houlahan: topics or subjects? jamil: i am thinking of china. rep. houlahan: there still a pretty strong bipartisan agreement about china. i will give this to you because i am already mic'ed up. what i wanted to contribute to the original question about how you get things done, and i think there are several different ways. many of them have been touched on. one is you have relationships with people. two is you develop trust with people. similar to what you guys were saying, when president biden was president, i was pushing back on him not doing enough fast enough. i pushed back on afghanistan. i did all the things i could uncomfortably from my side. i hope that earned respect and trust from my community as well as from this stage. i would also say the way things get done is two ways. randomly, like a lightning bolt moment. it's because you have relationships. and also with really hard, very focused work over years of time. one thing we are working on bipartisanly is paid family leave and paid medical leave. this is something that has been vexing the

of congress including gop representative brian fitzpatrick and democratic representative chrissy houlahan discussed working across the aisle, continued support for ukraine, and elon musk's department of government efficiency. politico held this discussion at the munich security conference. >> thank you for joining us. many of you have been here. i'm rye barcott, the ceo of w ith honor, fighting polarization in the united states congress. we do that by supporting veterans and servant leaders that are focused on being bipartisan and a time that is very difficult to do. what we found in the past seven years of this

houlahan. ... ms. houlahan: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the taxpayer data protection act. i'll hold this paper up for a little while. because it's my anticipation before i finish speaking the internet will have transcribed this piece of paper and the data that's in it. mr. speaker, what if i told you somewhere, somewhere in the multiverse there was a person, dare i say a villain, who was intent on accessing all of the data of the world's most powerful nation and of all of her people? imagine him sitting in his lair, perhaps he's stroking a cat, and in his mind's eye he imagines the files of data he and his minions will have access to. perhaps he'll know about your financial status or what you buy. perhaps he'll unilaterally refuse payments to defense programs or take a cut of his own for payments. or maybe he'll only authorize contracts to his very favorite people and organizations. he'll also know deeper secrets, that our government works so hard to ensure it remains so so that our allies can be protected and our allies will have those same secrets intentionally or uninte

colleagues, don norcross of new jersey, as well as members evans, scanlon, dean, fitzpatrick and houlahan of pennsylvania. i'm proud to say it is bipartisan. fly, ekes, fly. it -- eagles, fly. go birds. congratulations to the super bowl champion philadelphia eagles. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair -- for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. this week we have a chance to send a clear message. break the law and put americans in danger and there will be consequences. congressman ciscomani's agent gonzalez officer safety act holds traffickers and illegal immigrants accountable for reckless actions, especially those who flee from border patrol agents and create deadly high-speed chase incidents. this bill makes evading law enforcement within is00 -- within 100 miles of the southern border a heavy crime. if you put american lives at risk, you'll face the full force of the law. it's time to pass this bill and s