i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from maryland. mr. raskin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i am rising in support of the federal agency performance act and i thank my colleagues mr. timmons and mr. khanna to modernize the act from 1993. and i am pleased to support this bipartisan legislation. i want to thank senator peters that chairs the homeland security committee for his leadership. it established a performance management framework in 1993 for federal government agencies. it was last modernized in 2010 and we are overdue serious attention to make sure the framework is operating as smoothly as it can. this bill would promote further accountability and transparency and codify o.m.b.'s practice of conducting reviews of strategic performance goals and it would set new requirements to improve publicly available data on performance . gov allowing the public greater transparency towards the goals that have been set forth. the bill makes updates to ensure agencies are providing services to the pe

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. latta: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from georgia's first district. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. carter: i rise in support of h.r. 1377. thank you to the bipartisan sponsors of this bill for working to protect our national security and global competitiveness. our advery sayres such as china are working diligently to gain and edge over the u.s. when it comes to wireless technology and deemployment. let me be clear. economic security is national security. again. economic security is national security. it is imperative we maintain our lead. we must continue to be at the front line of innovation which meansn standards setting organizations. i was proud to support this legislation when it passed committee unanimously and i urge my colleagues to support this as well. mr. speaker, i'd also like to py my respects to chairman waldrop because i liked sitting next to him in energy and commerce and it's been a pleasure working

larsen: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. graves: at this time i would yield two minutes to the the gentleman from louisiana, and the aviation subcommittee chair, mr. graves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. graves: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, thank you. this bill is really important water resources development act. it authorizes all the activities of the u.s. army corps of engineers. mr. speaker, something that's really key here is that under this chairman we have been able to keep this bill on a two-year cycle. i want to thank all of the republican and democrat members for keeping this on cycle. that's important. because this is about resiliency of our communities. it's about the economy. and economic engines our ports cause. and places like coastal louisiana. this bill includes a number of priorities in our congressional district, one of the most active corps of engineer di districts in the nation. including con

the gentlewoman reserves. mrs. peltola: reserve.he speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. maloy: i recognize mr. fulcher of idaho for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. fulcher: thank you, mr. chairman, to my good colleague from the state of utah, thank you for your work and leadership on this. mr. chairman, i rise in support of s. 2781, the good smair tan remediation of abandoned hardrock mines act of 2024. according to the government accountability office there's over 140,000 abandoned hardrock mines on public lands. at least 1,225 of these pose serious danger to communities around them. historically this cure dahlin mining region produces most of the silver and lead in the united states. with a leg say dating back to the 18 90's. however this history resulted in thousands of abandoned hardrock mines on federal lands. in some cases they degrade the environment. this bill simply provides limited liability protections for groups willing to step up and help. it allows good samarita

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. mr.mith: i'm prepared -- i continue to reserve. mr. rogers: at this time i'd like to yield one minute to dr. murphy of north carolina. mr. murphy: thank you, representative rogers. i rise in support of the national defense authorization act for fy-2025 to fund our military and take care of our troops. it's my honor to represent our nation's greatest fighters at camp lejeune and the marine air stations at cherry point and new river. this legislation robustly funds and modernizes our armed forces to prepare us for threats abroad and includes the quality of life for our service members and their families and refocuses the pentagon's mission on national security and away from political distractions. the package will strengthen our military and its lethality and deliver pay raises for our troops, improve access to childcare, and improve employment for military services and will eliminate woke programs and cut political bureaucracy and support the deployment of national guard troops to assist o

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. johnson: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. one of the most important responsibilities the house gives the judiciary committee is to oversee the revision and codification of the statutes of the united states. keeping track of the new laws congress passes every session is a formidable challenge, but it is an essential part of maintaining the rule of law in our country and it is a role we take seriously on the judiciary committee. i thank the chairman of the committee for bringing this legislation to the floor on a bipartisan basis today to further this important duty. the body of federal law is so large and complex at this point that it would be almost completely unmanageable without the united statescode. currently consisting of 54 titles, the code compiles the general and permanent laws of the united states into coherent subject areas. this

raskin: we will reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from colorado is recognized. mrs.boebert: i yield 45 seconds mr. griffin. mr. grijalva: i rise to support this -- >> i represent the committee of fair lawn, virginia. it has a bradford city zip code. in most of the 50 states, the cities are within a county. but in virginia, the cities are completely independent. all of the tax money for the businesses in fairlawn get sent to the city of bradford which is independent of the county and denying the county to track down the amounts of money they are supposed to receive on the local part of the virginia sales tax. this confusion can create other problems. our area was hit with hurricane helene. the county got its designation early -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired the gentlewoman from colorado. mrs.boebert: i yield an additional 15 seconds. >> hurricane helene hits and the county is designated before bradford for fema assistance and people in fairlawn are not in this county. i yield back. mrs.boeb

with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut. ms. delauro: prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is prepared to close. ms. delauro: i would like to take a moment in the time that i have to highlight that we did come to an agreement and acknowledged that there are things in this bill that reflect the bipartisan and bicameral agreement on disaster relief. and i also might add, as the ranking member member on appropriations, we came to agreement on moving forward on appropriations bills. and the supplemental, by the way, includes substantial democratic wins. and since the summer of september, 2023 we have been pushing republicans for a comprehensive disaster supplemental. we have an agreement in $100 billion in disaster aid and $8 billion for emergency highway funds and paying the full 100% cost to replace the key bridge in maryland. $2.3 billion in disaster loans for small businesses. more than $3 billion for water infrastructure grants from the e.p.a. and 1.5 billion for the

reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, despite the bill's title, h.r. 115 is not really intended to address midnight rules. but rather is an effort by our republican colleagues to advance their anti-government, deregulatory agenda under cover of darkness. this legislation may appear to be a modest change to the congressional review act, but do not be fooled, it would enable the republican-controlled 119th congress to use a turbo charged c.r.a. to nullify every rule issued by public agencies under the biden administration since the entire year of 2024 in a single party-line vote. under the c.r.a. if a rule is overturned, agencies are forever prohibited from considering without new congressional authorization a substantially similar, in quotes, rule. an unreviewable, vague, and harmful sand that would undermine agency's statutory m

with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. kennedy: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kennedy: mr. speaker, many u.s. truck drivers and other transportation workers must undergo transportation security administration background checks as a requirement for employment. workers requiring access to secure areas within maritime posts must undergo a background check to receive a transportation worker identification credential known as twic. likewise, truck drivers authorized to transport haz hazardous materials must undergo a background check to receive hazardous materials or hazmat endorsement. in fact, many workers with both a twic and a hazmat endorsement and though t.s.a. has made progress in reducing requirements for such workers, they are still subject to far too many duplicative burdens and costs. the transportation security screening modernization act of 2024 would help eliminate and ease those burde

the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: a deal is a deal. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, the ranking member of the energy and commerce committee, mr. pallone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pallone: have the republicans forgotten they're in the majority? the bill that was supposed to come up was posted and negotiated by the republican speaker. he posted it. he negotiated it. and you know, you know that the bill you're bringing up instead tonight will not pass. we will leave here tonight, this bill will not pass. so you are the ones creating the shutdown. you have the power to decide what bills come to the floor. you are putting a bill on this floor that you know will not pass and will lead to a republican shutdown. it's on you because you have the majority. now, i want to talk about this other bill that was supposed to come up and that you refused to bring up. this bill was negotiated because we realized for one,

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from mouses is recognized. mr. burlison: i yield four minutes to the gentlelady from north carolina, ms. foxx. ms. foxx: people hiring on their skills. i introduced the chance to compete act. as the largest employer in the nation with almost 2.2 million employees, it is time for the federal government to base its hiring on viable skills instead of degrees or self evaluation. people should be hired on their ability to do the job. this is an idea that the private sector figured out. and easy to see current federal hiring practices are broken. and on self-valuations allow candidates to grossly inflate their qualifications and claim to be experts end quote on a particular subject but not being evaluated by an objective standard. hard working taxpayers are forced to pay for employees who cannot properly perform their own jobs. i have seen this play out recently while my office has been dealing with fema and other federal agencies in the wake of hurricane helene. fortunately t

about the federal reserve. _ cause. about the federal reserve, senior- cause.he federal reserve, senior official l reserve, senior official christopher wallace is progress on curbing inflation may be stalling, do you expect a number rate cut this month? house paul is a rate cut this month and a further two next yearfor month and a further two next year for the month and a further two next yearfor the federal month and a further two next year for the federal reserve, it is a close call they may look closely at this week's jobs data, we are forecasting a $275,000 increase in non—farm payrolls if we see a much stronger release we me say —— stronger release we me say “— we stronger release we me say —— we may stronger release we me say “— we may see stronger release we me say —— we may see the federal reserve as a trigger to court we think there is still room to cut rates at this meeting and may be paused for a little while after that. what is happening here is the federal reserve has moved to a more gradual pace of production with policy rates after the first 50 b

i will reserve comment in terms of commander booker the fire reserve when they present. mr.resident. >> thank you. >> thank you for your great report chief tong and you covered a lot of good items. i want to thank you for going to all the holiday events and representing the fire department. irrelevant appreciate that. i know you had a busy schedule. [laughter]. >> it is in the over. >> yea. and you know the -- the -- tsunami alert -- i think this thing almost blew a speaker out on my cell phone. may be i can get reimbursed with my speakers acts funny since this alert went off. no it is a good practice. and -- thank god it did not affect the city. we want to stay on our drills and training. you know. you brought update deficit which is scary, too, our budget, you know. because, you know, you know, with this -- um -- you know, with the -- you know who know what is is coming with the new administration and funding and grants of this nature. you know we need to still keep facilitating the fire department to give you what you need. to save lives and protect the city. we will you

he grew up in fort yates on the standing rock reservation. like most native families at the time, his also is impacted by painful separation due to boarding schools such as the carlisle indian industrial school. at the time he was born, native nativeamericans were not considd u.s. citizens. it feels remarkable to me that his granddaughter is now leading a federal agency whose sole mission is to support the social and economic development of native people and promote tribal governance and the revitalization of the languages and cultures. hhs has been tackling public safety issues in indian country had on for some time. particularly missing murdered indigenous people and human trafficking. we are deeply engaged in providing health and human services and every native community. full spectrum integrate culturally appropriate care is focus on prevention, intervention and healing. for example my agency ana provide significant grants that support trauma informed services to victims of violence culturally grounded in programs programssuch as native l

hageman: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i now yield three minutes to the gentlelady from colorado, representative careveo the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. caraveo: thank you, representative nadler. mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 7198, the prove it act. i would like to thank my colleagues, congressman finstad and congressman moran to run with me to help with this legislation. colorado has 600 small businesses owned by men and women who work hard day in and day out to provide for our families and serve our communities. small business owners face innumerable hurdles and burdensome regulations hurt them. and they are long lasting and affect our communities particularly on the front range and northern colorado. unfortunately, the requirement for analyzing both direct and indirect costs imposed on small businesses has often not been satisfied by various federal agencies. that is where our bill comes in? this bill would allow small business ow

on his sister reservation. in closing, i would like to say that i am encouraged their movements to highlight this issue in hearings like today, to help recognize and address the wrongs to the native women in the men and help prevent them in the future. i am tired of crying out loud on this issue. and i don't want to do that anymore. i want to experience progress. anime thank you again, for your time. >> thank you mary jane. colin. [background sounds]. >> ranking member and honorable members of this community, i so appreciate holding this hearing giving a space today. i service tribal ambassador for my tribe for over seven years. i was an advocate for all of that tribes inmate is incoming executive director. and bryant. [speaking in native tongue] many in from the nation, these warrior women it here today and given me the courage to see them also domestic violence victim. an amendment so to me in the eye and said, i can kill you right here and nobody would ever know. and he was right, and so lucky that he did no

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. mr. smith: i'm prepared -- i continue to reserve. mr. rogers: at this time i'd like to yield one minute to dr. murphy of north carolina. mr. murphy: thank you, representative rogers. i rise in support of the national defense authorization act for fy-2025 to fund our military and take care of our troops. it's my honor to represent our nation's greatest fighters at camp lejeune and the marine air stations at cherry point and new river. this legislation robustly funds and modernizes our armed forces to prepare us for threats abroad and includes the quality of life for our service members and their families and refocuses the pentagon's mission on national security and away from political distractions. the package will strengthen our military and its lethality and deliver pay raises for our troops, improve access to childcare, and improve employment for military services and will eliminate woke programs and cut political bureaucracy and support the deployment of national guard troops to assist

with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut. ms. delauro: prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is prepared to close. ms. delauro: i would like to take a moment in the time that i have to highlight that we did come to an agreement and acknowledged that there are things in this bill that reflect the bipartisan and bicameral agreement on disaster relief. and i also might add, as the ranking member member on appropriations, we came to agreement on moving forward on appropriations bills. and the supplemental, by the way, includes substantial democratic wins. and since the summer of september, 2023 we have been pushing republicans for a comprehensive disaster supplemental. we have an agreement in $100 billion in disaster aid and $8 billion for emergency highway funds and paying the full 100% cost to replace the key bridge in maryland. $2.3 billion in disaster loans for small businesses. more than $3 billion for water infrastructure grants from the e.p.a. and 1.5 billion for the

it's not on reservations. rural idaho, rural montana or stuff, but you find the problem on reservations because they know they don't have the same law enforcement on there that they're less likely to get caught on a reservation than if they committed it in camis county idaho because there you'll have the feds, state police, local, county, everything else. this jurisdiction issue has got to be solved. i ought to be able to go -- if i get arrested on the reservation for whatever, for speeding or whatever, i ought to know where my responsibility is. do i go to the tribal court to pay my fine? or do i go to -- you know? right now that's even confusing. i thank you all for being here. thank you for being here for the entire testimony of the brave woman that came and testified before. we will be looking to you because i'm sure we have spurred ideas among our members that -- about how to address this and we will be looking to you for ideas to tell us whether these ideas make sense of things that come w up. so i suspe

i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. guthrie: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield five minutes to my good friend, the gentleman from new york, mr. molinaro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. molinaro: thank you, mr. speaker. and i thank my friend, mr. guthrie, for his work on the energy and commerce committee and look forward to his leadership. this is the bill i introduced when i came to the house of representatives. as noted, i'm the parent of four children, one of whom lives with a disability. my wife and i have navigated the medicaid supported system like every other american and it is confusing, it is burdensome, it is bureaucratic, and many times it's too difficult to find your way to medicaid supported services. let me assure you, there's always a waiting list. and most families in america and care for those with intellectual disabilities don't have time to find their way to local service providers and don't know the ins and outs o

i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserve? ms. waters: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves. the gentlelady from texas. ms. de la cruz: i reserve. ms. waters: i yield three minutes to the the gentlemanfrom california, mr. sherman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sherman: congress over the years has created federal programs that help the housing insecure, particularly veterans. now, of course, to qualify for these programs you need to have income under a certain threshold. however, we have to focus on how do you calculate that income level, particularly, do you include disability benefits in the income of those seeking this housing, usually homeless people seeking the housing? i think that you should not, especially when the effect of considering that disability payment is to deny housing to a homeless disabled veteran. our internal revenue code already recognizes that disability benefits paid to veterans are not to be considered income. and at our urging, the department of housing and

because it was off the reservation. so these jurisdictions bother me when they are used for, he should be -- they should be in a federal prison. i feel that we need to look at -- look at the laws on the reservation. and work with the tribal -- tribal people. it is going to be a long haul. but i just sometimes think, i don't even know. got told the story about the little tribal police chasing me. i don't even know who has jurisdiction. i am 84 years old and i should know, but i don't. so that is a big -- that is a biggie, and that needs to be worked on. >> so i think a lot of good, reasonable people would look at this and think there is a baseline for justice. there is a baseline that people are human beings and deserve full treatment under the law no matter who they are and where they come from, and that is not our reality. i think abigail did a beautiful job talking about these specific examples of where this traumatic history has led some of our people. they fall through the cracks and nobody cares enough to pick them

with that, i reserve my time. the speaker: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: i yield myself a minute. i would point out in the last election that the gentleman keeps referring to, republicans did prevail. they preprial -- prevailed up and down. presidency, the senate and the house. it's a narrow margin, to be sure, but that keeps you on your toes when you're trying to manage a very slim majority. i think for the first time in history it is a larger majority in the senate than there will be in the house next -- in the next congress. but the american people heard a vision articulated by our presidential candidate, president trump, and they responded to it. i mean, what has failed the last two years has been leadership from the white house. it has been nonexistent. so we are entering a day where there will be a bold vision for america. articulated by soon to be 47th president donald j. trump and i for one am grateful and looking forward to his leadership on that. i reserve. the speaker: the gentleman reserves.

they couldn't decide, she had been kill canned on the reservation but her body found off the reservationsmust say -- i'm working, bus stop in the city. four months later her family contacts me and my organization and asks usil to help because ty had not heard anything, police in the jurisdiction, the city police. we reached out and talked to him, we didn't know the jurisdiction it was,us she had been found 6 imps outside of the been theit would have city.n the city is the one who discovered the body and then transport today the hospital and took them four months and a small native nonprofit working at the tribe at another state to push them toward signing an investigator who by then most of the evidence was gone and her death was ruled under determined because there was nothing left for them to investigate. this maize of jurisdiction is an excuse,n we published report in 2018 looking at urban women and only 8% of those who reported in urban jurisdictions saw the conviction of those that assaulted them, all of the things that many women faced. then it is used as excuse of those in urban ar

he was a sergeant first class in the army reserve...renades and heavy weapons. (fires) (explosion echoes) and that's where he first met his friend sean hodgson. >> great guy, you can always rely on him. that guy would hand you money out of his own pocket and really didn't care if you paid him back or not. i lost my place to live. i got evicted. i called robert card, and unexpectedly, he told me to get my butt up here. you know, he helped me out, gave me a place to live till i got back on my feet. >> sean hodgson was robert card's best friend. he was also a delivery driver for the same company, and they would often spend their nights as they are driving their trucks on speakerphone with one another, just kind of passing the time chatting. there was a real trust there. >> once we got our schedules aligned, we started going bowling on our days off. just-in-time bowling alley. >> narrator: the two men supported each other through difficult times in their lives. >> sean was deployed to afghanistan. he describes that he was havg very serious

true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god. >> i do. >> congratulations. congratulations to you both. do you have family members here? okay. hi guys. hi. >> they have waited a long time to meet you. >> we have to properly meet. who was this, what is your name. it's very nice to meet you. very nice to meet you, august. >> intuition? >> kamala harris. >> you know what, i was once a united states senator and it takes a whole family to do this work and i thank you guys for giving your dad permission to do this work. your whole family. really great things. thank you all. >> i look forward to it. take care. i will see you next time. every two years? what's going on? [laughter] good to see you again. public servant. pushy arm back just a little. >> like that? >> repeat after me. do solemnly swear that you will supported defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign

scott: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia reserves.he gentlewoman from new mexico is recognized. ms. leger fernandez: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from vermont, my colleague and friend, miss palin. ms. -- balint. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. miss balint: this is a message to all my colleagues voting on the ndaa and americans who might be watching, you are being misled. our most cynical republican colleagues are telling you that democrats are pushing for sterilization and surgery for kids in military families. let me be absolutely clear, this is not true. that's not what's going on here. here's what is true. tricare currently covers appropriate gender affirming hormone therapy for all military dependents, period. the kind of care that millions of doctors support as safe and effective. now, republicans want to rebeing strict this. but only for transkids. they are targeting transkids and their families. and saying what kind of health care is appropriate for them. this is a very