mr. kildee, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemafr mhin reze for one minute. mr. kildee: thank you madam speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. you know, i feel compelled to point out, after listening to the debate and the hyperbole, passionate thoughts of what a high priority this is for the republican leadership, to bring this bill to the floor such a high priority that they didn't think about it until late last night. didn't bring it to committee rushed it to the floor without having even thought of this legislation until late last night. such a high priority. we know, the american people know this is political theater . and listening to the debate, it's also quite revealing in listening to some of the comments made, that this is not about taxpayer funding for the health care choices that american women legally have and the constitution supports and that the supreme court collarified 42 years ago -- clarified 42 years ago. but it's about preventing women from making that choice in the first place. that's a choice that ought to be made by women, by themselves,

mr. kildee, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemafr mhin reze for one minute. mr. kildee: thank you madam speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. you know, i feel compelled to point out, after listening to the debate and the hyperbole, passionate thoughts of what a high priority this is for the republican leadership, to bring this bill to the floor such a high priority that they didn't think about it until late last night. didn't bring it to committee rushed it to the floor without having even thought of this legislation until late last night. such a high priority. we know, the american people know this is political theater . and listening to the debate, it's also quite revealing in listening to some of the comments made, that this is not about taxpayer funding for the health care choices that american women legally have and the constitution supports and that the supreme court collarified 42 years ago -- clarified 42 years ago. but it's about preventing women from making that choice in the first place. that's a choice that ought to be made by women, by themselves,

mr. kildee: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. here we are the second day of the 114th congress. it has not yet been 24 hours since members of this congress were sworn in. and what we have before us is a package of 11 complex bills with significant implications for our financial system, some of which, and i want to make this very clear as my friend pointed out some of which has not gone through the process of scrutiny through the financial services committee or the regular legislative process. some of it has, some of it has not. but it has not at all by this congress. this is not an emergency. unlike tria, which expired before we left, there is not a time-sensitive nature of this question. it is really important to me and especially as now a second-term member, to remember what it was like to show up here and have things put in front of us that we have not really had a chance to fully and thoroughly vet. regular order was spoken about yesterday, it is critical for the minority to have access to the process and it's only done throu

mr. kildee: we can take up an infrastructure bill. we can ensure every young person to go to community college. we can take up the big questions that the american people expect us to address, that are important to growing our economy. but we're not doing that. instead this morning leadership will present to this body legislation that will again seek to curtail the health care rights of women. not because you have some expectation that it will become law, but i believe because it's just another attempt to pandor to the more extreme voices to the base. we're called -- president and others have called to us to elevate the dialogue in congress and elevate our aspirations for our country. we have legislation before us that would put limitations on the choices that women have and even deny access to abortion services to save the life of a mother. this is the wrong direction. we need to reject it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time h eir. for what purposdo t gen eoiaee recognion? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house fo

mr. pocan: and, again, thank you so much, representative kildee. when you mention the auto industry, i have to say that i grew up in kenosha, wisconsin. american motors was the company that ran the town. almost had a family member, neighbor, that worked at american motors. there were mistakes along the way but american motors eventually went away to chrysler. went away to nothing. and the people who had the strong family supporting wages that auto industry, that companies replaced the auto industry are jellybean manufacturers and companies like that, doesn't pay the same wage, doesn't support the family the same way and just as we were promised with the korean free frayed agreement that 70,000 jobs would be created. instead, 60,000 jobs were lost and that's exactly why we have to be involved now while it matters, not after it's been negotiated. we don't have a debate. we don't have a chance to amend it. so thank you for all your work on this and on behalf of the people of michigan. . i want to recognize another colleague of mine, someone who's been

mr. kildee: it's now week four and the new republican congress there's still no jobs bill anywhere in sight. instead of taking up a infrastructure bill or a minimum wage bill, to give working families bigger paychecks, we are seeing a dangerous immigration bill that will actually hurt our nation's security. next week republican leadership is abandoning a bipartisan border security bill from the last congress and instead trying to pass an irresponsible and unworkable $10 billion bill that simply appeases the extreme voices within their caucus. border security experts say this bill would be ineffective. they call it unserious and dangerous for our nation's security. secretary jay johnson says if enacted it would actually leave the border less secure. this does not combat threats or secure our border it simply requires the federal government to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money on unnecessary projects. if we really want to do something here in this house about border security, let's bring up the border security results act that was unanimously passed by the homeland security committe