shreve: you heard about that? the business was storage express, the company i started right out of college. i incorporated before i graduated my senior year at indiana university. i learned everything about business by taking a business from a building and growing it into a portfolio. it was wholly owned by me, up until the point i traded it into a great big public company. so i had that experience, a small start up business to midsize regional operator, traded into a national company. i took a seat on their board of directors. i learned an extraordinary amount of business. but some of it is pretty simple. you've got to satisfy your customers, meet your payroll, cover your payments, and do all those things to stay in business. >> how does that experience and those lessons learned apply to someone entering congress? what will you bring to the program here? rep. shreve: some sensibility from a fiscal standpoint that i think is much needed in government. if you have a small person or a big business, you don't have a

shreve: you heard about that? the business was storage express, the company i started right out of college. i incorporated before i graduated my senior year at indiana university. i learned everything about business by taking a business from a building and growing it into a portfolio. it was wholly owned by me, up until the point i traded it into a great big public company. so i had that experience, a small start up business to midsize regional operator, traded into a national company. i took a seat on their board of directors. i learned an extraordinary amount of business. but some of it is pretty simple. you've got to satisfy your customers, meet your payroll, cover your payments, and do all those things to stay in business. >> how does that experience and those lessons learned apply to someone entering congress? what will you bring to the program here? rep. shreve: some sensibility from a fiscal standpoint that i think is much needed in government. if you have a small person or a big business, you don't have a

shreve: you heard about that? the business was storage express, the company i started right out of college. i incorporated before i graduated my senior year at indiana university. i learned everything about business by taking a business from a building and growing it into a portfolio. it was wholly owned by me, up until the point i traded it into a great big public company. so i had that experience, a small start up business to midsize regional operator, traded into a national company. i took a seat on their board of directors. i learned an extraordinary amount of business. but some of it is pretty simple. you've got to satisfy your customers, meet your payroll, cover your payments, and do all those things to stay in business. >> how does that experience and those lessons learned apply to someone entering congress? what will you bring to the program here? rep. shreve: some sensibility from a fiscal standpoint that i think is much needed in government. if you have a small person or a big business, you don't have a

shreve: some sensibility from a fiscal standpoint that i think is much needed in government. if you have a small person or a big business, you don't have a printing press in the basement like you have in congress. that sense of being grounded in the math, having to work the budget, having to work long term , is a perspective i'm going to bring to the team as we bring together, and in turn to manage the debt crisis so many feel we are facing, to turn that trendline around. >> how do you consider yourself politically? how would you describe yourself? rep. shreve: i am part of the governing majority as a republican, and we have an opportunity going into the new congress with a governing majority in the house, senate, and administration, to get some things done that were not possible in the 118th congress. i know how frustrating that was for my predecessor and others in the last congress. i think we have the opportunity, even the exigency, with which we have got to govern and manage the fiscal affairs of our country in the 119th. i would describe myself as a fiscal conservative a

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shreve: joey was deeply loved by his parents, kathy and jameson. they have turned their grief into action, sharing joey's story to help prevent other families from experiencing similar heartbreak. last week on this house floor, i voted for the halt fentanyl act. it represents a crucial step to providing law enforcement with the necessary tools to keep these deadly drugs off of our streets and to save countless lives. we must come together to confront this crisis, by securing our borders, by holding traffickers accountable, and to supporting those impacted. together we can save lives and in doing so honor the legacy of joey hanlon. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in the two years since the dobbs decision, we've seen nothing short other tha