratitude. those who served our nation deserve our support and respect and put their great country. as service disable veterans transition and some look to go into the contracting space, congress must implement ways to make that transition. the service disabled veteran opportunities and small business act will provide greater opportunities to our nation's disabled veterans by increasing government contracting opportunities for service disabled veteran small business. they are required to contract with service disabled veteran-owned small businesses for 5% of contracts awarded. yet, the prior lower standard 3% for all wasn't being met by agencies. my legislation will solve that problem by requiring the office of veteran business development and small business administrator to provide training to federal agency officials who fall below their procurement goals and issue guidance on best pract

lalota, for five minutes. mr. lalota: thank you, mr. speaker. sending federal dollars to new york city to pay for hotels and other free stuff for migrants will only make new york's migrant crisis worse. that is why i have offered the no bailout for sanctuary cities act. my commonsense bill would provide that sanctuary jurisdictions like new york city that refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement such as i.c.e. are ineligible for federal funds intended to benefit such noncitizen aliens. mr. speaker, the migrants aren't coming to new york city for the warm weather or the broadway shows. the reason migrants are coming to new york city, 10,000 per, iy laws and all the free stuff, clothing, and health care. the new york city mayor gives a heck after lot of free stuff to migrants. mr. speaker, it's not free. it's all paid for by lawful citizens. hardworking taxpayers. and just a few days ago, mr. speaker, it was revealed that new york city's giving out $53 million worth of credit cards to migrants. new york city democrats are literally incenti

lalota, for five minutes. mr. lalota: madam speaker, we the united states government, must do everything in our power to bring my constituent, kiley, from his unlawful impressenment by the chinese communist party. since 2016, kiley of huntington, new york, has been unjustly imprisoned by the chinese communist party. in 2016, kiley visited shanghai to mark the first anniversary of his mother's death. when he arrived at the airport in shanghai, chinese communist party authorities immediately arrested him on what they called heespionage charges. for months, kiley was held in secret detention without access to legal counsel. then, almost two years later in july of 2018, in a one-hour secret trial, he was convicted of espionage. this is yet another example of the chinese communist party's long history of aggressively targeting and detaining individuals on trumped-up charges of spying. since coming into office 14 months ago, i have called on the administration to do everything in its power to bring kiley home to his fam

mr. gonzalez votes aye. mr. lalota. mr. lalota votes aye. mr. ezell votes aye. mr. d esposito? mr.d esposito both aye. ms. lee? ms. lee votes aye. mr. luttrell? mr. luttrell both aye. mr. strong? mr. strong votes aye. mr. brecheen. mr. brecheen votes aye. mr. crane? mr. crane votes aye. ranking member thompson? ranking member thompson votes no. ms. jackson lee? ms. jackson lee votes no. mr. payne? mr. payne about snow. mr. swalwell? mr. swalwell about snow. mr. correa? mr. correa about snow. mr. carter? mr. carter votes no. mr. magaziner? mr. magaziner votes no. mr. ivey? mr. ivey votes no will. mr. goldman? votes no will. mr. garcia votes noaa. ms. ramirez? mrs. ramirez votes no. mr. menendez? mr. menendez votes no. ms. clarke? ms. clarke votes and no. ms. titus? ms. a titus about no. are there other members in the room who wish to have the vote recorded? i recorded? you are not recorded. the chair votes by. the german green votes aye the clerk will report the tally. on thatt vote chairman green there were 18 aye. the motion is agreed to without objection the motion to reconsider

mr. lalota: i thank the gentleman for yielding, thank you, mr. speaker. let's add some honesty to the salt conversation. i'm from a blue state, i'm willing to concede to my red state colleagues especially that an increase in the salt cap benefits blue stays more than red states. i said it. it's the blue states with the highest state income, sales taxes and property taxes. at 10.9%, my state, new york, has the dubious distinction of having the highest taxes in this great nation of ours. but as bloated and out of control as my state's spending and taxes are, under one-party democrat rule, it cannot be said truthfully that red states are subsidizing the blue states. the data demonstrates the opposite that blue states like mine are giving for a more to washington than we get back. and the opposite is true. many red states get far more from washington than they give. as you can see from this chart, the home states of many of my republican colleagues, shown in red whrk say salt is a subs day di to blue states, are in fact the states who get much more from washi