mr. schneider. mr. schneider: thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you for having this hearing. i thank all our witnesses for share your perspectives today. ms. silver, i want to commend you. i went to your website and saw what you do in company. your investment in people especially young people bringing people into manufacturing is so important. also impressed third generation family business. before i came to congress i was a consultant. i worked with family businesses principally. and getting from the first generation to the second generation is hard. less than a quarter of all businesses make it to that point. less than 10% make it to a third generation. 1% to the fourth. it is really difficult. there are a lot of reasons for that. obviously miss gallagher, i might -- ms. gallagher, i turn to you. you might advise a lot of these businesses. the firm i work for is now part of plant moran where i know you started your career. what do you tell your clients as they approach a point where they are starting to take on too much debt? what is the cost to a family business of having

mr. schneider. rep. schneider: i want to thank you for having this hearing and i thank all of the witnesses for sharing your perspective today. ms. silver, i want to commend you. i looked at your website and so what you do as a company and your investment in young people and bringing people into manufacturing is so important. also impressed, third generation family business. i worked with family businesses, and getting from the first generation to the second generation is hard. a quarter of all businesses make it to that point but less than 10% make the third generation. it is really difficult. there is a lot of reasons for that. obviously, ms. gallagher, i might turn to you. you advised a lot of businesses. i'm guessing a lot of them are family businesses. what do you tell your clients as they approach a point where they are starting to take on too much debt? what is the cost to a family business of having too much of a debt ridden? ms. gallagher: there are a lot of different aspects of a family's finan

mr. schneider: larger than our defense budget. we are paying more in interest and service to our debt than any other line in our discretionary budget. as we stand here and we find ourselves again in this conversation about giving large cuts in taxes to people who are doing really, really well, i'm not talking about small businesses, i'm not talking about folks who are struggling to make ends meet. but to take away from programs like medicaid and investments in education to give a tax cut to people who don't really need it and add to the debt of the country so we are losing -- ms. silver you know from your experiences you are looking to make ends meet, the money that came in during the crisis, the pandemic, allowing companies to invest. i think you invested -- >> now to the floor of the u.s. house for votes. live coverage on c-span. ing ord. the motion to suspend the rules. and pass h.r. 153. the motion to recommit h.r. 28. and passage of h.r. 28, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a is a-minute vote -- as a

mr. mark schneider, historian and nation builder at the colonial williamsburg foundation.llustrious members of congress. my dear friends. please allow me an introduction. today, i believe you know me for a in america. -- i believe you know me far better in america as marquis de lafayette. it is an honor to see you all here on this magnificent day of celebration. the 10th day of december of the year 1824. the last time i set foot up on american soil, it was 40 long years ago. i returned to set up at the signing of the treaty of paris that occurred in september ending that great war for american freedom. now that i return, even though 40 years have passed, we must never forget how independence was, in fact, achieved for all of the soldiers, sailors, and marines. those of color, the native americans who fought for american freedom. let us applaud them all. [applause] dear friends, as you are well aware i have been invited back to america thanks to your own president of the united states mr. monroe to be what he is calling a guest of the nation to tour all 24 united states. 24

mr. schneider same question. what went wrong for democrats with these key coalitions and how to get them back? >> the big thing is we did see massive vote share losses where we had healthy unions and healthy democratic infrastructure. this issue goes back further than november. one of the things when you look at is accountability. being a young organizer in upstate new york i would go and organize workers to form the union. many times i would go to albany and ask for help. many times i was turned away and said do you know what? come back when you have one. or even if you haven't don't come back. there needs to be a level of accounting with the dnc and recruitment of candidates, cognitive candidates as well. if you say going to stand with working people than you did to stand with working people. bottom line, another thing that goes into this as well. we need to reimagine our politics as well. being also a camping professional as well is there many times i we all know this who organized it would look at spreadsheet

my colleagues, congresswoman bonamici, congressman fitzpatrick, and congressman schneider for joining me in this effort. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to join me in uplifting our workforce through this bipartisan legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? mr. wilson: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. the rule of gun access of invasion continues murderous conduct. the iranian regime and cuban communist dictatorship are working to destabilize west africa, with a murderous threat to the kingdom of morocco, an american partner for 250 years. records of the deposed assad syrian dictatorship confirm they sent militias for training last week. last week they invaded p.k.k. terrorists to a summit threatening our valued nato a ally, turkiye. president donald trump stood with morocco recogniz