bice: i was impressed by lauren's patriotism and her initiative, especially given the fact that she's just in middle school. this week we remember one of world war ii's most significant battle, the battle of the bulge. as winston churchill famously said, this is, quote, undoubtedly the greatest american battle of the war. unquote. the battle of the bulge, which occurred in europe, lasted over a month. it is significant because it was the last major german offensive on the western front, ultimately ending in an allied victory. in this defensive stand, the courage and fortitude of the american forces were challenged. but ultimately liberty prevailed. i want to thank lauren for taking the time to write to me and for placing special emphasis on a conflict that affected every american family and spanned the globe. and with that, mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. mr. thompson: thank you. i rise today to recognize the anniversary of the ratification of the bill of rights. yesterday we celebrated bi

. >> we have republican congresswoman stephanie bice of oklahoma with us now. she is a member of the house doge caucus which i wonder if you thought that you would be a member of a caucus by that name, but nonetheless, thanks for joining us. congresswoman musk has said that he thinks doge could cut about $2 trillion, or roughly a third of annual federal spending how do you do that look i think there's a lot of ways that we can do that. >> there's two pieces to the spending pie the mandatory and discretionary. >> and i think looking at the entire federal budget and figuring out where are those pieces and where can we find efficiencies, is important. i'm actually really excited for vivek and elon to be here on capitol hill this afternoon to talk to members of the house and senate about their ideas. give us some some information on what you want to see but republicans are excited. we know that there is excess spending in government. we want to rein in that waste. and we want people to help us. and i think having vivek and elon on our side is going to be a great op

this off in india, police of use t, a gas to break up a protest. bice tom is attempting to most of the capital new data. they've been pressurizing of a government to guarantee minimum prices for that crowd zone to provide grace of state simple suited russia and by the rules of cyber security impact that brings by the recent moscow is new to grow us. and we said for allowing rushed to deploy the tactical nuclear weapons that russian president vladimir putin on beller assembly. that alexander looked to shank, signed the treaty at the meeting in minsk. i'm still looking for that goal so asked that present project to deploy intermediate ranged ballistic myself in his country to put arthritis. 5 ministers blamed anti semitism for an awesome attack at a melvin synagogue. and the album, a society was aimed at closing fia, the 5 course extensive damage in police, searching for the 2 suspects has been an increase in targeted attacks in australia since the will in cost of the soft career where i present you. and so p o will face on the page, but if it's on the side today follow in case of failed

who is and they'll give to you the bice being a bit nice. gunpoint back to school today like many places in germany. the town of simmons has itself become home to immigrants in search of a bench, a line, the back in 1824. the people of huntsville cope to find that that's a life in selling the poto and southern brazil. the then further it says in men room and the father side, it's more like this monument was directed in 1924 on the 39 1st german immigrants and she got all arrived on july the 25th 1824. it's only a powder in the state of rio rancho do so that on the banks of 3 of those cmos is and i'm also the result the seems to take a longer cap with us the show they all have to we came here to film the area was find massive flooding the west in the history of real ground to it, to, to devastate it's only a photo, a city of $200000.00 inhabitants and the cradle of german immigration. the when we visited at the beginning of april, the museum was still intact. morning welcome to the museum, takes us back to the 1824. on july, the 25th 8 families and a few single men arrived here towards th

i also appreciate the efforts of stephanie bice and joe morelle who want to see the efforts improve congress continue. i want to thank speaker emerita pelosi for her vision in creating the modernization committee and for her faith in me to serve as its chair. it has been such an honor to get to learn from her throughout my time in congress. i also got to work with amazing committee staff, yuri, derek, who over the last four years spent more time than anyone i know working to improve congress. ally and jake who built the committee from the ground up. and marion who brought more content knowledge on congress than anybody. it takes special people to try new things. and i want to applaud all of the committee staff for the courage and commitment to that cause. we were also blessed to work with a cohort of nonprofits and think tanks and academics who dedicated their time and energy to making government work better. and their work matters. to state the obvious there is a lot more work to do there. we are better than our current politics. and i feel so lucky to have been partners with them and i sur

bice has missile defense facilities in airports. oh, target says it is ready. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has arrived in court for the 1st time to give evidence in his corruption trial. didn't yahoo faces charges of broad breaches of trust and accepting bribes, taking facts 2019. he denies a charges the returning to israel's war on gaza, mass killing and stuff ation are in daily reality is now continued for 430 days with more than 44700 people killed, including $17000.00 children on tuesday is ready for us is launched a series of strikes on central gallons. a video shows scenes of devastation following an a strike on a residential building in almost throughout the refugee camp and central cancer ate palestinians including 7 members of the same family, were killed and several others injured. 20 people were also killed in an attack on a building, sheltering displaced people near accounts with city hunting. mach moved, joins us down from dow pallet and central gaza. honey can just took us through the, the developments that have o

under like data, is leader of the country, essentially ask thing like a mafia boss and attempting to bice the vacuous votes. well simply remarkable. charlotte, you said that this fits those only the 3rd western liter 2 visits and put in here in, in moscow since the start of this special military operation. what's been the reaction to his visit? well, as you can imagine brussels appropriately, not particularly happy about the fact that a 2nd team leader referred to you lead to role that has come and met president pete in the 2nd, they see it but fluid overall since the south of b. s. m o a but we haven't had any official reactions from brussels yet. however, we have been hearing from the deputy for administer from poland, who's talked about the fact that it's consistent with slovakia and hungry is policy towards russia and that essentially. so if i can needs to sort itself out and rely on the fact that it can't have this cheap russian friends. so no issue to mind to sympathy. we did also have from the finish up prime minister. we'd be meeting with some you need is on sunday saying, but in

waste a spin on also, i don't know if that name before that and you know, see not only appropriate bice, but i can also, i have to be in a manual, happened is, i think, one your work, and i think i'll get back online where i thought of the man i knew it though, so low in the single present the only se, proto, see. i mean, the 13th may not seem where it goes. so, i mean, all the, yeah, it's up with the can make on the screen. i just, you know, in the next that i had to see and then columbia, with all bands on for the hampton. those are gonna put them at the see, i don't know in the policy and the money for that. but what else then pick normal here heading for unless you only look when he goes, he owns by them on one of them a get them. i don't want to put one quote on the good news. they who they see. and this advice, i'm assuming this investment when buy spouse as opposed to dollars. but it seemed easy because i seemed easy because each entity gets for them. yes, it is in the way it all the me and it was just a phone call. but all that, joseph, what about kimberly bought a god going on

he wants to help bice take criminal threats off the street and help ice look for national security threats help ice find over 340,000 missing children which many of them are going to be in the city. so a great meeting and hats off to the mayor for coming to the table and working with us. >> sean: you have any other meetings planned with any of the democrats at this time? >> no i don't. but i will tell you this, ever since i met with mayor adams, some other mayors and i can't -- i don't want to give them up right now because i have to call them back by have been contacted by a couple of the mayors. even the governor was willing to speak with me. so it mayor adams did today is not only good for new york city but i think it is going to be a domino effect. i'm hoping that some other mayors come forward after seeing the success we had today. >> sean: anybody by the name of gavin newsom ever contact you? >> he will never contact me. >> sean: would you meet with him? >> i would meet with anybody to talk about public safety. that's what irritates me, shawn. you have these politicians who sit there

. >> now we're stephanie bice. >> ridiculous. you got it. >> as much as they got on each other's nerves, they had each other's backs. >> it looks like your ex-wife. she looks like laurie. yeah. indeed. >> as divorce became so commonplace that shows that diverted from family life in the 70s really reflected what was happening in reality in america. >> i was a latchkey kid. i came home from school. i came home from school, locked the door behind me, and then you could watch an hour of tv. >> latchkey kids desperately search for something relatable on television. >> i talked to my folks. i told them i dropped out of school, and my father said to my mother, he said, see, margie, i told you we shouldn't have had him. >> welcome back, kotter. >> it's in my bones. >> it's in my dna. >> that slow, sexy. welcome back. >> your dreams were your ticket out. welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about. >> boy, what an honor. >> am i, class all four marx brothers wacko, stupid, jerko and domo. >> the sweathogs were a collection

she continues to evade questions about how she spent public bice release or options on the facts that have been presented so far. anything it is in the best interest of the 15 people that we are able to hold accountable officials to view says officials up to you so far, corruption in other misdeeds, president for them. and marcus junior has said he's not in favor of impeaching the 3rd to it will side down the house. it will side on the senate. it will just take up all of them and for not for one, for nothing. for 3 legislators have endorsed the latest impeachment complaint. i don't believe that any decent process because of the value because it is that you shouldn't even be and don't want people who showed it shouldn't be by the house. outside an indignant crowd demanded the vice president be removed from office. the house of representatives is dominated by allies. the president, craig, and marcus, junior members of congress have been investigating the possible misuse of more than $10000000.00 of discretionary government funds by vice president. serves the 3rd day. now they'll be deci

and this is coming from a republican congresspeople, tom cole, stephanie bice, mario diaz-balart. there is apparently some kind of an agreement. there would be an announcement shortly. i wonder what is in there. obviously, we're learning this as we're speaking, but you previously said that you saw this impasse coming because the bill doesn't fix spending issues more broadly. you've argued that other republicans who are now expressing surprise should have seen this coming. you said earlier today on another network, quote, shame on us. who in your party do you think bears responsibility for this? >> well, we all do in many ways, if you think about it, we've had control of the budget for two years now. since i was voted into congress. i haven't seen anything conservative really pass. when you talk about the the, the fema and the budget, we have to relieve people who have hurricane damage and. devastation. 40% of this year's fema budget, according to the hearings we just had, fema director was there. and the report they did in april showed that 40%, almost half the budget was spent on

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bice: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to celebrate my incredible marine corps fellow, major suzette molett for her trend work. she's been instrumental in preparing for defense events and legislation, especially when it comes to the defense appropriations and milcon v.a. portfolios. her tireless work, wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise has been crucial in crafting legislation that directly benefits our service members in oklahoma's fifth district. her hard work in my office and service to our nation is applaudable. i'd also be remiss if i didn't mention sue's leadership during marine corps day. she led a group of hill staff through numerous exercises and my office still talks about it to this day. i can't thank her enough for her dedication, not only to her country, but to her office, her family and her horses. she will be truly missed. thank you for everything you've done for america and for team bice. with that, mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the m

bice: i rise today to bid farewell to a gentleman and colleague who has been with me from the very beginning. in the spring or summer of 2020, i received a call from a number i did not recognize, from an area code i had never seen. and i answered the phone and on the other end was a gentleman by the name of kelly armstrong. he told me he'd been watching my race, that he was very impressed, that he'd heard about me because of connections through the oil and gas industry, and that he wanted to support me. why i didn't know and maybe to this day i still wonder. but that began an incredible friendship. and for the last 4 1/2 or five years, you have been an incredible mentor, a wonderful friend, the best strategist in congress. you make us laugh. and that is something that money can't buy. it was mentioned earlier that this is a lonely place. it is one of those institutions that you really don't understand it unless you're here. it's hard. there are hard days. and you need those people that you can look at and smile at and recognize that they get it. they understand what you're going through. and

i also appreciate the efforts of stephanie bice and joe morelle who want to see the efforts improve congress continue. i want to thank speaker emerita pelosi for her vision in creating the modernization committee and for her faith in me to serve as its chair. it has been such an honor to get to learn from her throughout my time in congress. i also got to work with amazing committee staff, yuri, derek, who over the last four years spent more time than anyone i know working to improve congress. ally and jake who built the committee from the ground up. and marion who brought more content knowledge on congress than anybody. it takes special people to try new things. and i want to applaud all of the committee staff for the courage and commitment to that cause. we were also blessed to work with a cohort of nonprofits and think tanks and academics who dedicated their time and energy to making government work better. and their work matters. to state the obvious there is a lot more work to do there. we are better than our current politics. and i feel so lucky to have been partners with them and i sur

i'd like to thank representative stephanie bice, lee, esposito, murphy and calvert for their work and support on this important legislation. i believe that teaching foreign influence out of our elections is an idea we can all get behind. i'd like to thank ranking member mr. morrellee, my democratic colleague on the committee on house administration, and the committee staff working together on this important piece of legislation. americans deserve free, fair, and secure elections. the shield act will bring us one step closer to making sure that happens. we should pass the shield act to keep foreign funding out of our elections. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, sir. mr. morelle, i also want to share my thoughts with the folks at abundant life christian school, and certainly to the students, the faculty, the staff, the parents, keep them very close in our hearts and very much in our prayers. i speak this afternoon, mr. speaker, in support of h.r. 9488 as