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House Resolution 177 Vote
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| To abide by them or not, it doesn't change the foundation that it's still a court order that someone will respect at some point. | ||
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What do you think, Phil? | |
| Well, I share the Justice's love for that Benjamin Franklin quotation when asked what kind of government have you made coming out of the Constitutional Amendment. | ||
| He said, a republic if you can keep it. | ||
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Right? | |
| And so it is always the responsibility of the American people, we the people, to make sure that our government remains responsive to us and doesn't get out of our control. | ||
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Watch the rest of this on the free C-SPAN Now video app as we take you now to Capitol Hill where the House is gabbling in. | |
| Live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
| I'm going to name the previous question on the House Resolution 177 and adoption of the House Resolution 177 if ordered. | ||
| The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 9 of Rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 8 of Rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question of the House Resolution 177, on which the yays and nays are ordered. | ||
| The clerk will report the title of the resolution. | ||
| House calendar number five, House Resolution 177, resolution providing for consideration of the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 42, providing for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title V, United States Code, of the rules submitted by the Department of Energy relating to Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards, certification requirements, labeling requirements, and enforcement provisions for certain consumer products and commercial equipment. | ||
| Providing for consideration of the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 61, providing for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title V, United States Code, of the rules submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, | ||
| Rubber Tire Manufacturing, and providing for consideration of the joint resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 11, providing for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title V, United States Code, of the rules submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to protection of marine archaeological resources. | ||
| The question is on ordering the previous question. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
| This is a 15-minute vote. | ||
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This will be the first and only vote series of the day here in the House, beginning with this procedural vote on the rules governing debate on three resolutions that repeal Biden administration rules on rubber tire emissions, appliance energy conservation, and offshore oil and gas production. | |
| Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can vote to disapprove any federal rule within 60 days of issuance. | ||
| A reminder that this evening, President Trump will be addressing a joint session of Congress to lay out his priorities and vision for the country during his second term. | ||
| We'll have live coverage beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN with a preview. | ||
| That'll be followed by the President's speech coming up at 9 and the Democratic response by Senator Alyssa Slotkin. | ||
| We will also take viewer calls and get reaction on social media. | ||
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Deranged Democrats' Distorted Reality
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Again, it's live starting on C-SPAN and C-SPAN Now, our free video app or online at c-span.org. | |
| So while members are voting here, we'll show you some news conferences from House Republicans and Democratic leaders from earlier today during this 15-minute vote. | ||
| They're trying to hide me behind them. | ||
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It's not very easy. | |
| Oh, come on. | ||
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I know. | |
| I know. | ||
| Good morning, everyone. | ||
| Thank you so much for coming. | ||
| Let's start off by the deranged Democrats are living in a distorted reality. | ||
| Over the weekend, the minority leader told CNN, and I quote, President Trump is not focused on solving the problems of everyday Americans. | ||
| I can't believe the minority leader would say this, but he did. | ||
| The irony about the minority leaders' comments is President Trump is solving the problems of everyday Americans. | ||
| For example, the comment comes after Democrats voted against securing our border and making our communities safe. | ||
| Meanwhile, President Trump has secured our borders. | ||
| He has only been in office for less than two months. | ||
| And in the Democrats' distorted reality, President Trump is to blame for all the world's problems. | ||
| He inherited these problems. | ||
| When in reality, Democrats are the ones who caused the problems. | ||
| Illegal aliens flooded our borders because Democrats kept them open. | ||
| Democrats let killers like Jose Ibarra come into our communities. | ||
| And Democrats keep voting against fixing these problems. | ||
| Let's be clear. | ||
| But I can share with you, times, they are a changing. | ||
| Common sense has been restored. | ||
| Illegal border crossings were the lowest ever recorded last month. | ||
| How's that? | ||
| By taking care of the American people's problems. | ||
| Our communities are actually safer. | ||
| President Trump is keeping his promises that he made to the American people. | ||
| After four years of silence and shadows from Joe Biden and the Democrats, President Trump has restored accountability and transparency at the White House. | ||
| He's actually answering unscripted questions from the press. | ||
| Americans actually see the president working for them daily. | ||
| This is a stark contrast from the past four years. | ||
| And Americans are actually excited. | ||
| President Trump is turning our country around. | ||
| He is reversing the damage caused by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the deranged Democrats. | ||
| I expect Americans will notice the new direction of the nation when we hear from our commander-in-chief this evening. | ||
| In his first joint address since returning to the White House, President Trump message to the American people will be clear. | ||
| America is back. | ||
| There's no doubt about that. | ||
| Thanks to President Trump's, America is strong again. | ||
| Terrorists are actually on notice. | ||
| Our enemies and adversaries actually fear and respect us again, especially our allies. | ||
| America will no longer be taken advantage of. | ||
| This was made clear in the Oval Office on Friday. | ||
| So let's be clear. | ||
| The war in Ukraine started while Joe Biden was president. | ||
| I just got to remind everyone of those facts. | ||
| And President Trump is the president that's actually trying to end it. | ||
| So one president starts the war. | ||
| The other president actually tries to end the war. | ||
| He inherited this mess from Biden. | ||
| I know the Democrats want you to forget about that, but every once in a while we have to reset that playing field and remind people. | ||
| In less than two months, President Trump has restored peace through strength and turned the page on Biden's blunders on the world stage. | ||
| But that's just one of his many accomplishments. | ||
| President Trump is working at an unprecedented pace. | ||
| He's putting America and its people first. | ||
| That's exactly what we just heard from our Secretary of Defense. | ||
| The president's efforts to rid the Department of Defense of DEI has been profoundly positive. | ||
| Soldiers are actually excited to be focused on the actual mission, lethality and preparedness, not weakness and wokeness. | ||
| The president is rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the Pentagon. | ||
| As I mentioned, he returned to the White House and has set Democrats into complete and utter disarray. | ||
| They have no vision, no plan, and no leader. | ||
| They only have one thing to offer the American people, and that's fear-mongering. | ||
| This has caused a messaging crisis in the Democratic Party. | ||
| They are clearly scrambling. | ||
| The main goal is to be against for the Democrats. | ||
| Their main goal is to be against what 77 million American people want. | ||
| And the House Republicans are calling them out for it. | ||
| Look no further than tomorrow's oversight committee hearing on sanctuary cities. | ||
| Democrats' radical policies will be on full display, and I encourage you all to watch. | ||
| Americans will be reminded that Democrats protect killers, rapists, and drug dealers who find safe haven in sanctuary cities. | ||
| For example, a Sudanese national who was convicted of raping a victim under 13 years old. | ||
| A Mexican national convicted of a criminal sexual conduct on a victim under 13 years old. | ||
| Both were arrested by ICE in St. Paul, Minnesota, a sanctuary city. | ||
| And what do deranged Democrats in Minnesota have to say? | ||
| They say, well, targeting criminal, illegal immigrants threatens their safe spaces. | ||
| Threatens the safe spaces of whom? | ||
| Listen to what the Democrats are saying. | ||
| Instead of showing empathy, they are siding with and protecting criminals, violent, illegal, alien criminals. | ||
| Meanwhile, Republicans actually stand with the victims. | ||
| We actually stand for legal. | ||
| We actually stand for law and order. | ||
| What about the American people's safe spaces? | ||
| Do they count? | ||
| House Republicans will hold these mayors accountable. | ||
| Refusing to cooperate with immigration law puts communities and Americans in danger. | ||
| But it doesn't stop there. | ||
| Even in the U.S. House of Representatives, deranged Democrats hold briefings and post videos on how to avoid ICE. | ||
| That's pretty American, huh? | ||
| They are literally helping criminal, illegal immigrants. | ||
| This is a result of having no vision for the American people. | ||
| But I'm here to share with you, Americans can be optimistic because real leadership returned to the White House. | ||
| Leadership that our country desperately needs. | ||
| The leadership 77 million Americans voted for. | ||
| Together, President Trump and House Republicans will stop sanctuary cities. | ||
| Sanctuary City policies are wreaking havoc on our communities, like the ones Representative Gabe Evans represents in the northern Denver suburbs. | ||
| Rep Evans has joined us today to help tell the local stories, like the story of the Trende Diagua who took over an apartment complex in the Denver suburbs. | ||
| They used it to kidnap and torture people at gunpoint. | ||
| Not real good people. | ||
| It's a shame that this is happening in America. | ||
| But I'll turn it over now to Gabe to let him tell his story. | ||
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Well, thank you, Chairwoman, Gabe Evans from Colorado's 8th Congressional District. | |
| And I was a police officer in the Denver metro area for over a decade. | ||
| In fact, today I'm still wearing my police boots. | ||
| They're on their third set of soles because that is what keeps me grounded and reminds me why I'm here. | ||
| My morning routine hasn't changed in 14 years because here in Congress I'm focused on serving the victims of these crimes that you just heard the chairwoman talk about. | ||
| Let's talk some of the statistics that have happened in Colorado as a result of these sanctuary policies. | ||
| When I started my law enforcement career, Colorado was 31st in the nation for our crime rate. | ||
| We're now number four. | ||
| Colorado is number two in the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on illegal drugs, predominantly fentanyl. | ||
| Colorado is once again got the highest rate of motor vehicle theft out of all of the 50 states. | ||
| As a police officer for over a decade in the Denver metro area, I saw firsthand what was contributing to these problems, and a significant percentage of the blame lays on sanctuary city and state policies that allow violent transnational criminal organizations and cartels to come into our community and find safe harbor. | ||
| Recent headline news in Colorado showed that violent gangs like Trende Aragua have looked at Denver, Colorado to be their national headquarters as a result of these sanctuary policies. | ||
| In fact, very recently, ICE in Denver sent out a tweet where they highlighted that the Denver City and County jail would not honor ICE immigration detainers. | ||
| And as a result, they released a Trende Aragua gang member back into the public. | ||
| Immigration and customs officers had to go into the public to arrest this individual again who assaulted officers in the process. | ||
| This does not keep our communities safe. | ||
| This does not protect the victims of these crimes. | ||
| We know where this fentanyl is coming from. | ||
| In fact, every month, the death toll of fentanyl in the United States is greater than the total death toll of the September 11th terrorist attacks. | ||
| And so with the designation of these cartels as terrorist organizations, it's incumbent that sanctuary cities and states get on board with the program and focus on protecting their communities and focus on allowing law enforcement to be able to work with their federal counterparts to be able to degrade and disrupt these criminal organizations that are operating in our communities and peddling poison by using immigration laws to be able to get these violent cartels, | ||
| get these violent traffickers of people out of our community by using immigration laws and by being able to use that partnership with the federal law enforcement apparatus. | ||
| And so tomorrow in the hearing, we are going to highlight how these sanctuary city and state policies fail public safety, make America less safe, and why we need to continue to pave the path forward to build those safe communities that we all deserve. | ||
| I am of Hispanic descent, and so I can speak particularly to the fact that this is something that is critically important to the Hispanic communities. | ||
| Hispanic communities critically want safe places to be able to raise the next generation here in the United States of America. | ||
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President Trump's Address
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And tomorrow, we're going to highlight how we get these policies in sanctuary cities and states reversed to give that safe future for all Americans, particularly in places like Colorado and Denver. | |
| Thank you so much. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Thanks, Gabe. | ||
| Tonight, President Trump will address Congress and the American people to highlight his historic actions and bold vision to renew the American dream. | ||
| I have no doubt it's going to be big. | ||
| The president's first 43 days in office can be summed up in four words. | ||
| Promises made, promises kept. | ||
| From bringing back American manufacturing with over $1.7 trillion in new investments, to saving taxpayers billions by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, to reestablishing peace through strength in America's position on the world stage, to paving the way for our country to achieve energy independence once again, and ending the crisis at our southern border, | ||
| resulting in the lowest border numbers in history and even driving reverse immigration, reverse migration. | ||
| President Trump has delivered countless victories to celebrate tonight. | ||
| And if it's a preview of what's to come, which I believe it is, America has a great four years to look forward to as President Trump renews the American dream and unlocks our country's golden age. | ||
| Now, before I go, I want to say that I'm also looking forward to welcoming my guests for the joint address tonight in the Capitol. | ||
| Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Daymuth is going to join us. | ||
| And hockey legends, gold medalists from 1980, Buzz Schneider and Rob McClannon, Rob McClanahan, these three certainly represent the best of Minnesota and the American spirit. | ||
| And with that, I turn it over to our leader. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, let me first say happy Mardi Gras, everybody. | ||
| Today is Mardi Gras Day in my home city of New Orleans. | ||
| This is a Mardi Gras King Cake, which we enjoy to celebrate the day. | ||
| This is not to torture you. | ||
| This is to let you know I've gotten this for each of you. | ||
| So it's all cut up. | ||
| I'm going to pass this around. | ||
| You don't have to write nice stories about me. | ||
| You can, but this is we like to share our celebration. | ||
| There'll be about a million people from all around the world on the streets of New Orleans celebrating with the crew of Zulu, the crew of Rex, riding, and it's a great family event. | ||
| My kids, my parents took me to Mardi Gras parades when I was a kid, and we take our kids now and pass that tradition on. | ||
| I am so glad to be with all of you today, but I wish I was in New Orleans celebrating Mardi Gras. | ||
| But here, put your cameras down for a minute, take a piece, pass it around. | ||
| If you get the baby, the tradition is there's a plastic baby in one of the slices. | ||
| That means you have to throw the next Kingcake Party. | ||
| So we'll let you know where to get the cake, and you'll want more, believe me. | ||
| Anyway, on that note, so we start off on a really good note. | ||
| We love to celebrate things. | ||
| We are celebrating a lot. | ||
| Tonight, President Trump is going to be celebrating the renewal of the American dream. | ||
| And he's going to go into a lot of detail about how his agenda not only is starting to be carried out in just less than two months, it's been a riveting pace that President Trump took to start getting our country back on track, but the work is just beginning. | ||
| Here in the House, and obviously Congress has to play a critical role in helping the president do this. | ||
| Part of that is passing President Trump's agenda. | ||
| And one of the things we did from the Speaker on down is committed to getting the agenda moved through one big, beautiful bill, which means budget reconciliation, starting that process by passing a budget so that we can get to the reconciliation phase. | ||
| And last week, with an overwhelming not one vote to spare, literally just by the margin we needed, which is all it takes, right? | ||
| We passed our budget to the Senate to start the process of putting into law the things we need to do to deliver on that Trump agenda that 77 million people went to the polls to give all of us a mandate to do. | ||
| In fact, the American people insisted that we do these things to reverse the damage from the Biden-Harris agenda. | ||
| Number one, stave off a tax increase. | ||
| Make sure that middle-class families don't see a massive tax hike. | ||
| And notice every Democrat voted no last week, which means Democrats voted to put a tax on over 99% of families that make less than a million dollars. | ||
| You hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| The people that would be hurt by Democrat actions are people that make well under a million dollars. | ||
| President Trump's trying to eliminate the tax on tips, which, by the way, we support and will be in our package. | ||
| The average salary of tip workers who will benefit from President Trump's agenda is a family making about $35,000 a year. | ||
| That's who will benefit from that provision. | ||
| You know, and they talk about billionaires and Elon Musk all day long because they want to hide the fact that it's middle and lower income families who will benefit from the Trump agenda because those are the people that have been devastated the most by the high inflation, high taxes, high cost of living we've seen from the Biden agenda. | ||
| More energy production in America, manufacturing more things in America. | ||
| That's in our bill. | ||
| And it's going to be in this package that moves through. | ||
| And for some reason, every Democrat wants to vote no on an agenda that lowers gas prices, lowers food costs. | ||
| When people complain about the price of eggs, you can try to make political hay about it. | ||
| You can try to do something about it. | ||
| And you do something about it by lowering the energy cost, the cost to get products to the grocery store. | ||
| And every Democrat voted no because they are okay with those families paying more. | ||
| Well, families are fed up. | ||
| And President Trump's going to be laying out tonight the things not only that he's already done, he's done a phenomenal job at getting the border secure. | ||
| We need to do our part at funding the wall, funding the technology for our Border Patrol agents. | ||
| That's also in our bill. | ||
| But President Trump is finally starting to bring manufacturing back to this country. | ||
| The whip talked about almost $2 trillion in private investment that's already being announced by some major companies, some major American companies, some countries and foreign nations that want to now come and build things in America because of President Trump's leadership. | ||
| Leadership matters, and I think you're going to see great, strong leadership tonight in the President's State of the Union. | ||
| We will be there, looking forward to it. | ||
| The man sitting right behind the president, we know tonight the president's speech will not get ripped up by a speaker in the House because our Speaker of the House has been leading the cause to usher in this agenda of a renewal of the American dream. | ||
| Our Speaker, Mike Johnson. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Leader. | ||
| Thanks to all of you. | ||
| No, we will not be ripping up the speech tonight. | ||
| I would like to frame it in gilded gold, but I'm not sure how to do that from the podium. | ||
| I want to welcome you all and happy Mardi Gras. | ||
| And if I had forethought, I would have brought beads to throw at you. | ||
| You would have had the whole experience. | ||
| We had a great weekend. | ||
| Let me give you a recap on a few things. | ||
| We had a great weekend down in Florida. | ||
| We had the House Republicans gathered in Miami for an NRCC winter retreat. | ||
| It's an annual tradition, and the vibe is so good among Republicans. | ||
| We had our largest attendance ever. | ||
| The most members ever participated with their families, and lots of friends and donors and supporters of the cause were down there with us in a great time. | ||
| We understand that nobody really wants to talk about 2026 yet, the midterm cycle, but we are because we are very excited about what that is going to yield. | ||
| We're in a very strong position to defy what is the norm. | ||
| It's not traditionally expected for a new president to pick up seats in that first two-year midterm for his party, but we are going to grow the majority next year, and we have a great plan to do that. | ||
| We will be riding the wave of the popularity of President Trump's policies, and he is doing some things that everybody in the country is excited about. | ||
| Once all this is signed into law, the American people are going to begin to feel real relief at the pump and their bank account and in safer communities. | ||
| This set of policies is what the president ran on, and all of us ran on, and we'll be checking the boxes along the way. | ||
| Napoleon continues to show the American people are with us on the issues. | ||
| In Congress, we have the highest approval rating in four years. | ||
| Among Republicans in our party, we have the highest approval rating in over 20 years. | ||
| You have to go back to August of 2005 to see similar numbers. | ||
| And I think the reason for that is because we're restoring common sense. | ||
| That is the theme that the president keeps reiterating over and over. | ||
| We're restoring what makes sense to the people. | ||
| And this contrast between our policies and our ideas and this common sense agenda is very different than our Democrat colleagues. | ||
| They are defending wasteful government spending right now. | ||
| They're opposing tax cuts for working families. | ||
| They're supporting open borders in sanctuary cities, you heard about this morning. | ||
| And they're doing all that above the well-being of the American people. | ||
| And the American people are taking note. | ||
| And while House Democrats struggle to find a message that hasn't already been rejected by the American people, House Republicans are going to continue to deliver for the country. | ||
| Speaking of delivering for the American people, President Trump makes his triumphant return, of course, tonight, as was mentioned. | ||
| It's five years after his last State of the Union address. | ||
| This is a joint address to Congress, not a State of the Union, because a State of the Union is typically delivered on or around the sort of the one-year anniversary first year in office. | ||
| But this president is working so quickly, I invited him to come early in the process to give this joint address because there's so much to report to the people, and we're delighted he's going to be there. | ||
| If he just stood at the Speaker's rostrum and read off all his list of accomplishments since January 20th, we'd be there all night. | ||
| I don't expect it will go that long. | ||
| He's going to give a truncated version of this. | ||
| But there really is so much to celebrate. | ||
| The president has already notched impressive lists of wins in so many categories. | ||
| There's a few. | ||
| Securing the border so well that border crossings have hit an historic low. | ||
| Deporting criminal illegal aliens. | ||
| Taking on this vote. | ||
| The previous question is an order. | ||
| The question is on adoption of the resolution. | ||
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Okay. | |
| The previous question is ordered. | ||
| The question is on the adoption of the resolution. | ||
| All those in favor say aye. | ||
| Opposed, no. | ||
| In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, for what purposes, gentlemen? | ||
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Like to request a recorded vote. | |
| A recorded vote is requested. | ||
| Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. | ||
| A sufficient number having arisen, a record vote is ordered. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
| This is a five-minute vote. | ||
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Lawmakers are here voting on whether to approve debate rules on three resolutions that repeal Biden administration rules on rubber tire emissions, appliance energy conservation, and offshore oil and gas production. | |
| Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can vote to disapprove any federal rule within 60 days of issuance. | ||
| If approved, these resolutions will be debated tomorrow and Thursday. | ||
| It's a five-minute vote. | ||
| I'm going to join with my colleague Ted Lieu, Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, as well as Greg Kassar, the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the Chair of the New Democratic Coalition, Brad Schneider. | ||
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Trump's Betrayal of Veterans
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| Last week, House Democrats from every corner of our caucus voted against the House Republican budget, which cut Medicaid $880 billion to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. | ||
| We want to make health care more affordable and more available to the American people. | ||
| This is in stark contrast to Republicans who voted to kick children off their health care and to put seniors at risk. | ||
| As President Trump prepares for tonight's speech, it's clear that Democrats are on the side of working people, while Republicans are only looking out for their billionaire friends. | ||
| Trump and Republicans have broken their promise to lower costs on day one, which was his commitment to focus on tax giveaways for corporations and billionaires that don't need any more help. | ||
| In fact, Trump's reckless tariffs just announced last night will raise prices on gas, produce at grocery stores, beer, lumber to homes, build homes, crude oil, and parts that make cars. | ||
| As families struggle to make ends meet, Democrats are united against Trump and Elon Musk, dismantling the services that families rely on while steering more taxpayer dollars to themselves and their billionaire friends. | ||
| They're dismantling the VA health care and laying off thousands of veterans as Trump stands with Putin and risks our national security. | ||
| Tonight, we expect the president to put on a master class in dishonesty. | ||
| We expect the president will focus not on everyday Americans, but on his friends and his ego. | ||
| No matter what he says, he cannot change the damage he's done already and the fact that his agenda is going to raise prices for everyday Americans. | ||
| Vice Chair Ted Luke. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman Aguilar. | ||
| Honored to be here with Representatives Greg Kassar and Brad Schneider. | ||
| I want to tell you about a meeting I had today with vote vets. | ||
| They brought in a number of veterans who were fired. | ||
| And I want to tell you a story about one of them. | ||
| Her name is Eileen. | ||
| She is an Air Force veteran. | ||
| She then went to work for FEMA. | ||
| She's in a rural part of Alabama. | ||
| She was one of the first to volunteer with FEMA to deploy to Hurricane Helene. | ||
| On President's Day, she got an email firing her with no notice, and she couldn't even go back to her office. | ||
| They sent her UPS boxes saying, you put your government cell phone and laptop in this box and you ship it back to us. | ||
| A few days later, she had to go out to a field where her supervisor from FEMA had to walk out and give her her box from her items at her office. | ||
| She has two kids, four and ten. | ||
| She now has no job. | ||
| This is not how we should treat veterans, not how we should treat federal employees, not how we should treat any American. | ||
| And this is what Donald Trump did to her. | ||
| And he's done that to a large number of federal employees. | ||
| And if you look at the federal workforce, about one in four are veterans. | ||
| This is not how they should be treated. | ||
| And most of these actions are simply brazenly illegal. | ||
| We have a number of court cases being filed. | ||
| We're winning a number of those cases. | ||
| Others are going to go into litigation. | ||
| And I call on the administration to stop illegally firing our veterans and other federal employees. | ||
| I also now want to touch on the subject of tariffs you've seen with the indiscriminate tariffs that the president has both imposed and threatened to impose. | ||
| That not only is the stock market tanking, but also inflation is up, consumer sentiment is down, and Atlanta Fed has now predicted that we're going to contract this quarter in terms of GDP. | ||
| That is shocking. | ||
| And that is all because of actions of one person, the president, who is massively harming our economy. | ||
| And then I'd like to conclude now on Ukraine. | ||
| I don't know why Donald Trump is scared of Putin. | ||
| He clearly is. | ||
| He acts like he's scared of Putin. | ||
| And right now, with his pause in funding to Ukraine, I just wanted to let Ukrainians know to please hang in there. | ||
| The President of the United States cannot extend that pause because it would be illegal. | ||
| Congress, on a bipartisan basis, appropriated that funding to Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine is going to get that funding. | ||
| With that, I'd like to introduce our amazing representative from Austin, Texas, Greg Kassar. | ||
| He has done a fantastic job as leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. | ||
| Thank you so much, Vice Chair Liu and Chairman Aguilar. | ||
| I also want to thank New Dem's Chairman Brad Schneider, who I'm proud to call a partner in the fight to protect Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the American people. | ||
| Tonight, millions of Americans will tune in to watch the President address a joint session of Congress. | ||
| I do not know what Trump will say, but I can guarantee you that he is going to lie to the American people and not tell them the truth about what MAGA Republicans in Congress want to do to you right now. | ||
| So let me say it clearly: whatever political games that Donald Trump plays tonight, whatever lies he tells and whatever show he puts on, people watching at home should know that Trump and House Republicans want to steal your health care, steal your taxpayer money, and hand it over to their billionaire buddies and to their donors. | ||
| In Congress, Republicans are advancing a budget that would end Medicaid as we know it. | ||
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The Recruiting Families Using Data Act
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| And Elon Musk is trying to cut your Medicare and your Social Security. | ||
| Social Security. | ||
| The nays are 209. | ||
| The resolution is adopted. | ||
| And without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. | ||
| Where's our script? | ||
| Start chasing them out. | ||
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No problem. The House will be in order. | |
| Members are advised to please take conversations off the floor in order. | ||
| The House will be in order. | ||
| Members are advised. | ||
| Please take your conversations off the floor. | ||
| Or just keep talking right here. | ||
| The house will be in order. | ||
| The members are pleased to advise to take their conversation off the floor. | ||
| Pursuant to Clause 8 of Rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. | ||
| Or votes objected to under Clause 6 of Rule 20. | ||
| The house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. | ||
| Does the gentleman from Missouri seek recognition? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill H.R. 579, the Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025. | ||
| The clerk will report the title of a bill. | ||
| H.R. 579, a bill to amend parts B and E of Title IV of the Social Security Act to improve foster and adoptive parent recruitment and retention and for other purposes. | ||
| Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Smith, and the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Davis, each will control 20 minutes. | ||
| The chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend the remarks and submit extraneous material on the bill under consideration. | ||
| Without objection. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
| The gentleman is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today in support of the Recruiting Families Using Data Act introduced by my Ways and Means colleagues, Representative Randy Feenstra and Brendan Boyle. | ||
| This bill would make a relatively straightforward but needed update to current law to promote state-level recruitment of foster care families. | ||
| Thousands of loving parents open their homes every year to offer care and support for children in need. | ||
| By doing so, they provide shelter for children who would otherwise be forced to stay in caseworker offices, hospitals, or hotels. | ||
| However, many of these same parents, for any number of reasons, stopped serving as foster families after only one year. | ||
| In short, there is a dire need for more foster families in our communities. | ||
| Much of the foster care system is coordinated at the state level, which means we need to enlist the states in helping expand the number of foster families. | ||
| Under current law, states are required, as a condition of receiving funding, to have a plan in place to recruit foster and adoptive families. | ||
| But we know based on an analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services that many states continue to face challenges. | ||
| This bill would build on existing law by calling on states receiving federal funding to develop family partnership plans that lay out their specific process for finding potential foster families and recruiting and retaining them in the foster care system. | ||
| The legislation also authorizes the evaluation of key data to ensure we identify what efforts have been successful in expanding the availability of foster families. | ||
| I want to thank Representatives Feenstra and Boyle for introducing this legislation and for their bipartisan leadership on this issue. | ||
| I encourage all my colleagues to support this common sense piece of legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri Reserves, gentlemen from Illinois. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise in support of H.R. 579, the Recruiting Families Using Data Act. | ||
| This legislation is a good example of Congress doing the work our constituents sent us here to do. | ||
| Last Congress, my former colleague Dan Kildie worked closely with Representative Feinstra to introduce this bipartisan bill, which is based on solid research and the fundamental principle that if we want to know what's best for foster youth and their families, we should ask them. | ||
| The result was this bill, which would require states to create a new family partnership plan to explain how they are identifying, screening, engaging, and supporting foster and adoptive families in consultation with people with lived experience. | ||
| To me, one of the most critical aspects of this will be engaging with the child's family, whether it's by placing foster children with family members directly or making space for kin who can't be foster parents to still support the child and the foster parents. | ||
| Last Congress, we marked up this bill in the Ways and Means Committee and sent it to the floor with our unanimous consent. | ||
| While it passed the House on a strong bipartisan vote, I was disappointed that the bill did not become law. | ||
| I am glad to support it again. | ||
| I believe it is a strong compliment to the bipartisan legislation we enacted last year reauthorizing child welfare services, which included many good ideas from both sides of the aisle. | ||
| As we continue to hear that Elon Musk and his band of hackers are rampaging through federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, firing policy experts, falsely accusing Americans of fraud, freezing and terminating investments that were directed by Congress. | ||
| I hope we can return to the kind of partnership and genuine concern for vulnerable Americans that sparked both media. | ||
| Move fast and break stuff might be a good mouth for technology companies, but it's wrong for the programs we created to protect children. | ||
| I support this bill and reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Illinois Reserves, gentlemen from Missouri. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Iowa, Mr. Feenstra. | ||
| The gentleman from Iowa is recognized. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | ||
| As a father of four, I believe that every child deserves a safe and loving home. | ||
| Unfortunately, many vulnerable children in our foster care system lack a family that they can call their own due to the shortage of foster families. | ||
| This must change, and that's what this bill does. | ||
| My bill, the Recruiting Families Using Data Act, would help states uphold and strengthen their diligent recruitment plans by improving their processes with concrete facts and information that identifies, recruits, and retains qualified foster care homes. | ||
| If we're going to address a problem-facing foster care system, we need better data with those that are having a problem. | ||
| That's why this bill is so important. | ||
| This legislation would also establish a family advisor board to share best practices, highlight financial obstacles facing foster families, and keep foster families at the center of the systematic changes for improvement. | ||
| With the right tools and right resources, we can find a caring home for every child in our foster care program. | ||
| That's why this bill is so important. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to stand with me for foster families and support our children and vote for this wonderful bill. | ||
| Thank you, and I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri Reserves, gentlemen from Illinois is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. | ||
| Gentleman is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I urge all of my colleagues to support this good bill to help ensure that children in foster care are in safe, appropriate homes. | ||
| And I further urge my colleagues to work with us to stop these indiscriminate, illegal layoffs and funding cuts, which threaten to undermine the good bipartisan work we have done on behalf of vulnerable children. | ||
| I thank you, Mr. Speaker, and yield back the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Illinois yields. | ||
| The gentleman from Missouri is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Nearly 400,000 American children today are in the nation's child welfare system and counting on us to help them secure access to a permanent, loving, and stable home. | ||
| At the same time, thousands of parents across the nation are ready and willing to provide that love and shelter for kids in need. | ||
| However, more must be done to link those children with those families who will volunteer to help. | ||
| The Recruiting Families Using Data Act will give states the tools and incentives to grow the number of foster families able to care for kids who might otherwise remain stuck in other parts of our welfare system. | ||
| It is a vote of confidence in the generosity and kindness of potential foster families, and I encourage all of my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the remainder of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri yields. | ||
| The question is, will the House suspend the rules and pass the bill H.R. 579? | ||
| Those in favor say aye. | ||
| Those opposed, no. | ||
| In the opinion of the chair, two-thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended. | ||
| The bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. | ||
| For what purpose does a gentleman from Missouri seek recognition? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill H.R. 919, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act. | ||
| The clerk will report the title of the bill. | ||
| H.R. 919, a bill to codify internal revenue service guidance relating to treatment of certain services and items for chronic conditions as meeting the preventative care deductible safe harbor for purposes of high-deductible health plans in connection with health savings accounts. | ||
| Pursuant to the rule of gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Smith, and the gentleman from California, Mr. Panetta, will each control 20 minutes. | ||
| The chair now recognizes the gentleman from Missouri. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and submit extraneous material on the bill under consideration. | ||
| Without objection, so ordered. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
| Gentlemen is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today in support of the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act introduced by Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan and our Ways and Means colleague Representative Jimmy Panetta. | ||
| This legislation provides employers and their employees with greater flexibility to design health care coverage options that expand access to treatments for chronic diseases. | ||
| The chronic disease epidemic has unfortunately impacted nearly every family in America and represents a significant share of our health care spending. | ||
| In fact, 90% of the $4.1 trillion this country spends each year on health care goes toward chronic disease. | ||
| This is not surprising when you realize that 60% of Americans suffer from some form of chronic disease, whether it be heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. | ||
| So many Americans would benefit from having health care coverage that is not only more affordable, but more responsive to their needs so they can better manage their health. | ||
| Last Congress, the House of Representatives approved a version of this legislation, but unfortunately we were not able to get the bill across the finish line. | ||
| However, with President Trump back in the White House, we are moving this bill once again, a bill that further strengthens a policy put in place during the first Trump administration. | ||
| For the 53 percent of employers that offer high deductible health plans to their employees, they would now be able to improve those options by allowing pre-deductible coverage of critical chronic care management services, | ||
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| including beta blockers, blood pressure monitors, and glucometers, inhalers and medications, and testing to help individuals with high cholesterol. | ||
| While the bill includes 14 specific services that could be covered, it leaves the door open for the list to be expanded later as well. | ||
| By providing flexible coverage options for more people living with chronic health conditions, we can help lower their costs and improve their health and well-being. | ||
| I want to thank Representatives Buchanan and Panetta for their leadership on this issue, as well as recognize the work of our Ways and Means Health Subcommittee that held its first hearing this Congress on creating healthier options for families and raising awareness about the chronic disease epidemic we have in this country. | ||
| As HHS Secretary Kennedy is shining a light on the chronic disease epidemic, the Ways and Means Committee is leading the charge in Congress to examine the root causes and deliver on solutions, including this bill before us today. | ||
| I encourage all of my colleagues to once again provide strong bipartisan support for this effort to address chronic disease. | ||
| I reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri Reserves, gentlemen from California. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
| Gentlemen's recognized. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, thank you, and thanks to the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and of course, thanks to my good friend, Representative Vern Buchanan, an excellent member of the Ways and Means Committee. | ||
| With his work, I rise today to support this legislation, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act. | ||
| This is bipartisan, common sense legislation to allow predeductible health coverage for chronic disease patients with a high-deductible health plan, otherwise known as HDHP. | ||
| This common sense legislation, as you heard from the chairman, already passed Congress last session under the leadership of my friends and former colleagues, Brad Wenstrup and Earl Blumenauer. | ||
| It's common sense mainly because, as you heard from the chairman, chronic disease is so common. | ||
| Six in ten Americans, six in ten adult Americans have a chronic disease, which is the leading cause of disabilities in the United States of America. | ||
| 90% of our annual health spending goes to chronic disease and mental health management. | ||
| But while these chronic diseases are common, they're also manageable if we just do everything that we can to improve access to care. | ||
| In my 19th congressional district on the central coast of California, the number one thing I hear about from constituents is access to health care, or I should say the lack of access to health care. | ||
| And the one thing that is clear, though, is that insurance doesn't do you much good if you can't use it accordingly. | ||
| In 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 43% of people with the employer-based coverage had an HDHP. | ||
| Moreover, 56% of employers offer an HDHP. | ||
| However, nearly 59% of Americans, that's nearly six in 10 people, lacks $1,000 in savings to handle an emergency expense. | ||
| That is exactly why expanding HDHP coverage to offer critical care for some of our most medically vulnerable constituents isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. | ||
| The Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act codifies IRS guidance to expand the safe harbor for high-deductible health plans offering pre-deductible care for chronic conditions. | ||
| It lets employers offer first-dollar access to care for patients with diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure, and many more, as the chairman mentioned. | ||
| When this IRS guidance was originally issued in 2019, a survey found that 76% or more than three-quarters of employers expanded pre-deductible coverage for chronic diseases. | ||
| Codifying this policy now will save countless lives by helping more patients manage their conditions and stay healthy. | ||
| That is why this bill is endorsed by so many, from chronic disease advocates to health benefit groups to small business associations. | ||
| And that is why I recommend my colleagues to vote for the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act. | ||
| Again, I want to thank Congressman Buchanan, thank the Chairman for bringing this bill forward. | ||
| And back to you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I yield back, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Gentleman yield or reserve. | ||
| Reserve. | ||
| I apologize. | ||
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Reserve. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Gentlemen Reserves. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri is recognized. | ||
| I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Buchanan. | ||
| Gentleman from Florida is recognized. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | |
| And I want to thank the Chairman for his leadership as well. | ||
| I rise today in strong support of my bill, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act. | ||
| This important legislation will expand treatment options for Americans living with chronic diseases provided through their employers health care coverage. | ||
| My bill allows employers to offer pre-deductibility on 14 different chronic diseases, especially on those that are on high deductible health plans. | ||
| With six in ten Americans living with at least one chronic disease, it's clear to me that we need to have many more options. | ||
| The cost for chronic diseases in the American economy is enormous, accounting for over $1 trillion a year. | ||
| If you can imagine that, $1 trillion a year. | ||
| Chronic disease also accounts for the overwhelming percentages of preventable deaths in the United States. | ||
| I believe this initiative will improve patients' health, also reducing costly hospitalization. | ||
| Thank you to my good friend, Congressman Panetta, for his leadership and friendship in working with me on this. | ||
| I really appreciate that. | ||
| I also want to thank Leaders Scalise and Whip Emmer for bringing this to the floor today. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to support this common sense bill to help give Americans the tools they need for a longer, healthier, and a happier life. | ||
| And with that, I yield back the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri Reserves, gentleman from California. | ||
| Speaker, we reserve. | ||
| Gentleman Reserves, gentleman from Missouri. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from North Carolina, Dr. Murphy. | ||
| The gentleman from North Carolina is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| We've heard from great speakers talking about the problem with chronic disease in the United States. | ||
| One of the issues that face people who have hypertension, kidney disease, diabetes is that they can't get the medicines, they can't get the devices that they need to be able to regulate their condition. | ||
| This bill, H.R. 919, helps to solve that problem by giving individuals access to those life-saving devices prior to them fulfilling their deductible. | ||
| This is critical as we fight chronic disease in the United States. | ||
| As we've heard, over 90 percent of expenditures in this country are due to chronic disease. | ||
| I know that here, not here, but in my district in eastern North Carolina, the rate of diabetes, obesity, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure are things that are really truly killing our population. | ||
| Being able to access devices so that we can monitor these things is crucial. | ||
| We have to have availability for these devices for people before they have to pay their full deductible. | ||
| I applaud Representative Buchanan, Representative Panetta, and Chairman Smith for bringing this forward. | ||
| This is common sense. | ||
| President Trump tried to do this in his first term, and I'm very grateful that they're trying to make this again. | ||
| We want to make America healthy again. | ||
| That starts with being able to give patients the tools that they need to be healthy, and I urge support for H.R. 919 to my colleagues. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman from Missouri Reserves, gentlemen from California. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I have no further speakers, and I'm prepared to close. | ||
| Gentleman's recognized. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield myself the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentlemen's recognized. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, in closing, and as you've heard, this legislation has bipartisan support and support from a broad coalition of employers and health stakeholders. | ||
| And I appreciate my colleagues on the other side being so concerned and so focused on this. | ||
| Let's just hope they have that same concern when it comes to Medicaid and Medicare going forward, especially with a reconciliation package. | ||
| But they understand, and we understand, that it is critical that we start expanding access to preventative care and chronic care management to stem the tide of chronic disease. | ||
| Passing the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act will improve long-term health outcomes, let businesses offer superior health benefits, and strengthen health care for everyone. | ||
| Once again, I encourage my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman Yields, gentlemen from Missouri is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| This legislation is long overdue, particularly given the enormous size, scope, and cost of America's chronic disease epidemic. | ||
| It will put more patients in the driver's seat when it comes to managing their health and open doors for folks to get the treatments that will not only save them money but improve their well-being. | ||
| High-deductible health care plans are already a popular option for employers to offer their workers and expanding what services can be provided under these plans specifically to help treat chronic diseases will only make this a more affordable and useful health coverage choice for patients. | ||
| I encourage my colleagues to support the passage of the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act, and I yield back. | ||
| Gentlemen Yields, the question is: will the House suspend the rules and pass Bill H.R. 919? | ||
| Those in favor say aye. | ||
| Those opposed, no. | ||
| In the opinion of the chair, two-thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended. | ||
| The bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. | ||
| After consultation among the Speaker, the majority, and minority leaders, and with their consent, the Chair announces that when the two Houses meet tonight in joint session to hear an address by the President of the United States, only the doors immediately opposite the Speaker and those immediately to his left and right will be open. | ||
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| Pursuant to Clause 12A of Rule 1, the Chair declares the House in recess until approximately 8:35 for the purpose of receiving in joint session the President of the United States. | ||
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