the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 223, the nays are 194. the amendments en bloc are adopted. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question amendments en bloc number -- on amendments en bloc number 3 printed in house report 116-459 offered by the gentlewoman from new york. the clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc. the clerk: en bloc number 3, consisting of amendments 74, 76, 15, 25, 36, 68, 101, 89, 90, 95, 96, 112, 120 and 124 printed in house report 116-459 offered by mrs. lowey of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from new york. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of epresentatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island rise? mr. cicilline: as the member designated by ms. pingree of maine, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. mcgovern: as the member designated by mr. welch of vermont, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. welch will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. butterfield: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price of north carolina, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. price will vote no, will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? miss rice: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. deutch of florida, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. deutch will be voting no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia rise? ms. wexton: as the member designated by ms. porter, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. porter will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. brownley: thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by ms. kuster of new hampshire, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. kuster will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. matsui: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the will hat mr. desaulnier vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut rise? mrs. hayes: as the member designated by ms. wilson, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. wilson of florida will vote no to the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom new jersey rise? mr. sires: as the member designated by mr. pascrell, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. pascrell will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. evans: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the will vote mr. lawson no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? rassrass madam speaker, -- mr. raskin: madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. jayapal, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. jayapal will vote no on the amendments en bloc umber 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. gallego: as the member designated by representative gomez, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that representative gomez will vote nay on the amendments en bloc number 3. as the member designated by kirkpatrick, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that representative kirkpatrick will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts rise? ms. clark: madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. frankel, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. frankel will vote no on the amendments en bloc umber 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. sherman: as the member designated by mr. khanna, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. khanna will vote no on mendments en bloc 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. kildee: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. horsford of nevada, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. horsford will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. grijalva: as the member designated by lacy clay, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. clay will vote be voting -- will be voting no on the amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. payne of new jersey, pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house mr. payne will vote ney. and as the member designated by mr. hastings of florida, pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house mr. hastings will vote nay. . >> pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house that ms. sewell will vote no on the amendment en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois rise. ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush pursuant 965, i resolution inform the house that mr. rush will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> -- mr. correa: as the member designated by ms. napolitano, pursuant to house resolution 965, ms. napolitano will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does purpose the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by eddie berne neice h.res. 965,suant to i inform the house that ms. johnson will vote nay on en bloc amendments number 3. as the member designated by mr. serrano, pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house that mr. serrano will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does. mr. beyer: as as the member designated by ms. moore will vote no on the amendments en bloc number 3. as the member designated by mr. . u will vote no and as the member designated by mr. lowenthal, pursuant to house resolution 965, mr. lowenthal will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by ms. bonnie watson coleman, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house ms. watson coleman will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cooper: as the member esignated by mr. lipinski, pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house mr. lipinski will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. boyle: as the member designated by ms. lofgren, purn to h.res. 965, i inform the house ms. lofgren will vote nay. as the member designated by mr. garamendi pursuant to h.res. 965, i inform the house that mr. garamendi will vote no on amendments en bloc number 3. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 187, the nays are 230. the amendment is not adopted. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: it is now in order to consider amendment number 62 printed in house report 116-459. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 62 offered by mr. allen of georgia. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 106 0the gentleman from georgia, mr. allen, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. allen: thank you, madam speaker. this bill that we're debating here is a partisan travesty and spends entirely more than this government can afford. that's why i rise again to offer an amendment to cut spending to the interior and environment portion of the bill. in addition to its overspending, this bill attempts to he will digitize president trump's replacement for the obama administration 'overreaching wotus rule. the farmers and land owners in my district will tell you how devastating that would be. it continues down the path that the far left have been touting this entire congress, implementing socialist green new deal policies disguised as emergency funding. this couldn't be further from the truth. this bill not only spends more of americans' taxpayer dollars, but forces others to spend more, forcing onerous regulations on american business owners that would ultimately lead to higher costs for our american families. continuing to adhere to the ondcped a -- obama administration's outdated and repressive regulations would be detrimental not only to the energy sector workers, but to millions of american families whose budgets depend on affordable and reliable fuel and natural gas and jeopardize america's energy independence. today's minibus total is $219.6 billion in discretionary spending, plus another $37.5 billion in emergency spending. busting the budget agreement and increasing funds in the form of b.c.a. cap exempt funding and almost 1/3 of the funding of this division not subject to the b.c.a. caps. i remind that you under the democratic majority, we can't even stick to the budget that was agreed to. the interior and environment division would provide funding at a whopping $41 -- 41.4% above f.y. 2020 enacted level and 5% over the president's request. while the -- 59% over the president's request. while the president's budget proposed to eliminate or reduce programs in the e.p.a. that are better left to states, communities and private individuals, the house proposal for interior and environment maintains or increases spending on e.p.a. programs. i'm a former business owner. and just like any good business owner or family knows, you must operate within a budget and make tough choices to live within your means. as members of the people's house, we must hold ourselves to the same standard that american workers and families do. my simple amendment is a good place to start. my amendment would reduce interior and environmental spending by 5% for fiscal year 2021. i want to do some quick math for you. my amendment would cut about $2.7 billion. even with my 5% cut, this division would still dramatically increase spending for fiscal year 2021 compared to fiscal year 2020. this is a place i believe we can start. we will be smending a lot of taxpayer dollars. i believe my democratic colleagues could easily support this. our national debt crisis can no longer be ignored and my colleagues must look at washington spending in order to start taking back control. earlier today, i mentioned my 13 beautiful grandchildren and we have another one on the way. it is all of our duties to do everything possible to avoid placing $26 trillion and growing national debt and burden on the backs of the next generation. my amendment is a small first step to bringing fiscal responsibility back to washington. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment. and with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota rise? ms. mccollum: i strongly oppose this amendment. this amendment discriminately cuts programs from this bill and not giving merit to the programs within the bill that it was cut. it would cut, it would cut indian health service and mean fewer patients seen, especially during the covid pandemic, which we know, has affected the native-american population in a very dramatic, painful, hurtful way. it would mean fewer safety inspectors ensuring that accidents don't occur. and it would worsen our nation's rinking water and sanitation problem which means more children could be exposed to lead. investments in our environmental infrastructure and public lands, it would be halted and the associated jobs would be lost, jobs americans desperately need. more importantly, this amendment would contribute to lives being lost in indian country and i do not say that lightly. tribes are being particularly hard hit by the coronavirus and this would compound the problem. what programs would be cut sm it would mean basic health care, diabetes program, cuts to child and ma term health and our native brothers and sisters, my native sisters suffer high infant mortality rates and cuts to mental health services when our country and the indigenous people who are here would be suffering more than they are today with mental health cries sees as they can't go to their customs and traditions mourning e loss not being able to gather. this has been a nonpartisan goal to improve the health status of our native-american brothers and sisters. this will set independent yap country back. i dare say it will set them back decades because we have so much more work to do. this amendment would not encourage agencies to do more with less. it would force agencies and those serving our native-american nation for their would members to do more, not be happening. they would be doing less. i urge members to oppose this amendment. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. squasm georgia. mr. allen: let me try to understand what we're saying here. growing 25-26 and trillion dollar debt in this country. i mean, is there no concern for future generations? and when you look at the explosion of this debt, i mean, when i saw the appropriations package, i could not believe it. i mean, we can't even live within a budget. i mean, what kind of message are we sending to our children and grandchildren here? we can't leave them with a debt because we refuse to take commonsense steps to take back control of this spending. we can't count 5%? i'm deeply concerned about the future and i urge a yes vote on my amendment and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: this is an across the board indiscriminate cut. we might agree there are programs that take place in these bills, but this is a 5% cut which will deeply, deeply affect the gains we have been struggling to make in indian country and i can't be silent. we have to do what we can do to make sure the treaty and obligations that this united states government entered into with the first nations who were here are honored and part of that is health care. madam speaker, i ask others to join me to stand to oppose this amendment which will harm the american people and do damage toll health care and education of our native america cab brothers and sisters. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. pursuant to house resolution 1 060, the previous question is offered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. allen: ask for a recorded vote -- yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3 of house resolution 965, yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on the uestion are postponed. the chair understands that amendment number 66 will not be offered. it is now in order to consider amendment number 67 printed in house report 116-459 of the for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? > madam chair. mr. tonko: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: -- it was numbered number 62, is that correct? 67. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman rising as the designee? mr. tonko: i stand corrected. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 67 printed in house report 116-459 offered by mr. tonko from new york. the eaker pro tempore: chair recognizes the gentleman from new york for five minutes. mr. tonko: i rise today as the esignee of good friend representative rochester. every person deserves to breathe clean air as we battle a pandemic, that truth could not be more important. but time and time again, the administration has chosen to ignore the latest public health science allowing our air to remain polluted and our communities to be less safe. e.p.a.'s failure to propose air quality standards is unacceptable and tens of housands of lives at risk. soot is a dangerous pollute ant. it puts low wealth and communities of color at greatest risks. these are the communities that are experiencing deaths made worse by decades from exposure. the e.p.a. has chosen to retain its inadequate standards where studies showing that a stronger standard is justified. ep's health impacts that strengthening the standard would prevent deaths. this amendment would prohibit e.p.a. from time liesing its review of the national a.m. by yent quality standards. american people need an agency that will listen to doctors and standards and take the steps necessary to protect the health and well-being regardless of race, income or zip code. we are in the midst of a global pandemic. protecting our health could not be more important. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and give the e.p.a. the opportunity tom finalize a stronger standard that will protect human health and the environment. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does gentleman rise? >> i claim time in opposition. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> i would like to recognize my friend from ohio for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i rise in opposition to the amendment. this amendment interferes with scientific and public review process before the process has been completed. the period closed a month ago and eep is in the process of considering more than 66,000 public comments received and making chapings to the proposal. e.p.a.'s proposal to maintain the standards comes after careful consideration after the scientific evidence and with consultation and confirmation by the agency's independent scientific advisers. e.p.a. continues toll perfect r environment and help americans. there are too many states and counties struggling to meet the current standards which are amongst the strictest standards. we need to help them raise the bar. the e.p.a. remains committed to helping these areas succeed and this gives the resources to keep doing so. the u.s. has made incredible strides. as a result of the clean air act, efforts by state and local and tribal governments and technological governments and atter has fallen to 39%. while average course particular ate matter fell by 31%. ladies and gentlemen, the process that congress continues to fund in this bill is working and now it's our job to work. ote no on the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. gentleman reserves. >> who has the right to close? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. >> parliamentary inquiry, who has the right to close? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. shimkus: i will ask to be recognized. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. shimkus: i rise in opposition to this amendment. this amendment would prohibit the use of any funds to finalize or implement e.p.a.'s proposal to remain the air a.m. by yentrm quality standard. the e.p.a. proposed the standard, the standard is 12 micro grams per cubic meter there. and the current e.p.a. undertook the required five-year review of the standard and resounding decision, the scientific advisory committee voted to retain the standard. they determined there was substantial standards. following the requirements of the process, the e.p.a. conducted a review and analysis of the relevant data. so if i have this right, the eep conducted a scientific review and analysis. it filed the administrative act process and made a regulatory proposal, which it still will take public comment on, review the feedback and make a final determination. so where is the miss step here that requires this kind of amendment? did the agency falter? did it falter by following the rulemaking process. what this amendment is replace analysis and proposal with a politically motivated edict. combined pollute ant emissions have declined. the u.s. has the lowest in the world including five times the global average and seven times below china levels. our air is cleaner and under this administration, we have been stronger in economy. that's what we should be dictating our process. we should have a process for the clean air act. and setting the standards unnecessary is dangerous. economic, social that follow and we pull out or power plants close and harming families. getic it right is what is getting it right is important right now. the problem with my colleague's amendment is that it stops this important process in its tracks. it will deprive the public of the benefit of sound science process to protect public health. for all populations. stopping the scientific process does not protect public health. support for this amendment undermines the clean air act. i urge a no vote on this amendment and i'll close with this. for my colleagues who promote cience, when you politically vote for science standards without the scientific process, you kind of destroy the whole e.p.a. process. and so with that, i'd ask a no vote on this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new york is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. i'll repeat. every individual deserves the right to breathe clean air. mr. tonko: certainly this pandemic has proven that certain areas, certain neighborhoods, certain populations have been at risk. it's been proven by the impact that covid-19 has borne on so many individuals and communities. i would like to thank representatives blunt, rochester, mceachin and rush for authorizing this important amendment and for their tireless work to achieve environmental justice in carrying out our nation's environmental laws. and i thank chair mccollum of the interior subcommittee for her work on this great bill to protect public health and the environment. e.p.a. has a requirement to put forward standards that are based on sound science and protective at the same time of human health. the p.m. proposal has failed to do so. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment, to ensure environmental protection extends to each and every american, and i yield back, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time having expired, pursuant to house resolution 1060, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. tonko: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. tonko: i ask for a roll call vote, please. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. pursuant to section 3 of house resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion are postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 86 printed in ouse report 116-459. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? ken ken good evening, madam speaker. i have -- mr. kennedy: good evening, madam speaker. i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 86 offered by mr. kennedy of massachusetts. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 1060, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. kennedy, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. ken ken madam speaker, i yield my -- mr. kennedy: madam speaker, i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kennedy: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the chairman for his leadership on this bill and for, madam chair, the support of this amendment. madam speaker, in 1620, 400 ears ago, the pilgrims settled in plymouth, massachusetts. for literally four centuries the native people have been fighting for their sovereignty, for their land and for their survival. and for generations, they've been met with resistance from a government that should be protecting and empowering them. in the last few months, madam speaker, their fight has arrived at a crossroads, created by a trump administration that has treated tribes with nothing but contempt since the day of his inauguration. because of decisions made by this administration, the land may be stolen from them again in the coming weeks. we have a responsibility to do what is right. to learn from the mistakes of generations before us. to recognize that this land wasn't land to be discovered or to be taken. it belonged to tribes long before the pilgrims arrived. we need to pass this amendment, to right the wrongs of the past, prevent them from becoming the wrongs of the present. thank you, madam speaker. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i rise in opposition to this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to claim time in opposition, very strong opposition, to this amendment. the amendment continues the efforts in this house to halt enforcement of a federal court action on this matter in order to build a massive 400,000-square-foot off-reservation gaming complex r the benefit of jenting a for-malaysian gaming company. since we considered this legislation last year, there have been a number of important events, including just last month when the u.s. attorney's office in boston served a federal grand jury subpoena to he tribe for a hefty number of documents and financial records. mr. gosar: yet here we are once again, misguidedly considering the establishment of two separate reservations for the tribe of massachusetts. one reservation will be the town, the tribe's historic reservation lands. no casino will be allowed within, quote, the geographic boundaries of the town. end of quote. the other reservation will be 50 miles away in the city of taughten. this site is not part of the tribe's historic reservation, and was selected by the tribe for a billion-dollar casino project because of its proximity to providence, rhode island, casino market, 20 miles' distance. there's no reason for the second reservation other than to build an off-reservation casino 50 miles away from where the tribe currently resides. in 1988, congress enacted the indian gaming regulatory act, with the intent to restrict casinos to tribes' original reservations in order to protect the states and the rights of citizens of those states. by placing land and trust -- in trust for the tribe for gaming in tauton this amendment creates an off-reservation casino which is inconsistent with congressional intent. this is often called reservation shopping. and it's an abuse of the indian gaming regulatory act. now, the tribe's lawyers knew that reservation shopping was a political headache. so they went to bureaucrats within the d.i.h. to obtain the two reservations through administrative action. but let's be honest. this isn't about the tribe, this is about genting malaysia. this is about a financial bailout for genting. the tribe is swamped with more than 500 plus-million dollars in debt and there's no way the tribe can ever play this -- pay this back and make enough money to sustain itself. genting therefore will be the real owner of the probably, not the tribe. this kind of arrangement where the creditor practically controls the financial futures of a debtor tribe is contrary to the indian gaming regulatory act, which requires every tribal casino to be 100% tribally owned. moreover, the american principles projects reports on the ties between convicted lobbyist and the tribe. stating, quote, the expansive investigation uncovered major corruption within the tribe. its chief pled guilty in 2009 to multiple federal charges, including embezzling tribal funds and campaign finance violations committed while working with him to secure federal recognition in 2007, end of quote. this disastrous project was garnered in broad share of opposition, including president trump, democrats and republicans. the project is also strenuously opposed by the other federally recognized tribe in massachusetts. for members on both sides of the aisle, do you really want your name tied to a tribe that only received federal recognition in 2007 as a result of a shady lobbying by jack emmerhoff? do you really want to vote for a $500 million bailout for a foreign gaming corporation? more importantly, while everyone is innocent until proven guilty, prudence suggests that congress wait until the completion of the ongoing federal grand jury investigation before acting on any gambling legislation related to a foreign entity and an indian tribe that appear to be targets of that investigation. in short, this amendment attempts once again to force an off-reservation casino, bails out a foreign corporation for major financial problems of its own making, undoes a judgment of a federal court and contradicts a supreme court ruling. i urge all members of both sides of the aisle to vote against this amendment and with that i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. ken ken -- mr. kennedy: thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. kennedy, is recognized. mr. kennedy: i yield such time as the other gentleman from massachusetts may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts twice is now recognized for such time as he might utilize. >> madam speaker, i speak in favor of this amendment. on march 27, two weeks after the u.s. government had declared a state of emergency due to the covid-19 virus, leaders of the tribe, the tribe that helped the pilgrim forefathers survive the devastation of illness and starvation in their first winter, received a phone call from the u.s. secretary of the interior's office. now, you'd think that maybe they were going to see how the tribe was doing, a tribe that's disproportionately affected by the virus. keith keith maybe they were call -- mr. keating: maybe they were calling to see if they needed any help. regrettably that wasn't the case. in an act with discretionary timing and one of the most rerp henceable acts since i've witnessed here in this congress, they were informing them that on behalf of the u.s. government, they were taking away their land, their buildings, their medical center, and leaving them in financial ruin. fortunately the d.c. fifth circuit judge rebutted this unconscionable act, calling it arbitrary, capricious, contrary to law and unusually so calling it an abuse of power. due to the close relationship between the white house and the lobbying group that's dealing with this, this could rear its ugly head again. this amendment's different than the three that we passed before in terms of legislation. it's much more narrow. all it does is make sure the tribe, the tribe which helped the pilgrims survive their first year, are allowed to do so themselves in the coming year. i reserve the balance of my time. i yield back to the gentleman from massachusetts. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. kennedy: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized -- the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. kennedy. mr. kennedy: i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: i thank the gentlewoman. once again, the facts are the facts. i know there's gut wrefrpbling applications. i've dealt with tribes my whole life. the facts are the facts. this amendment is egregious. the facts are the facts. two reservational applications is incomprehensible. it violates the very law that we've actually passed. now, if you disagree with the indian gaming regulatory act, well, be my guest. change it. but that's not what we do. we follow the law. the law is the law. and with that, i say that i would ask everybody to vote against this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. kennedy: thank you, madam speaker. i stand today with my colleagues from massachusetts in support of the tribe and tribal sovereignty. and ask my colleagues to pass this amendment. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time has expired. pursuant to house resolution 1060, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from massachusetts. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: it is now in order to consider amendment number 102 printed in house report 116-459. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 102 printed in house report 116-459, offered by mr. smith of missouri. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 1060, the gentleman from mes, mr. smith and a member opposed each will criminal five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. mr. smith: waters of the u.s., social cost of carbon, the clean power plan rules, these are just a few of the crushing regulations issued by the bama-biden presidency. daurg the obama-biden administration, the e.p.a. issued nearly 4,000 regulations. these rules totaled tens of thousands of pages in federal regulations and billions of dollars in compliance costs. the families, farmers, and small businesses of missouri could not keep up. thankfully, since taking office, president trump has kept his promise to deliver regulatory relief to the american people. he's removed seven regulations for every one new added, saving households thousands of dollars a year in regulatory costs. the other side would have you believe that reining in the e.p.a. by reducing funding leads to dirtier air and dirtier water when in fact the opposite is the ase. under president trump, emissions have fallen in every major category and overall have dropped 7% since 2017. right now, we have the cleanest air since 1970. that's 50 years. democrats want to take us back o obama-biden era spending policies that this funding bill which breaks the recently agreed to spending caps and returns us to regulatory machine of the prior administration that harms small businesses and family farmers. but the american people are not interested. -- interested in returning to the increased costs and overregulation of that administration. my amendment simply reduces funding for the e.p.a. to reflect president trump's budget request. i urge all my colleagues to support it and i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota rise? >> i rise in opposition to this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. >> for four years in a row sent us a rump has budget that is just not workable when it comes to his budget request. on a bipartisan amendment, especially when it comes to the e.p.a., we have passed budgets at the end and sent them over to the e.p.a. with more money than the president requested. why? because we know we have to fight to have clean air, clean water, we need to have good scientist we need to have researchers, we need to have people out doing inspection, we need to have our environmental protection agency working. ms. mccollum: as i pointed out, congress has overwhelmingly rejected these requests. for the president's cuts to the e.p.a. and i predict we're going to see that happen again for a fourth year in a row. that's because the e.p.a.'s environmental programs and management account doesn't vital work, really important work, protecting our air and drinking water, destroying water ways, safeguarding us from toxic chemicals. it's been reported worldwide because of covid we know people are driving less. we know our factories aren't running the way they should be. a lot of people are out of work. yes, the air quality has improved because of the president's mishandling of the covid emergency that we're facing. but we don't want to go back to those pollution levels. we want to work together in a bipartisan way. another thing that the gentleman cuts are the geographic programs. hugely popular in this congress. here they are. overwhelmingly supported bipartisanly. program work like the great lakes. chesapeake bay. puget sound. long island sound. and the florida estuaries. these programs would be devastated if we adopted the president's budget. members on both sides of the aisle asked for probust funding in these accounts. rural communities that rely upon technical assistance grants in this account, we helped them to make sure they can afford safe drinking water for their constituents. and they can safelying more their sewer and wastewater system. we work together to help rural communities. and consumers rely on e.p.a.'s energy star program to help them choose energy efficient appliances to save money and the environment. madam speaker, i can speak from person experiences having sold appliances for many years how important that energy star was to someone when they were making a decision because they wanted to save money on their eelect rick bill. the trump ja -- on their electric bill. the trump budget would have slashed all these programs and much more. the impact to public health would be devastating. the american people overwhelmingly agree that we should be investing more to protect our families from pollution, not less. i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and i reserve the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, madam speaker. more money is not always the answer. the right policies, efficiency is the answer. as i said earlier, under trump's policy and trump's spending we have the cleanest air since 1970. i'm not sure why the majority is concerned about cutting funding for the e.p.a. when they've included $13 billion in additional emergency funding in this bill for the e.p.a. alone. my amendment is not about preventing the e.p.a. from doing its job. it's about ensuring that the e.p.a. does the job we gave it o do and nothing else. now is not the time to return to overspending habits of the obama-biden era. if this amount is good enough for the president, it's good enough for me. i close. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: i'm glad the gentleman brought up the $15 billion in the e.p.a.'s emergency spending budget. it's for wastewater treatment. that's for clean drinking water. that's for infrastructure. that's for jobs. that's so the next generation inherits clean water and a sewage waste disposal system that they don't find crumbling all around them. because of neglect and because we have not lived up to our obligation to take care of those infrastructure investments. for 50 years, the e.p.a. has been responsible for protecting health and the environment. and they've been doing a job and cleaning up the environment, as i mentioned with the restoration program, chesapeake bay. it's amazing what's happened. the great lakes. congressman joyce and i are constantly working with other great lakes representatives, both republicans an democrats and independents, who ask us to even do more in investing. these trump administration budget cuts the gentleman would have us return to would crip they will e.p.a.'s ability to accomplish those missions. so i urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment and my understanding, madam chair is the gentleman has yielded back his time so with that, i will always do -- i will also do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman has yielded back. all time having expired, pursuant to house resolution 1060, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered y the gentleman -- the gentleman from missouri. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. he amendment is -- ms. mccollum: i call for a roll call, madam chair. the speaker pro tempore: the question is call thond vote. pursuant to section 3 of house resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. it is now in order to consider the amendment under number 2103 printed in house report 116-459. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? mr. smith: i have an amendment at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 103, printed in house report 116-459, offered by mr. smith of missouri. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant ho house resolution 1060, the gentleman from missouri, mr. smith, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman for five minutes. mr. smith: thank you, madam speaker. once again i rise to advocate in favor of the fiscal sanity of the trump administration. just like my last amendment this amendment prevents the democrats from taking us back to the obama-biden era policies of overregulation and overspending. the obama-biden e.p.a. brought us thousands of new regulations. tens of thousands of new pages in the federal register. and billions and billions in compliance costs for american farmers, small businesses, and families. much of this backed by flawed research with a political agenda. the office of science and technology aids in the regulatory process and is responsible for the faulty research that led to costly regulation like the social cost of carbon and the clean power plan. the american people need transparent research without an agenda. they don't need obama-biden era regulations and spending policies. the amendment once again simply reduces funding for the e.p.a. to reflect president trump's budget request. i urge all my colleagues to support it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota rise? ms. mccollum: i rise in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. ms. mccollum: as i said in the other amendment, for four years president trump has sent us truly appalling budget request numberers in e.p.a. the congress has overwhelmingly rejected these requests on a bipartisan basis. as i said, i predict we'll do that again the fourth year in a row. the e.p.a. science and technology account does vital research on health effects of toxic chemicals and pollutants. now the trump administration, by not doing this research and by not moving forward, protects corporate polluters' profits at the health and safety of the american people. that's why in my opinion the administration's budget proposals to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for funding and research for things like pfas. in my constituency, i have several major municipalities that can no longer just take the water out of the ground the way they had before, send it to the home owners, and they could turn on their tap and safely drink it. no, it has to be filtered for pfas. we need research an standards on it. lead. how many discussions have we had on this house floor, how many parents have we heard from, how many children have we heard from about the effects of lead in water? mercury. we have fish advisories because of mercury. pregnant women, we have to be careful of how much fish we consume. we have posting when we go to our lakes about how much fish we can consume. america vi a concern to many of us. and climate change. i'm not afraid to talk about climate change. i was just on the phone with the secretary of the air force. we were talking about what we're going to have to spend in alaska. the permafrost is causing issues with radar installations not being stable. climate change. the deperms afrost which is disappearing is affecting the ability for runways and safe landings. climate change. so do we need to do the research on climate change? it's a national security issue and i'm glad the e.p.a. is out there looking at it, working with other agencies in the united states. people across this country overwhelmingly afree we should be invest manager research in pfas. we should be getting the lead out of our water. we should be understanding what's going on with mercury. and we should also be addressing the effects of climate change. most of all, protecting our families from pollution. so i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: madam speaker if you listen to my democrat colleagues, you'd think the e.p.a. could not go on without this funding that we're trying to reduce. it's about being efficient. this administration as i have said earlier, under president trump emissions have fallen in every major category and overall has dropped 7% since 2017. right now, we have the cleanest air since 1970. throwing money at an issue you care about is not the solution. being efficient in government is the solution. and that is what the trump e.p.a. has done and so they have asked for this particular amount of money and i am making sure that we are giving the e.p.a. what they need. not busting the spending -- spending caps which were agreed to by republicans and democrats by their current proposal. let's keep the spending caps. let's adopt my amendment. i close. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: i read from the "national geographic" published april 8, 2020. as the novel coronavirus tears around the world exploiting our biggest weaknesses from cracking health systems and extreme social inequality, its relationship to one pervasive, neglected problem has been more tangible. air pollution has intensified the pandemic so we need to do studies on that. the e.p.a. works on that at the same time it's -- the coronavirus has temporarily cleaned the skies. as i said earlier, for 50 years the e.p.a. has been responsible for protecting public health and the environment and we need to do research to understand how to protect public health and the environment. and more importantly than ever, we need to understand thousand protect public health and the environment for people who have long been neglected, people who are suffering the most right now. and that is the inequality, the injustice we're seeing between black and brown hemoin the -- people in the united states. we need to d bet we are the e.p.a. for addressing social injustices that have affected those populations by living in polluted areas and being subjected to pollution. i want to work on that in congress. and the administration's cuts would cripple the e.p.a.'s ability to achieve that mission. so madam speaker, if i understand correctly, the gentleman has yielded his time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yielded. ms. mccollum: with that, i yield my time back and urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman has yielded. all time expired. pursuant to house resolution 1060, the previous question is ordered on the amendment offered by the gentleman from missouri. the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, further consideration of -- 7408 is postponed -- 6 7608 is postponed. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on july 23, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. that the senate passed senate 906. that the senate passed senate 4065. with best wished, i am, signed, sincerely, robert f. reeves, deputy clerk. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute peeches. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i rise to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman. sometimes it's very difficult to respond to something that is so much out of the ordinary. but i rise today to refer to my colleague, alexandria ocasio-cortez, and to make mention of the incident that occurred where she was described in unflattering words. those words were den grading to a woman -- denegrading to a woman. they were equally denigrating to women of color. one's views in this place are protected by the constitution and protected by the first amendment. but it's particularly sad when one's particular gender is called out and degraded. for women have been the backbone of this nation. they've helped build this country. they serve in the united states military. and our member of congress from bronx, new york, has equally basketball elected by her constituents and deserves the -- been elected by her constituents and deserves the kind of respect and understanding that all of those who take the oath deserve. i'm appalled by the words that were used against her. i stand with her remarks of expression of the right to have different views. and hes -- i also stand with her as a woman that would respect that service and that unique service that we who have come to this place, where we could not be for many, many years, to serve. she should be allowed to serve and serve in dignity. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition? ms. mccollum: to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks as needed. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. mccollum: mr. speaker, i was on my way out when i saw the beautiful white flowers that are sitting on our side of the aisle . celebrating the life of john lewis. and last night i had the radio on and i was listening to c-span and i heard the wonderful, wonderful stories on both sides of the aisle of people celebrating john's life and what they meant to him. as i was preparing for this bill. and working on this bill, working on the inequalities of years of systemic racism and how it's infected the environment made me even want to champion this bill that was before us today even more. as a remembrance of all the work that needs to be done. and as people were sharing their stories of john, what came to mind for me was talking about gardening. he loved to garden. and he had had a few plants and we would talk about them. he loved to fish. and the one thing i would always tease him about, mr. speaker, was going to minnesota and going ice fishing. well, john, that's going to have to wait. but i look forward to seeing you again in the hevenens and we'll go ice fishing. with that, i yield back -- heavens and we'll go ice fishing. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> one-minute speech. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i quote from the great alexander phrase who are had the decline of democracy. nations have progressed through this sequence, very few have existed the past 200 years. but they go -- they're all common. they go from bondage to spiritual faith to spiritual faith to great courage. from courage to liberty. mr. norman: from liberty to abundance. from abundance to selfishness. from selfishness to apathy. from apathy to dependence. and then from dependence back into bondage. i think now we're at a point in time in history where we have to fight for our freedom. we have to fight for our country. and, mr. speaker, i ask that people now get involved who have never been involved before. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from texas, mr. arrington, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. arrington: before i begin, i want to ask unanimous consent, mr. speaker, that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the topic of my special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. arrington: mr. speaker, we're here as lovers of liberty, as patriots, as people concerned about the future of our country. just citizen legislators, people who have children and grandchildren, and who want our posterity to inherit the blessings of liberty. and all of the opportunities this great nation has afforded not only myself and my colleagues, but all americans. america is a great nation. and god has truly blessed america. and america's been a blessing to the world. and we must, as president trump has said, we must keep america great. it's not just what that statement means to our citizens and to our children and the next generation of americans. it's what america means and this great experiment in liberty and democracy means for the entire world. mr. speaker, we're going to talk about the substance of that greatness. the true substance of it. nd i would suggest that what makes america great is the american people. and the values, the beliefs, what defines us, our culture, , and that's what we must remember as we legislate . as we lead and represent our citizens throughout this great land, that what makes america great and what will keep america great are america's values. and we must defend them. we must promote them. we must fight for a future that godthose values of faith in we trust. one nation under the sovereignty of god. with a firm belief, as john adams says, that the constitution is only good for a moral and religious people, for example. he understood that at the foundation of this great country, that we'd only be able to persist, and we've only persisted as the longest democracy in the history of the the knee toe we bow our sovereign god who, as ben franklin said, is -- if a sparrow cannot fall from the ground apart from his will, then a nation cannot rise apart from it. . and i would submit that this great nation cannot persist without that. we recognize that you can pass all the laws you want and certainly laws have their place in civil order, and the enforcement of those laws are critical for the domestic tranquility of our country, but you're not going to change anyone's heart through passing laws. our founders and knew that for this country to remember through generations it would be because we always remember that above and beyond passing good laws and making good policy is that we would -- we would recognize that we have a higher accountability and that accountability is almighty god. that same god whose prove den rble hand was with this nation from the very beginning. and i pray we'll continue -- and i pray will continue with all of us, on both sides of the aisle. every person that swears an oath and has the good fortune and privilege of serving, i pray god's gracious and prove den rble hand will continue to guide us in the challenges that we face today. we have our 21st century challenges just like every generation has and i would submit we must return to what knead country great. tonight, we're going to reflect on america's values, america's culture, and america's heritage. and why it matters. to fight and defend those values. i have a dear friend -- i have dear friends who are going to -- who are much more articulate, mr. speaker, than i am, and they speak from the heart. they speak with personal conviction. they ran for office to serve and to strive for a more perfect union and to hand this country better than we found to it their children and grandchildren. one of those individuals is ralph norman from the great state of south carolina. a businessman who decided that he would make tremendous sacrifice, he's got a beautiful, big family. he said this is the best way he can love his grandchildren. is to love his country through service and through making it better by passing the right laws and upholding the right values. ralph norman, i yield you as much time as you may need. mr. norman: congressman arrington, i want to thank you for having this special order. it couldn't come at a more unique time in history, defining america's values our culture, and our heritage. now more than ever need to be spotlighted. jody, you summed it up well. it boils down to three things -- things. faith. family. and country. faith, family, and country. and i will tell you america finds herself in an hour of peril. in the recent weeks and months, we have seen the unhinging of civil order and a near collapse of the rule of law in certain cities. this chamber should serve as the shining example from the rest -- for the rest of our great country. sadly, we are failing to live up to that expectation. instead of open and honest debate, we are allowing the cancel culture to creep inside these halllowed halls that have stood for centuries. we hear calls for national conversion, a wider debate, or a public reckoning and every day e are denied it. a new regime of liberal gate keepers is intent on forcing this new dogma even in institutions previously sworn to uphold the importance of free change -- free exchange of ideas. instead of opportunity for many in america to grow and evolve through discourse, americans are now losing their livelihood and loved ones over newly invented aps; -- apostasies. i invite my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join me in denouncing this uncivil and to be honest with you, un-american, way of disagreeing. we must remind the american people of our beautiful land and what it looks like to agreeably disagree. from the exchange of ideas, we can achieve the negotiations and compromises that make up the foundation and the fabric of this great nation. and are the steppingstones to a more perfect union. the federal government has an obligation to make sure that any institution it supports upholds the bill of rights, including the right of freedom of speech. it does not give you, however, the right to tear down this great nation. it does not give you the right to tear down people's dreams. money that was put in, dollars that were put in, to build a lifelong business, to destroy. you do not build america up by tearing down america. we cannot do this in the current state of cancellation. until we can once again welcome disagreement, debate, and healthy exchange of ideas, i fear for our future. i fear for our children. and i fear for our grandchildren. in the words of winston churchill, who had the fantastic quote, when great britain was under siege by germany, he said there will be a time when doing your best is not good enough. we must do what is required. and i will call on all americans and really on both sides of the aisle to do what is required, to keep america great, to make it ton greater, and to -- to -- go for what made this country great. to uphold in our constitution. our bill of rights. and our god-given freedoms that can only come from god. congressman arrington, thank you for having this special order, i yield back. mr. arrington: thank you, representative norman. i consider you a great friend. as you spoke i was thinking about the statement that alexis de tocqueville made that i think truly hits at the heart of this experiment. that has persisted as the greatest beacon of liberty in all the land. and i mean in all the globe. and that is america's great because america is good. and part of our goodness is civil discourse. and debate. i'm going to introduce another classmate of ours and colleague, jim banks, and he was part of our class that came in and said from the outset, we need civil discourse. we have strong convictions. we have deeply held beliefs. and we will fight for the traditional american values that we believe have made america great. but we can do that right here without tearing a single person down. and contributing to the swampiness of this place. and being a great example to generations of americans. and you represent that, sir. you're a great statesman, a great american. thank you for your time. the next colleague of mine from the hoosier state who is no doubt a freedom fighter and who i am terribly honored to serve with and to know his beautiful family, his wife amanda, his three children, representative banks, thank you for joining us and taking part in this discussion about defending america's values. i yield as much time as you may need, sir. mr. banks: i thank my friend and colleague from the great state of texas for organizing this important conversation that we're having here this evening. there's so much as you've already said that makes america great. our history. our culture. our values. our people. but mr. speaker, 300 years ago, colonists left their homes to come to these shores and to become free. they didn't want to be bullied for their beliefs anymore. our founding fathers thought this freedom was so important they enshrined it in the first amendment. but it is under attack more than ever today. in the form of what has become known as the cancel culture. if you hold the wrong beliefs if you support the wrong candidate, if you affiliate yourself with the wrong party if you watch the wrong news network, you can get canceled. which means that they can take your job. they can take your privacy. and your reputation away from you in a flash. you can even get canceled for not doing something. if you refuse to utter or endorse the so-called politically correct movements or phrases, they will come to destroy you. this is an affront to the very idea of what america is and who we are as americans. and i vow to fight it with every fiber of my being. i appreciate my colleague from texas organizing the special order to talk about these important issues, but if the bottom of my heart, this is what's on my mind and my heart as we serve in this body today. we have got to do everything we can to change it. with that, i yield back. mr. arrington: thank you, representative banks. my beloved brother in christ. and dear friend. thank you for not only your service as a member of congress. thank you for your service in the -- in wearing the uniform. i think at its core, this mission is -- that we have to teward and to protect as the federal government's limited, emphasis on limited, role in the affairs of our great citizenry is to keep us safe and keep us free. sir, you've been doing that your whole career and god bless you for your service both in the military and here in the united states congress. i'm honored to serve with you. now, another liberty loving texan. who has been in public service, been a prosecutor. been a leader for our lone star state. and now he's -- he too has been willing to leave a lot of good things behind including a loving family to come up here to this city and to fight for our freedom, to change the culture of this place, so that it serves the people who hold the sovereignty and the future in their hands. and he is -- he's a dear friend and i'm honored to have him. chip roy of the great state of texas. i yield as much time as you may need. mr. roy: i thank my friend from texas. my father is a proud west texan. also proud graduate of texas tech university. as you well know. and he would join you in that. i just appreciate your passion for this country. and what you're doing by giving us this time to talk in defense of the greatness of our nation. now, i wouldn't think i'd be standing on the floor of the house of representatives having to defend the greatness of the united states of america. we're sitting in this very chamber in the state of the union adrets when the president of the united states was touting the greatness of this country and only about half of this body stood up. clapped its hands to agree about the greatness of this country. and i just want to say, you now, as a member of this body, one slshes 435th of one half of one third of the federal government i believe this country is great. i'm proud of this country. unapologetically proud to be an american. flaws, we have. because we're flawed men. flawed women. we know that certainly a tenet of my faith, faith in the almighty and faith in my lord and savior jesus christ and that but for him i'd be condemned because we're flawed. but we got to remember that this country stood for something greater. just a few weeks ago i went up to independence hall in philadelphia on july 2, on the 244th anniversary of our separation from the crown and went into the building in independence hall on that day on july 2. the actual day that we separated from the crown. and it was an honor. it was an honor to be there. i went up there to record a video. i never thought i'd have to do that. but to record a video saying why this building, independence hall, and these monuments are important. not the bricks, it's not the mortar, it's not the marble. it's not the iron. it's the ideal they represent. it's the ideal that this country was founded upon. and it is those ideals that carry forward and we will never measure up to those ideals because we are flawed houbs. but we will always be striving to achieve the greatness that our founders laid out for us and that our forefathers and our current brothers and sisters have died and bled for. when we gun dott world war ii memorial and you see 4,000 and -- 4100 almost stars on that monument, it's one for every 100 americans who gave their life. thousands of miles away in europe. in the pacific. fighting for something far greater than they. right? it wasn't for conquest. it was to stop terny. it was to stop fascism. it was to stop the spread of that around the globe. that's what our country represents. when we had a great clash, few republics in the history of mankind would have survived that. but it was because it was for the fulfillment of the declaration, it was a fight for the fulfillment of those ideals, the greatness of this country. that greatness is exemplified by our own heritage. my grandmother, who was a single mom in west texas in sweet water, texas, because my grandfather died of cans when are my dad -- cancer when my dad was 7 years old. imagine her finding out that my dad had polio, a pandemic, in september of 1949, while my grandfather was dying of cancer and then he passes away in november, my dad coming home from the hospital for a few days each week to be able to see his dad. who he'd only seen for two years because his dad was in the pacific. and then my grandmother, a single mom of west texas, runs and becomes the first woman elected as county clerk. gets my dad through therapy. my dad is still alive and walking today because of her hard work, taking on double jobs and then i go -- he goes on to be the first to go to college. texas tech. i go on to be the first to go to graduate school. now here i am in congress. it's an american story. it's not unique. each of us have one of those stories. that is the greatness of this country. her dad, my grandmother's dad, had lost the farm in the depression. how many stories do you know like that? right? he went on to be the janitor in a church in sweet water, texas, for rest of his days after he lost the farm. it was noble. it was noble because he was raising my grandmother, raising my dad, who was newly without a father. that was what we do. that's what we do as americans. that is our greatness. and i'm just frankly not going to apologize for it. i'm not. i love this country. and as we sit here in the face of a pandemic, why is our leadership telling our country to cower in fear? that's not the american way. that polio that struck my father, we beat it. 30,000 kids died. 300,000 got injured. mitch mcconnell is one of them. my dad is one of them. walks with a hobble today. but we beat it. the vaccine, we beat the germans. we beat the japneels. we have been fighting up and standing against the evils of totalitarianism. we took down the soviet union when mr. reagan said, tear down that wall, to mr. gorbachev. that's who we are as a country. and i'm just not going to apologize for it. and here's the thing. why aren't we talking as a group together on a bipartisan basis, instead of tearing each other down, why aren't we talking about the great things that we've been achieving? 50 million tests. think about that. 50 million tests. more than russia, india, the u.k. combined. right? that is an extraordinary achievement. how many ventilators? how many p.p.e., etc.? i have all sorts of numbers. but we've got an extraordinary production. 19 billion gloves. 775 million surgical masks. 187 million 911 respirators. 32 million face shields and we keep pumping them out. doctors have been working through the night trying to figure out how to keep people alive and work through this pandemic and fight through it. our fatality rate is going down and has been going down for 12 consecutive weeks. we should be applauding that. championing that. we shouldn't be back bite being what the president says or somebody in this body says. we should be championing the greatness of this country to overcome this pandemic. because that's what we're doing. we should be making the american people confident to be able to get their kids back to school. why? because this virus, god thank you, this virus doesn't attack our kids. at least the data currently shows that. we can adapt if that changes. but that's the clear truth. let's listen to the epidemiologists. we have epidemiologists from stanford, like the doctor, scott atlas, let's listen to the reports from oxford, yale. i mean, hardly some institutions of, you know, far right wing extremism. these are doctors who are telling us that our kids can go back to school. that we can go back to work. that we can keep our country open. and why does that matter? because being closed is harming our kids and harming our society. 45% of black-owned businesses have been crippled and crushed and closed during this. a study by harvard said 110,000 american small businesses would likely close their doors permanently. we've seen the jobless claims. almost 50 million jobless claims. i think we're rovering -- hovering around 20 million still. these are real people. real people's lives. how many people, you know, next week is the nine-year anniversary, since i was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma. i walked into the doctor's office and i asked the doctor, well, what's your -- what's my chances, doc? i got stage three. he said, well, you know, i'm not going to tell you that number because for you it's 0% or 100%. what are you going to choose? i chose 100%. because i wanted to live. i wanted to see my then 4-month-old daughter grow up. i wanted to see my then 2-year-old son grow up. that's what we need for this country. choose 100%. choose the way for us to succeed as a country and march forward. when i saw that great doctor, great man, from syria and he told me that story, and he gave me his plan for me for my treatment, it's now that treatment -- it was a trial drug that is now the standard of care. for hodgkin's lymphoma patients. but i got a second opinion, a third opinion, a fourth opinion. why? because that's you what do. and that's what we should be doing right now. listening to all the experts. this body, we should have hearing after hearing calling in people for the experts. but we're not having those hearings. why not? why have we only met something like bark 13 of the last 90 something days? someone explain that to me. someone explain to me how the founding fathers in 1793 went 5,000 out of 50,000 -- phil delvians died from yellow fever, they found a way to meet and have this body meet. instead what do we get? proxy voting. you know what that means? american people, we have people on boats calling in to hearings to register their vote. think about that. that's not what the constitution means. i'm proud to be in court tomorrow litigating that against speaker of the house. we'll be right here in court because it's unconstitutional. but more important than that, it means we're not here leading. we're not here on the floor of the house of representatives doing our job, projecting confidence to the american people that we can all do what we're supposed to do -- can all meet and do what we're supposed to do. we should have hearing after hearing after hearing calling epidemiologists, experts to make sure the american people can go back to work confidently, go to school, go to work, create wealth, create opportunity. and get back on our feet. i'm not going to keep -- use up much more of the gentleman's time. but i want to say this. this stuff is all related. and if you think that the lawlessness on the streets of portland and the dead babies, black, white, otherwise, in chicago and new york and atlanta, the 8-year-old girl who got killed with her mom, the gentleman walking across the street holding his 8-year-old daughter's hand, a black man and girl, he got gunned down in the streets of new york. a 1-year-old infant in new york. a 3-year-old black baby boy in chicago. a 19-year-old black young man in a so-called autonomous zone in seattle. they're dead. they're gone. because of lawlessness. because we're refusing to do our job to stand up for the very rule of law that sets this country apart from the rest of the world and always has. that is all related. when you shut your country down, the mental impact of that is real. that's not just me. right? there are smart doctors who believe that. john, from stanford university, he asserted that extended lockdowns might not be the best approach. one of the bottom lines is we don't know how long social distancing measures and lockdowns can be maintained without major consequences to the economy, society and mental health. he wrote, unpredictable evolutions may ensue, including financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war and the meltdown of the social fab rib. i fema -- fabric. i feel extremely sad that my predictions were verified. we have an obligation, the leaders of this body, all 435 of us, to be here. to do our job. to hold hearings and to speak the truth. to seek the truth. and speak the truth. to the american people. i don't take it cavalierly. my 77-year-old father, i didn't see him between christmas and july 4 to protect him. my kids are going back to school on august 20 in austin, texas. do i worry about my family? of course i do. but we're going to get back in the saddle and we're going to get back and do our job to get this country moving forward. my friend from texas, i'm sorry i took up too much time. i thank you for doing this. i love this country. i will never apologize for loving this country. and we're going to work together to get this country back in the saddle. thank you, sir. mr. arrington: well, as we say in west texas, amen and amen and i could listen to you all night. representative roy, because you speak from your heart. and from a passion for your country, for your fellow countrymen, and you are a truth seeker and you are a fighter for all that's good about this country. and we are glad you're here as part of the great delegation of texas, and we're all better in this body because of your presence and your service as a member of congress. god bless you and thank you for i words tonight and now want to invite another colleague who is a lover of freedom and a great patriot. unabashed in his -- and beaming in his pride for the united states of america. another gentleman who could be doing a lot of things. an accomplished businessman who could be doing a lot of things and spending a lot of quality time with his children and grandchildren. but once again he believes that the best way he can love his family and love those grandchildren is to hand them a better, stronger, safer, freer united states of america. ladies and gentlemen, my dear friend, i yield as much time as he may need, rick allen of georgia 12th. mr. allen: i want to thank the gentleman from texas for holding this special order. to is a topic that we need have a family discussion on. this congress needs to sit down together and have a family discussion on where we are as a nation. because i'm deeply troubled. by the state of our nation. and most of my constituents that alk with me on a daily basis and ask me what in the world is going on -- you know, i go back to my childhood. i dry up on a farm -- grew up on a farm. i learned the value of hard work. i tell people outside of this president, my daddy was the hardest worker that i've ever known. i'm not sure he could have outworked this president. was one of five people in my county that you would go and see if you were going to run for public office. that's how much he cared about his community and that account -- county and how much he cared about his state. i'll be honest with you. my mother and brother and my sister and i would get upset with him because he spent time doing things outside of the home, trying to make our county and our state a better place to live. so one day i asked him about it. i said, dad, why are you so involved in public service? and he said, son, i grew up in the great depression. and i fought in world war ii. and in both times, i really thought there was a possibility we were going to lose this country. he he said what i -- i think made a covenant with god that he would do everything he could to sustain the great nation that he had the opportunity to grow up in and farm and to be involved in education and all of the amazing work that my father did for that community. but he left me with this. and my dear friend, ralph norman, talked about this tonight. my dad said, son, you have to understand one thing. pathy is the enemy of freedom. i mean, you look at voter turnout and you look it's a folks that say, i really don't want to get involved or i don't want to get out and knock doors or make phone calls, folks, i'm i'm going to sound larm. the alarl. you take the small business community, small business community generates 50% of the jobs in this country. 70% of all the new jobs created in this amazing economy before covid-19 were generated by the small business community. the first reason i ran for congress was because of the war on past administrations on small business. let me tell you, small business, you need to get involved in this process, because if we don't be careful, there will be another war on small business. i sat down here and i came down here to talk about two amendments and a lot of those amendments dealt with regulatory amendment that prior to president trump was destroying the small business community. one of the greatest privileges that i have had in my life -- and i think made it the greatest gift i ever received from god is the privilege to give people the opportunity to have a good job, to have the dignity and respect they deserve to empower them what god empowered them to be and allow them to provide for their family, their country and know there and you is no greater satisfaction that i found in this country -- i have not found one person who is nhappy that is not filled with joy when they are serving others. and we still have a tremendous amount of that going on in this country. over the past few months, we have seen radical progressive attacks on our nation. what started as legitimate and peaceful protests have been hijacked by lawbreakers. let's be clear. the mob wants total and arc ki, and we are seeing it play out before our eyes and it started long before we got here. now we are experiencing attacks on law enforcement. i saw that in my generation on the military. the destruction of presidential morials, establishments of so-called autonomous zones. if you ask these folks who are destroying these things, they don't even know who they are. all that does is that represents authority. well, you know, i was fortunate, almost 20 years ago to become -- well, i had a spiritual awakening and i would have this thirst for the bible. so i began to research the bible and to try to run my business and to exhibit leadership skills d to deal with the issues of our culture based on biblical history and what's going on in the bible. well, romans 13 is very clear about authority. god ordains all authority. and i encourage you to read romans 13, because it will tell you and describe to you the issues involved with authority and what happens to a nation when those who rebel against authority and what can happen. fact, i also am involved in many bible studies here in congress and quite an education to understand what is the relationship between god and government and our culture. we heard tonight that this nature was founded based on people who came here seeking religious freedom. -- if when you look at you look at exactly why god ordained government 4,000 years ago, it was one thing, and that is to restrain evil. that is to deal with anarchy and to deal exactly with what we are faced with right now. and we are turning members of this body are turning away from god. they are not -- we should be one voice here condemning this anarchy and evil we are seeing across this country. what i believe the best way forward is for our state and local government to step up. the federal government has a unique role to play. like i said, speaker pelosi and democratic leaders have shown messaging bills like meaning police reform. senator tim scott has worked tirelessly to provide a police reform that will work. the police force needs it. they need our support. and i tell you, they have my support. yeah. it's going to be bad -- going to be bad outcomes. that's the human condition we talked about as well. but this should be at this time in the history of our country under this pandemic unprecedented bipartisanship. but clearly over the last few weeks, it shows that we would ather apeas on those what we term the radical left than work work toward a more perfect friends. please, america, wake up. i hope my colleagues across the aisle that appeasing the mob will never stop. it is just like government funding. i have seen that in reality with this pandemic. it is a feeding frenzy and we are seeing it play out right before our eyes right here. and let me tell you something. we need to look and try to look into the future. say, for example, if we were look back would we and understand why we are leaving our children and grand children and i don't know how many generation, i mean 400, 500 years the obligation of this debt. yp of any nation in history that has done that. that in itself is a crisis. yet we are continuing to explode the debt. when i saw the appropriations package, i could not believe it. we are trying to fight the pandemic. and yes, we created lots of debt to deal with that. and yes, you have to deal with emergencies. but just to go and spend money that you don't have ks people say, you know, this is taxpayer money. this isn't taxpayer money, folks. this is maybe 400, 500 years down the road. how are you going to explain that to your children and grand chirp. there are several influences in our culture. there's the church, there's family, education, arts and entertainment, the media, the government and there's the business. and where do those influences stand today? the church has been mitigated. our founders, yeah, they didn't do it perfect. the church was a tremendous influence in this country. they brought in the great ministers and they would reveal the scriptures and tell the founders and say this is how you come together. i never heard us this is why we need to come together and how we need to come together. i did say in the bible week, the bible has the answer for every problem we got. if we research it and someone come down and tell us how we go. there are prove et cetera everywhere. e need wise counsel. 50% of the children in this country are born in single-parent homes. i don't blame children for being angry. how can you grow up and single moms, i tell you, my heart goes out to them. education. we took the values that god gave us out of the education system and seeing the fruits of that right now. arts and entertainment are supporting everything out there frankly is very difficult for us to understand. i mean, it's just the media. today. a is so biased the government is trying to fix everything. let me tell you everything. the more problems we have in this society, the more this government has got to spend. folks, there is not enough money n the world to fix a culture and anarchy. it won't work. the business community, the business community is under siege. the reason i ran for congress is because there was a war on small business. big business, know, i tell you. i'm disappointed in some of these large companies that are buying in to some of these things, the anarchy, the other things. think it's time in america that we stand up and defend the nation we love and those who wish to harm it. yes, you know, people ask me, do you think we are under god's judgment? and i say, no, i don't think that would be a lot more difficult than what we are seeing. when you are under the judgment of god, you have to look what israel went through. god could have stopped this pandemic like that. god could have stopped this anarchy like that. god has removed his protection in my opinion, from this nation. and until we repent from my evil ways and confess our since, then god will heal. and that's the only hope that we have. nd i yield back. mr. arrington: my colleague and brother in christ speaks the truth. and as i said we can pass all the laws we want, representative, allen, but we cannot pass laws that change the human heart. and we must return to those core values to that relationship with d to remember that the greatest commandment is to love god with all your heart, soul and mind and strength, and to love your neighbor. and it's hard to find a lot of love in this world today. mr. speaker, how much time do i have left in this special order? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 13 minutes remaining. mr. arrington: thank you, mr. speaker. the rise of socialism in this country is real. probably in times passed it was used against big government liberals, but it's real. and it's hard to believe that such a destructive sense of government and ideology has become mainstream in these united states. this beacon of freedom. this great experiment. not accident. but experiment in liberty and democracy. how do i know? because people don't put their name to legislation on behalf of million 0 to a american citizens that they represent if they don't mean it. nd h.r. 1 through h.r. 10 is just more government control. less less freedom to we the people. the federal government takeover of elections. the federal government takeover of health care. taking over agriculture and energy and government seeping into every fab et -- facet of our lives. one of our central values as we think about the defense of american values is the value of freedom. and the central purpose of government is to protect our freedom. the central tenant of our democratic republic is that sovereignty resides not in the state, but in we the people. see, there's been no other nation in the world, in the history of the world, that has done more because of that werful force of freedom that elevates and unleashes the human spirit like nothing in the world , save and except the love of god. nd no other country that holds freedom in such high regard and puts such a premium on freedom, on liberty, has done more to lift people out of poverty, to protect human rights and fundamental god-given freedoms, no other nation has raised the standard of living or contributed to the quality of life, not only in this nation, but in nations around the world, like the united states of america. and i would submit, mr. speaker, outside save part, and except the providential hand and favor of almighty god, that god that my colleague, representative rick allen, implored us to return to, to repent and return and cry out for mercy, save and except for . at it's been freedom and this freedom is a remarkable thing. it's and atry beaut -- and atry beaut and it's a privilege, -- tr -- attribute and it's a privilege and a responsibility. and people are literally risking their lives today, people will die this week just trying to get here. they're not trying to get into ventilators. they're not trying -- venezuela. they're not trying to get into cuba. god bless those people and the poor citizens of those countries that don't have what we have that empowers us to be the envy of the world. and that is a tremendous responsibility. and there is no doubt that is a core value. and i say, how are we losing this? how do we actually have a debate , a sincere debate, a legitimate ebate about government control -- government-controlled, central planning, socialism as an ideology and a system of government when we have the back drop of all of this history? no, it's not perfect. we were striving for a more perfect union. imperfect people striving for a more perfect union. and that's the legacy that's been handed to us. that's our mission and our calling. and i think about the erosion of the values we've talked about. -- about this evening. i think about the entitlement culture that we've created. i say we. i say republicans and democrats alike. we continue to expand the government as the answer to all that ails us, as the solution turnover problem. with no regard for the cost and consequence. $23 trillion before covid. $4 trillion by the end of this year added on top of it. we will surpass our highest debt load per g.d.p. in the history of this great nation, not since world war ii have we been up over 108% debt to g.d.p. that's where we're heading. and it's -- and we have done that and we have -- it has been at no cost. we don't hit anybody's pocketbook. and we don't cut someone's pet project and their favorite program to offset the cost. so why wouldn't people think you can get everything for free? why wouldn't we have created a generation of americans that ? ink things are really free at no cost. there will be a rude awakening when the chickens come home to roost with respect to our fiscal affairs. because this $27 trillion, $28 trillion on our way is a deferred tax on our children. and it's unconscionable, it's immoral, it's un-american for a generation of leaders to do that to our posterity. n top of that, we've had the tyranny of usurpation of the will of the people. listen, let's debate the issues of immigration. let's debate all issues. and may the will of the people prevail. that's the way this works. not by executive fiat. not by judiciary activism, some judge -- judicial activism, some judge making the determination of what's best -- the people know what's best. and i believe that that government fiat and the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats and judges making policy decisions is another way we've accelerated the decline of this country. and we've moved away from these values. and i think now we're seeing maybe another phase of this mob tyranny. people running around in the streets. destroying property. assaulting police officers and law-abiding citizens and it's just a free-for-all. no law, no order. chaos. and our great american cities are just burning, i believe in large part because our local leaders in these cities, they're scared because they've been intimidated. and that's how the mob works. through fear and intimidation. and nobody's standing up to them. but those -- the best of those -- of the people who have the resources, the people who are law-abiding contributors to those cities, and the best employers, they'll eventually leave. but the poorest among our fellow countrymen in those cities, they can't go anywhere. mr. speaker, i think the president is doing exactly what he should do. and i'm very sensitive to government intervention. and i think it is a very delicate thing when you intervene in civil affairs. that's a local and state issue. but when you have this kind of mob violence that's unabated, when you have systems of law enforcement and local leaders that are overwhelmed and either unwilling or incapable of stopping it, and you're risking the lives of our fellow americans and their rights are being trampled and local law enforcement and federal law enforcement officers are being assaulted and our buildings are being burned, mr. speaker, we've got to do something. and there's an appropriate way to engage in this -- and this president has done that. through civil law enforcement officers of this government to go protect that property. to protect those law enforcement and other federal personnel. and to come alongside the local law enforcement there in portland and seattle so that they can keep some semblance of order and protection for their people. because the local leaders have completely abdicated it. and americans all over are just scratching their heads and their hearts are breaking and they're tremendously concerned about what happens. and there's one thought that you just let it all burn to the ground. and that will be the lesson for americans all over this country. in cities and communities all over this country. we could do that. or we could say, you know what, those are american citizens, by god. those are american citizens and nobody is coming to their help. i hope we support this president as he's taking a measured pproach to come alongside of those local law enforcement officers who have been totally disrespected, dismissed, and either partially defunded or significantly defunded and certainly ham strung to do their job. you watch as these criminals hoot fireworks in their faces. and as they rough them up and call them names and it's just a sad scenario for a nation as great as ours. we're big enough to have the protest. that's as american as apple pie. peaceful assembly, peaceful protest, speaking your truth to power. that's what made this country great. but what we're seeing in seattle and portland must stop. and we all must condemn it, mr. speaker. and as for me, i stand with this president and i say, use every resource. use every resource in the civil law enforcement to keep the peace, to protect our citizens, ' protect the taxpayers federal property in all these cities where their local leaders have completely lost control. mr. speaker, thank you for the indulgence tonight and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. pursuant to section 4-b of house resolution 967, the house stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events. c-span's public affairs programming on television, online, or listen our free radio at. be part of the national conversation through c-span staley washington journal program or through our social media feed. 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