| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
|
Live House Votes
00:03:04
|
||
|
unidentified
|
Zero remorse for the killing of Renee Good. | |
| Under Secretary Noam, DHS has spiraled into utter chaos. | ||
| Guns pulled on kids and peaceful protesters. | ||
| Pregnant women dragged. | ||
| Americans thrown to the ground by massed agents in their communities. | ||
| And now the killing of a mother in Minneapolis. | ||
| It's a pattern. | ||
| Since Donald Trump returned to office, federal immigration officers have opened fire at least 16 times. | ||
| Live to the House for votes. | ||
| Previously postponed. | ||
| Votes will be taken in the following order. | ||
| Ordering the previous question on home, on House Resolution 992 and adoption of the House Resolution 992, if ordered. | ||
| The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote pursuant to clause 9 of Rule 20, and 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 on the House Resolution 992, on which the yays and nays are ordered. | ||
| The clerk will report the title of the resolution. | ||
|
unidentified
|
House calendar number 54, House Resolution 992. | |
| Resolution providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 7006, making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes. | ||
| The question is on ordering the previous question. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
|
unidentified
|
This is a 15 minute vote and a live look at the House chamber now as members are voting on whether to begin debate on a package that will keep part of the federal government open through September 30th. | |
| The funding will cover the state and treasury departments, the IRS, and federal and D.C. courts as current funding runs out at the end of this month. | ||
| While we wait for members to come to the floor to vote, we'll take you back live outside the Capitol for remarks by Democrats on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. | ||
| My colleague, Congressman Troy Carter. | ||
| All right, Troy. | ||
| Thank you all for being here on this brisk afternoon. | ||
| And I want to particularly thank my dear friend and our ranking member, Benny Thompson, for having the courage, the wisdom, and the tenacity for convening this important press conference today. | ||
| Mr. Vice President, Secretary Noam, allow me to give you the briefing that your staffs failed to give you. | ||
|
She Stood Up Strong
00:05:17
|
||
| Renee Nicole Macklin-Good was a mother of three, a wife, a writer, a poet, a devoted Christian, a United States citizen. | ||
| She wasn't a terrorist. | ||
| She wasn't there to cause harm. | ||
| She was exercising what we often encourage people to do. | ||
| If you see an injustice, say something. | ||
| If you see an injustice, do something. | ||
| Many would say that she was a hero because she saw an injustice and she didn't retreat to the comfort of her home. | ||
| In fact, she put herself in harm's way after dropping her baby off to school, as many of us do. | ||
| She stood up for the American value. | ||
| She stood up for free speech, for protection under the law. | ||
| And she paid the ultimate price by a rogue, So-called peace officer who chose violence over de-escalation, who chose bravado over questioning fairly. | ||
| See, this is not the America that we stand for. | ||
| This is not the America that you stand for. | ||
| Mr. President, she was not a terrorist. | ||
| Madam Secretary, she was not a terrorist as you described her. | ||
| We honor her today by rejecting hate, choosing compassion, and demanding a country where everyone gets home safely, even when we disagree. | ||
| Free speech is not unique to language we want to hear. | ||
| Free speech is not relegated to only those things you agree with. | ||
| Free speech is protected, especially when you don't agree, especially when you don't like what you hear. | ||
| That's what makes America so great. | ||
| That's why accountability matters. | ||
| Under Donald Trump and Christy Noam's Department of Homeland Security, they've deployed federal forces not to protect communities, unfortunately, to terrorize them. | ||
| We're seeing this in New Orleans with the influx of massed, unidentifiable federal agents involved in Operation Catahoula Crunch. | ||
| Sounds like a dance or cheap cereal, but it isn't. | ||
| It's an attack on individual freedoms and rights. | ||
| And today we stand against that. | ||
| And tomorrow we'll stand against that. | ||
| And next week and next year and the year after that, we will stand against that. | ||
| And our numbers and our voices will grow stronger and larger as more and more citizens recognize that an affront to any individual is an affront to every individual. | ||
| To make matters worse, instead of seeking information, instead of being briefed and getting facts, our Secretary chose to lie and smear the victim and cover up the truth. | ||
| And this administration ordered the Justice Department to investigate her grieving wife. | ||
| Federal prosecutors are resigning in protest because they know this is wrong. | ||
| Let me be clear, lest anyone in this audience or anyone watching this later misunderstand what we're saying today. | ||
| We support strong action against any dangerous individuals who commit any acts of violence. | ||
| We must stop these operations that create fear and disruption for families, workers, and small business owners. | ||
| This violence, corruption, and abuse of power cannot stand. | ||
| Secretary Noam has defied the law, obstructed Congress, and violated the very oath of office she swore to protect and defend our great country. | ||
| It is time that this must stop. | ||
| We will not stop until it has stopped. | ||
| Now it is my honor to present to you this esteemed member of Congress from Texas, my dear brother and friend, Representative Al Green. | ||
| Thank you, Troy. | ||
| I appreciate greatly your very kind words. | ||
| And I too would like to thank the chairman in waiting, ranking member currently, for being so courageous and bold as to take us in this direction. | ||
|
Why We Seek Accountability
00:15:29
|
||
| His leadership is invaluable. | ||
| His stewardship has proven to us that he is the right person in the right place at the right time. | ||
| And today, We the people, by the way, we are the we and we the people. | ||
| Today, we the people would like the world to know that what happened to Ms. Good is an injustice that will not go without accountability. | ||
| We must remember that the BBC has reported, the wife of Ms. Goode has said, we had whistles. | ||
| They had guns. | ||
| We had whistles. | ||
| They had guns. | ||
| We might also note that Ms. Noam, immediately after the shooting took place, concluded that Ms. Goode was a terrorist. | ||
| It's been said by many of my colleagues. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| This is what she said. | ||
| A domestic terrorist. | ||
| Friends, if Ms. Renee Nicole Good can be labeled, styled, captioned, a domestic terrorist, any one of us can. | ||
| Any one of you can become a domestic terrorist. | ||
| And the fate that she suffered can befall any one of you. | ||
| If they can do it to her, an American citizen, in her car, saying, I'm not mad at you, pulling away to avoid the tragedy that she suffered, it can happen to any one of us. | ||
| So we have a duty, a responsibility, and an obligation, a moral obligation, to make sure that we do all that we can to get justice for Ms. Renee Nicole Good. | ||
| And that justice includes a thorough investigation. | ||
| Notably, the Trump Justice Department has concluded that it will shut out the locals, shut them out, not allow them to have access to information. | ||
| This says to me, Al Green, one member of Congress, I speak for no one except myself and anybody who agrees with me. | ||
| It says to me that they are setting us up to prevent the officers or officer from being properly charged. | ||
| And if he is charged and convicted, they're setting us up to understand that what happened here at the nation's capital, when it was encroached upon by hundreds of people, some say thousands, and afterwards, people were convicted, more than 1,500. | ||
| And the President of the United States, immediately upon being put into office, decided that he would allow all of them to go free by way of his pen and an order. | ||
| I believe the president is preparing us so that he can do exactly again what he did to those hundreds of people who performed an insurrection here on the Capitol. | ||
| He is going to exonerate them by way of an executive order. | ||
| I thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| And I'm sorry if you think that I spoke to you. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| We now have Ms. Juliet Johnson, who's a last member of the committee and obviously a valued member of the committee from Texas. | ||
| I'm going to be really quick to not to summarize what everyone else has said. | ||
| The bottom line is Christian Ohm executed an oath for this Constitution to uphold its laws. | ||
| She's enabling her agency and organization to violate every aspect of due process, to violate the law and terrorize American citizens. | ||
| The Committee on Homeland Security, the Homeland Dems, we intend to use every tool, every mechanism, every opportunity, every time to speak out, to condemn, to hold her accountable in every way possible within every tool we have in this Congress. | ||
| Because the American people will not tolerate for its government to exercise rogue authoritarian dictatorship control and abuse and terrorize American citizens on the street of this country. | ||
| You can't drive your car, drop your kid off to school, and get executed by your government in the United States of America, and that will not be tolerated. | ||
| So we're here to tell you, to tell this country, to tell the world that we intend to do everything we can to hold her completely accountable and she must go. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Because they've called votes, we're going to have to shorten the question. | ||
| The issue before us today is Homeland Dems have decided to move toward holding Christian Noam accountable for the actions of the department. | ||
| ICE, as well as FEMA and some other areas, will be looked at. | ||
| Nothing is off the table, but accountability is the key of what we're talking about. | ||
| Yes. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Mr. Thompson, just because I did not hear you say the word impeachment, can you clarify, is that something that's on the table for you or perhaps even a goal? | |
| What is your timeline for this accountability effort? | ||
| Nothing is off the table. | ||
| It's accountability. | ||
| We will be in Minneapolis this weekend looking there. | ||
| We plan to go to other areas. | ||
| We want to talk to communities. | ||
| We want to get a sense of what's happening more than what we are seeing on TV. | ||
| So members, Democratic members, will be going all over the country collecting data, testimony, and other things as to what's going on. | ||
| And ultimately, that accountability will lead us to a decision. | ||
| Some people, as you've heard, have already reached the decision. | ||
| But from the standpoint of the committee as a whole, we're looking at accountability. | ||
| And no one, including this administration, is above the law. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Congressman Thompson. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Just a few hours earlier, one of your colleagues had a press conference announcing impeachment and a peace resolution on Secretary Noam and one of the members in this press conference also said that they've already reached that conclusion. | ||
| Does that undermine your effort, which you say is going to be a process? | ||
| You're not ready to jump to that conclusion. | ||
| Well, look, we have one resolution that has 50 names of members already on it. | ||
| But I think the key is for those who have jurisdiction. | ||
| We have decided that we want to move toward accountability. | ||
| We'll be talking with the Judiciary Committee as well as government reform and oversight to see whether or not this accountability can be moved forward. | ||
| But obviously there are some people who've been directly impacted by the actions of ICE and they feel so impacted they're moving forward with impeachment. | ||
| And that's one of the fundamental rights that the framers of our Constitution put together is that we can do just that. | ||
| Yes, ma'am. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We've talked about appropriations. | |
| There's been criticism about whether or not the Democrats can change the appropriations. | ||
|
unidentified
|
You were at that late night meeting in May. | |
| That money is locked in, correct? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Absolutely. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So ISIS funded for three years into the war. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yes. | |
| There are a lot of people who look at it. | ||
| They have the resources. | ||
| This administration is in charge. | ||
| And Democrats are the minority party. | ||
| All we can do is move forward, elevate the issue so the public understand what's happening. | ||
| As a nation of laws, we can't have people running around with masks on asking people for their citizenship. | ||
| We are not a tin-horn dictatorship. | ||
| We are a democracy. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Congressman, we heard Congressman Dan and R say who wants to introduce a bill to abolish hearing from members there live outside of the Capitol. | |
| Here on the House floor, members continue their vote on whether to begin debate on the package to fund the state and Treasury Departments through September 30th. | ||
| One more vote on the rule expected in this round. | ||
| As they continue voting, we'll show remarks by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. | ||
| They spoke earlier about their investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| Former First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton did not show up for a deposition as part of the probe. | ||
| Former President Bill Clinton did the same yesterday. | ||
| Republicans now plan to vote on holding the Clintons in contempt of Congress. | ||
| That vote scheduled for next Wednesday. | ||
| Here are the Republicans' remarks. | ||
| Well, here we are again. | ||
| I don't think it's any secret. | ||
| Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined her husband in defying a bipartisan lawful congressional subpoena to show up today. | ||
| I think what's most disappointing to the oversight committee is the fact that we have, in good faith, negotiated with the Clintons attorneys for five months. | ||
| Throughout the past five months, they've implied to us they are trying to make a date work. | ||
| In fact, the last date we had, they notified us three days beforehand, said that they would love to come, but they have a funeral to attend. | ||
| And we have been over backwards to try to schedule the Clinton. | ||
| I'm still talking. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Hey, hey, get him out of here. | ||
| You're not even a reporter. | ||
| Get out of here. | ||
| So here's the situation. | ||
| We're going to hold both Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress. | ||
| We believe that because this subpoena was issued in a bipartisan fashion, the Democrats acted the day that the subpoenas were voted on in the subcommittee like they wanted the Clintons to come because at that time, if you go back, they were wanting me to subpoena the estate, which I did. | ||
| We subpoenaed the estate and got all the documents, everything. | ||
| That was what the victims asked. | ||
| That's what the Democrats asked. | ||
| I think that's what the American people wanted. | ||
| We subpoenaed the state, got 100% of the documents. | ||
| I have subpoenaed the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi for the documents, which they are producing. | ||
| Now, we don't like the speed. | ||
| We all wish the documents would come in quicker, but we've gotten tens of thousands of pages of documents from the Department of Justice. | ||
| And remember, they made a big document drop, and the Democrats cried foul because they said they didn't demanded redactions. | ||
| Right, they wanted more redactions. | ||
| So they're double and triple checking this. | ||
| And the Department of Justice is complying with our lawful subpoena. | ||
| The estate complied with our lawful subpoena. | ||
| Bill Barr, Alex Acosta, came in and were deposed because of our lawful subpoena. | ||
| This same lawful subpoena was issued to the Clintons and they defied it. | ||
| And you know, Bill Clinton is trying to play, Bill Clinton's trying to play the victim card here. | ||
| Only Bill Clinton could try to triangulate something that's happened, a terrible, a terrible atrocity to these survivors that have had to endure who knows what from Epstein and Maxwell. | ||
|
unidentified
|
And their associates. | |
| And their associates. | ||
| So we're trying to get answers from the American people. | ||
| We're serious about it. | ||
| Once again, not a single Democrat showed up. | ||
| You know how many depositions we've done? | ||
| There's always a Democrat here. | ||
| The former President of the United States, former Secretary of State, neither one of them, not a single Democrat here. | ||
| So I think the questions that should be asked to the Democrats on the committee, do you still support hearing from the Clintons? | ||
| Because some have asked, what's Hillary got to do with anything? | ||
| Well, Jeffrey Epstein claimed, and I don't know if this is true or not, because I think a lot of what Jeffrey Epstein said was just not true, but he said, he has said that he helped set up the Clinton Foundation. | ||
| There are records that would imply that Epstein helped raise money for the Clinton Foundation. | ||
| And the last thing, we are going to depose Maxwell. | ||
| As you know, I've subpoenaed Maxwell. | ||
| And her lawyers asked us to wait till the Supreme Court or the court ruled on her appeal. | ||
| Then the lawyer said she was going to plead the fifth. | ||
| We are going to depose Maxwell. | ||
| We felt like Hillary Clinton could offer some information on Maxwell because Hillary, remember, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding. | ||
| So, you know, obviously there are. | ||
| We want you to take your job back, okay? | ||
| I'm trying to answer questions. | ||
| We've got a paid disruptor here. | ||
| So this is, I feel like the Clintons have initiated the war room. | ||
| The press yesterday was pretty fair, I think, about Bill Clinton not coming. | ||
| Because again, this was a bipartisan congressional subpoena. | ||
| The Democrats voted for this too. | ||
| Yeah, so go ahead. | ||
| Any questions? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Do you have any idea of timing of when this might hit the House floor? | |
| And we'll see the bail for this. | ||
| Yes, when will this hit the House floor? | ||
| Well, we're going to vote on it in committee Wednesday, so we're giving plenty of notice. | ||
| We're having a markup, a regularly scheduled markup for the House Oversight Committee. | ||
| We will mark up criminal contempt of Congress charges for both Clintons for defying a legal subpoena. | ||
| Once it passes the committee, then it will go to the full House floor for a vote. | ||
| They have to notice it three days and all that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yes, there is obviously criticism that this is a political stunt. | |
| Why not focus your attention on trying to get the rest of the Epstein files released, the 99% of those documents? | ||
| We've gotten hundreds of thousands of pages of Epstein files released, and we're still focused on getting the Epstein files released. | ||
| And they're releasing the documents. | ||
| We can walk in chew gum at the same time. | ||
| We can work on getting the documents, and we can also work on deposing witnesses that have first-hand knowledge of the events circling and surrounding Epstein. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Why aren't you asking the Democrats why they didn't react to redaction? | |
|
Why Clinton's No-Show Matters
00:05:25
|
||
|
unidentified
|
As chairman of the committee pushing the transparency and accountability of the elite with the Epstein issue, what does the Clintons no-show say to you? | |
| What do the Clintons not showing? | ||
| Well, it's very unfortunate. | ||
| I mean, this is something when, if you go back to that committee hearing when it was voted on in a bipartisan manner, there were several names that were agreed to subpoena. | ||
| Obviously, Bill Barr, listen, the record's public. | ||
|
unidentified
|
You can take a look at it. | |
| I just want to note for the people that are watching this live that there's a paid disruptor here that's acting very badly. | ||
| I don't know where security is, but look, there's something. | ||
| Just listen, listen. | ||
| I can't answer questions with this guy, which is what you want. | ||
| Let's just disregard. | ||
| Answer this guy's question. | ||
| No, I'm not answering these questions. | ||
| So, one more question, one more question for anybody up here. | ||
| I think that's something we can talk about. | ||
| But you remember, Hunter Biden said that, and he never did show. | ||
| So I think that the Democrats are trying to stall, hoping that something else will happen. | ||
| They were wanting to turn the attention off of the Clintons, which I think is very unfortunate because a week ago, the Democrats on the Oversight Committee wanted to hear from the Clintons. | ||
| They wanted to hear from everyone. | ||
| Well, that's an allegation, right? | ||
| Obviously, they didn't show up today. | ||
| They're only interested in this subject when it doesn't involve victims and it doesn't involve the political operatives in their party. | ||
| That's the only time they're interested. | ||
| When it involves the Clintons or victims, obviously, they're actually not interested, unfortunately. | ||
| Sure, no. | ||
| So, here's the real question here: Why wouldn't you want to have Bill Clinton come in and testify? | ||
| Why wouldn't you? | ||
| Why wouldn't you want Hillary Clinton to come in and testify? | ||
| Why wouldn't you want to hear from them? | ||
| Well, the Democrats did vote with us. | ||
| They did vote with us, and they didn't show up today. | ||
| No members showed up today. | ||
| They sent their staff, but they didn't show up. | ||
| Maybe they knew that the Secretary was not going to show up. | ||
| Yeah, and I would also suggest to you that in their statement, they indicated they would like Ghillane Maxwell to come testify. | ||
| We would too. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We would too. | |
| And so, the question I pose to them is: do you want us to go in? | ||
| Because, as far as I know, I'm one of the few that have actually gone into the federal penitentiaries to actually depose people. | ||
| So, we're willing to do that if that's what the Democrats want to do that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or do they want us to bring her here? | ||
| So, this is a warrant statement under the state. | ||
| This is what people should be asking. | ||
| And the Democrats don't want to be here today. | ||
| Maybe they knew she wasn't going to come. | ||
| But the bottom line is this: the Democrats. | ||
| The Democrats voted for this. | ||
| They didn't show. | ||
| We hope that next time they'll show. | ||
| We hope they'll be there and voted for contempt next Wednesday. | ||
|
unidentified
|
The other question I asked them is: is a million-they are 210, the nays are 208? | |
| Not in the well. | ||
| This is Kim from California Boats Eye. | ||
| Mr. Smith of New Jersey, go outside. | ||
| And the previous question. | ||
| The yays are 213. | ||
| The nays are 209. | ||
| The previous question is ordered. | ||
| The question is on adoption of the resolution. | ||
| Those in favor say aye. | ||
| Those opposed, no. | ||
| In the opinion, chair, the ayes have it. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Request the yays and nays. | |
| The yays and nays are requested. | ||
| Those favoring a vote on the yays and nays will arise. | ||
| A sufficient number having arisen, the yays and nays are orders. | ||
| Members will record their vote by electronic device. | ||
| This will be a five-minute vote. | ||
|
unidentified
|
And the second and final vote expected in this round here in the House. | |
| Members voting now on whether to approve debate rules on the funding package that covers the state and treasury departments, the IRS, federal courts, and Washington, D.C. through the end of September. | ||
|
Articles of Impeachment Introduced
00:04:07
|
||
|
unidentified
|
Meanwhile, lawmakers have yet to agree on the funding for Homeland Security, Defense, and Labor Departments. | |
| Current funding runs out on January 30th. | ||
| As members cast their votes, we're going to show remarks from earlier by Illinois Democrat Robin Kelly and others on her call for an impeachment inquiry into Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam. | ||
| Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for being here today. | ||
| This morning, I introduced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam. | ||
| I am proud to have the support of almost 70 members of Congress already from all across the country. | ||
| Secretary Noam has brought her reign of terror to the Chicagoland area, LA, New Orleans, Charlotte, Durham, and communities north to south to east to west. | ||
| You'll hear from some of those communities, Minnesota and Portland. | ||
| She needs to be held accountable for her actions. | ||
| This is why I introduced three articles of impeachment against Secretary Noam. | ||
| Number one, obstruction of Congress. | ||
| Secretary Noam has denied me and other members of Congress oversight of ICE detention facilities. | ||
| I was denied access to the ICE facility in Broadview despite following Secretary Noam's unlawful seven-day notice requirement. | ||
| It is our constitutional duty to find out what's happening in these centers where inhumane conditions continue to be reported. | ||
| Number two, violation of public trust. | ||
| Secretary Noam directed DHS agents to arrest people without warrants, use tear gas against citizens, and ignore due process. | ||
| She claims she's taking murderers and rapists off our streets, but none of the 614 people arrested during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago have been charged or convicted of murder or rape. | ||
| Federal agents repelled from Blackhawk helicopters and burst through an apartment in the South Shore of Chicago. | ||
| That was in my district. | ||
| They dragged people, U.S. citizens and immigrants alike, out of bed in the middle of the night. | ||
| Number three is self-dealing. | ||
| Secretary Noam has abused her power for personal benefit. | ||
| She steered a federal contract to a new firm run by a friend. | ||
| Her propaganda campaign to recruit ICE agents cost taxpayers $200 million. | ||
| She made a video that turned the South Shore raid into something that looked like a movie trailer. | ||
| But make no mistake, this is not a movie. | ||
| This is real life, and real people are being hurt and killed. | ||
| Renee Nicole Goode is dead because Secretary Noam allowed her DHS agents to run amok. | ||
| Families are forever torn apart. | ||
| This is not about personalities or trivial disagreements. | ||
| Secretary Noam has called my impeachment efforts silly. | ||
| I want to tell her right now: Secretary Noam, you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences. | ||
| I am watching you. | ||
| Members of Congress are watching you. | ||
| The American people, most importantly, are watching you. | ||
| And most of all, we are not liking what we're seeing. | ||
| If you believe impeachment is silly, then you are not taking your job or our Constitution seriously. | ||
| Now it's my honor to introduce Congressman Adriano Espayat from New York's 13th District and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Congresswoman Robin Kelly. | ||
| I am proud to join you in introducing these articles of impeachment against Secretary Noam, who have clearly violated the law and the trust of the American people. | ||
|
A Woman Shot in the Face
00:05:11
|
||
| 32 people died under DHS custody in 2025, and already four people have died in 2026, along widespread reports of sexual abuse, medical neglect, and inhumane conditions. | ||
| All of this enabled by a broken system. | ||
| But most importantly, our eyes do not defy us. | ||
| Our eyes did not lie to us. | ||
| We see, as the rest of the world has seen, have women are being violently pulled out of their cars and assaulted in front of the American people and in front of the eyes of the world. | ||
| How a woman was shot in the face. | ||
| The nays are 213. | ||
| The nays are 210. | ||
| The resolution is adopted. | ||
| Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. | ||
|
unidentified
|
The House | |
| will come to order. | ||
| Please take your conversations off the floor. | ||
| The House will come to order. | ||
| For what purposes the gentleman from Oklahoma seek recognition, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 7006, and that I may include and that I may include tape tabular material on the same without objection pursuant to House Resolution 992 and Rule 18. | ||
|
Department State Appropriations Bill
00:15:48
|
||
|
unidentified
|
The chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of H.R. 7006. | |
| The chair appoints the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Bost, to preside over the committee as a whole. | ||
| The House is in the committee of the whole House on the State of the Union for considering and consideration of H.R. 7006, which the clerk will report by title. | ||
| A bill making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026 and for other purposes. | ||
| Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered red for the first time. | ||
| General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees. | ||
| The gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. Cole, and the woman from Connecticut, Ms. Delaro, each will control 30 minutes. | ||
| The chair now recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I yield myself such time as I may consume. | ||
| The gentleman is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| H.R. 7006, Financial Services and General Government Bill, I want to announce today I rise in support of H.R. 7006, which institutes fiscal year 2026 funding for the financial services and general government and national security and department of state appropriations measures. | ||
| This Congress has a fundamental responsibility to fund the government, and this two-bill package is our next step toward completing the full 12 bills. | ||
| When done in the right way, funding the government is not a single vote. | ||
| It's a process that requires steady, deliberative progress. | ||
| I'm proud to say we're doing just that. | ||
| Today marks the second time this month that we are bringing bipartisan bicameral bills to the floor. | ||
| We promised the American people a responsible, member-driven process, and that's precisely what we are delivering. | ||
| This two-bill package reflects member input, the America First agenda, and the collaboration across political aisles and chambers that serves the nation. | ||
| Advancing full-year appropriations matters because it gives the country certainty and direction. | ||
| It allows vital agencies to plan, make decisions, and do their jobs based on today's realities, not policies from the past. | ||
| That's how we move from promises to action and carry out the America First agenda mandated by the people. | ||
| Those priorities are reflected throughout the measure before us. | ||
| Through the financial services and general government portion of the bill, FSGG Chairman David Joyce advanced important provisions that drive economic growth, uphold consumer freedom, and support entrepreneurship and small businesses, reinforcing the foundations of the American dream for people and job creators nationwide. | ||
| It also advances needed government efficiencies by cutting waste, modernizing technology and cybersecurity, and addressing unused federal space and buildings. | ||
| And crucially, it protects Americans from a supercharged IRS by cutting enforcement and redirecting resources to customer service. | ||
| This is especially important as we approach tax filing season and implement the Working Families Tax Cut, allowing families to keep more of what they earn. | ||
| Just as this package strengthens economic security and accountability, it also reinforces America's security and leadership at home and abroad. | ||
| The National Security and Department of State measures champion an America-first policy agenda. | ||
| We replace the weakness of prior administrations by restoring President Trump's peace-through strength agenda. | ||
| NSRP Chairman Mario Diaz-Billard took decisive action to reprioritize funding in support of our nation's security. | ||
| This has allowed us to eliminate $9.3 billion in spending while reasserting deterrence and leadership. | ||
| To protect the safety, freedom, and prosperity of the American people, we show that focused strategy, not endless spending, is what delivers results. | ||
| We make critical investments in high-impact initiatives that combat narcotics and human trafficking, confront the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party, and counterterrorism. | ||
| We reinforce democracy and human rights efforts and defend religious liberty. | ||
| As both a moral duty and vital American interest, we will not tolerate religious persecution and attacks on faith. | ||
| Upholding those values strengthens American leadership and advances freedom around the world. | ||
| We also eliminate wasteful initiatives, implement the necessary accountability at the United Nations, and prohibit any funds for things like UNRWA or the Taliban. | ||
| Bottom line, we counter our foes and stand with our friends and ensure investments are focused on security, keeping Americans safe, and enhancing our global edge. | ||
| Taken in its entirety, the package serves a clear purpose, safety, strength, and freedom. | ||
| That's certainly something we can all support. | ||
| I commend the detailed work of our chairman, Representatives Joyce and Diaz Billard. | ||
| Their leadership and careful stewardship of this package ensured the substance of the bill matched the responsibility of the task. | ||
| And to their accompanying ranking members, Representatives Denny Hoyer and Lois Frankel, thank you for your professionalism and engagement in the process. | ||
| This work demonstrates what we can accomplish through collaboration and respect. | ||
| I also want to particularly thank my good friend and working partner, the distinguished ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Laura. | ||
| And I also want to thank a superb staff on both sides of the aisle that worked tirelessly to present us with the product before us today. | ||
| As I look ahead, Mr. Chairman, to today's vote, I'm grateful for the future I see, one where President Trump keeps his pen ready because full-year appropriations are advancing and certainty is being restored. | ||
| I thank each of you for your time and I urge all members to support this bipartisan package. | ||
| With that, I reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentlemen from Oklahoma Reserves, a gentleman from Connecticut, is recognized. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I yield myself five minutes. | ||
| I rise in support of this package today, which includes the Financial Services and General Government, and the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs appropriations bills. | ||
| I want to begin by offering my gratitude to everyone who put in the long hours, late nights, to craft this package. | ||
| Ranking Member Stanley Hoyer on Financial Services, Lois Frankel, our National Security Department of State, who led these negotiations and secured important provisions, which we can all be proud of. | ||
| The Appropriations Committee staff in particular, Matt Smith, Erin Kolajewski, Philip Tizzani, Ed Etzkorn, and Lloyd McNoan, who worked tirelessly to produce this legislation. | ||
| And our counterparts in the majority, led by my friend Chairman Cole and the subcommittee chairs David Joyce and Mario Diaz-Billart. | ||
| These two bills are a continuation of our efforts to reassert Congress's power of the purse, reject $163 billion in cuts proposed by the Trump administration, constrain the White House's abuse of the budget process, and protect democratic priorities at home and abroad. | ||
| This bill supports the small businesses and entrepreneurs that fuel the American economy by providing more than $1 billion for the Small Business Administration and increasing funding for entrepreneurial development programs by $13 million. | ||
| Small businesses employ nearly half of the American workforce. | ||
| At a time when so many families are feeling the weight of the affordability crisis and job prospects feel few and far between, we must do everything in our power to increase economic opportunities in the communities that need it most. | ||
| In support of this goal, this bill also provides $324 million for community development financial institutions, rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to fully eliminate large portions of this program. | ||
| And as we look ahead to an election year, this bill increases funding for election security grants by $30 million, providing states and localities with the resources they need to shore up our election infrastructure and defend our democracy against any form of interference that could deny us the most basic right. | ||
| In addition to our right to vote, this bill protects our right to counsel, codified in the Sixth Amendment, by increasing funding for federal public defenders by $315 million. | ||
| This helps to ensure due process is not just a privilege reserved for the wealthy few, but a protection guaranteed to all of us, regardless of status. | ||
| This package not only supports democracy at home, but advances it abroad. | ||
| It protects funding to fully meet our treaty obligations, affirming American leadership at the UN and other international organizations. | ||
| It supports women around the globe, protecting funding for bilateral family planning and the UN Population Fund, and it facilitates American cooperation with international environmental initiatives by blocking policy riders that would have prevented our participation. | ||
| In fact, there is not a single poison pill policy rider in these bills. | ||
| Both we and our Republican colleagues agreed to leave these partisan provisions out of this package and pursue a reasonable compromise. | ||
| I am glad we could reach this agreement and to move forward with a package that is imperfect, but it is one that we can all support. | ||
| While there are certainly some things I would change about these measures, they are both vastly superior to yet another continuing resolution or a lapse in funding, either of which would afford the Trump administration greater leeway to abuse the budget process, which they have shown an eagerness to do from the moment they took office. | ||
| I am proud of the work that was done in a bipartisan fashion to produce this funding package, and I look forward to voting for it and encourage my colleagues to vote for it. | ||
| Thank you, and I reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| The gentlelady from Connecticut Reserves, the gentleman from Oklahoma, is recognized. | ||
| Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I yield five minutes to my very good friend, the Vice Chair of the Full Committee and Chair of the National Security and Related Program Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, the distinguished gentleman from Florida, Mr. Diaz-Billard. | ||
| The gentleman from the floor is recognized for five minutes. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the National Security, Department of State and Related Programs Subcommittee, I rise in strong support for H.R. 7006. | ||
| This full-year funding bill really carries out our nation's foreign policy in a historic way in so many different aspects. | ||
| First and foremost, the bill restores fiscal sanity by reducing spending by 16%, which is nearly a $10 billion cut, in recognition of the President's and the Secretary of State's effort to make the Department of State, frankly, more efficient, streamlined, and responsive to the national security priorities. | ||
| Within these really, I think, dramatic but necessary reductions, the bill makes sure that the Secretary has the resources that he needs to counter our adversaries, adversaries like China and Iran and cartels in our hemisphere, the regime of Cuba in our hemisphere. | ||
| This bill takes serious steps towards confronting, for example, the regime in Cuba and includes limitations on funding for countries and organizations that participate in the trafficking, human trafficking of Cuban medical professionals, while directing the Secretary of State to revoke visas for officials of countries involved in this grotesque human trafficking. | ||
| But, Mr. Chairman, a smart foreign policy doesn't just require opposing our enemies. | ||
| That's a big part of it. | ||
| It means supporting and standing with our allies, with our friends, who can be a force multiplier in our national security interests. | ||
| That's why this bill acknowledges our friends and provides robust assistance for allies, partners like Israel and Egypt and Jordan and Taiwan and the Philippines, to name a few. | ||
| Mr. Chairman, for too long we've ignored our hemisphere, our neighbors in our own region. | ||
| This bill changes that and provides special emphasis to key partners in the Western Hemisphere who are aligned with our values and our policies, such as Costa Rica and Panama, Paraguay, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. | ||
| This bill increases funding for counterfentanol and synthetic drug programs to stop these deadly poisons from crossing our borders coming to the United States. | ||
| It puts American businesses first, prioritizing diplomatic engagement to favorably resolve commercial disputes, disputes abroad, some of them that have been going on for years, to promote American business and American interest overseas. | ||
| And this bill also makes sure that we're spending money according to our American values. | ||
| It increases support for religious freedom and addresses religious persecution. | ||
| The bill also maintains long-standing pro-life provisions and enhances oversight and transparency over those requirements. | ||
| It protects free speech and prohibits censorship or disinformation and misinformation programs that violate the right of American citizens. | ||
| The bill makes double-digit cuts to UN funding and gives the Secretary of State the tools, the tools, and leverage to demand much needed, much-needed reforms there. | ||
| These are historic changes in our approach that the American people have been demanding for decades, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| And the fiscal year 26 removes controversial funding directives from the CR, like the UN Climate Funds and others. | ||
| Throughout this process, the goal is to be good stewards of American taxpayer money, to represent our constituents' priorities within this financial funding, and above all, protect the national security of the United States. | ||
| Now, this bill would not be here without the help of so many others in this body. | ||
| I got to start with the remarkable leadership of Chairman Tom Cole. | ||
|
Grateful Contributions Passed
00:02:58
|
||
| We wouldn't be here discussing this if it wasn't for her and his partner on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| And I'm so grateful for your leadership. | ||
| Your recommendations, every single member has made this bill so much better. | ||
| It's shaped this bill, and I'm grateful for the contributions. | ||
| I do need to thank again, my dear friend, and we've had some tough issues, but the ranking member, Lois Frankel, who has been an amazing partner in putting this bill together. | ||
| And by the way, Chairman Brian Mas, another Floridian who has been incredibly helpful. | ||
| I also want to thank my staff, the amazing staff. | ||
| This bill would have never happened without them. | ||
| My clerk, Susan Adams, and the entire majority team, as well as the minority staff. | ||
| We have no greater duty to the American people than to protect the security of our country while safeguarding tax dollars. | ||
| This bill does this. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| This bill does that. | ||
| It protects our national security. | ||
| It protects the hard-earned tax dollars of every American who pays taxes. | ||
| This bill plays an integral part in a noble endeavor. | ||
| And for that reason, I urge my colleagues to support this measure, and I reserve the balance of my time. | ||
| Gentleman yields back. | ||
| Gentlemen from Oklahoma Reserves, the gentlewoman from Connecticut is recognized. | ||
| Mr. Chair, I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Maryland, the distinguished ranking member of the financial services and the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for five minutes. | ||
| Mr. Hoyer. | ||
| I thank the former chair and ranking member for yielding. | ||
| I thank her for her work. | ||
| I thank Mr. Cole for his work. | ||
| Anybody who knows me knows that I am opposed to CRs, but I am for keeping the government open if those are the only alternatives. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, this would not be my bill, but I think probably most of the members on this floor can say that. | ||
| But it is a bill that cooperatively has been made better, I think, as it is passed through the House and the Senate and conference. | ||
| It provides increases for several key programs for the American people that includes $13 million increase over the fiscal year 25 enacted level for entrepreneurial development programs at the Small Business Administration. | ||
| The ranking member mentioned that program, but critically important to our communities and to the small business community. | ||
| This bill also increases funding for election security grants by $30 million. | ||
| I created that program along with Bob Ney from Ohio when we passed the Help America Vote Act. | ||