the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 3747 and nays are 52. 2/3 in the affirmative and the the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 rule 20

unfinished is the vote on the the gentleman from indiana to suspend the rules and pass senate 3662 on which yeas and nays are ordered the clerk will report the title. the clerk: senate 3662, an act to temporarily increase the cost share authority and testing equipment and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org >> as the member designated by miss mace, the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. payne, mr. defazio and mrs. kirk pat atlantic, these members will vote on the house amendment to h.r. 366. >> as the member designated by mr. bilirakis of florida and mr. palazzo, i inform the house that mr. bilirakis and

mr. palazzo will vote yes on 3662. as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brooks will vote nay on s.3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by members sherman, spir and whose forward, these members will vote yes on the house amendment to s.3662. >> as the member designated by mr. pfluger of tech as, mr. pfluger will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by by mr. cleaver of missouri, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on house amendment 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by michelle steel of california, i inform the house she will vote yes on s.3662.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, she will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. joe wilson of south carolina, i inform the house that mr.~wilson will vote yes. . . . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote aye on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman maxine waters, i inform the house that chair waters will vote yes on house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition. >> as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will

vote aye on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chair johnson and mr. lawson, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gimenez of florida, i inform the house that mr. gimenez will vote aye on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas seek reckings in is this. >> as the member designated by ms. meng, ms. gar see ark mr. soto, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mike simpson of idaho's second district, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. simpson will vote yes on senate 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by congress members torres, ryan, i inform the house that they will vote vote -- and ruben gallego, they will vote yes on s. 3662.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. rice and ms. herrera beutler, they will vote yes on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition. >> as the member designated by miss kathleen rice of new york, i inform the house that miss rice will vote yes the house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. john carter of the great state of texas, they will both vote no on h.r. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. murphy, i inform the house that mrs. murphy will vote yes on house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. conway of california, i inform the house that ms. conway will vote yea on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by

mr. dunn of florida, i inform the house that mr. dunn will vote yea on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. cherfilus mccormy, ms. porter, ms. ocasio-cortez, they will vote yes on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mast and ms. salazar of florida, i inform the house that they will vote yea on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. demings of florida, i inform the house that mrs. demings will vote aye on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek reckings in? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. madison cawthorn, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote yea on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. chu,

ms. newman, mr. rush, mr. mceachin, and mr. evans, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. mario diaz-balart of florida, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes on s. 3662. additionally, mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. greg steube, also of florida, i inform the house that mr. steube will vote no on s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. joyce beatty of ohio, ms. robin kelly of illinois, ms. jayapal of washington state, terri sewell of alabama and sheila jackson lee of texas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on house amendment to s. 3662. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote aye on s.

3662.

the speaker pro tempore: on this are 381, the nays are 42. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from california mr. takano, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 8888 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will port the title. the clerk: h.r. 8888, a bill to amend title 38 united states code to establish the department of veterans' affairs and office of food security and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly

prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mr. steube of florida, i inform the house that mr. steube will vote no. as the member designated by mr. diaz-balart, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, i inform the house that she will vote yea on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by ms. michele steele, i inform the house that she will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek reck necessary? >> as the member designated by sherman, vargas, speier, horsford, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman see recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mast and ms. salazar of florida, i inform the house that mr. mast and ms. salazar will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from michigan seek reckings in? >> as the member designated by chair johnson and mr. lawson, i

inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. bilirakis of florida, i inform the house that mr. bilirakis will vote yea on h.r. 8888 and mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama and mr. palazzo of mississippi, i inform the house that those members will vote nay on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. lynch of massachusetts, i inform the house that mr. lynch will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recog recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. conway of california, i inform the house that ms. conway will vote yea on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman maxine waters, i inform the house that chair waters will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. pfluger of texas, i inform the house that mr. pfluger will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. murphy of florida, i inform the house that mrs. murphy will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. rice of south carolina, ms. herrera beutler of washington, i inform the house that they will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. cleaver of missouri, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. john carter of the great state of texas, he will vote yes on h.r. 8888. mr. paul gosar of arizona will

vote no on 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. porter, ms. ocasio-cortez and ms. cherfilus-mccormick, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by -- he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. demings of florida, i inform the house that mrs. demings will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by miss kathleen rice of new york, i inform the house that miss rice will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady

from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. meng, ms. garcia, mr. soto, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gimenez of florida, i inform the house that mr. gimenez will vote aye on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. donald payne, mr. peter defazio and ms. ann kirkpatrick, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. joe wilson of south carolina, i inform the house that mr. wilson will vote yea on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by sheila jackson lee of texas, ms. sewell of alabama, ms. jayapal of washington state, ms. kelly of illinois, mrs. beatty of ohio, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition?

>> as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 88888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by congress members tim ryan, vicente gonzalez, ritchie torres and ruben gallego, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yea on h.r. 88888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. dunn of florida, i inform the house that mr. dunn will vote yea on h.r. 8888. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. madison cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote yea on h.r. 8888.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. chu, ms. newman, mr. rush, mr. mceachin and mr. evans, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r.

8888.

the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 376 and nays are 49.

2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and bill is passed and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is on the vote of the motion of the the gentleman from california to suspend the rules and pass s.27794 on which yeas and nays are ordered the clerk: senate 2794, an act to amend title 38 united statescode to record maximum coverage under the life insurance program and the veterans' group life insurance program and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org >> as the member designated by mr. diaz-balart, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. steube will vote no.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas. >> as the member designated by ms. meng and ms. garcia, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. rice of south carolina and ms. herrera beutler, she will vote yes. >> as the member designated by members sherman, vargas, spir and horsford. they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by michelle steel, she will vote aye. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. jayapal, mrs. beatty, ms. kelly and ms. jackson lee and ms. sewell, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition?

>> as the member designated by mr. pfluger of texas, he will vote aye. >> as the member designated by misrice, she will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. simpson, i inform the house that mr. simpson will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lynch of massachusetts, i inform the house that mr. lynch will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mast and ms. salazar of florida, i inform the house that they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlemanfrom colorado seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. porter and ms. ocasio-cortez, they will vote yes.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by miss mace of south carolina, she will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. chu, mr. new man, mr. rush and mr. mceachin, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by dhair woman waters, i inform the house that chair waters will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas. >> as the member designated by mr. gosar and mr. carter, they will vote yes on 2794. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, she will vote yes.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama and mr. bilirakis of florida and mr. palazzo of mississippi, all three members will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bowman, will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. joe wilson of south, he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from pennsylvania seek recognition initiation? >> as the member designated by ms. demmings, i inform the house that ms. demmings will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: as the member designated by mr. cawthorn, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. defazio,

mr. payne and mrs. kirkpatrick, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on s.2794. >> as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yes on s.2794. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. murphy, i inform the house that she will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote aye. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by johnson and lawson, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gimenez of florida, he will vote aye. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. cleaver of missouri, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on s.2794. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. conway of california, i inform the house that she will vote yes. >> as the member designated by congress members ryan, gonzalez, torres and gallego, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on s.2794.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. dunn, i inform the house that mr. dunn will vote yes on s.2794.

>> as the member designated by mr. steube of florida, i inform the house that mr. steube will change his vote to a yes on s.2794.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 425, 2/3 being in the affirmative -- the nays are zero, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 rule 20, the unfinished is vote on the motion of the the gentleman from texas, mr. castro, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 8446 on

which yeas and nays are ordered the clerk will report the title. the clerk: a bill to modify and extend the global food security act of 2016. the speaker pro tempore: will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] house of representatives >> the member designated by ms. meng and misgarcia, they will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. pfluger, he will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california. >> as the member designated by spir, vargas, horsford, they will vote aye. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by michelle steel of california, i inform the house she will vote

yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. payne, they will vote yes on h.r. 8446. >> as the member designated by mr. carter and mr. gosar, they will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by miss rice of new york, i inform the house that miss rice will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. herrera beutler, she will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. rice, he will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. demmings of florida, she will vote eye.

>> as the member designated by mr. cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, she will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yes on h.r. 8446. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lawson, they will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. murphy of florida, she will

vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. joe wilson of south carolina, he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bowman, mr. bowman will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. conway of california, ms. conway will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lynch, i inform the house that mr. lynch will vote yie. >> as the member designated by mr. palazzo of mississippi and mr. bilirakis of florida, i inform the house that mr. palazzo and mr. bilirakis will vote yes. as the member designated by

mr. brooks of alabama, mr. brooks will vote nay on h.r. h.r. 4496. >> as the member designated by ms. porter and misor cases yeoh cortez, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, he will vote yes. . .ics . .

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. diaz-balart of florida, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes. and as the member designated by mr. steube of florida, he will shot nay.

>> the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from texas, mr. castro to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 8463. the clerk: h.r. 846 # a bill to require the millennium challenge for candidate countries and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] >> as the member designated by mr. diaz-balart of florida, i

inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yes. and as the member designated by mr. steube, i inform the house that mr. steube will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recog recognition? >> for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by michelle steel of california, pursuant to house resolution 8, she will vote aye.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by sherman, vargas, spir, they will vote aye. >> for what purpose does gentlelady from morning seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gimenez, i inform the house that he will vote aye. >> as the member designated by ms. demmings of florida, ms. demmings will vote aye. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mast and ms. salazar? >> as the member designated by miss mace of south carolina.

>> mr. bowman will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? as the member designated by mr. carter will vote yes, as the member designated by mr. gosar, i inform the house that he will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> i inform the house that miss rice will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition as the member designated by mr. pfluger, he will vote aye. >> as the member designated mrs. ann kirkpatrick, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rice of south carolina, i inform the house that mr. rice of south carolina will vote fillet on h.r. 8463. and as the member designated by ms. herrera beutler of

washi washington, i inform the house that ms. herrera beutler will vote yes on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, i inform the house that she will vote yea on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yea on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress members tim ryan, vicente gonzalez, ritchie torres, and ruben gallego, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. madison cawthorn, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn of north carolina will vote nay on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? ms. adams: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. cleaver of missouri, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on h.r. 8463.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition? mr. fulcher: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. mike simpson of idaho's sect district. -- second district, i inform the house that mr. simpson will vote yes on h.r. 8463. mr. beyer: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. chu, ms. newsman, mr. mceachin, mr. rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mas the member designated by mr. joe wilson of south carolina, i inform the house that mr. wilson will vote yea on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. sewell of alabama, ms. kelly of illinois, mrs. beatty of ohio, ms. jayapal of washington ms. jackson lee -- washington, ms. ms. jackson lee: i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 8463. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. conway of california, i inform the house that ms. conway will vote yes on

8463 house resolution.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 334. the nays are 87. 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, pursuant to section 10 of house resolution 1396, i move to

suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1638, h.r. 3304, h.r. 4081, h.r. 4821, h.r. 6889, h.r. 6967, h.r. 8163, h.r. 8510, h.r. 8681, h.r. 8875, h.r. 8956, and senate 1198. and concur in the senate amendments to h.r. 5641. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the title -- read the titles and designate the senate amendments. the clerk: a bill to direct the secretary of agriculture to transfer certain national forest system land to the state of south dakota and for other purposes. h.r. 3304, a bill to amend title 38, united states code, to authorize the secretary of veterans fires provide or assist

in providing -- affairs to provide or assist in providing a vehicle adapted for operation for disabled individuals to certain eligible persons and for other purposes. h.r. 4081, a bill to require the disclosure of a camera or recording capability in certain internet-connected devices. h.r. 4821, a bill to hold accountable senior officials of the government of the people's republic of china who are responsible for, complicit in or have directly persecuted christians in china and for other purposes. h.r. 6889, a bill to menld the federal credit union -- amend the federal credit union act to modify the frequency of board of director meetings and for other purposes. h.r. 6967, a bill to implement merit-based reforms to the civil service hiring system that replaced hiring with skills and competency-based hiring and for other purposes. union calendar number 385, h.r. 8183, a bill to amend the

public health service act with respect to trauma care. h.r. 8510, a bill to amend title 38, united states code, to make certain improvements to the office of accountability and whistleblower protection of the department of veterans affairs and for other purposes. h.r. 8681, a bill to establish the john lewis civil rights fellowship to fund international internships and research placements for early to admit career professionals to study nonviolent movements, to establish and protect civil rights around the world. h.r. 8875, a bill to amend title 38, united states code, to expand eligibility of members of the national guard for housing loans guaranteed by the secretary of veterans affairs. h.r. 8956, a bill to amend chapter 36 of title 44, united states code, to improve the cybersecurity of the federal government and for other purposes. senate 1198, an act to amend title 38, united states code, to improve and expand the solid

start program of the department of veterans affairs and for other purposes. h.r. 5641, an act to amend the robert t. stafford disaster leaf and emergency assistance act to increase the threshold for eligibility for assistance under sections 403, 406, 407 and 502 of such act and for other purposes. senate amendments. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 10 of house resolution 1396, the ordering of the yeas and nays on postponed motions to suspend the rules with respect to such measures is vacated to the end that all such motions are considered as withdrawn. the question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from maryland. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the -- 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the ayes -- for what purpose does the gentleman from montana seek recognition? mr. rosendale: thank you, mr. speaker. i request the yeas and nays, please. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested.

all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. jayapal of washington state, mrs. beatty of ohio, ms. kelly of illinois, ms. sewell of alabama and ms. jackson lee of texas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. steube of florida, i inform the house that mr. steube will vote no on the suspension en bloc. additionally, as the member designated by mr. mario diaz-balart of florida, i inform the house that mr. diaz-balart will vote yea on suspension en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz of florida, i inform the house that she will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on

suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. garamendi: as the member designated by sherman, vargas, speier and [indiscernible] i inform the house that they will vote yes on the suspension en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mast and ms. salazar, i inform the house that mr. mast and ms. salazar will vote no on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from michigan seek recognition? ms. stevens: as the member designated by chair johnson and mr. lawson, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by michelle steel of california, i inform the house that mrs. steel will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. donald payne, mr. peter defazio and mrs. ann kirkpatrick, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york seek recognition?

>> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. gimenez of florida, i inform the house that mr. gimenez will vote aye on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. lynch of massachusetts, i inform the house that mr. lynch will vote aye on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas -- the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. pfluger of texas, i inform the house that mr. pfluger will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. meng, ms. garcia and mr. soto, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gosar, i inform the house that he will vote no. also john carter, designated by him, he will vote yes on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by

mr. cleaver of missouri, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. demings of florida, i inform the house that mrs. demings will vote aye on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. fleischmann: thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. palazzo of mississippi and mr. bilirakis of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. murphy of florida, i inform the house that mrs. murphy will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new

york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vote yea on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by miss kathleenrice of new york, i inform the house that she will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bowman, i inform the house that mr. bowman will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman maxine waters, i inform the house that

chair waters will vote yes on the suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. joe wilson from south carolina, i inform the house that mr. wilson will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? mr. neguse: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. mccoric -- mrs. cherfilus-mccormick, she will vote yes on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? florida. florida. >> as the member designated by mr. dunn of the state of florida, i inform the house that mr. dunn will vote yea on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress members tim ryan, gonzalez, ritchie torres and gallego, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the suspension en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rice of south carolina and ms. herrera beutler of washington, i inform the house that they will vote nay on suspensions en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. chu, mr. newman, mr. rush, mr. mcevan and -- mr. evan and mr. mceachin, these members will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. mike simpson of idaho's second district, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. simpson will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. conway of california, i inform the house that mr. conaway will vote -- conway will vote anyway on the suspensions en bloc.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 296, the nays

are 127. with recorded as present. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill ises are passed, senate -- the bills are passed, senate amendments are agreed to and, without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. without objection, title h.r. 4821 and h.r. 6889 are amended. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> by the direction of the democratic kay caucus, i send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1403. resolved that the following named member be and is hereby elected to the following standing committee of the house of representatives. committee on education and labor. mrs. peltola to rank immediately after mrs. cherfilus-mccormick. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

the chair puts before the floor the following enrolled bills. the clerk: senate 4900. an act to re-authorize the sbir and sttr and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. ruiz: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. ruiz: i rise to support

access to health care in underserved communities across the country. i grew up in a rural farm worker community in the coachella valley and later served that same community as a doctor. i know how crucial it is for people to have access to health care in their communities without barriers and how the distance of a health center can be the difference between whether or not someone seeks treatment. that is why i joined congresswoman suzy lee in introducing the mobile health care act which will help community health centers expand their services with mobile health units. this means taking health care to the people, often the hardest to reach, and often left out and the most medically underserved. so i urge president biden to sign this bill into law without delay to improve health outcomes throughout the board and make a positive different in people's lives. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from montana seek recognition? mr. rosendale: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to extend and revise my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. rosendale: thank you, mr. speaker. as a direct result of the dobbs decision which was recently handed down by the supreme court, the v.a. issued an interim final rule. the v.a. states they're taking this action because they have determined providing access to abortion related medical services is needed to protect the lives and health of veterans. the v.a. expects to provide about 1,000 abortions per year at taxpayers' expense. the veterans health care act of 1992 prohibits the v.a. from providing abortion and no law from congress has ever changed that. so now we have two problems, the v.a. is providing abortions with taxpayer dollars, and medical professionals being forced to perform these procedures against their will. the v.a. states employees may request an accommodation to work requirement based on religious belief. however, almost no religious exemptions were honored for vaccinations and 60,000 army reservists were separated for

refusing the vaccine. how many v.a. doctors will be released from refusing to perform abortions? why are taxpayers being forced to pay for the v.a. to perform abortions in clear violation of the 1992 law? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. rosendale: thank you very much, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i have the privilege to represent augusta and the 12th district of georgia which is home to the masters golf tournament. mr. allen: the golf hall of fame was founded in augusta. bobby jones and clifford roberts were founders of the masters. i rise today to congratulate the newest inductee into the georgia golf hall of fame -- pga master professional tommy brennan. tommy has served as our head pro at augusta country club for the past 22 years. in that time i have come to know tommy and his family well, not

only through golf but through our church, club, and community projects. there's a quote which tommy lives by -- whatever you are, be a good one. among his many accomplishments, tommy has won the state title at marietta high school. he was an all-american at columbus state university. and the decades since he's qualified and played in multiple pga professional competitions. tommy has also raised nearly $100,000 through an annual golf tournament benefitting area veterans. over the years, tommy has been many things. a husband, father, friend, and mentor, and in all these things he's endeavored always to be a good one. congratulations, tommy, be on this most momentous and well-deserved achievement. well done, my friend. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> request permission to address the house for one minute, sir. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today in honor of my constituent,

mr. william ekkerson, of virginia, who celebrated his 100th birthday on august 20, 2022. mr. ekkerson currently resides in virginia's fifth district, but as a young man he faithfully served the united states marine during world war ii, even serving in iwo jima. he worked in the private sector but maintained his commitment to the marines by participating in the marine band, various parades and many world war ii marine reunions. mr. good: mr. ekkerson has furthered demonstrated his commitment to the marines and his country by cleaning up veterans' cemeteries. he's also an avid golfers and cheers for his beloved boston red sox and new england patriots. it's a great privilege to honor my constituent following his 100th birthday and thank you for his many years of service to the united states and his local community. mr. ekkerson, i hope and your loved ones celebrated.

happy 100th birthday. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. thanks for president biden's open border policies, human smug slg a now a -- smuggling is now a $20 billion business. they squandered the progress made to secure our border and enriched criminal cartels. what is the biden administration doing to correct this? nothing. instead, governor desantis from florida and abbott from texas bused illegals from their states to so-called sant wear cities like washington, d.c., chicago, and new york and even martha's vineyards, democrats were outraged. some have threatened legal action against these governors accusing them laughingly of human trafficking. are they really trying to claim a free ticket to martha's

vineyard is human trafficking but smuggling individuals here is not? they're enabling criminal cartels to abuse women and children. this is a failed open border policy, the negligence of this crisis is by the biden administration and house and senate democrats, the refusal to fix is unconceivable. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i rise -- i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. mrs. kim: thank you. i rise today to honor the life of mr. dennis salz, who is a dear friend and leader in my 39th congressional district. dennis had a passion for service as a member of rotary international and president of the bohna park rotary club.

he was instrumental in founding both interact and rotary clubs for high school and college students. he had a special passion for mentoring our youth to get involved in community services and was dedicated to making sure our students receive the best education possible as a trustee on the central school district. dennis was recognized for his distinguished service as a bohna park citizen of the year. buena park -- rotary district 5320 rotarian of the year. dennis's kindness and passion will be missed, and i pray for god's peace for his wife, kristen, his daughter, kerry, and anyone who knew him. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? mr. fulcher: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

mr. owens: the stock market has hit after record on my watch. since i took office, families are carrying less debt. the savings are up. our economy had zero inflation the month of july. 0%. we are not in a recession. stop lying to the american people, mr. president. here's the reality of your economy. americans are facing the highest inflation in 40 years. up 13.7% since president biden took office, a recession. in fact, inflation has increased by 13% since biden has become president. year after year, prices are up more than 12%, the largest increase ever. nearly three in four employees say the cost of living is outpacing the salary and wages. gas prices have risen 55% since president biden took office. the average mortgage payment is

up 42% higher than a year ago. one in six households are behind in utility payments. democrats in washington have spent trillions of your hard-earned dollars for liberal -- for liberal priorities that americans don't want and can't afford. house republicans have a plan to get our country back on track and put an end to the wasteful spending that's crippled our economy. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to direct their comments to the chair. and avoid personalities against the president. personal attacks against the president. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, ma'am, on september 29, 2022, pursuant to section 3307 of title 40 united

states code the committee on transportation and infrastructure met in open session to consider one resolution, including in the general services administration's capital investment and leasing programs. i have enclosed a copy of the resolution adopted. signed sincerely, peter defazio. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on appropriations. the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 468, an act to amend title 49 united states code to prohibit the use of incentive payments to expedite certain federally financed airport development projects. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2022, the gentleman from california,

mr. cardenas, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. cardenas: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor evelyn cortez davis as a valley lucadora. evelyn is a civil engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the water industry, water conservation, water quality, pipeline design, and construction, environmental compliance, recycled water, water rights, groundwater remediation and groundwater planning. she is the highest ranking latina at the los angeles department of water and power, which is the largest municipal water and power utility in the united states. she is also the first latina and

second woman to be appointed director of water, engineer, and technical services. in her role, evelyn leads a team of over 400 engineers and technical professionals to safely retreat, store, and transport water for the four million people of the city of los angeles and the thousands of businesses that they serve. . evelyn helped launch the society of women engineers and the society of hispanic professional engineers chap tore it support its -- chapter to support its employees and inspire the next generation of engineers and stem professionals. she immigrated to the u.s. from el salvador when she was 12 years old and was placed in remedial english classes to become fluent in english. at a young age, she knew she wanted to help make the world a better place. she aspired to protect the environment and decided to focus on her studies on the water

resources and environmental engineering. after she graduated high school as 10th in her class with a 4.3g.p.a., she earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at the university of california-los angeles. in 2015 she published her book which chronicles her family's immigration story and journey to u.s. citizenship. evelyn cortez davis, thank you for sharing your story and for your commitment to conservation and our environment and to all of the people of los angeles. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished community leader and luchadora in this hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor margaret "mar" diego as a

valley luchadora. mar is the co-owner and operator of dough girl, a small business pizzeria. she grew up in the san fernando gardens, a low income housing project in my district. her business, dough girl, is much more than a local valley pizzeria. mar is a proud employer of farmerly homeless and incarcerated -- formerly home s and incarcerated individuals. two demographics of people who struggled to find stable employment and who are often ignored and tossed aside. a formerly incourse rated -- incarcerated person herself, mar understands the obstacles people face as they work to rebuild their live after serving their team in the -- time in the system. through her restaurant she continues to pay it forward and makes a positive impact in her community. mar can often be found on the street finding and hiring employees on the spot. she gives people a second chance and a job training to help them

succeed and be productive members of the community. most importantly, she gives them the opportunity to rebuild their lives. she has made her restaurant a positive rehabilitation-oriented space. upon her own release from prison, mar attended the prestigious culinary arts school and continued to blossom from there. she has a one of a kind inspirational story and has traveled the world visiting 16 countries on her culinary journey. she received notable praise and appeared on television with well known celebrity chefs such as wolfgang puck. her restaurant, dough girl, has given her the chance to elevate and formally showcase her culinary skills and to positively benefit her community. mar is an inspirational chef and philanthropist who envisions her restaurant as a home for amazing

food and a place where people develop vital life skills. she continues her work and is developing a curriculum centered around the teaching of essential life culinary -- life, culinary and entrepreneurial skills. thank you, mar, for your commitment to paving the way forward, making a positive impact in our community, and uplifting others to give them a second chance. thank you for being a caring and loving person. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished community leader and luchador a during -- luchadora during this month of hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor veronica campos. veronica continues to serve the community she grew up in and has been fighting for environmental

justice for families in the san fernando valley for the past 25 years. she grew up in sun valley and is the daughter of hardworking parents. her dad was a gardner and her mom -- gardiner and her mom -- gardener and her mom worked at a local factory. she experienced from the public, private and you not for profit sectors, including work for the los angeles housing department. throughout the last decade, veronica has played a crucial role at a grassroots environmental justice organization in my district that provides education, impacts local policy and supports local arts culture to promote a healthy and sustainable san fernando valley. she joined it as deputy director in 2010 and has served as executive director since 2013. during her leadership, she has spear headed environmental

cleanup and safety campaigns in some of the poorest and hardest impacted areas of los angeles county. previously she helped lead icon c.d.c., a community-based not for profit organization that serves small business owners and entrepreneurs and served on the northeast valley area planning commission for the city of los angeles. in 2020 veronica joined the south coast air quality management district as a board member, after being appointed by the speaker of the california state assembly. in her role as board member, she continues for her commitment to building people power and improving the lives and voices of her community. she creates equitable, healthy and safe neighborhoods every single day by her commitment to the community and the wonderful work that veronica does. thank you, veronica, for your countless years of public

service. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished community leader and luchadora during hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor valley luchadora corrine sanchez for her decades of service in our community. corrine is the daughter of a world war ii veteran of the pacific front in burma and a mother who worked at the santa fe railroad. karine attended long beach state university where she became a student leader and was involved in the creation of the chicano-chicana studies. there were only chi khannas that started -- chicanas that started u.m. -- umas in 1967 at long beach state university. and karine was one of them. karine is a life long trail

blazer. upon her graduation, she worked for the u.s. commission on civil rights, then went on to travel throughout the midwestern and southwestern u.s. to promote the creation of chicano study departments at universities and colleges she then began her work for a not for profit community-based organization that provides health and human services to communities with underserved populations. as president and c.e.o., she oversees expanded services in comprehensive primary health care employment, child care and prenatal social services. after realizing her dream of becoming an attorney, she alongside eight other women founded and served as president of the latina lawyers bar association to help advocate and educate for the advancement of latinas in law. karine has always been a strong leader in the community. she has held numerous roles in various commissions and

associations for many, many years. no more than three decades of service, karine has never forgotten her roots. she has worked to make the community a better place for thousands of underserved families and individuals. her advancements are a testament to how hard work, inspiration and perseverance can make a difference in helping people realize the power of their dreams. thank you, karine. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished leader and luchadora this hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor christie sandoval as a valley luchadora. christie is a los angeles-based self-taught artist whose meurls have put the city of l.a.'s art

on the map she grew up and studied at the academy of art university in san francisco where her community and personal experiences influenced her work. in the last 15 years, she has painted more than 50murals. her attar includes pieces titled, decolonize and a woman's place is in the struggle. this brings awareness to social justice issues and focuses on female empowerment. christie, along with other artists, helped kick-start the transformation of a corridor in the northeast san fernando valley known as the mural mile. a three-mile stretch of van nuys boulevard that has nearly three dozen murals. these muir ales brought -- murals brought christie international recognition and she was the first female participant at the mural istanbul festival in 2015. she received a phenomenal woman award in 2016 from the

department of gender and women's studies at california state university-north ridge, and has presented her work and spoken at various universities, museums, organizations and events in the media. in 2017 she worked with amnesty international through art for amnesty campaign, creating art pieces representing individual political prisoner cases from around the world. christie believes in the healing power of art and continues to paint murals and develop arts programming and much, much more. her contribution to the mural mile has changed the life and reputation of the area from a place that people would avoid visiting to a neighborhood where sold-out mural tours strolled down the streets. her attar shows -- her art shows our neighborhood as the beautiful, unique place that it always has been. thank you for your

transformative artwork. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished community leader and luchadora during this hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor danny tray hoe as a valley -- trejo as a valley luchadora. he's one of the best known actors in film, a community leader, a compean of the arts, and a -- champion of the arts and a dear friend of mine. his prolific career in the entertainment industry came from hard work and an atypical road to success. dan request's path has led -- danny's path has led him on an incredible journey, rising from serving time in prison to a hollywood star and to a real-life hero when he rescued a baby who was trapped in the child seat of an s.u.v. that collided with another vehicle just a few years ago. danny grew up in an environment

where crime and drugs were common. he ended up involved in drug dealing and robbery. it's well known that danny was sent to prison foreign dliems -- sent to prison for these crimes. he survived prison riots, solitary confinement and a terrifying brush as being on death row. throughout the 1960's, danny was a regular in the california prison system until he was released on parole in 1969. it was then that he decided to change his life for the better. after coming out of incarceration, he worked odd jobs in construction, gardening, sales and labor while spending his evening in recovery meetings and mentoring kids to keep them from making the same mistakes that danny did. danny was introduced to the acting world as an extra, but was exclusively cast as an imposing gang member for years before he grew into the leading actor we all know and love today. his very real background story

has made him one of hollywood's most recognizable character actors. he has grown into a professional actor working alongside and with the likes offal pacino and nicholas cage and the film maker robert rodriguez. all while inspiring young people with his story. danny trejo's transformation from juvenile delinquent to hollywood star is an impressive example of personal growth and improvement that gives hope and inspiration to everyone. danny's extraordinary success continues in his businesses. he founded a restaurant chain in honor of his mother and created his own brand. danny has never forgotten who he is and the impact he makes in our neighborhood. he continues to be accessible in the community and frequently volunteers his time and he is a regular at the annual christmas parade. thank you, danny, for your

contributions to the arts and continued commitment to community service. it is my honor to recognize you as a distinguished leader and luchadora during this hispanic heritage month. mr. speaker, i rise today because i am so proud of what democrats have accomplished and delivered for working families across our great country. since the beginning of the 117th congress, since january of last year, democrats have taken action on legislation that puts people over politics. we are lowering costs, creating better-paying jobs and making a real positive difference in the lives of every hardworking

american. in the northeast san fernando valley alone, we have created 30,000 new good-paying jobs and countless training opportunities for our communities. we know that additional jobs will come to our neighborhoods with the recent passage of the inflation reduction act and the chips and science act. soon we'll begin to see more of our family, friends and neighbors become plumbers, pipe fitters, electrical workers, steelworkers, laborers, electricians and engineers. and so, so much more. these investments will help us fight the climate crisis, we build our roads and sidewalks and grow our clean energy economy. but that's not all. in just one year, we've helped 13,000 entrepreneurs, many of them men and people of color, women and people of color in the northeast san fernando valley build their small businesses from the ground up.

that means 13,000 new local mom and pop shops serving our community, employing our neighbors, and helping grow our economy. this is all thanks to our partnership with president biden, since he took -- with president biden. since he took office we've created 10 million jobs across the country, dropping the unemployment rate to 3.7%, the lowest rate in 50 years. we're seeing the best economy for american workers in decades and with people getting higher wages, better benefits and better jobs across the country. and while we're seeing progress in the fight against inflation, we know that there is much more work to do. the good news is we're finally starting to see gas prices drop after putin's price hike. families across the country will soon start to get some additional relief with the passage of the inflation reduction act. which lowers the cost of

prescription drugs, makes health insurance more affordable, provides credits for electric vehicles, and more. from day one of the 117th congress, we have successfully worked day in and day out to fulfill our promise to the american people. i am so proud of our work and i look forward to continuing to help families in the northeast san fernando valley prosper now and into the future. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the profound positive impact that the inflation reduction act will have on all communities across the nation, including my district, the northeast san fernando valley. anyone can see the climate crisis has already taken a huge

toll on our communities and communities like mine. from poor air quality, droughts and extreme heat, to the constant threat of wildfires, our district has known the realities of climate change all too well and for far too long. but our experiences are not isolated. over the past five years alone the united states has experienced over 90 climate disasters. as we witness the destruction caused by hurricane fiona and hurricane ian, it's clear now more than ever that aggressive action to fight climate change is necessary. last month, we delivered the single biggest climate investment in u.s. history by passing the inflation reduction act. that's a big deal, especially for communities like mine. growing up, i remember not having to be able to play outside because the air quality was so, so bad back then. for many of us, it was normal to have someone in our family or a

friend have serious respiratory problems like asthma. the fact is that our children deserve to live in a community that is safe and free of toxic pollutants. thanks to the inflation reduction act, we're going to be on track to reduce emissions by roughly 40% by 2030. a necessary step to clean our air and preventing the worst effects of climate change. one of the ways we're going to be able to do this is by electrifying our heavy duty vehicles and school buses. an investment that i'm so proud to have led with our united states senator from california, alex padilla. we're also lowering costs for hardworking american families by making rebates and tax credits available to electrify home appliances, install rooftop solar, electrify air-conditioning and heaters, and make electric vehicles more affordable. we're putting environmental

justice communities first and investing $60 billion to reduce pollution to make clean energy more accessible and to provide better quality life in lower income neighborhoods across the united states of america. the best part is, we're making polluters pay so that communities like ours don't have to continue to bear the brunt of climate change. the inflation reduction act is a transformative law and will do so much good for families in the san fernando valley. it ensures that all people regardless of zip code can access cost-saving solutions that will help fight the climate crisis together. it means that our friends, family, and neighbors will be able to breathe clean air and drink clean water. this is just the beginning of the work that we're going to continue to do. we'll continue to fight to make sure we keep climate action

front and center in the job that we do for all the people of this great country. i'd like to take a moment of personal privilege to say thank you to the community that i was born and raised in, to have the honor to be a united states congressman. i'd like to also recognize that i'm so, so blessed to have been raised by my two parents, andres and maria cardenas who came here as immigrants from mexico. they never dreamed that any one of their 11 children could have such an honor. they taught me and my brothers and sisters simple values that have served all of us well. and that served me well. to have the honor of being a united states congressman and serve the northeast san fernando

valley. i want to thank my constituents for having the confidence in me to represent them here in washington. and i pray every day that i do the job they've sent me to do. to make their lives better, and to help them live a good and clean life. i also want to take a moment of personal privilege to say how blessed i feel to have such a beautiful, amazing family. my wife norma, who has been so supportive, our four children, vanessa, christian, andres, and aline. my son-in-law brian. and our amazing, beautiful grandchildren. joaquin and jimena. these are blessings that i've been so, so honored to have in

my life. and i am so, so fortunate and blessed to be able to speak on this floor, to be a member of congress, is so humbling. i want to thank you, mr. speaker, for giving me the opportunity to express how much i care about the leaders of my community and ow grateful we are for them and for the honor to be a member of this prestigious and amazing body. the house of representatives of the united states of america. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from texas, mr. arrington is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. arrington: thank you, mr. speaker. we are going to spend the next hour to raise to the attention of every american the large and looming crisis that hangs over

the heads of this -- our fellow americans, but especially the next generation of americans. on account of our ever-growing, massive, almost incalculable national debt at $31 trillion and counting. with a projection of $16 trillion over the next decade. by the way, half of which will be interest payments on the debt without a single dollar or dime going to something productive. to help a soldier or a sailor or a senior with a safety net program, it will be servicing the debt of this country and i believe this is the long-term greatest threat to america.

i believe as admiral mullin stated when asked by the defense community what the greatest national threat -- security threat was, he replied, the national debt. is the greatest national security threat. why? because a debt crisis in any form will undermine our ability to provide for the common defense. and have a military and weapons systems that will be sufficient for the ever-evolving and growing threats, especially the great power threats like china. it will undermine economic security and prosperity and this land of opportunity, this american promise, for our children and grandchildren. so this -- i don't believe there's a more important issue and the founding father, the

father of america, our first president, george washington, in his farewell address warned us about three big threats. he mentioned foreign influence. factions that divide us and weaken the bonds of american unity. and american oneness. but then he mentioned that we must avoid the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertion in times of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned. translation, you may have to borrow money when you're in a world war. but just like the last time we were over 100% debt-to-g.d.p., our nation was willing to make the cuts to expenses and bring down the debt when we were in peacetime.

we are now at 128% over the size of debt relative to our economy in world war ii. we are carrying the largest debt in the history of the united states. and we're not at war. and the horizon and the trajectory, not only 10 years but if you look at 30 years, it's over $120 trillion in additional debt. it's mind boggling. it's unconscionable. i think it's immoral to hand a country in such shambles, fiscally, and so bankrupt, to the next generation. and just literally wipe out their future and the blessings of liberty and opportunity that every generation of americans have inherited to date. he says that. he says we should avoid these things. we should bend the expense

curve. we should bring down debt and not ungenerously throw that debt upon posterity. the burden, he says, which we ourselves ought to bear. i see that every day in congress. instead of us bearing the burden by paying for the government that we believe the american people want, i'm not so sure they want this government, this ever-expanding government, but when we are giving that government to them, we ought to pay for it. and not defer the taxes on the next generation. and that is not an american -- that's not the american way. that's not been the american tradition of our lawmakers. and we are in a real -- we are in a real bad spot. and it's going to take courage. it's going to take courage from

everybody, regardless of party, to find a way not only to start paying for things, through expense cuts and in the case of my democrat colleagues, raising revenue, it's -- we're way beyond just being able to offset and even grow the economy and get out of this debt hole. we're going to have to take extraordinary action that's going to require extraordinary courage. quite i haven't seen it on either side. we have a tremendous opportunity in the future as republicans look to take over in the house as the majority party. and they get to demonstrate to the american people its leadership on this issue. we've seen $5 trillion in new spending in the last two years.

$5 trillion. and i hope and pray that my party will live up to the confidence and trust that the american people will put into us to steward this great nation of ours and lead and take on the great challenge of the 21st century, which is this national debt. i have more to say but my dear friends and colleagues are here to speak on this matter. and the first one is my dear friend from kansas, the 1st district of kansas, a man who is no stranger to public service. served his great state as lieutenant governor, now serving in the united states congress. he asked me to remind folks that

he represents the great state of kansas and kansas state which upset oklahoma university sooners and now they beat them 3-4 times. that is pretty darn impressive. with that track record, please lend him your ears, my fellow americans. >> i thank the gentleman from texas. and certainly we can make massive progress on this debt we racked up. i rise to discuss the excessive government spending when inflation is skyrocketing and businesses are going out of business. this gives me an extended period of time to hear about my constituents. on august 12, speaker pelosi called back the house to vote on

the tax and spend plan. this so-called inflation reduction act will make it worse. the bill contains $80 billion to hire 87,000 i.r.s. agents and spending $250 billion on brand new green new deal and climate slush funds and new taxes on oil and gas producers and $128 billion spent to expand obamacare subsidies. president biden announced a plan to forgive student loans up to $20,000 without the approval of this congress. that is appalling. this is campaigning using taxpayer dollars. in light of the high inflation

that our country is facing, this will cost $300 billion transferring the debt burden to low and middle-class taxpayers. americans have paid their loans. government spending is set to expire tomorrow and congress will consider a bill to keep this government operating again. a billion dollars of spending to subsidize home utility. when biden administration has caused this to skyrocket. and all this administration knows how to do. the house democrats and house administration don't want to spend money on police. it is truly unbelievable. the picture here overall is wasteful spending and political

pan deering, carelessness. this administration needs to wake up to the pay down our debt before we get out. mr. arrington: even if the truth hurts. when i'm asked who caused this this disastrous level of debt, this deep hole that we have dug for our children and grandchildren, i say while the democrats have certainly done a whole lot of spending beyond our ability to pay and beyond what i think is the appropriate scope and scale of the federal government, which i think should be targeted and limited and focused on its mission, provide a common defense and secure the liberties of us and posterity,

i'm quick to remind them that republicans have the fair share to blame. while i'm celebrating the thought, the opportunity for republicans to be in the majority and to fulfill this commitment to america, which includes wasteful spending and ensuring that this government is accountable to we, the people, let's be honest. i was here in the 115th congress as a freshman and i saw the contributions that my party contributed to this. i saw us blow past the spending caps that we voted for to constrain spending. i witnessed us put aside pay-for provisions to offset these programs that we think are so important and necessary for taxpayers. i even was part of the budget committee that in the second

year wasn't able to pass the budget out of the committee, let alone this chamber. so when we talk about the democrats failing for the last two years to even pass a budget out of committee, which i am happy to say, because it's the truth, and it's quite shameful for any party to not have a budget let alone live by it, like every american, we, as republicans have made our contributions to this and we ought to own it. we alt to -- we ought to feel the burn in our conscience until we actually unite as a party and reach across the aisle where we can to address this, what i would call, a curse on the next generation of americans.

ben franklin, said when you run in debt you give another person in power overyour liberty. he said the first is lying and running up a debt. i have a good friend who i have come to respect tremendously, not only for his service in the united states congress but his service as a foreign service officer. he is wicked smart and a great patriot and he hales from the 3rd district of michigan from the great lake state, would you please make some comments on this important issue. >> i wish i had a witty sports agenda. this moment, u.s. public debt

stands at $31 trillion or 122%. total debt service is august of this year was 677 billion which is more we have spent on national defense in the 2017 fiscal year. this current administration despite all of this does not seem worried and enacting are policies that will exacerbate this problem. the senate passed the american rescue plan and inflation reduction act with zero communication across the aisle. not satisfied what they have been able to spend in congress, the has irrigated sweeping fiscal pours under a national emergency which continues to extend not because there is an actual emergency exists but

because they need the money and that is what the administration has chosen to do. with these emergency powers, what is their goal? engineering one of the largest transfers of wealth in the nation's history and 2% of g.d.p. to pay down the loans. important to keep in mind, the median household of a college graduate is over $100,000, higher than the median income of the american taxpayer and the average family in my district. have college graduates been affected? college graduates have done well. many of whom could zoom into work. they were not laid off. the biden administration is doing this. they use control of the ever growing state to tax their

enemies and pay their friends. president biden facing an an unpopular moment, he has failed to deliver the promises. 2% of g.d.p. gift to drive them to the polls. that simple. after all this, there will be losses and we will achieve nothing and once again, we will have a bill that we will foot for decades to come. we must put an end to this type of governing. thank you. and i yield back. mr. arrington: i thank the gentlemanfrom michigan and his deep concern for our country and nation's future. under this gigantic weight of 30 hive plus trillion dollars in debt and dark cloud and the clouds that gather, got another

dear friend and colleague who is very passionate about this issue, certainly a patriot and served his country and served the lone star state in the house and senate and decided he would venture out here in washington, d.c., to be another voice for the freedom-loving, god-fearing people of texas. i'm proud to serve with pat fallon. mr. fallon: thank you. time and again, my quoll ago on the other side of the aisle have put our country in a financial chokehold. they believe the only solution to fix our country's problem is to spend and spend and spend even more. well, i have to ask, where has that got us? and i tell you where, we are on

the road to financial oblivion. we are $31 trillion. 31,000 billions. our annual deficit and i suspect a similar number at the end of f.y.2022. we are experiencing a 40-year high in inflation because of this run-away reckless and highly irresponsible government spending. seeing higher prices that are disproportionately harming the working poor and the middle class and americans are tired of spending over half of their hard-earned paychecks to pay for the basic necessities of life. this body never has had a revenue problem. this body has a spending problem.

important distincton and why. a school district can't spend, a city can't, a county can. the federal government does because it has a printing press down the street. what can be done. when you talk to people at home, they are starting to lose hope. time is running out. and when you become addicted to deficit spending and are enjoying a dollar's worth of goods and services and costing you 75 cents, hard to wean yourself off of it. what washington has done is mortgage our children's future for political expediency and benefit now never considering what will become of our future generations. what is the answer? actually, we should only spend what we take in. period. end of story. full stop.

27 years ago, this very legislation, a balanced budget amendment passed out of this chamber and exceeded the two-thirds threshold and failed in the senate by one vote and then would have been sent to the states. we must tackle this issue here and now. this shouldn't be partisan. this is this shouldn't be partisan. this isn't a democrat solution or a republican solution, it's an american solution moving forward. we can't tackle it tomorrow, can't tackle it next year. we can't kick the can down the road. we need to tackle it now. today. this very second. $31 trillion. it's a staggering debt that will eventually and with absolute certainty lead to american financial catastrophe. but we can stop it. we just need to work together. and be -- and inject fiscal

sanity into this debate. we owe it to our children. we owe it to our country. and we owe it to our future. thank you, mr. arrington, for letting me share some remarks. mr. speaker, i yield back. mr. arrington: i couldn't have said it better myself. i thank the gentleman from texas. we need to harness that passion and we need to unify not only our conference to lead by example, but the entire united states congress to take this on. we do have threats, existential, like our adversary china. we have a number of threats. and we have to address them responsibly. and with urgency. but i don't see a bigger long-term threat that could just knock the shine plum off of the shining city on a hill than this rolling downhill this snowball that is going to -- that's going

to impact every aspect from national security to our economy to domestic tranquility. the whole shooting match, as we say in texas. if we don't step up and have the courage to lead and to deliver for our children. speaking of children, i've got a friend and colleague on ways and means who has raised a family and is -- is expecting to have his children inherit this american promise and this exception nation. and the future opportunities it affords our fellow countrymen. he's run a business. a family-owned construction company. he's served at the local and county level. he's served in the commonwealth of pennsylvania's senate. and i believe he was the leader of the senate's budget and

finance committee and so this guy knows what he's talking about. i imagine when he was leading the charge for the commonwealth of pennsylvania in the senate they balanced their budgets and they paid their debts and they lived fiscally responsible and within their means because that's what leaders do. with other people's money. and with that, i'm proud to hand over the mic to lloyd smucker for his comments and thank him for his service. mr. smucker: i'd like to thank mr. arrington for leading this discussion tonight and for the kind comments. you know, it's interesting. you talk about pennsylvania's budget, i was proud to serve there and be part of the process. i thought it was a difficult, a broken process there. we would pass a budget weeks beyond the deadline or sometimes

months. there'd be vigorous discussions. with the governor on what that budget should look like. but at the end of the day, we did. you're exactly right. we passed a budget where expected revenues matched the appropriations that we put forward. and so it was a little unbelieve to believe come here and see that we haven't done that in about 20, at least 20 years here. we certainly haven't balanced the budget in almost our lifetime. and so as broken as i thought the process was at the state level, at least at the end they have process you had a product that balanced the budget. i want to just express my appreciation and thanks to mr. arrington for leading this discussion. i share, as he knows we've had discussions about this. the deep concerns for the current state of our nation's finances. you know, we talk about this.

and i think it's -- we serve on the ways and means committee together and i think ways and means committee members understand the problems we're faced with if we don't address this. i also serve on the budget committee and there we talk about the problems that we're faced with. but that has to extend beyond just those two committees. has to extend to our entire conference. and also to this entire body and entire system of government. we need to be talking about how this impacts our constituents. how it impacts people at home. why they should care about this. some people maybe don't even understand that the issues of federal debt and deficits even matter. sometimes i'd like to put it in simple terms. if you think of our national debt, say, like a balance on a

credit card, we all do budgets in our homes and in our businesses. but think about the national debt. we can't even imagine the $30 trillion number. which by the way is about 245,000 people -- $245,000 per american. but let's talk about it as a credit card. every one of us will have to should they are debt at some point and we're going to have to make sacrifices. if you have credit card debt in your home you have to make sacrifices to pay it down. the higher the balance, the higher the minimum payment, meaning less money at the end of each month for things that you'd rather spend on than paying dowt card payment. health care, saving for retirement. whatever it may be. and if you don't pay down the balance, haven't done that in a long time here, it'll affect your credit rating.

you'll become credit unworthy, uncredit worthy, and we'll -- and will face, it'll result in higher interest rates and more payments and it's a snowball effect. that credit rating will plummet, not only will you pay more, then no one will trust you with a new loan. as you know, the longer you wait to pay down the credit card debt, the more it grows and grows and grows. we should all care that every dollar the government spends, it should be spent responsibly. it is the taxpayers' money, the taxpayers' earn -- the taxpayers earned it. we should be responsible with their dollars. but we certainly haven't seen the biden administration doing that. biden's government has accrued $4. trillion in new debt since taking office. we now owe over $30 trillion in

debt. $245,000 per taxpayer. american rescue plan. inflation act. the student loan forgiveness. many other misguided policies. each drastically increase the role of government in everyday american lives. biden's policies over the past year have incentivized people not to work, rewarded those who have accrued high school student loan debt on the backs of those who have worked hard to pay off their own debt or totally avoided debt. and have weakened america's goal to be a symbol of freedom in the world. if we are going to defend the american dream we must fix this problem. we must fix actually the broken budget process. here in congress. as well as you talked about. this week we're once gone going to fund the budget on a massive short-term continuing resolution loaded with irresponsible

spending. over the past four years, under speaker pelosi's leadership in the house, house democrats didn't pass a budget resolution by regular order except to push partisan reconciliation bills that have spent trillions of dollars. and i can tell you as republicans, we've made a commitment to americans. our commitment to america. and certainly all of us in this conference, certainly those of us on the budget committee, will ensure that we do the work, we pass a budget on time and through regular order and stick to it. republicans will commit to reducing our spending in order to preserve that american dream that we think is so important for future generations. thank you, mr. arrington, for leading this. and appreciate the opportunity to be part of it. mr. arrington: lloyd smucker is my brother. we came in together, served our

first term in the 115th congress, and i know he is committed to this. i am proud that -- and confident of his leadership on the budge committee, and i just, again, share the sentiment of my colleagues and the sense of urgency. the sense of urgency. you know this crisis, debt-related crisis, is very different than any other crisis we've experienced, in that, for example, with the pandemic, covid, and the government's response to covid, which was sometimes the problem itself, but all together we were able to borrow and print enough money to bail out of it. but when the dominoes fall on a debt crisis, it doesn't matter how much china will lend us. it doesn't matter how much the federal reserve can print until

their heart's desire. it won't fix it. and we will weaken this country and its global dominance and its global leadership and the values that america represents to the entire world. so i'm grateful to mr. smucker and now i would like to have a colleague, another colleague, on the committee on ways and means and from the keystone state, another proud citizen of the -- citizen they have commonwealth of pennsylvania. this guy has run a business. and i think i've heard him say, and i'll paraphrase, if he ran his business like the knuckleheads in congress run this country, he would have been bankrupt before he could ever make payroll, let alone make a living. this is a man that is known for his knute rockney locker room

speeches like they did at notre dame. let me tell you, he can fire you up. he's got the fire h his belly. i guarantee when we get the majority, and i don't want to be too presumptuous but i should say god willing, if the people give us the majority, i know that this man is going to be riding herd on our conference and the entire congress to do the right thing. he's got four children and 10 grandchildren. that's what we call skin in the game. ladies and gentlemen, my dear friend, mike kelly. mr. kelly: i thank my colleague from texas and i think at some time in whatever it is you do in life, there's a saying, it's rug cutting time. what does that mean? face the reality of what is in front of you right now. don't try to paper over it. don't try to dismiss it. and don't ever think to that there's always going to be time,

sometime in the future, to address a crisis that you face today. now i brought with me a picture of a -- of an iceberg. this is the way our debt looks. you only see a very small portion above the surface. most of the ice entering below the surface. we talk about kitchen table economics. what do we mean by that? we tell people, hey, you know what? we have really good revenues last year. $4.8 trillion. people say that sounds like a lot of money. yeah, but we went out and spent $6.1 trillion. they say, oh, well that doesn't sound like that much of a difference. kitchen table economics. sit down with your waif. you look at what your earnings are and say, jeez, honey, we had a good year. we made $48,000. and she looks and says that's a lot of money. and you say yeah, but we spent $61,000. it's like, oh my god we couldn't

have possibly done that. what allows you to borrow more money than you should have? it's ireresponsible lending. it's irresponsible spending. when the united states of america makes a kshes decision to enter into overwhelming debt that will not only rest on the shoulders of our children and grandchildren, it will rest on us. we talk about spending. and we talk about the size of our debt. and we say, you know, in the last year and a half it's gone up $9 trillion. so how much has that been? we're up to about $31 trillion in the red. but then we say yeah, but you know what, that covers a certain portion of our debt. what it doesn't take into consideration is our unfunded liabilities. and when you add in the unfunded liabilities, it's a whopping

$123 trillion or $124 trillion in debt. it is unimaginable. and if you could imagine it, you would never be able to lay your head on a pillow at night and say, things are pretty good. if we can't do this, we will print more money. if you printed more money in the private sector, that is called counterfeiting. why are we always so worried about counterfeiting, because the market would get flooded with paper that had no real value. what in the living hell has happened to our citizens? and more importantly, what has happened to their elected leaders that they have elected to come here and act in their

best interests? we are at a titanic moment. our country is steaming full speed ahead at an iceberg that will sink us. we live in the most dangerous times our country has ever seen. budgets are the key to being able to sleep soundly at night. budgets are the plan that you put together where you understand what your potential earnings could be. and more importantly, what do you want to spend? nobody in the private sector would ever have a plan like the government does. and i was told, you know your problem, kelly? you think, you think that a government should be run like a private business. my answer was no. no. no. no.

i know no private business could be run the way a government is. why? when we pass these huge spending bills, whose pocket does it come out of? who pays every single penny of it? who looks at balances we can't meet and irresponsibly still decides to do that? oftentimes to gain the favor of our fellow citizens. i hear constantly, do you think we will get another check? i don't need the money but i'll put it in a bank account? i said i hope you don't because the money you got from the government went on to your total tax bill. you do not ever receive anything from the united statesgovernment, state government or local government that comes without a price tag attached to it and that price

tag is attached to your wallet and that is suffering greatly under an unbelievable burden, and we sleep through this. we doz off. we refuse to believe -- when i say we are steaming full speed ahead, anyone who was on the titanic and so many losses of life is because they didn't have enough lifeboats to put passengers on. this government is bankrupting america. somebody said, i'm worried about my grandchildren and in some cases, even my children. and my answer is that start worrying about yourself. this is a danger that lies in front of us.

our inability to face it, our plef that somehow we are all right and fuzzy and warm and comfortable until the wolf comes to the door. what happened here? what happened to the greatest nation that the world has ever known with the most potential and a government understands that the assets we have we aren't going to use them. we are going to go to a foreign source. why would you -- i hear all the time. let's not forget everything that is below. let's understand what our assets are and understand we are drowning ourselves in debt. i'm accused of being too passionate, but i will be damned look at those 10 grandchildren and four children and say we love you, but we don't care

about your future. we are co-signing your name to our debt and we will be gone before you face that. my friends, this is not a republican or democrat issue or a red issue or a blue issue. this is a red, white and plus american issue. i would ask my colleagues on the other side, please don't accuse us of not wanting to work with you. for two years we weren't allowed to be at the table or in the room. we have not been allowed to be in the building. we were not allowed to be in the town. this false narrative we will not reach across the aisle to work together, the one thing we will never do is to continue to damn our children and grandchildren and future of this country with a debt that is so large and so

overencompassing that there will no longer be a united states of america. anyone who says it is ok to spend $61,000 a year because you make $48,000, i would say you are a fool. and we have been fooled. both sides of the aisle, every two years, there is an election. we try to put features and benefits together that will add value to who we are, knowing it is a false narrative. our real challenge is not how much we spend, it's a matter we renews to address the bankruptcy that we are facing and very soon. my friend from texas, thank you so much. we look to you for leadership and how did texas get to be texas? because of strong citizens. i would say to all our

colleagues, i don't care if you sit on the right side or left side but be on the side that is the responsible side. if you could say what we are doing is fine and it's the best interest in the future of this country, i would say you might be working on some new math, nobody who has any sense, common sense would look at what is going on right now. please, look at this iceberg, we are at at a titanic moment. refusing to listen and refuse to be responsible to our fellow citizens will cause this country to sink. forget about being woke. wake up. we are facing an incredible, incredible challenge and demise of a nation that the world has

ever known. i think the biggest part, you always tell your kids, don't shamed by this family. we have more -- the oath of office is one thing and answer to a much higher power that we will face and be accountable for our irresponsible actions. thanks for doing this tonight and i hope our fellow citizens understand what is going on. mr. arrington: i thank mr. kelly and shake his hand as he leaves. listen, this is what it's going to require. it's going to require that level of push and punch and clawing and scratching, yelling if necessary, kicking a chair over in the chamber and saying the house is on fire and it's going

to burn down before our children ever taste the sweetness of the blessed life in this country. and i believe we are going to do it. i believe in this country and i believe the american people, especially over the last couple of years of this spending frenzy are waking up to this. and that's the sinister, one of the sinister elements of a debt crisis is, you don't feel the pain until you feel the pain. but once you feel the pain, it's too late. it's too late. and the world cannot afford to have america in any position besides the poll position for the sake of stall built and freedom and the fundamental rights of every human. and nobody knows that freedom is

nothing without security than a navy fighter pilot, who hales from the 25th district of california. iraq war veteran. state assembly man and flippedal seat that was democrat for years, probably over 20 years, not because he was a great republican, but because he was a great man and great leader and he loves this country and wants a safer, stronger nation for his two boys. i am proud to serve with mike garcia of california. mr. garcia: thank you for hosting this very important hour. i think what you have captured here in calling our nation's debt a curse and when you do the math with the debt, that equates

to $94,000 for every man, woman and child in the united states. as a father of two young boys, i echo your sentiment we cannot put this curse on our children and grandchildren. and facts are cold, hard and stubborn things in this world. it doesn't matter what you hope for or wish for or doesn't matter what your intentions were. what matters are the results and the results stemming from this tax and spend policy brought on by this body brought on by a progressive majority which are regressive results have resulted in a cold hard reality for the average american family. and for the lower class family

is duende by mortgage rates that are sky rocketed. and record debt. these are regressive economic indicators. it's not the product of anyone else besides your agenda to overtax and overspend and over promise and to undeliver. economics is physics with dollar signs. there is a reaction for every input there is an output. and these are cold, hard facts and cold hard rules. with over $10 trillion injected into congress in the last two years and war on american energy, the result is 40-year record inflation and a reaction

as a result of inaction. with record high inflation, the fed has raised 400 basis points in the last six months. and with fed rates going up so quickly, banks have to increase their lending rates accordingly and 12 months ago a home buyer could get a loan for 3% and that loan is now close to 7%. prices new buyers. again, action and reaction and people are suffering on a daily basis and can't purchase homes, the housing market and stock market are pulling back significantly. action and reaction. mr. speaker, you and your white house policies have tried to defile physicallics. my constituents in california we see $6 gas and even if you have

an electric vehicle, they pay close to $100 for a month. and everything is 15 to 20% higher and afraid to look at the 401k's because they have lost so much and californian are getting crushed. we need to cut spending like my colleague has said and congress needs to stop adding to the budget. we need to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and be responsible and shrink federal agencies and hold them accountable and cut taxes so americans can keep more of their money and small businesses can hire and to grow. and more importantly, we need to listen to our constituents who create jobs instead of punishing

them. the poorer families are getting hammered the worst. and congress can do and has done better and we will do again when we get the majority back. the united states has and will do better and best times and greater prosperity is ahead of us as long as we respect the laws and fundamentals of the economy. it is physicianics with dollar signs. and to add to our debt is reckless and our debt has been a threat to the nation. . . . democrats have failed middle class families with these policies. now a new majority will come in, elected by those hurt the most, middle class and lower income families and we'll fix this problem. again that's an action and reaction. i want to thank my colleague from texas for hosting this and educating congress.

i think most americans realize the fundamental physics of all of this and we've got to teach our colleagues to implement them and save our country from this crushing debt. thank you, sir. mr. arrington: well said, my friend, representative garcia. thank you for your service to our country. and the navy. and in the united states congress. i'm inspired tonight, i'm inspired by my colleagues who are ready to fight by taking on the tough issues, making the tough decisions, and exercises the courage that every leader in this country that ever did anything meaningful for this great nation, and for their posterity, we're ready for this. and i know one man has got a lot of fight in him. he's a warrior from wisconsin.

and a man that's no stranger to the budget, to the budget process and to the broken and dysfunctional dynamics and elements of the budget process in this place. so i'm thankful for glen grothman of the great state of wisconsin, representing the sixth district. mr. grothman: thank you. there's so many things we can talk about. so many challenges for the american people over the next few months as they try to restore america to its place as the envy of the world, the great country. we could be talking about immigration. and 150,000 people a month crossing the border. we could talk about the divisive rhetoric from way too many democrats finding racism, here, there and everywhere, and blaming all of america's problems on racism. we could be talking about other problems. but tonight we're going to be

talking about the ridiculous amount of overspending which is debasing the value of the dollar and resulting in the inflation that's hurting and harming american families so much, be it the cost of cars, be it the cost of food, the cost of energy. america must not forget where this inflation came from. it came from the american rescue plan, one of the first bills passed under president biden. it was continued by the infrastructure bill, another over $1 trillion of spending. and finally the reduce inflation act, another $700 billion. this in addition to the large increases in the regular budgets congress always passes. so we have been out of control on the regular budgets and now you hear these three additional bills, which are causing the huge increases in prices that you see at the gas pump. but even more at the grocery store. at the restaurants. when you're looking to buy a

house or the rent. where did this come from? it's not a natural thing to happen. it came because of out of control spending on all three of these bills. and worse, in addition to the out of control spending leading to inflation, we have the -- we have where the money went and we are spending more and more money on programs conditioned upon not working very hard. programs conditioned to take the benefit on not getting married. so in addition to, i assume, intentional desire to debase the currency, we continue down the path of moral decline. as we encourage money to be spent in the wrong place. so i encourage the american people in the future, when you decide, decide how you want your

country governed, when you go to the office hours back home. when you call your congressman. ask them, where do you stand on these big spending programs? and now we have another one coming down the pike. another $400 billion in student loan debt forgiveness. where is that money going to come from in i'll tell you where it's going to come from. to a certain extent it'll be paid by future generations but more immediately it's going to be paid for american public again. the $400 billion will result in higher gas prices. higher food prices. higher automobile prices. that's where the money is going to come from. wake up, america. these things are not free and the politicians who have passed these programs in the past are responsible for the additional amount of money we're spending. so there are a variety of things we could look at, as we worry so much about this great america, built by our ancestors, all the

people who died in the wars, that we may have this great free country and we see it slipping away as we have out of control politicians. as people frequently say happens in democracies, out of control politicians, buying votes by spending more money on everybody under the sun. that is where this inflation comes from. please, america, wake up. like i said, we can talk about what's going on at the border. we can talk about screaming about inflation. we could talk about the attacks on the police. and with the attacks on the police, the inevitable rise in crimes as police are afraid to do what they want. but tonight we talk about the out of control spending as way too many americans, including a lot of businesses, by the way, again and again come to their congressman and ask for more free money. and it wasn't free. i hope the next time you go to

the grocery store, the next time you look to buy a new car, and you see the huge sticker shock, you remember the politicians who are bragging about all the new money they're spending. thank you very much. mr. arrington: i thank my friend from wisconsin. i'm grateful for his courage. he speaks truth and he's not up here to win friends and influence people. he's up here to make sure the outcomes of our decisions are in the best interests of our country and certainly bending the curve on spending, reining in our debt and restoring fiscal responsibility is at the top of his list. america is counting on him and i am too as a senior member of this body when we get the majority, to remind every single republican, and our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, what's at stake if we don't,

what's at stake. so thank you, mr. grothman. mr. speaker, how much time do we have remaining? i just have a few closing comments. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has one and one quarter minute remaining. mr. arrington: we timed it perfectly. i'll wind down and wind up the next speaker and dear friend and fellow texan. james madison, i think, summarized it in his statement, a public debt is a public curse. and in a republican form of government the worst of its kind. that cloud hanging over the heads of our children, that snowball coming down the mountain, that's the 21st century challenge. and that is the bankrupting of our children's future by spending our country into oblivion. and it is our great challenge

and we enter it with sober minds and with prayerful hearts, that god would give us the courage to take on the forces in our own party and in this building and outside this building and anything that stands in our way until we reverse the curse and we can look into our children's eyes and we can tell them, we've handed this country better than we found it. like every generation of great leaders for this country. so mr. speaker, thank you, and now i get to sit and listen to a great fighter for freedom, my fellow texan, chip roy and god bless america. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the chair recognizes the gentleman, mr. -- the gentleman from texas, mr. roy, for 30 minutes.

mr. roy: i want to thank my friend from texas, mr. arrington. he's a good friend. he represents, i'll tell him the second best part of the state, given that i represent the hill country and central texas and my dad grew up in west texas, went to texas tech university, i have a sort spot in hi heart for my friend. he is consistent in bringing to this floor, the house floor, the need for all of us to work together to deal with the spending problem and it is a problem, that we face in this country. i was just thinking, when i started running for office five years ago this fall, the national debt of the united states was $21 trillion. today, five years later, our national debt is $31 trillion.

now just think for a minute, we never know how big that number. is nobody understands. $31 trillion. let me just tell you this. if you set out to count to $31 trillion, we just said all right, let's go. one mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi, it would take you almost a million years, do the math, a million years to get to 31 trillion. that is absurd. we are spending money we don't have. this body believes itself to be the united states house of free stuff. we just write blank checks. we dole it out. spending money we don't have, obliterating our children's future. devastating the future financial security and stability of the

united states, all for what? so that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can walk outside and give a fancy speech about free stuff they're doling out and with all due respect, colleagues on my side of the aisle can go say well, i wrote a bunch of checks to fund our defense, so i got to vote for another big spending bill. every day, just today, we had a whole bunch of votes on suspensions. $10 billion in there for global food security. we have men and women in uniform on food stamps. and this body writes another blank check to dole it out to global food security. when are we going to stop? but here's the problem. these blank checks, this

spending that we engage in, it isn't just about debt. it isn't just about weakening our dollar. it isn't just about deficit spending. it's that we're funding the very government that is at war with its own people every day. a department of homeland security that refuses to secure the homeland. the wide open borders and fentanyl pouring in killing americans and empowering cartel, with migrants dying in the meantime. and f.b.i. that is targeting parents for domestic terrorism. and f.b.i. that's targeting a father of seven in pennsylvania for daring to have gone to speak out and exercise his free speech rights to defend the unborn. an i.r.s. targeting americans,

85,000 new i.r.s. agents and personnel. we're funding an entire energy, i should say anti-energy agenda, that's destroying our energy independence, driving up the price of goods. driving up the price of gas. driving up the price of electricity. weakening the grid of the united states. decreasing the reliability of our energy sector. decreasing the freedom of the american people. all of that for what? so that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the president and the climate czar or whatever the heck his title is, john kerry, can go flying around the world in jets, spewing out all sorts of garbage in jets, to hang out in davos and pat themselves on the back that they're doing some sort of benefit for the world with

respect to carbon dioxide while china has 11,000 dole cole-fired plants and adding a new one every day and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle walk around like butterflies and humming birds like aren't we great for the world? isn't this great? devastating the american economy, devastating the american way of life, devastating our national security, for fake humming birds and fake ununicorns because they want to say they're doing something for the environment. they're not doing crap for the environment. literally. you could ban every single combustion engine in america and you're not going to dent co-2 production while we destroy our way of life and our economy. so welcome to the democratic party. plug your car in, use up your entire electricity bill that you use for your air conditioning unit to run your battery-powered car. oh, $60,000, $70,000, why can't

you just go buy a tesla, the secretary of energy says? completely out of touch with the average, hardworking american. but that's what we're dealing with. but that's not all. today my colleagues on my side of the aisle, 22 of them in the united states senate, voted for the continuing resolution. they voted for it, they will say, because oh, no, the government funding will expire tomorrow and we might have a government shutdown. you can hear all of the people in america crying big crocodile tears over the possibility that the federal government might not have its lights on on saturday morning. but let's actually talk about what's really going on. that c.r. that 22 republican members of the senate voted for

contains $17 billion ■in emergency funding, unpaid for, another blank check. that same c.r. will expire in december, on december 16, in a lame duck congress, which my colleagues on this side of the aisle know full well means that it empowers my colleagues on that side of the aisle to continue to stick it to the american people with their radical leftist policies, undermining their way of life. that continuing resolution has nothing in it to secure the border of the united states when our boarder is wide open and fentanyl is pouring in, killing americans. 72,000 dead americans last year from opioid, fentanyl-related poisonings, directly coming in at the hands of cartel, coming from china, that is more than every american who died in the vietnam war. are we going to put a great big memorial out there? for all of those 72,000?

what about the year before? what about this year? what about the four people in my county that i represent in texas, the four kids who died from fentanyl poisoning? because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to turn a blind eye to cartels exploiting our border for the endangerment of americans. and that's the truth. americans are dead because of the policies of this administration failing to secure the border of the united states. and they know it. and migrants are dead. migrants' bodies are piling up in south texas by the hundreds. 53 cooked in a tractor trailer in san antonio, which i represent. 53 human beings cooked in the false name of compassion while my colleagues on the other side of the aisle walk around going, look at me, i love brown people. i love immigrants. bull. it's a lie.

and my colleagues need to wake up because i can promise you that the brown people, not my terminology, by the way, in south texas are fed up. fed up with being exploited, abused and used for political purposes. while my colleagues like to say, oh, well governor desantis and governor abbott sent some people to d.c. to martha's vineyard. well, welcome to the party. the country's now alerted. these were volunteers, volunteers who said, yeah, i'll take a ride to d.c. 50 people in martha's vineyard, 53 dead migrants in a tractor trailer in san antonio. just last night the mayor of uvalde, texas, yes, that uvalde, texas, called up, there was a pickup truck with 10 immigrants in the truck that t-boned into a tractor trailer at an intersections, two of them dead,

two in the hospital. every stinking day this is happening. and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle turn a blind eye. that's the reality of our border. but this continuing resolution that my republican colleagues in the united states senate, 22 of them, were all too happy to support continues to fund that department of homeland security of an annual budget of $57.5 billion, $le billion for i.c.e. -- $8 billion for i.c.e., even though it was a 70% reduction in removals last year for i.c.e. millions in grants each year in that same continuing resolution to nongovernmental organizations who are the ones actually transporting people around the united states. effectively subsidizing illegal immigration. this c.r. empowers the authoritarian bureaucrats targeting americans. it's not just the department of

homeland security leaving our border wipe to owe -- wide open and exposed but the f.b.i. to the tune of $10.8 billion to go after former president trump, to go after parents concerned about schools, to go after a pro-life father, and i.r.s. $12.6 billion. we just gave them another $80 billion. but no, no. we just funded a c.r. with an annual appropriation of $12 billion. oh, you think that's good enough? how about n.i.h., $45 billion. after n.i.h. has been basically screwing the american people for the last 2 1/2 years with their nonsense spewing out about covid, resulting in our children being sent back a generation, shoved to the corner of classrooms, forced to wear masks, unable to have proper speech. all so my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can run around wearing masks and scaring the american people. $45 billion, my republican colleagues in the senate said, sure, let's keep giving them more money. what will my colleagues on my side of the aisle do tomorrow? i hope they'll oppose it.

how about pfizer and moderna who face no liability, made $93 billion in 2022. $93 billion. pfizer and moderna. because the government were cramming shots into people's arms and then forcing our men and women in uniform to lose their job and get fired if they dare not take a shot, which the current c.d.c. says, you know what, doesn't even help with transmission. what the hell kind of a country are we living in? this isn't freedom. and we're funding it. and republicans are complicit. $6.3 billion, run by the covid chief, fauci. $c.d.c., $8 -- c.d.c., $8.5 billion. the world health organization, $122 million in this annual funding just approved.

already got $280 million under the democrats' covid relief bill. they pushed a completely unfounded covid in additiontive -- narrative and partnered with the chinese communists to cover up the covid origins. this we know. the department of defense and all their glory, no, don't say that over here on my side of the aisle, because we got to rush in and we got to give the money for the department of defense. without any accountability, by the way, for how about forcing treups out -- troops out with their tyrannical covid-19 mandates. set to discharge over 75,000 active service members for daring to say no to a vaccine. that doesn't even help with transmissability. how about a woke military and foreign policy. the d.o.d. won't admit china's a greater threat than climate change, according to the leadership. they're preoccupied with diversity training, mixed sex restrooms and locker rooms and showers. the air fierce is going to -- force is going to spend $66 million for one in san antonio

which i represent. $56 billion for the department of state and foreign operations budget. for u.s. embassies to fly pride and b.l.m. flags at unspecified x-gender designations to passports. $15 million for the state department's global equality fund, sending tax dollars to lgbtqi whatever, whatever, whatever persons around the world. empowers biden administration's anti-american, anti-biology ideology. $39 million for h.h.s. office of civil rights, promoting gender transition surgery for kids. $76 billion obviously goes to the department of education. where we subsidize schools failing our kids, shoving then into the corners of classrooms, making them wear masks, and rewarding teachers filling their minds with anti-american teachings under critical race theory, even in my own school, city, that i represent in san antonio, north side of i.s.d., forcing a radical equity exefer sighs -- exercise, dividing people by their hair color.

$2 billion for the student aid administration, carrying out the $4 billion student loan giveaway. $525 million for the public broadcasting. h.h.s., $94 million for diversity training. $64 million for the office of minority health. $1.1 million for the office of climate change and health equity in h.h.s. energy, $100 million for environmental justice, quote-unquote. the e.p.a. used this to create a new office of environmental justice and external civil rights. in the department of -- the e.p.a. $20 million the department of energy's office of impact and diversity. $885 million for the department of education programs that fund colleges based solely on students' race and ethnicity. federal apprenticeship programs that includes grants to equity inteer immediate years to hire c.r.t. indoctrination consultants. how about the united nations population fund. praising china's abusive population control programs.

how about u.n. women, which can't even define women. what's a woman? promotes trans and intersex athletes. climate, $15 million for the u.n. climate agencies. $149 million for the global environment facility. $125 million for the world bank's clean technology fund. and my republican colleagues in the senate, 22 voted for it, and of course all the democrats for the most part. passed this through to get it to a lame duck in december to then allow for even more. that's what we're funding. and at some point you would think that we'd wake up on a bipartisan basis or, lord willing, at least my side of the aisle, that we actually have the power of the purse. and we're actually supposed to use it. instead of giving massive blank checks to an administration that is at war with the american

people on a daily basis. when the founders gave us this government, they knew that they didn't want to empower an executive with unfettered power. yet that's what we do every day in this chamber. that's what these so-called people's house of the united states does -- the so-called people's house of the united states does every single day. federalist 58. james madison. the house of representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of the government. they in a word hold the purse. this power of the purse may in fact be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people for obtaining a redress of every grievance and for carrying into effect every just and saltory measure. in other words, we are supposed to have the power. we're supposed to be the ones who can stop the funding of the

tyranny against the people. oh, chip, it's not tyranny. i'm sure my friend from pennsylvania has thoughts on that. of course it's tyranny. an f.b.i. targeting parents for being domestic terrorists. an f.b.i. targeting a father of seven showing up with 25 to 30 armed swat team members to arrest him in front of his family. all true. how's that freedom? how's that not tyranny? how's it not tyranny to steal money from a plummer who worked his whole life, didn't borrow money to go to some fancy university, and go give it to somebody else to pay off their loan? how is it not tyranny to steal money from a person who worked their whole life to do it right and pay their loans back after going to college, and give it to someone else who got a ridiculous degree from some ridiculous college and is sitting in their parent's

basement on social media and trying to be a social media influencer? that's what's happening. you're going to take money from somebody else and go give it to another person. that is tyranny. it's theft. and we're doing it through executive fiat. we didn't vote on it here. none of these people are going to go answer their constituent -- to their constituents from stealing money from them to go give it to someone else. president just decided it by decree. that is tyranny. it is tyranny to stick a needle in somebody's arm or tell them that you're going to get fired from your career in the military. well, i've had it. but i've not just had it with the tyrannical policies of a president, i've had it with a united states house of representatives that does not represent the people. and i've had it with a republican party who refuses to stop funding the very things they campaign against every single day.

and i'd like to yield to my friend from pennsylvania. mr. perry: well, i thank the good friend from texas and he's spot on. it is tyranny. we call it -- we use euphemisms around this town. of course the media does too. loan forgiveness. loan forgiveness. so you took out the loan and we're going to forgive you of paying it back using someone else's money. that's not loan forgiveness. that's socialism. and socialism is tyranny. taking it -- just like you said. some hardworking individual, maybe they wanted to go to college, didn't have the opportunity, maybe they didn't have the opportunity because they didn't have the money. maybe their family situation, regardless. doesn't matter. then they chose not to go to college. they chose not to buy something they didn't want to pay for. and now the president says, well, we're and now the president says we're going to use the heroes act. this is a fascinating example. i told my colleagues around here that want to keep on help we got to establish comity here, not

comedy, it is a comedy unfortunately. but we got to work together. got to work together. don't they understand, what will it take for them to understand that every step in good faith that we take is abused by the folks that hate this country and hate us. i hate to use that terminology but that's what it is. they use the heroes act. an act that after 9/11 for those who were sent, you know, who went to fight, who had to give up some of their time to pay for their student loans. pay for their education. use that to forgive, to forgive these loans for other people that made the decision but apparently didn't intend to pay. that is the definition of tyranny. the good gentleman from texas, my friend mr. roy, mentioned the arrest in bucks county. i just remind everybody today, this place voted on sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the department of justice.

like they don't have enough. like they don't have enough, right? so the department of justice raided this pastor's house, not just a father of seven, but a pastor. at 7:00 in the morning. beating on the door. when you don't answer fast enough because maybe you're upstairs in bed, it takes you a while to figure out what's going on, get your clothes on, get down the stairs because you don't want to be standing out on the front lawn in your skivvies on the front lawn, that's what the f.b.i. does. these agents all rush in, arms drawn, pointed at this poor individual. kids are up on the stairs crying. i don't know how many. mr. roy says 25, 24, something maybe it was that, whatever it was here's what i know it wasn't. it wasn't a phone call to the magistrate. understand that the court, the state court already threw this thing out. this gentleman, this individual is exercising his first amendment rights. somebody made a claim. the state court said and the police said there's nothing here. but the federal government said

look. you people are all domestic terrorists who disagree. you disagree with us. so now you're domestic crists. so instead of calling the guy up and saying look, federal government wants to arrest you for this. you've never had a record. you're nonviolent. you're going to have to show up at the magistrate's office to be arrested or we can do it the other way which way would you like? and offer the opportunity. guy is not a convicted drug felon. he's not a murderer. nothing violent in his record. but they break into the house as a show of force. as a show. to make sure everybody else in the country knows, if you've got a differing opinion, don't you dare say it. don't you dare. ladies and gentlemen, that is the definition of tyranny. that's exactly the definition of tyranny. what else can it be? mr. roy: i would just add, look, we're talking about again decisions we make with the money

that we are taking from taxpayers, and print, and borrowing. right? to the tune of $1 trillion-plus deficit every year. i started this by saying when i ran for office five years ago for the first time our national debt was $21 trillion. today it's $31 trillion. $10 trillion in the mere five years since i've been here. $2 trillion a year. but we keep funding this stuff. this is the nexus i want the american people to understand. the deficit spending isn't just about the deficits. the deficit spending is why our nation is being torn apart. we are supposed to be able to agree to disagree. we were supposed to be able to have 50 laboratories of democracy sewn together under a commonality, defending ourselves, having an economy that functions. instead we are funding the bureaucrats that are ripping us apart, thread by thread. i.r.s. agent after i.r.s. agent. f.b.i. agent after f.b.i. agent.

i say that as someone who worked in the u.s. attorney's office with great men and women in the f.b.i. who -- whose father was an i.r.s. agent my father worked for the internal revenue service as an auditor. i have no problem with how we try to set these things up to work. but hiring 85,000 new i.r.s. personnel on the back of what we knew happened, targeting certain individuals with the power of the i.r.s.? the f.b.i. targeting a father, targeting scott smith in loudoun county and saying you're a domestic terrorist? in coordination with the national school board association which now 26 states have, state school board associations have removed themselves from. that's what the american people need to understand. we're funding. that $10 billion. $10.8 billion for the f.b.i. $12.6 billion for the inch r.s. $1.5 billion for a.t.f.

for public health. $8.5 billion for c.d.c. $6.3 billion for the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. $45 billion for n.i.h. generally. $3.3 billion for the f.d.a. $122 billion for the w.h.o. $612 million for osha. it was osha that tried to force a veterans administration mandate -- a vaccine mandate on private companies. how do you get any more tyrannical than saying you, private companies, will require your employees to take a needle in the arm, from a vaccine that was unpreup, untested and enriched two pharma companies to the tune of $95 billion. somebody tell me that's not tyranny. mr. perry: i can't tell you it's

not tyranny. it is. this is the same osha that at the same -- at some point required reporting of adverse reactions to the vaccine, the jab. in thed my thofl night that requirement went away. still tried to make private employers force their employees to take this jab but they didn't want to know, they didn't want to know. they could get a report about everything else. got to report every single slip, fall, industrial accident. we want people to be safe. but we never gave them a license, never gave them a license to tell us what to do with our own bodies to make those decisions and for goodness sake, if they have the temerity, if they have the temerity to force us to do it, the least they can do is keep records on the adverse effects. but you know what, mr. speaker, they didn't want to know, did they? they don't want you to know. the effect of their tyranny. they don't want -- they are not

for medical freedom. they're not for education freedom. they're not for economic freedom. they're not for any of our freedoms. and that is where we are today. that's why chip, the good gentleman from texas, and i are here this evening. to talk about the tyranny that this place this room, the body that we serve in, the body that we fought to serve in, the institution that we revered growing up, we are soup set with because this institution, this body is aiding and abetting this tyranny. this is the body that's supposed pop ending the tyranny. that's supposed to be fighting the tyranny. yet here we are. here we are. mr. roy: i might inquire of the speaker, how much time is remaining of my time and if the gentleman controlling the next block. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has one minute remaining. the gentleman is correct. mr. roy: i will use another minute and then we'll transition and just continue going. in fact, tell you what, i'm going to yield back the balance of my time and defer to the gentleman from pennsylvania.

mr. perry: i thank the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. for the record. under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry, for 30 minutes. mr. perry: i thank the speaker. i thank the good gentleman from texas for being here. and making this plain to all of us. we're going to talk about the c.r. some more. continues the highly inflated funding levels. we just saw the fed. i've got issues with the fed, that's a whole separate issue, rise interest rates to try to cool down, it's like pouring water on the fire. cool down this economy. because prices are out of control. people can't afford their daily lives. they can't afford their

electricity, their food, their rent, their mortgage. can't afford to send their kids to school. the fed does its part. what do we do over here? the fed is trying to pour watter on the fire. want to cool it off. let's throw some gas on it. right, mr. roy? let's slow throe some gas on it. $1.5 trillion for this fiscal year. continues to fund the things that we've been talking about. another $.3 billion in ukraine funding. we all want to help, ladies and gentlemen. what russia did, it's bullying. a country can bully just like an individual can bully. they're bullying their neighbors. nobody agrees with that. we all want to help. but this is american taxpayers' money. and while russia is invading the board over ukraine, we've got an invasion on our southern border. how much are we spending on that? we're spending a pile of money but you know what we're not doing? we're not stopping the invasion. we're saying here, let's spend a bunch of money down where chip lives and put out a welcome mat.

mr. roy: if the gentleman would yield for a minute. we spend approximately $5 billion, i have it in front of me, a year, for the department of homeland security. we spend, we just approved earlier this year $58 billion for ukraine. and now there's an additional $12 billion in the continuing resolution that passed out of the senate today and is now sitting in the house. that puts it at almost $70 billion which is well more than the entire annual budget of the department of homeland security for the united states. mr. perry: you know what it's more thatten? i thank the gentleman for making the contrast. here's what else it's more than. almost more than russia's annual military spending. the united states alone, the united states taxpayer alone is spending more in ukraine to fight the russians than russia's total military budget. not just in ukraine, their entire military budget. yet the budget that we're

spending money on at our border isn't meant to keep our country safe, our national security interest, it's not just national security. my good friend the gentleman from texas lives right down there. he can tell you horror story of after -- horror story after horror story about the state his constituents have to live in every day because this little book, the constitution of the united states, says that immigration and the border is the job of the federal government, but what do you do? what do you do when they don't do the job? what do you do when 53 humans are cooked in a truck in your town? i'll tell you. i had lunch at a little diner on my way to washington, d.c. this week. good people. hardworking people. you can see the same people probably every day in that diner. sat down. talking about the world's problems. talking about their own problems. they looked at me. they were complaining and they say, what's it matter?

we can't do anything about it. i said what do you mean you can't do anything about it. they said what are you asking me for? you're in congress, you can't do anything about it. we stand here in this body today knowing these problems exist. every single one of them. we can all outline the problems. we all know the challenges our country faces. yet in this body and in the body across the other side of the build, we just want to keep the clocks wound. we just want the trains to run on time. we don't care about all this other stuff that's happening out there. as long as everything works here in washington, d.c. the richest -- some of the richest counties in the country right here. everything is fine in washington, d.c. but go 100 mile, or go 3,000 miles away and see how it feels. i yield to the gentleman from texas. mr. roy: i i appreciate what the gentleman just said. i would say for our constituents back home, i feel them. i feel the frustration of being in chamber where i can offer no

amendment. where i have no power to have a -- an inpolt on what bill we're going to be debating on the floor. literally for 6 1/2 years, no amendment has been offered on the floor of this body in open debate. meaning it wasn't precooked up in the rules committee. think about that. the people's house. that should infuriate both sides of the aisle. that is no way for the people's house to operate. it is being operated by dictate. that is a bipartisan statement, i want to say, over time. it is. and i think for the american people, they want to see us do something. i think we can. when they say well, the fine folks in pennsylvania you ran into who said what can we do? we can't do anything about it. you know what? we can. one, we can freeze spending to stop the complete disregard of the economic well being of the country and the driving up of inflation by spending money we

don't have. we can do that. we can agree as a body that we have to have tough decisions like families and businesses do. freeze spending. let's just stop the bleeding. we can take a second step. and we can actually demand that when we have debates about the spending of taxpayer money and the borrowing and printing of money, that we actually deal with these crises in real terms. i'm really talking to my colleagues on my side of the aisle on this one. we should demand that we get changes at the border. we should demand that we turn away or detain fully at the border. we should demand that we stop the forced jabs in people's arms in the military or they get fired. we should demand changes in our energy policy so we can free up american energy to increase power on the world stage, make our grids more reliable, make us dependent on reliable energy rather than unreliable energy while making the environment better, by the way. and we should demand we

neutralize the power of and we should demand on pulling back on the reins of the f.b.i. and the i.r.s. there are things we can do. it's right here. we have the power of the purse. we should use it. and i tell you, i'm speaking to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. we have an obligation. look, i have run into the buzz saw of challenging the administration when it was a republican. because i believed so much in article 1 primesy. introduced the article 1 act with my friend, mike lee, to say we should take away emergency powers from the president. i did that when the president was using emergency powers to build a wall when there was an emergency and we needed to build it because my colleagues refused to. but i wanted there to be a limit into how much power the executive branch can use. i subpoenaed records about unaccompanied alien children because i knew that when my colleague on the other side of the aisle was wearing a white pant suit staring through a fence, that it was all theater. there weren't kids in cages.

those were set up by the previous administration under jeh johnson and president obama and they know it. they know it. so you know what, i subpoenaed information from h.h.s. under a republican administration because i wanted to know the truth. we should care about article 1 here. and if we do, we can take power back and we can represent the people again. we can use the power of the purse to check the executive. we can stand up and defend the people of the united states. we can secure the border. we can rein in the tyranny of the i.r.s. and the f.b.i. we can get american energy going again by opening it up so our people don't have to have inflation and the inability to have reliable grid. and we can stop forcing our men and women in uniform to get fired if they refuse to take an experimental jab. i yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. perry: he's absolutely right. i'm looking at what else is in the c.r. $3 billion for operation allies welcome. you know what that is? that's afghan settlement. for 20 years, for 20 years this

country has bled its treasure of humanity, sending our best and brightest to the front, and of course your tax dollars. and what did we do at the end? we just walked away and gave, gave all that away. we dishonored those who lost their lives, who came home irreparably damaged and gave that country $85 million of premier military hardware to arm terrorists and gave them a country to operate out of. you know the thanks you get? here's you what get. you get $3 billion for operation allies welcome because we still got to bring people from afghanistan because the people that we brought initially weren't vetted. we don't know who they are. now they're living in imlur yur community. and we -- in your community. and we pray to god that you're going to be safe. we pray that god that not one of them is a terrorist. but we already know the answer to that. we're living on borrowed time. we already know because we've seen it.

this is what my friend is talking about with article 1. we have, the founders gave us the power. you know what they didn't give us in this body? it comes from within. a little bit of courage. right now we all go out and say, we should stop spending money on this and this and this. 87,000 i.r.s. agents. the department of justice is reining tyranny over -- reigning tyranny over our citizens. we continued to fund them. hundreds of millions of dollars. how does that -- know what. to my good friend from texas, and we're here joined by another great friend from louisiana, mrn my district, when i walk around the district, i see people that agree with me, that support me. sigh people that don't like me and would never support me. and i have conversations with each one of them and you know what, not one of them has said, you know what, i can't afford my groceries. my electric bill is sitting on the table because i don't have the money to pay for it yet this month. here's what we need. here's how you fix that,

mr. perry. hire 87,000 more i.r.s. agents. give $250 million to the department of justice. that's going to fix my problems. not one of my constituents has said that to me. how about you, mr. roy? mr. roy: not one. and i will tell you that across the board, regardless of ideology, the people that come to me and are talking to me are concerned about the border, they're concerned about fentanyl, they're concerned about energy prices. their inability to pay their bills. they're concerned about the extent to which they are in danger in their communities with crime and their relationship to the border. they are concerned about the things that are impacting their lives, their inability to pay for their kid' school, -- kids' school and their inability to afford health care. because we have regulated to death and we have funded it and subsidized it to death, that we are in a position where they can't afford to live the american dream for their kid and their grand -- kids and their grandkid. our job in this body --

grandkids. our job in this body is to address that. not by spending more money and not by continuing to fund the very things that are undermining it. mr. perry: exactly right. i yield time to my good friend, the gentleman from louisiana, representative higgins. mr. higgins: i thank the gentleman. i thank my colleagues and i hope america is paying attention. because we cannot continue to fund a government that appears to be determined to destroy our country from within. we have millions of illegal aliens crossing our southern border. we've lost all operational control, the sovereignty of our nation at the southern border. they're asking for more money for covid. since march of 2020 we've spent $8 trillion just on covid. that's eight thousand billion dollars. you cannot convince me or any american across the country that our nation has actually spent that money.

we should have a full accounting of this money. they want more money for ukraine. we've already sent them about $70 billion. you know how much russia spends, my colleagues, every year on their military? their entire budget, i'll answer the question, it's about $7 to billion -- $70 billion. we've given to ukraine the entire budget for russia. for their military expenditures. we have no control over this money. we're not sending them any more money. not without a fight. they want to a c.r. passed, a continuing resolution, a short-term budget to keep the federal government operating until december. that's after the elections have ejected our colleagues across the aisle, but before republicans will be sworn into the majority on january 3.

that's wrong on every level. it's like identifying an arsonist, banishing them from your neighborhood and giving them gasoline and matches on the way out. we cannot allow it. we stand strongly against it, but we don't have the votes. there's not enough republicans in the house of representatives to stop this c.r. and the formula that the democrats intend. we need americans to communicate and stand strong, align yourselves with the conservatives in the house of representatives like my colleagues here tonight, and help us fight the good fight to preserve our republic. and i yield back to the gentleman. mr. perry: i thank the gentleman from louisiana. you know, one of the other things that's in this continuing resolution, $1 billion for increased home heating and cooling cost subsidies. $100 billion. think about that, for subsidies. at the very same moment the

administration through its policies are driving your energy costs, electricity, gasoline, diesel, through the roof. they're doing -- so they're making you pay more and then they're taking more of your tax dollars to give it out to people who can't afford to pay for it. and people in this body support this? somehow you with a straight face you think that this is right? i'll give you a statistic. the u.s. imports about $20.5 -- 20.5 million barrels a day, tanker ship takes about 190,000 barrel, that's about 50 ships a day. the trip from saudi to new york is about 6,500 miles. looking at the burn rate, we're burning about one million galons -- gallons one way, one way. and this administration would rather do that, tankers from saudi arabia, tankers from venezuela, my goodness, probably tankers from iran, but heaven forbid we open the pipeline, any pipeline, they'll close as many as they can because somehow they

feel good about that. mr. roy: if the gentleman would yield. i'll yield to our friend from texas. i just want to add to what the gentleman said because it's on point. we are funding $5 million for the special presidential envoy for climate, john kerry. we're funding $15 million for the u.n. intergovernment panel on climate change and u.s. framework convention. $2 billion to the s.e.c. which they use to help advance the very e.s.g. constraints on the flow of capital that is constraining our ability to produce energy. $3.2 billion to the department of energy's office of energy efficiency and renewable energy. which funnels taxpayer dollars to unreliable green energy. $825 million for d.o.e.'s office of fossil energy and carbon management, which gives credit handout to massive oil companies. $450 million for d.o. eamplets arpa. $29 million to administer a d.o.e. loan program responsible for the is a lind are a debacle

-- solindra debacle. all of that money to keep paying taxpayer money to screw up american energy and drive up their energy bills. mr. perry: you're absolutely right. before i turn it over to the gentleman from texas, i want to prime the pump here a little bit. the department of energy created for one sole purpose, one purpose only to make the united states energy independent. my good colleague, my good friend from the state of texas just went through the list. we were energy independent about a year and three quarters ago. it took that long to not only make us energy dependent, your bills are going through the roof. i know that people will say, gas prices are actually coming down now. ladies and gentlemen, the strategic petroleum reserve, right, the president has been unloading that. set aid side -- aside for natural disasters. what's been happening today and over the last 48 hours in our country and with our friends from florida? right? they might be able to use some of that, but of course it's all -- it's at the low he was level it's been in the -- lowest level

it's been in the history of the reserve. it wasn't meant for political disasters. national security and natural disasters. but yet this is what's happening. so if you don't like the look of your electricity bill now, now, when the weather's pretty tempered in the united states, just give it about three months and see how you're going to like it. and you can blame it on one thing. one thing and one thing alone. the left. the democratic left, the democratic party, and those in it that are forcing and imposing this on you. i yield to my other friend, the good gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: it is a big of a segue here between things you were talking about earlier, last half hour, and all three of you have been mentioning. and that is when you talk about the $70 billion that's been provided to ukraine for the war with russia, if you look at the amount of increase in fuel costs

that this administration cost, it drove up the price of oil, the price of natural gas so much that russia made, last i saw, over $60 billion more than they had before. so this administration is really responsible for funding both sides of the war between russia and ukraine. the $60 billion-plus that russia got because biden's actions increased the cost of faille fuel, and continue -- the cost of fuel, and then the $p 0 billion that we -- $70 billion that we appropriated to ukraine and you go, this is nuts that they would be doing that. and then you look at who is getting hurt and you mentioned the strategic petroleum reserve. it's down to its lowest point in

decades. because this president was trying to cover for his disastrous energy policy. and so the millions of barrels that the trump administration put in there so we would have it for an emergency, like a hurricane and other things, that's all gone. trying to cover for biden's own disastrous policies. so the american public, they see the price of gasoline coming down some. but people need to understand what this is all about. it's what it's always been about. power in the hands of a small group of elitists and everybody else, like in the middle ages, for many ages. the wealthy ride, the poor walk. and that's what this energy

policy of theirs is really all about. it's going to leave -- i saw a picture just before i came over, john kerry on his private plane flying, using that energy. because he's important. because he's the elite. but everybody else is going to but everybody else has to give up their cars and massie said plugging in a car at night is like plugging 17 refrigerators. but if everybody goes to an electric car, people won't have power and will have to rely on the big brother government to say, some of you can plug in these times. what about when we were independent and didn't need the government to tell us when we can move about. the green is a brown policy. and it's going to be really

unpleasant. mr. roy: we are talking the dropoff of the petroleum reserve. top level is 750 million barrels. in 2020, short dropoff and 350 million barrels. that is the defense being exercised by a president trying to save his party. that is not, that is not being used specifically for the national security interest of the united states and that is absolutely horrific. dumping the strategic petroleum reserve in order to drive prices down. the chickens will come home to roost. mr. perry: if you are worried about this, the most important thing, the most responsible thing to do is do it

efficiently. america does it more cleanly and we have pipelines and can't use it. one trip, one way, one tanker coming to the united states, one million gallons burned one way for each tanker. 50 million a day. nobody gives a hoot about this and none of this is necessary. and before i turn it over to the good the gentleman from louisiana, in this continuing resolution that we will vote on in this house, tomorrow, i think, we say we want to save our country and citizens and bosses from this tyranny, $2 billion unaccompanied minors coming in as the good the gentleman from texas said how much did we spend to secure our

border? close to 60 and we need another two for unaccompanied minors. we don't need the extra two and stop to that. and i turn it over to mr. higgins. mr. higgins: i would like to bring up our total national debt for a moment. we are discussing as concerned american patriots and conservative men and discuss this continuing resolution and temporary funding of the that we stand against because of the process and the lack of appropriate regular order that reflects of this body to perform regarding our budget responsibilities that were laid out clearly by our founders. let's talk about our debt, $31

trillion in debt. it was 1980 in america we accumulated $1 trillion in debt. in the first 200 years of existence, we accumulated. and following years. $31 trillion in debt, if this body were to balance the budget and run a $1 billion surplus, it would require 31,000 years to address $31 trillion debt because my friends and colleagues, mr. speaker, my colleague, a trialon is a thousand bill won. no one here nor across the nation that we love and serve believes we have 31,000 years to fix this thing. we must restore fiscal

responsibility. mr. perry: can i inquire how much time is remaining? mr. perry: i yield four minutes. mr. roy: we are at 31 trillion in debt. if you set out to count the $# 1 trillion, one mississippi, it would take a million years to count for that and put that in perspective. when i began running for office, our debt was $21 trillion, $10 trillion in five years. mr. perry: i think the last year and three-quarters of the biden administration has racked up more debt. and we found that unacceptable and yet in this body on this week, at this time, we are going to vote to continue like nothing

is happening, like that is not happening, like we don't care. and we say, if you elect us, this is go to end this. when we have the opportunity all the things that the gentleman from texas outlined, the things that i outlined, the ukraine funding and $3 billion, the covid funding, by the way, the president of the united states said the pandemic is over but add more covid funding in here and can't do without that crisis, all that included, but hardly a whimper out of this town because it is more important that this town keeps going than the american get. ladies and gentlemen, this is completely unacceptable and if we are not going to fight now -- i would degree with my colleague from texas, understand not one of us is a democrat, we don't

have the majority, no majority by republicans this the senate. that is the complete legislature. that's president biden and democrats, how for the love of the lord can republicans be blamed for voting no on this tyranny? if democrats want to continue tyranny, god bless them. why wol republicans help them and why would republicans help them when enforcements. we have an election in four days. to pass a continuing resolution to pass a bill that continues this tyranny into december, people have lost their elections and no opportunity to continue the tyranny, how do you explain that to your constituents, well,

i voted for that and these programs needed the money and the money and they needed and you didn't. mr. roy, people in my district pack their lunch at night and get up early and kiss their little children asleep while still dark and leave for work and count on us we are faithfully spending their hard-earned dollars. you talked about this, your paycheck, your paycheck, people work hard for it. and what do we do with it? mr. roy, how do we plow it? mr. roy: all i would say is, if we want an economy that is strong, stop spending money we don't have and fund a bureaucracy. if you want a nation that saves, stand with your cops. if you want a military end the

woke diswruks of our military. you won't a border that is secure, secure it. turn people away and detain them and stop the control of our borders by cartels that are endangering the american people. mr. perry: i thank my colleagues. i yield the balance, thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time pursuant to section 1 of house resolution 1230, the house stands adjourn

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