Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
Subcommittee had in arraigning todays hearing arranging todays hearing. I. C. E. Declined to sit on the same panel with knack mote toe nakamoto, the contractor it chose. The departments lack of cooperation makes it more challenging for congress to do its job. At a meeting with dhs leaders, its important to the subcommittee to bring everyones voices together. Thats how we can best identify challenges and find ways to solve them. This issue is particularly important to me as two of i. C. E. s facilities detain upwards of 1300 migrants from in my home district. I visited these facilities, and i have concerns about some of the conditions of confinement. And im not alone in having these concerns. Dhss own office of Inspector General last year found these processes for oversight and con finement were insufficient to stay compliance with i. C. E. s own standards. It might be that inspectors are set up to fail. For example, i. C. E. Has a contractor who is responsible for evaluating compliance
Supplemented. Madam chair, i yield time to the gentleman from texas. The chair the gentleman from texas is recognized. I thank the gentleman from maryland. I appreciate my friend from new yorks concern about this important issue thats obviously paramount for the nation, her state, and the union is touched by the tragedy of the opioid abuse. Mr. Roy i do want to i do want to point out, as i ourk has been made clear by continued lack of dealing with the crisis at our border, that the impact on the opioid problem by the trafficking going on at our southern boarder is significant. And i think we all agree on that. We all recognize that. My colleague from new york and i have sat in oversight hearings where weve had witnesses there where we talk about the massive increase over the last several years in the amount of narcotics that are coming through our southern border. And this is just something that i hope we can have a bipartisan understanding and agreement on about addressing. And actual
Well postponed motion to suspend the rules on which the yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to under clause 6 of rule 20, the house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . I move the house suspend the rules and report the bill as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 6544, a bill to advance the benefits of Nuclear Energy by efficient, timely predictable licensing, regulation and deployment of Nuclear Energy technologies and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from South Carolina, mr. Duncan, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pallone, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina. Mr. Duncan i ask unanimous consent all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials into the re
This is about 45 minutes. Back back. [applause] [applause] before i begin tonights, i want to apologize to all of the basketball fans. I am fully aware that the game just started at 6 00 p. M. Majority leader croft, i understand you are an alum of the losing team tonight. It. [laughter] a. [applause] okay, very good. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , madame chief justice of the entire kansas supreme court, members of my cabinet, leaders of the kansas tribes and all of the constitutional officers and legislatures several tonights, it is an honor to speak with you. It is also my honor to welcome Lieutenant Governor david tolan along with his family his wife beth and their children caroline and william. [applause] at this time last year i stood here and reviewed the tremendous turn around our state had made in just four years. Four Straight Years of balanced budgets. Four Straight Years of fully funding schools. Landing the Largest Economic Development project in the history of our states. I d