Be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline, to suspend the rules nd pass s. 1678. On which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk senate 1678. An act to express United States support for taiwan diplomatic alliances around the world. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass s. 1678. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 415, the nays are 0. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. Lowey, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 6074, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 6074, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 415. The nays are two. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise . Mr. Johnson to address this body for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Johnson thank you, mr. Speaker. Today indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceras would have been 49 years old. But on march 2, 2016, she was viciously the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The gentleman deserves to be heard. The gentleman may proceed. Mr. Johnson but on march 2, 2016, she was viciously murdered in her own home by a coordinated effort between greedy corporate and government thugs. She died defending the land of the linca indigenous people. Be trmbings t berta, along with countless otherdouran activists, was the victim of a government racked with corruption and impunity. Drug traffickers have littered the highest ranks of honduras government and its military remains weaponized against its own people, all of whom are at the victimization of this government. Which is aided by u. S. Security assistance. We turn away our brothers and sisters at the border, but we abet the very crimes they are fleeing. Bertas legacy should serve to remind us of this and enough is enough. And with that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Carter i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Carter mr. Speaker, i rise today to remember and honor the life of mrs. Laura Randolph Stevens davendorf. Born in georgias first congressional district, laura was a fearless advocate, a talented artist and dedicated writer who used her gifts for the betterment of others. Laura was an extraordinarily gifted designer. In fact, during the atlantic Olympic Games she served as assistant course designer, the first woman in olympic history to be so honored. She was also a dedicated environmentalist and preservationist. In her late 60s, she became a certified master tree farmer and master wildlifer and was an instructor for the university of georgias Master Naturalist Program in forestry and salt marsh ecology. She served on numerous boards, including the georgia forestry association. In fact, in 2000, she was named georgias tree farmer of the year. I was blessed to meet mrs. Laura. So i can attest to her empathy, her intellectual, creativity, courage and compassion. She was a pillar in savannah and her legacy will live on. Lauras family and friends will be in my thoughts and prayers during this most difficult time. Thank you, mr. Speaker. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania eek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Speaker, i ask for unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. I rise today to recognize three extraordinary women. Nouf abdul aziz, and iman alrafian. For nearly two years these women have been imprisoned, placed in solitary confinement and tortured by the saudi government. Ms. Wild all because they used their voices to express the need for the government to recognize the fundamental rights and dignity of women. Under saudi arabias male guardianship system, which requires women to obtain permission of their male guardians on health care, employment and travel decisions, the very notion of womens rights or for that matter human rights is effectively nonexistent. Despite the saudi governments recent claims of social reform and unacceptably oppressive status quo continues to dominate virtually every aspect of life for women in saudi arabia. I urge my colleagues to join me as a cosponsor of House Resolution 129, a resolution which calls for the Immediate Release of these activists and calls on the administration to impose sanctions on saudi officials responsible for human rights violations. Let us come together, democrats and republicans alike, in demanding the release of these courageous women. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Lamalfa i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Lamalfa thank you, mr. Speaker. This past saturday, the west valley Girls Basketball team had a comefrombehind win to win the north Section Division 4 championship in northern california. After going 238 in the regular season, west valley shut out their opponent in the Fourth Quarter to pull out a 2926 victory after trailing 2417 in the third quarter. Hanna waynes scored points, creating momentum that allowed the eagles to keep the lead for good. Madeline also scored eight points, along with hanna, for lead scorer of the game. Congratulations on the win to the west valley eagles and the head coach, lenny, and good luck in the playoffs for the state championship. E will be rooting for you. The speaker pro tempore without objection. For what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Spano thank you, mr. Speaker. Today i rise to recognize clairemont florida native, diane travis, who exemplifies the type of citizen who puts community above self. Mrs. Davis served as a Council Woman, Small Business owner and, most recently, was named as a finalist for the womens great grand masters due athlete of the year. As a duathlete who runs, bikes and then runs again, she exhibits tremendous perseverance, discipline and strength of character. Even more noteworthy is the fact that she dedicates each race to her friend whom this award is named after and who sadly lost her life in a car accident returning home from a competition. Being recognized as a finalist for duathlete of the year shows the Great Success ms. Travis has displayed in past competitions. She captured the silver medal at the world competition. I wish Council Woman travis the best of luck moving forward as a finalist and and in all future competitions. Shell make our district and our country proud. Yield back. The speaker pro tempore under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from arizona, mr. Schweikert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. Schweikert thank you, mr. Speaker. Were actually going to try to touch on three or four Different Things this evening. Im going try to make it all sort of connect together. On a personal level, i was very pleased, as we were doing the supplemental and the mechanisms in regards to the coronavirus, a little widget of that was actually the telemedicine piece of legislation that i believe mr. Thompson from the ways and Means Committee and myself have been offered and its always nice to see some of these ideas youve been working on getting lifted up and moved forward. But this evening i actually want to sort of continue to sort of talk about science. And the fact of the matter is the impact it can have if we actually sort of think forward on functionally our debt, our deficits and our ability to keep our promises. You know, ive been behind this mic dozens and dozens of times with my little boards, trying to demonstrate that over the next 30 years, functionally Social Security and medicare, these are earned benefits, but they also are the primary drivers of u. S. Debt. Its almost all of it. And a lot of its just demographics. Were getting older as a society. Most of its medicare. Its Health Care Costs. And it turns out that theres opportunities that if we can embrace technology to actually disrupt some of those Health Care Costs. At the end we always sort of talk about, we need to grow the economy. We need tax policy, we need immigration policy. We need regulatory policy. We need incentives for labor force participation. Theres all these things that make the economy grow so we have the resources, the receipts, revenues, tax revenues and other things to actually keep our promises. But one of the other things kyo do is also dis we could do is also disrupt the price of health care. Just as a thought experiment. Except its actually based in the living math, this slides a little hard to deal with. But think of this. Over the next 30 years, and this isnt adjusted for inflation, but over the next 30 years, if you were to remove Social Security and medicare, would you have 23 trillion in the bank. If you roll Social Security and medicare back, youre 103 trillion in debt. And its mostly medicare. Its mostly Health Care Costs. 30 of that Health Care Cost is just diabetes. And thats what this slide is sort of walking through, the individuals we know about, those were expecting to come in the future years. And the cost curve. The fact of the matter is our investment, our ability to build policy that gets us to solutions for diabetes, and diabetes is complicated. You know, theres auto immune issues, theres lifestyle issues, theres just some genetic issues. Its complicated. But understand, just curing diabetes would be 30 of the medicare costs were projecting over the next 30 years. Its a demonstration that when we can get the incentives here correct, to push science, for these little labs, for these really smart universities that actually will break off something and go set up and raise capital and do these highrisk experiments to produce disruptions, cures, how important that is actually to our society today, but also into the future. Because if those little labs can produce a cure, can produce new their putics, and therapeutics and change this cost curve, they also change the projection of u. S. Economics, u. S. Debt. And im trying to build an understanding here. So think about what we just did on the floor. We just moved, what, 8 billionsome, working through the coronavirus, making sure theres supplementals and all these other things. And we also have had briefings, even earlier today, of some of the small labs and big pharma and little pharma that are desperately working to produce vaccines. Also new therapeutics, antivirals. Yet this same body in december, we moved a piece of legislation through here that would functionally crush, would functionally put those small biologic innovators out of business. It would destroy their whats often called the capital stack, the ability to raise money for highrisk therapeutics that most of the time fail. If we care about drug prices, which both the republican side and democrat side, i know we focus on it, if we make sure we can move a bill like they did, h. R. 3, functionally youre going to get some price efficiency here and wipe out the very innovation and the very biologics and small pharmas that were relying right now to produce some of the very disruption for whats going on in the world right now. So its just, understand we have to be so careful that we dont satiate our current political desire, and its a real one, to deal with the cost of pharmaceuticals and end up destroying future innovation that will save lives but also make sure we have the infrastructure for when we take on Something Like we are right now with the virus around the world. It ties back into, turns out, one of our greatest debt drivers is diabetes. Its 30 of the cost of medicare over the next 30 years. So why show this board . It turns out that just a couple of days ago, i came across a series of articles talking about another example of sort of a miracle that science is bringing us. It looks like this is a mouse experiment. Traditionally when you see a mouse experiment were still a decade away from the therapeutic. But this should be stunningly hopeful. Its functionally they functionally found a way to put in living cells that associate with the pancreatic cell and this just comes from reading three or four articles in some of the science journals that produce insulin in this mouse experiment. A his the beginning of therapeutic that is either a cure for part of the diabetic population or a substantial portion of it that also happens to have the economic benefit of dramatically changing the cost curve of health care, dramatically changing the cost curve of medicare and medicaid and so many other things . So as we sit here and everything from the conversation around the coronavirus to debt and deficit, understand this the primary driver of our deficits are Health Care Costs and really its our demographic. We have 74 million of us who are baby boomers and were moving nto our benefit years. How do we build policy around we could make this work for our brothers and sisters across the country. How do we incentivize investment in this technology that may partially or substantially cure diabetes but also solves one of our greatest debt problems in the future. This is the sort of thing republicans and democrats should be embracing each other and the policy and ideas to move capital, to move incentives, to make this work. If this body is going to have a discussion saying the World Economics are going to slow down for a little while because of whats going on and we want to do some stimuli, talk about doing stimuli that actually also isnt just a momentary change but actually, could change change our could actually change our future debt curve buzz it provides cures for our brothers and sisters with diabetes. Thats 30 of medicares dependents. Im asking us to think not only creatively, strategically, but also incentivize the science that changes our future. Its here. This is really exciting stuff. You sort of hope and pray that the continuation of the experiments and science continue to go this direction. This is a big deal. Its not only a big deal from a science standpoint for our brothers and sisters with diabetes but even some debt and deficit. Turns out you really can actually have that sort of holistic circle come together if we can get our policies right around here. So another thing we spent a lot time talking about energy policy, you know, how do you deal with everything from the issues of Greenhouse Gases and how actually dysfunctional our policies are here. I dont mean to get snarky but on one hand people get behind the microphones and give these beautiful speeches about how much we care. Then we look the other way when actual things are going on in our economy and make things worse. Let me give my example. Just part of the thought experiment to understand, do you see the multicolored layer . Thats Nuclear Generation thats coming offline. This is 2017 slide. If you could see the slide, which is very colorful, you will happen to notice it is substantially taller than the yellow side. The yellow side is photo voltaic. Im from arizona. I love solar. Its wonderful. This power ealize provides a baseload that is really, really clean. Weve shown theres a gentleman with a nobel prize that wrote an article a few months ago thinking in about 10 years theyll have a way to break down Nuclear Waste with some type of laser. The physics on that are a little beyond me. But this is sort of the point. We get our policy wrong on trying to keep our Nuclear Generation up and running and then we run around giddy that weve had so much photo voltaic hit the market but you do realize what the slide is telling you. We actually went backwards. Because that differential had to be made up by other types of power generation. We actually fell backwards because we didnt find ways to keep this Nuclear Power in production. Its just if were going to talk about things, i just desperately wish wed get our math right. Part of that. Another thing this one is optimistic. This one is touching on a piece of legislation, ways and means, and the bipartisan number of republicans and democrats, thats sort of an all of the above type of model and sort of, for those in the Desert Southwest in the afternoons, we produce a lot of photo voltaic power, the sun goes down and were still running our air conditioners. We actually havent done this for solar if wind. For solaring for wind, why not design something a little more egalitarian and understanding its the technology. And this charges this chart is about batteries. Whats amazing here is, let me see if i can bend over and read this line, battery prices have ad an 85 fall in price. Per density. In the last decade. So when you see that going down, thats the falling price of Battery Storage. Well if youre going to have in the tax code an insent iver for Wind Generation and solar generation, why wouldnt you have it also for Battery Storage . Why wouldnt you have it far type of technology we havent even thought of that some freaky smart person is working in their basement or garage or in a fancy lab right now that may be about to bring out . So im going to encourage members, think about that as were working on some of these packages, its often referred to as extenders and those issues, why dont we get this right and incentivize those things that actually are the next disruption . Because for us in the Desert Southwest, incentivizing that power storage actually creates the mechanisms of photo voltaic and other types of generation and smooths it out so it actually works for us. So its just for anyone listening, lets Pay Attention to that tax legislation. The other one i want to also touch on is another piece of legislation i am sponsoring and working on. A couple of years ago we passed something called q45. No one knows what q45, but its actually really important. Everything from the tax reform, its the concept of a tax credit for capturing carbon. And then the other part for sequestering it or using it in another fashion. Wonderful. We have a piece of legislation to take that and make it permanent. Because as weve learned, the Capital Expenditures for the technology to be on top of a smokestack or even the ambient air capture, where its on top of the building and its pulling carbon out of the air, sometimes those are Large Capital expenditure they need time to amortize out their cost. It also turns out, theres disruptions in that technology. This is a clip from an article back, oh, lets say, last october. Anyone thats tracking this, just basically grab your phone, go to your search engine, do m. I. T. Ambient carbon capture. They have a little video to show you how it works. But if what the researchers say on this technology, overnight they may have cut the cost in half. Cut the cost in half. Just pulling carbon out of the air let alone on top of a smokestack. It turns out that this technology of carbon capture, and then the ability, if we could pick some of what we call the q45, that tax credit thats already on the books that were just trying to work out its timing, for sequestering that concrete, using it for enhanced oil recovery, or as a couple of researchers have talked about, they can take pure carbon, with a little bit of chemical treatment, turn it into a cleanburning hydrocarbon fuel. The technology is here. How do you ever take a body like this, where you have a lot of smart people but we have lots of different specialties and keep up to date with the fact we live in a time of miracles. And if youre one of the people who truly cares about Greenhouse Gases, carbon in the atmosphere, then you also have the obligation to keep track of the disruption in technology. Because i will make the argument that the underlying math in the article behind this m. I. T. Carbon capture is true, its a miracle. They may have cut the cost of capturing in half. Another one this has been a project of mine for almost five years here. And i walk through a concept and sorry, but if you i actually have a Youtube Video. I think if you do schweikert environmental crowd sourcing, i have a 90second Youtube Video trying to explain this concept. We all walk around with these Super Computers in our pocket. We call them smart phones. What would happen in your community if you had a couple thousand people in your community that had these new little sensors that have hit the market, theyre here, theyre now. And you can be driving around, could be your uber driver, your lyft driver, u. P. S. Driver, the person driving your kids to soccer practice. Every few minutes its taking a sample through the neighborhood. You would actually have a crowdsource environmental data. Today what we do is we put up these powers. Those powers cost about 1 million a year just to maintain. But they lack so much of the Community Information you actually need. Ill get to my punchline here where this makes sense. How do you know that its not that the business over here is a good camper but the folks down the street are painting cars in their backyard . The power never tells you that. If you have a crowdsourced model of collecting air quality samples, you know the business is a good actor over here but you have clowns over here breaking the law, capture them. Turns out if you build an air quality crowdsourcing model in your community, the world we have today where you fill out lots of paperwork, shove it in file cabinets, does the pain for the file cabinets make the air quality cleaner in your neighborhood . Of course not. Its a 1938 regulatory model. We document things and then when someone screws up we know who to sue. I will make you the argument that if you could crowdsource air quality samples in your neighborhood, you dont need the businesses, the others, those who are licensed today, to fill out paperwork every quarter or every six months or every year. If they screw up, you capture them immediately. Think about it. You could crash the bureaucracy, you could crash filling out paperwork to shove in file cabinets, and keep the air quality much, much healthier because you capture when theres a bad actor or somethings gone wrong. You capture it instantly. That community science, the Citizen Science that crowdsourcing is here and it turns out that lots of smart people around the country are now producing products that actually let you do this. Im ordering a couple different ones. This is one version we pulled off the internet just the other is what they point out is we put up a single tower, year. 1 million a the technologys great. Its great sensitivity, but it doesnt tell you where the bad is. R and a crowdsource model, you find out where the bad actor is. My ead of in my state, county, maricopa county, air quality, instead of them being of paperwork, why dont they just they would have the data come in, they it on the heat map and go diately know where to du take a look and see whats happening. m trying to make the argument you remember earlier i was saying, we have to grow rather vigorously to be able to have the resources to keep our promises. Was, hey, ahat list tax policy that works, mmigration policy, but a regulatory policy. And ive never been thrilled when people walk around and use going to oh, were deregulate. I beg of you, think of smart regulations. Requires a dramatically maller bureaucracy, a dramatically less burden on those creating productive capacity in our communities and keep us healthier and ould show us where the bad actors are. Beg of this body, think forward. We keep actually sort of designing pieces of legislation have beene that might brilliant if it was still the early 1990s. How do we push the way we think f everything, from the environment to environmental protection, all the way down to generation of xt us . Maceuticals that cure i truly believe we live in a miracles. Also believe that our inability to be forward thinking actually one of the biggest problems we have in of technologies reaching our communities. This always start with lide, because one more time, whats the greatest fragility long term for this country . Argue its debt. Ut that debt is driven by our demographics. You know, our birth rates have collapsed over the last couple particularly the last few years. Were theres a large number baby boomers. We have our earned benefits coming to us. If you actually look at the debt about to on thats happen, its stunning. Build a path that actually makes it so we can keep a promises and still have growing economy so my 4yearold daughter has the same ive had . Ies my brothers and sisters on the eft will often come up with, well, well tax rich people. My brothers and sisters on the well, ill often say, well find waste and fraud. Thats ealize mathematical lunacy. Grow the economy. You have to have a disruption in health care prices. To have a disruption of how do you incentivize people to force. The labor thats why we put this slide up, because we actually believe these five of pillars that if we get the economic growth, we get the labor force participation, the of disruptive technology, the population encouraging family formation and if youre going to build change the immigration actually incentivize immigration d system because you need the economic philosophy. This is politically uncomfortable. Some of these things, when you get d talk about it, you people who get really mad because its just theyre not it, but its th almost the only way, at least in been ttle office, weve able to build a model that we growth, enough economic enough tax revenues, enough of what our price promises are that we end up Pretty Amazing future country. How do you ever get a body like this where you have lots of but a lot of what e know is long since out of date . And the math is really, really to deal with and talk about. When you show up in front of an home and to actually say, do you understand the iggest driver of debt is medicare, you will get booed, you will get hissed at it. It, how nt talk about do you save it . Remember, the Medicare Trust is the part a, has nly a few years left, and its gone. We need to step up, both democrats and republicans, and the truth about the math, maybe invest in that a calculator,lled and actually build a model of the prices, rupt how do we grow the economy, how create the velocity that actually makes this work and opportunity . And so my thesis is very, very simple. Its here. To do it, and the iggest barrier to it happening is this body here. E need to change the way we look at disruption of technology. And the last one ill give you example. He simple ive actually come to the floor multiple times and just done a experience. The technology of something that looks like a large kazoo that blow into that instantly tells you you have the flu, that instantly can bounce off your records on your phone, know that youre not allergic to and order ntiviral your antivirals, isnt that wonderful . Think about the cost Disruption Technology would have, particularly whats going on now. The technology exists. Had the professor difficulty raising capital, getting investors moving forward. You know why . Functionally illegal. Save lots of ld money, but the algorithm being a prescription is functionally illegal. State licensing laws, Social Security act, the reimburse. We need to become much more forward thinking because its save ourselves because if you stay the way we bathe in nothing but debt and stagnation, but there is a path. Speaker, thank you for with that, i and yield back. The speaker pro tempore the back. Man has yielded before the house a communication. Onhonorable the speaker, house of representativ representatives, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in lause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on march 4, 2020, at 2 57 p. M. , passed senate 1869, that the Senate Passed 4334, amendment h. R. That the Senate Passed without 5214. Ent h. R. Cheryl l. Erely, johnson. The speaker pro tempore under the speakers announced policy the nuary 3, 2019, gentlewoman from massachusetts, s. Pressley, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Ms. Pressley thank you, mr. Speaker. And thank you to my dear friend nd sister in service, representative tlaib, for cohosting this special session ith me this evening to discuss the critical issue of reproductive justice in our country. Abortion rights access and Access Task Force firstever majority congress, im proud to stand up back against these unprecedented coordinated attacks on our collective rights and liberties. You see, mr. Speaker, the stakes higher. T be any since 2011, antichoice oliticians have pushed away nearly 450 restrictive laws through state legislatures and way to the u. S. Supreme court. Over the last year alone, they enacted 25 bans across dozens of states, pushing Reproductive Health care, including abortion care. Hey pushed it further and further out of reach. Theyre working overtime to harmful misconceptions and to legislate abortion out of existence. Reproductive Health Facilities have been forced to shut their doors, forcing ndividuals to travel across state lines, shoulder additional inancial burdens, and jump through unnecessary and humiliating hoops just to access comprehensive care. Just this morning, i, along with several of my house colleagues, to the Supreme Court to stand in solidarity with the justice warriors who were on the lines fighting for our collective humanity. Supreme court the begins deliberations on the constitutionality of a louisiana law, which, if upheld by the court, would literally shut Abortion Clinic one. S the state except for one. To put this further into perspective, mr. Speaker, this doctor, just one to provide abortion care for million individuals of reproductive age across the entire state. Louisianas clinics shut down not only effect, it decimating abortion law in embolden but it will state legislatures around the same. Y to do the the whole ntical in Womens Health case in texas. Case, the exas precedent hasnt changed. The only thing that has changed makeup of the Supreme Court. A court thats now filled with udges who want to strip us of our bodily autonomy. Laws that restrict reproductive the very dermine nature of equality and disproportionately harm the most vulnerable among us. Every person, every individual, sexual ss of income, orientation or gender identity, to comprehensive Reproductive Health care and ding queer, trans, nonbinary individuals. Checked live in checked boxes. Care. On is Health Reproductive justice is Economic Justice. Racial tive justice is justice. Mr. Speaker, the stakes are high. Fundamental human rights and liberties are not and should not be up for debate. Proud to stand here on the floor today to remind the courts hat roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, and the days of the Hyde Amendment are numbered our partners ith and communities, the organizers and resisters who are fighting ensure nd day out to every person has the right to selfdetermination over their health. Tive thank you and i yield the remainder of my time to my esteemed colleague from the michigan, of ongresswoman tlaib. Ms. Plabe the speaker pro tempore under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2019, the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Tlaib, for the remainder of the hour. Ms. Tlaib thank you so much, mr. Speaker. Todays special order is a call for reproductive justice for women. Those who can become pregnant, and families everywhere who believe that reproductive rights is a hupe right. This special order hour comes as the Supreme Court today considers yet another attack on our right as women and those who can become pregnant to determine what we do with our own bodies. Worse, it comes less than a month after Senate Majority leader mcconnells thankfully fail aid tempt to pass not one, but two abortion bans. Never mind the 250plus bills to reduce Prescription Drug costs or improve access to the ballot box or more that would make a difference in the lives of the American People he could have taken up. Instead he tried to control womens bodies. The obsession with telling women, transgender folks and nonbuynary people what to do with their own bodies must end. The obsession of trying to gislate what those who might become pregnant can do or not do with their body must end. I represent one of the most beautiful, blackest cities in the country, detroit. The issue of reproductive justice is one that is very much affecting black women and women of color and transgender people all around the world. All of female title x patients, for example, 32 are latina, 21 are black, 4 are asian americanpacific ileanders. For the two billion transgender people in the United States this funding makes access to hormone replacement therapy and other transition related care that they need very much possible for their health. How . With over 100 clinics across 17 states offering h. R. 26r789, planned parenthood is one of the largest transition care providers in the country. This money this funding that is often threatened by antiabortion rights advocates is a critical source of health care for these women who already face Health Disparities. Indeed, providers are one of the few places for women of color that they can access reproductive and Preventive Health care service. It is really critical in this institution and this chamber that we ensure that those Health Disparities are not exacerbated by reduction or revocation of that funding. When we talk about 20week abortion ban, estories illustrating why access to them is so important is as heartbreaking as they are very much increasing human impact. Take jenny l. From my home state of michigan as a perfect example. At her 18week ultra sound, jenny and her husband were given the devastating news that their unborn son had severe brain malfunction. For weeks after that appointment she visited multiple specialists and genetic counselors who all ve her unborn son the same prognosis. He was unlikely to survive a full term. So at 20 at 21 weeks, jenny terminated her pregnancy. Her decision, jenny said in a quote, deciding to end my muchwanted pregnancy was difficult and sad but also deeply personal. At no point during that process did i consider my legislators as part of the conversation. I listened to my doctors, je metic counselors and my family and my heart. Unquote. Women like jenny should absolutely have the right to listen to their doctors, their hearts when i comes to their health, of themselves, their unborn children and their bodies. Had the g. O. P. Had their way, generalmy would have spent the remainder of her pregnancy term living in fear that at any moment her son would pass away from this awful, awful prognosis or the fear that she would give birth and watch him suffer. As a mother of two boys myself, i cannot imagine what jenny went through or her Emotional Trauma as she considered or made that very personal choice. If she had to carry her son, or not, its up to her. She is just one story of many in which a mother, through no fault of their own, has had to make heartbreaking decisions about their pregnancies. Sadly, nearly 99 of abortions actually do occur before the deadline of 20 weeks into pregnancy. But they decide to ignore that. They decide to make this a political issue, and its not. Its a human issue. A womans issue. For jenny and countless other mothers like her, this legislative body must keep their hands off womens bodies. Its so critically important to know when we talk about this issue that it is an Economic Justice issue. Its a Racial Justice issue. It is interconnected to so much of what we fight for as women in this country, to have ourselves be able to make very important choices not only about our jobs, health care, discrimination but also about our health that is so interconnected to so many other social justice issues that we face. It is critically important that we try to push back against this continued agenda that has been politicized making the issue of choice and the issue of health care for women something that they are vilifying and trying to use to oppress us. With that, i believe i yield the rest of my time to my good colleague from massachusetts, congresswoman ayana pressley. Ms. Pressley thank you again, representative tlaib, for hosting this joint special hour. The progressive caucus and the pro choice caucus. It is now my pleasure to yield time to the gentlelady from the great state of new york, the honorable representative ocasio ortez. Ms. Ocasiocortez thank you. Id like to thank my esteemed colleagues, Ayanna Pressley andra tschida tlaib, for hosting this weeks special order hour on an issue thats so critically important to people, and all people who Want Health Care and need equitable access to Reproductive Health care and justice in the United States. Right now, we are facing a critical juncture in the fight for health care, Reproductive Health care in the United States. Louisiana lawmakers designed a law to push abortion out of reach. It compounds the financial barriers of people struggling to make ends meet, that they already face when seeking care, including the decadesold Hyde Amendment that has long denied affordable abortion care for lowincome people. When i think about this issue and what any when any of us think about this issue we bring our whole selves to the conversation. When i think about this issue, when i think about the issue of preductive health care, i bring so much of my experience of Reproductive Health care, i bring so much of my experience working in restaurants. Working in restaurants is a frontline for Sexual Harassment and sexual assault. And working as a waitress, many of my colleagues were sexually harassed and sexually assaulted. There were days where many of them did not have access to Reproductive Health care or even Prenatal Health care. Ne woman i know was pregnant and had no health care and she had to show up at free clinics for hours at a hospital waiting for a new doctor every time. Another friend of mine that i had worked with was in an abusive relationship and as we all know, reporting rape is a very different issue than accessing Reproductive Health care in time. And when we impose things like the Hyde Amendment, what we say is that if you are wealthy and have these conditions, you can have access to Reproductive Health care. And an abortion. But if you are poor you will not be afforded those same issues. Thats what the Hyde Amendment is telling the American People. And all people who are capable of being pregnant or know a person or are part of a family of someone who is pregnant. Its incredibly important that we advance an uphold issues of economic and Racial Justice for all people regardless of their income and regardless of who they are. Right now, choice is the law of the land. That law should be extended to all people. And there is no reason, none, that a democratic majority should uphold the Hyde Amendment. In the United States. We have to make sure that all people have access to reproductive justice and Reproductive Health care. And last, but not least, is that these decisions oftentimes heart wrenching, are not decisions to be made between a constituent and a legislator. Its a decision to be made between a person and their doctor. And nobodys health care should be up to a senator or their state representative to determine. No less when so many of these bodies are not representative and do not contain people who can become pregnant in them. People do not understand, many of the people writing these laws, do not understand the scope and the breadth that economic and rather reproductive justice entails. To that, we have to make sure that we eliminate the Hyde Amendment and allow all people to have access to reproductive justice and health care they need. With that, it is my now my pleasure to yield time to the gentleman from the great state of illinois and my dear friend the honorable representative chuy garcia. Mr. Garcia thank you, congresswoman ocasio cortez. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I am proud to participate in this conversation about womens rights and access to health care services, especially Reproductive Health care services. I want to thank congresswoman tlaib and congresswomen tlaib and pressley for their leadership on this matter. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of womens access to Reproductive Health care. The louisiana law now being argued at the Supreme Court today in part is part of an Ongoing National effort to effectively ban abortion without formally bringing up roe v. Wade. Even if the right to abortion technically exists, it wont matter if access to places to get abortion care are eliminated. Republicans have pushed hundreds of restrictive laws throughout state legislatetures. If they truly cared about women, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would have voted for equal pay for and for the violence against women act. But they didnt. Instead, in 2020, they are still questioning a womans constitutional right to safe and legal abortion. Which has been the law of the land for over 46 years. They want to turn back the clock and deny women the right to Reproductive Health care, to make choices about their own bodies. For many in my community, this is a deeply personal matter. I took a strong stance on reproductive rights before the issue was widely discussed and acceptable in my own community. But for me, it has always been impossible to separate the issues of Economic Justice and reproductive freedom. The ability to control if, when, and how to have children is at the core of womens ability to provide a decent standard of living for themselves and their families. But let me be clear. While Abortion Access is critical, women of color and other marginalized women also often have difficulty accessing contraception. Comprehensive sex education. Sexually transmitted Infection Prevention and care. Adequate prenatal and pregnancy care. And so much more. In short, one sose yo economic and immigration ones sose yo economic, immigration stat cus, zip code, etc. , should not determine access to Reproductive Health. Abortion access is a critical step toward achieving true reproductive justice for the communities i represent. If the Supreme Court decides to strim women of their practical access to Abortion Services as they are now considering, they will effectively reverse roe v. Wade and outright deny women the ability to determine their own health, family, and future. This is an assault on women. An assault on freedom and an assault on selfdetermination. Women alone should have the right to choose what is best for them. Yield back. Ms. Pressley it is now my pleasure to yield time to the gentleman from the great state of california, the honorable alan lowenthal. Mr. Lowenthal thank you. Also thank my colleagues, representative tlaib pressley, for for yielding and allowing me to speak. Thee all know this morning, Supreme Court heard the Oral Services in medical vs. Russo. Case that challenges the unconstitutional abortion restrictions in louisiana. Louisiana law would require bortion providers to obtain admitting privileges at a 30 miles or else care. Ust stop providing et me be clear what this is about. This restrictive law is meant to eliminate access to abortion care. Fact, if this law were all but one stand, of louisianas Abortion Clinics shut down. This should be a straightforward Supreme Court. E three years ago, the court down an identical texas Womens Health vs. Hellershedt. Americans overwhelmingly support Abortion Access. Not y 80 of americans do ant to see roe v. Wade overturned. Polling consistently shows that state in t a single the union where residents want to outlaw abortion. One. Reproductive rights are central liberties. Al what were talking about are deeply personal decisions that the woman, n up to not to be at the sided decided by politicians. Or if not s women if they and how they should start to grow their family. Should be solely should be an absolute right and to make theiromen own decisions about their health nd their future and we should respect them for making that decision. Reproductive rights allow women to control their Economic Security and make the best themselves and their families. Its not our place, any of us, whether a woman should abortion. Not get an abortion remains one of the medical tpatient procedures. Of ver, placing the burden admitting privileges on abortion threatens the safety of these procedures. Professional medical association has said, admitting procedures will safer. E women lets be honest. For s no medical reasons these outrageous restrictive laws. There are only political reasons moves. These admitting privileges, as we know, are often difficult for providers to obtain olely because of the ideological opposition to abortion. It is imperative that we protect individual liberties, we protect reproductive rights reproductive education in order to build healthy communities. Back. You and i yield much. Aib thank you so i now want to yield time to my from olleague massachusetts for some closing then thank her for her incredible leadership on this important issue to women world, not just here in the United States, and also, has been a wonderful members tofor us new have a special order thats coordinated and created by the caucussional progressive to allow many of us to give a voice to many folks at home. Like to yield some time to my good colleague from massachusetts. Thank you, representative tlaib, for cohosting this special order hour. Special order hour in partnership with the congressional progressive caucus the prochoice caucus. Exciting in that we are in the first prochoice majority in the history of congress. I am by artened as those whove come here to speak and affirm our reproductive rights and freedoms, its shameful our are up for rights debate. Its 2020. Abortion access is at an alltime high. Fact, nearly 80 of americans do not want to see roe v. Wade overturned. Theres not a state in the union where making abortion illegal popular. Fighting back against these insidious efforts to undermine our reproductive freedoms and we just keep pushing. Just last month, the house passed legislation to move us closer to ratifying the e. R. A. So we will just keep speaking out, organizing, mobilizing when equality and justice on all fronts. I am glad to see so many of our to push s here tonight back against these draconian us rts that want to take backwards. We wont stand for it, not now, yield. R, and i ms. Pressley thank you so much to my good thank you so much to my colleague from massachusetts for her muchneeded incredible voice here in the chamber. Know, this sunday is International Womens day. Womens celebrate all the all over the world who stand up for what they believe in, who truth to power and who fight for our communities as activists, voters, candidates officials. This International Womens day, want to uplift an issue personal to me and to so many of our sisters in service. Iolence against women in politics is a global problem. Research shows women around the physical,subjected to sexual, economic, psychological violence for those choosing to politics. When i say around the world, i united n here in the states. My family and i constantly face harassment butnd his will not stop me for fighting for 13 district strong. Harassment, abuse, assault are politics. St of doing Women Deserve to have their heard. They deserve a seat at the table. Nd so this sunday for International Womens day, lets finally commit to stopping violence against women in politics. So much, and i yield time. Lance of my the speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan rise . I move the house adjourn. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion to adjourn. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Adopted. N is accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. I yield myself consume. As i may the speaker pro tempore without objection. Speaker, as adam the coronavirus moves closer to