Single day to know you. Importantly, i also want to say thank you to my family. My husband, daniel, who has been my rock and been with me every step of the way. To my siblings and nieces and nephews who have taught me to never take myself too seriously. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady will suspend. He house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the house floor. The gentlelady will continue. Ms. Finkenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Again, to my siblings and my nieces and nephews who happily enough always, again, taught me never to take myself too seriously, and to my parents who i know are watching right now because as i found out within the First Six Months of being in congress, they actually d. V. R. And record cspan every day so that they can find me on the floor during votes. You know, i think back to the day that they came to visit right before swearing in. My very first visitors to my congressional office. Where my dad, jerry, a u. A. Retired Union Pipe Fitter welder and my mom, a retired Public School secretary, held hands and walked through the door of their 29yearold daughters congressional office. I cant imagine what they thought, but i hope it was better than when i told them, sat them down at the age of 24 and said i was running for iowa state house where my mom blurted out, why in the heck are you doing that . Well, uh, its been 7 1 2 years. Since mom asked that question. And i hope every day they have seen the answer. The reason i entered Public Service was because of them. You seeing, my parents couldnt give me a trust fund or a debtfree college. But what they gave me was worth a hell of a lot more. They taught me about treating people with respect. And seeing work to be done and doing it. About standing up for those who need a voice and most importantly, to never think you are better than anyone else, no matter what you do or where you go. The work i have done both in iowa and here in congress has been shaped by the stories and lives of my constituents and my family. From my late grandfathers, one, a firefighter, one a purple heart world war ii vet who worked in a meatpacking plant, to my uncles, one a former u. P. S. Driver, Small Business owner, and my motherinlaw an my sisterinlaw, both who are heroes and nurses. Because of them, my fight for working families, wage protections, collective bargaining, workplace protection, have continued to be in every sense of the word personal. And thats the way policy should be. These laws we pass, unfortunately on some occasions dont pass because of stalemates, arent just dollars and cents on a page. They are affecting peoples lives. I hope for this body and for the American People that we can have a congress and a senate who sees that and understands the value of Public Service. Until we get there fully, i hope that young people across the country find their why and run. We need you. And when you get here, i hope you do the work. And i hope you find an incredible staff like i did to help you do it. You see, this place is not about the crystal chandeliers or fancy titles. It is about the work. It is about the people in your district. It is about finding Common Ground where you can and just getting things done. I have been proud to get to work with my staff the way that we did, passing my first bill within the first two weeks, becoming the youngest woman in the history of this body tover pass a bill through this floor. To working on the Small Business committee. Beginning to chair the Rural Development ag subcommittee where we got to fight for things like better access to markets for our farmers and Small Business owners. To stepping up for our child care workers who need it most right now. And the work that we did on that transportation and infrastructure committee, along with the honorable chairman defazio, getting to help pass some of the best investment Rural Infrastructure that has ever come out of either one of these chambers. To standing here, i think in this very spot, having to fight back against attacks on davisbacon wage, good wage protections, in the middle of a pandemic. To helping our farmers, our biofuel industries, trying to fight and also getting done the biodiesel tax credit extender to, again, one of the things i might be most proud of, standing here, sharing a story that was hard to tell about my own battle and fighting osis and working with my staff to help double the funding for research that had been at the bottom of the National Institute of Health Research for years. And i also just want to say a special thank you to the staff in iowa. Who have been there for my constituents and one of in one of the toughest years we have ever had. This pandemic, where they have taken calls from folks wondering about their unemployment checks, wondering about how theyre going to be able to feed their family because theyre unemployed right now through no fault of their own, to then on top of it, going almost two weeks without electricity in my district which was like a category 4 hurricane that came through and decimated large parts of my district. The way that my staff stepped up when, again, they themselves didnt even have electricity or wifi is extraordinary. And you make me proud every day and the way that my constituents came together, it made me proud to be a congresswoman and to be an iowan. And you see, again, i just want to say one last big thank you to my staff. You are all incredible Public Servants that i am blessed to have known and some of the best Public Servants i have ever met. And i should know because i met one of the best, that late grandfather i talked about that firefighter, he was the one who taught me what all of this was. Hes the guy that i would sit around the Kitchen Table with when i was 10 talking about what was happening in the world. Hes also the guy that taught me what Public Service should be. When he would run into a burning building to save peoples lives, he didnt call and ask first what color is your skin . Where are you from . Who do you love . What language do you speak . He just showed up and he helped people and he did his job. That is what i have tried to do here every single day, both here in congress, and my four years in he state house in iowa. It is what i will continue to do in whatever i do next and it has been an honor and a privilege to get to serve in this body and represent this district and this country. Withjection. Mr. Udall thank you very much, and thank you, senator schumer, for those very kind remarks earlier. As you know, i announced i wasnt running for reelection last year, and if i knew everyone was going to be so nice to me, i might have announced it earlier. Im not the only senator who is giving a farewell speech. Many of us got to