tonko. obviously, madam speaker, we have an engineer on his toes here this evening. who has picked up on a lot of the points that have been made previously. for example, representative mary gay scanlon and representative tonko both brought up the similarity between expanding broadband internet access to all of the rural place the -- places and nooks and kranies and hollers in this country. the similar between doing that and enacting the rural electrification act 80 years ago by president franklin ruse vet. if we -- roosevelt. if we hadn't done that, so many people would have been left behind, literally in the dark. and if we don't do this, we are going to leave americans behind in the quest for knowledge and keeping up in the modern economy by use of high speed broadband internet. another thing representative tonko just mentioned, madam speaker, is about filling jobs. i represent northeastern pennsylvania. i talk to employers a lot. employers of manufacturing jobs, employers of retail and re

tonko: sure. mr. cartwright: so we've all been seeing these images of, you know, 75, 80 cargo ships off the coast of california, long beach, los angeles, waiting to get in because we're starting up our economy after the pandemic. we shut down. obviously, it's not something we went to school for, shutting down an american economy and starting it back up. but that's what we're doing, and we're muddling it through. you know, there are some painful price hikes here and there because of it. hard to say how long they'll go long. the one thing that struck me, all of those container ships full of -- i mean, they told me it takes 7,000 tractor-trailers to unload a container ship. that's 7,000 containers on a ship. mr. tonko: absolutely. mr. cartwright: over 70 or 80 ships out there in the harbor. all of these goods coming -- manufactured goods coming from china. and it said to me, you know, we read about the trade imbalance. we learn about the trade imbalance. we learn that china is outmanufacturing us and we'

paul tonko has been feeding out of the government trough too long.e and chuck schumer need to get the hell. out. kissing her will not get my vote. kisinger will not be running for reelection. i'm fairly sure mine will be running. i'm hoping that catherine sims will run for congress. no way in hell what i ever vote for lauren boebert. take a look at the makeup of the house as it stands right now. democrats have a slim majority. 221 democrats to 213 republicans. there is one vacancy right now after alcee hastings died april 6. john, we go to you in las vegas, republican. will you reelect your member of congress? caller: i probably will. i have not seen how she is going to vote coming up. host: who is she really quick? caller: i cannot remember her name. host: that's ok. go ahead. caller: i think some of abraham lincoln's observations are relevant right now. in terms of the rancor of the school board, lincoln said the philosophy of the school room in this generation will become the philosophy of the government in the next generation. i think that is the

paul tonko has been feeding out of the government trough too long.e and chuck schumer need to get the hell. out. kissing her will not get my vote. kisinger will not be running for reelection. i'm fairly sure mine will be running. i'm hoping that catherine sims will run for congress. no way in hell what i ever vote for lauren boebert. take a look at the makeup of the house as it stands right now. democrats have a slim majority. 221 democrats to 213 republicans. there is one vacancy right now after alcee hastings died april 6. john, we go to you in las vegas, republican. will you reelect your member of congress? caller: i probably will. i have not seen how she is going to vote coming up. host: who is she really quick? caller: i cannot remember her name. host: that's ok. go ahead. caller: i think some of abraham lincoln's observations are relevant right now. in terms of the rancor of the school board, lincoln said the philosophy of the school room in this generation will become the philosophy of the government in the next generation. i think that is the