vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. lawrence, i inform the house that mrs. lawrence will vote yes on h.r. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rush from illinois, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> as the member designated mr. cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote no on h.r. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. amodei, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. amodei will vote no on house resolution 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from minnesota rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. roybal-allard, i inform the house that ms. roybal-allard will vote yes on house resolution 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. evans: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on house resolution 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated ms. underwood of illinois, i inform the house that ms. underwood will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. nunes of california, i inform the house that mr. nunes will vote no on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> as the member designated mrs. kirkpatrick, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representative lesko, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that representative lesko will vote no on adoption of h.res. 789. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut rise? mrs. hayes: as the member designated ms. wilson, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> as the member designated by mr. lee of michigan, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lee will vote aye on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> as the member designated by mr. kildee of michigan, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. kildee will vote yes, he will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from nevada rise. >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. stevens, i inform the house that ms. stevens will vote yes on house resolution 789. the speaker pro tempore: frost the gentleman from california rise. mr. gomez: as the member designated mr. swalwell, i inform the house that mr. swalwell will vote aye on h.res. 789. as the member designated by mr. khanna, i inform the house that mr. khanna will vote aye on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. kelly of illinois, i inform the house that ms. kelly will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. brown: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mr. waltz of florida, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. waltz will vote no on resolution 789. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from virginia rise? ms. wexton: madam speaker, as the member designated mr. mceachin, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote yes on h.res. 789. as the member designated ms. porter, i inform the house that ms. porter will vote yes on h.res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. levin of michigan, i inform the house that mr. levin will vote aye on h. res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. blumenauer, i inform the house that mr. blumenauer will vote yes on h. res. 789. as the member designated by mr. lowenthal, i inform the house that mr. lowenthal will vote yes on h. res. 789. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from hawaii rise? >> as the member designated by mr. carter, i inform the house that mr. carter will vote yes on house resolution 789. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 223. the nays are 207. with one answering present. the resolution is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is label -- is laid upon the table. the speaker: the house will be in order. will representative gosar present himself in the well. by adoption of house resolution 789, the house is resolved that representative paul gosar of arizona be censured. that representative paul gosar forthwith present himself in the well of the house with the pronouncement of censure. that representative paul gosar be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker and representative paul gosar be and is hereby removed from the committee on natural resources and the committee on oversight and reform. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? >> madam speaker, i am joined by my colleagues in the kentucky -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. does the gentleman seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute? >> i do. i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise today with my colleagues from the kentucky delegation to honor the life of a true american patriot, former congressman larry hopkins, who served in this body from 1979 to 1993 and passed away early yesterday. throughout his extraordinary career in public service, he served in the kentucky state legislature and for over a decade in congress in the seat i now hold. larry's career and public service began as a u.s. marine in 1954. mr. barr: it was that love for the military that larry would bring with him to the congress where he rose to become the top republican on the armed services committee. larry's humor was famous with both of his constituents and his colleagues. always offering a disarming joke to lighten the mood or evoking a good laugh. above all, madam speaker, congressman hopkins was proud of his work across the aisle and the relationships had he with all of his colleagues, republicans and democrats alike. in these divided times, let us be inspired by the legacy of congressman larry hopkins to come together and solve the problems of our day not as republicans or democrats, but as americans who all love our country. on behalf of a grateful nation i invite my colleagues in the house to join me in praying for larry's family, his wife, and three children. and i now ask for a moment of silence on the house floor to honor the life of congressman larry hopkins. mr. barr: i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from district of columbia rise. ms. norton: request permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarksment. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. norton: madam speaker, build back better not only meets long waited critical needs such as clean energy technology, it is fully paid for. unlike 2001 and 2017, tax cuts under republican presidents. this is because the largest corporations and the highest income americans will pay their fair share are not rewarded for shipping jobs and profits overseas and will have more difficulty avoiding i.r.s. compliance. moreover, 17 nobel prize winning economists say the bill's investments enhance participation in our economy and ease the long-term inflation pressure that is the frontline concern of americans today. congress will make history by passing this historic legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i rise today to offer much deserved wreck nix to the group of faithful fathers known as dads on duty who have stepped up to serving as role models for the students of southwood high school in my hometown of shreveport. since the dads came to school, instances of disruptive behavior have plummeted and spirits have been raised to new heights. these dads on duty walk the halls every day and talk to students about personal responsibility, self-discipline, and strong work ethic. they are there to encourage the kids and set an example in their words and actions. mr. johnson: it is irrefutable the role fathers play in the life of a child. now since these dads have made it a point of engaging directly with the kids at southwood, school fights haven't been a problem. grades and attitudes have risen. and the whole nation's attention has been drawn to this i.n.s. partial-birthabortional endeavor. they have made a difference in the lives of everyone involved. we want to say thank you to dads on duty for their incredible work, extraordinary example. may it be duplicated nationwide. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: i'd like to remind members to refrain from trafficking the well while others are speaking. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i rise today to call on my colleagues took the on the opioid epidemic roilg our nation. today we learned that in may of 2020 and april of 2021 more than 100,000 americans died of drug overdoses, a grim record. mr. schneider: drug overdoses sur past car crashes and gun violence. fentanyl alone were responsible for more overdoses than there were in 2016, just five years ago. we must expand access to medications and mental health services crackdown on overdose deaths, synthetics, and opioids. congress cannot do it alone. in every community across the country there are dedicated public servants and groups to gatt these figures and help -- combat these figures and help the families. like one in my district co-founded by mike and chelsea. after eight years, mike is stepping down as chair and chelsea is stepping up. i thank mike for his leadership. as co-founder and strategist, i know chelsea will continue the great work. now congress must help mike and chelsea and the others around the country for whom this fight is so personal. with that i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition -- montana seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, mr. rosen dell: thank you, madam speaker. i rise to condemn targeting parents who express their views on how their children are educated. recently parents have risen up and voiced their operation to schools indock continue nateing their children with critical race theory. merrick garland won't stand for folks exercising their parental rights. he testified before the senate judiciary committee that he didn't think parents getting angry at school boards constitute domestic terrorism. and that he could not imagine the circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. despite this, it's now clear garland has weaponnized the f.b.i.'s counterterrorism division against concerned parents. using threat tags to label and surveil them as domestic terror threats. parents have a right and obligation to voice their opinion on how their children are educated and i wholeheartedly agree critical race theory has no place in our classrooms. weaponnizing the f.b.i. against concerned parents is dangerous and a disgrace. merrick garland must retined signed immediately. thank god he isn't on the supreme court. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i seek permission to speak for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, i rise today on behalf of minnesotans who are facing the highest housing affordability and childcare affordability crisis. ms. omar: a massive racial wealth and education gap. i rise because minnesotans spend an average of $16,000 a year on childcare. as much as they spend on mortgage payments and build back better would address t i rise because the people of my district have faced the worst housing shortage in the entire country and build back better would create housing acquisition fund to address it. i rise because we need good union jobs and build back better would invest in the civilian job corps. americorps, and home health care workers paying their wages. i rise because the people of my district need the build back better, and they can't wait any longer. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentleman from georgia seek recognition mr. carter: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carter: madam speaker, i rise today to congratulate katie hern for her appointment to the georgia rehabilitation council. beginning as an intern for the atlanta braves, this year's world champions, katie's passion for the braves community propelled her to a full-time position within the organization. however, at the age of 28 katie was diagnosed with a rare brain disorder that caused her to lose her sight. her illness forced her to step down from her position as she adjusted to her new normal. katie is resilient and soon returned to the atlanta braves where she currently works as the senior coordinator for digital and accessible services. katie has always been committed to ensuring every visitor has an incredible experience in truist park. in 2018 the braves awarded her for her extraordinary customer service. katie's passion for providing opportunities to georgians with disabilities to live, work, and thrive in our state is truly inspiring. i'm honored to recognize katie for this prestigious accomplishment. i'm grateful for her service. thank you, madam chair. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i rise and ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: thank you, madam speaker i rise today to applaud bribe's -- president biden's bipartisan infrastructure investment and jobs act. this historic legislation is an enormous win for the american people. finally from coast to coast in every state, district, and territory of our nation the infrastructure and jobs act will deliver significant new resources. together america will restore our nation's crumbling infrastructure. together we will create millions of good-paying jobs over the next decade. the great lakes region will be empowered with billions of dollars to rebuild our roads, bridges, rail lines, revitalize our water, infrastructure, and airports. we'll deploy modern broadband, connectivity, and new carbon free energy system. by properly rewarding those who make and build what makes and build america, we will create a fairer, more just, and more prosperous future for our middle class workers, families, and communities for years there's been talk about infrastructure, president biden is delivering. and building back better for america's -- america from coast to course, thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. mr. lamalfa: this friday the congressionalbudget office will release assessment of build back better. their assessment will determine whether the democrats have come up with enough tax increases and other measures that will cover the cost of the bill over the next 10 years. but isn't qualified even though that is the entire point of the c.b.o. as they are forcing the bide biden administration will cost more than the zero dollars. biden is telling democrats to disregard the report. nothing comes for free and initial estimates show that the build back better agenda will increase $150 billion. had it not been some democrats listening to the republicans' insistence -- the speaker pro tempore: t he gentleman's time has expired. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? mr. grothman: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: w ithout objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. grothman: i haven't seen the vice president at the border and i was down there amon ago and i want to share a few things that i learned down there. first of all, when you are at the yuma center and walk along the path it is littered with photo i.d.'s. people do not want the united statesgovernment or border patrol to know who they are. so this is a sign we are getting people in this country who have a lot to hide. the second thing i want to point out is they feel they don't have the right to test people for covid. i was not aware that this is the policy. if you refuse, they let you in. the third thing i want to point out is that apparently they are advertising on central americans to come here. if we had a better relationship with those countries this wouldn't be on going. but if you wonder why they are coming here -- the speaker pro tempore: t he gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: w ithout objection. >> madam speaker, he are just one week away from thanksgiving and american families are bracing for one of the most expensive in history. the cost are up from the turkey to the pumpkin pie, it will cost you significantly more than last year's. it is making harder to put food on the table. the price of a gallon of gas making it more expensive for families to travel to loved ones this holiday season. inflation is a hidden tax that hurts the lowest-income americans the most. this is the latest example of bad economic policy that is making life for americans more expensive, throwing trillions of dollars at the problem. it is not the solution and will only make these issues worse. the speaker pro tempore: f or what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: w ithout objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today to discuss the unconstitutional overreach shown by this president in his recent vaccine mandate. this is nothing more than an attack on front-line workers and small businesses and the rights of every american. osha's excusity is limited. joe biden is using osha as an instrument in his political game and taking away medical freedoms from millions of americans and this goes far beyond osha's jurisdiction and incomprehensible and affect employee's ability to make personal life-changing. this is a textbook definition of tyranny. the policies of this administration bottle neck our supply chain and labor shortage. what do you think a fine of $14,000 will do? it wilbury our economy. big government is not the solution. it is the problem. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: t he chair announcees the speaker's appointment pursuant to section 4-a of house resolution 8, 117th congress and the order of the house of january 4, 2021 of the following members of the house to the house democracy partnership. the clerk: ms. moore of wisconsin, ms. titus of nevada, mr. connolly of virginia, mr. lieu of california, mrs. torees of california, ms. sewell of alabama, ms. degette of colorado, mr. cicilline of rhode island. the speaker pro tempore: t he chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. griffith for today. the speaker pro tempore: w ithout objection. the request is granted. under the speaker's appear nounsed policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. johnson, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. johnson: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include remarks on the subject of my special order. during what should be a period of sustained economic recovery, job growth has stalled. consumer prices are skyrocketing and many shelves of empty thanks to supply chain chokepoints. house democrats are forging ahead to pass their 2100 reckless tax and spending spree before they know how it impaths the budget and before what the american people know is in it and make job growth. make no mistake, this bill is a clunker and stomach the price tag and look underneath the hood, tax breaks for the rich and insuint r insent activity to stay home and massive tax subsidies and fewer cures for rare diseases. the bill eliminates jobs and increases government dependency and it repeals longstanding protections against taxpayer funding of abortion and it taxes american companies at a higher rate than communist china. that's all in the bill. during the time this afternoon, my colleagues will be discussing the many self-inflicted of this administration, whether it's the most expensive thanksgiving in history, skyrocketing gas prices or overwhelmed southern border. one thing for certain, the answer to the democrat-caused crises is not more democrat policies. i thank my colleagues for being here today and i yield two minutes to the gentleman from ohio, mr. johnson. mr. johnson: the administration's assault on american energy, oil, natural gas and coal is causing energy prices to surge and doing this to address climate change. this is not about carbon but control. president biden do not want our nation to return and because it means they would have less control. they want working families to feel economic pain to force their behavior. consider this. gas prices are up 61% over last year. it estimated american families could face 54% increases in home heating bills this winter. when asked about lower energy prices, the administration told us that high energy prices are punishment for using fossil fuel, oil, gasoline, coal. and that sacrifice must be made to make progress on the climate crisis, something that china and russia are not willing to do. surging energy prices in the out of control spending inflation to surge to more than 6% is costing more from gasoline to grossies. one called this inflation tax a high-class problem. and every day goods cost more and hurts the poor. the middle class, our seniors. make no mistake, hardworking americans can't afford this administration's agenda and complete lack of compassion and respect for working families. i urge my colleagues to stand up to this social re-engineering agenda and assault on fossil fuels that will harm americans they claim so much to want to help the most. i yield back. mr. johnson: i yield to the gentleman from florida. >> i rise today on behalf of thanksgiving. this is an opportunity to give thanks for all our many blessings, yet through no fault of their own, many families are struggling. thanks to liberal policies, inflation is soaring and gas prices have spiked more than 50% and leaving store shelves empty. the cost of thanks giving dinner will be the most and cost more to drive or fly. american families are hurting. and yet an nbc correspondent the dirty little secret that america caps can pay more because they saved money when they were trapped in their homes during the covid pandemic. because more than half of americans are invested in the stock market and doing well, most people are better off. how out of touch. she has zero regard for the people who don't have a stock portfolio. good luck trying to eat your 401k. tax penalties for early withdrawals are harsh. she knows that but so be holden to the left but providing free cover. writers are telling us we should lower our expectations and live more like europeans and getting used to the empty store shelves. american families are suffering. recent elections have shown that americans reject these attempts to change our nation from a prosperous country to a suffering regime. intrusive regulations and overreaching policies have lowered. and most prosperous country in the world, we are blessed to pursue economic prosperity during difficult times. many of the economic challenges faced by american families were created by a liberal ruling class and we stand on the brink of ram, inc. through the most expensive tax-and-spend initiative. and the final scene in the movie of "thelma and louise." they drive a car off the cliff. they are driving our country off the cliff if that's what it takes to pass the build back broke program. as we celebrate thanks giving i ask democrats to look at what their policies are doing to working class americans. just say no. i yield back. mr. johnson: i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, dr. babin. mr. babin: i want to thank my friend and colleague and neighbor across from louisiana across the sabine river. it has been 10 months since joe biden took office and look at the state of our country. our southern border is eroding. gas prices is skyrocketed and and our currency is diminishing at an alarming rate and americans are about to sit down to the most expensive thanksgiving in history. how can anyone justify that a bag of carrots, carrots has a price tag 48% higher than just a year ago. my colleagues know that every american is hurting because of their bad policies and avoid the topic telling people that inflation is actually a good thing. give me a break. tell that to the hardworking americans at the grocery store or gas pump. what will it take for left to finally come to their senses and say no more. is common sense and wisdom something of the past? outdated and disregarded? democrats criticize us for telling the american people that they are destroying the country. they try to divert the american people's attention by common sense sheurg a republican congressman over a cartoon. i would ask them to look around. we are in a state of crisis and decay and hardworking, law-abiding freedom loving americans fear the inevitable outcome should we continue down this path. that outcome, what is it? socialism, folks. today i ask my democrat colleagues to look at the burden that they have put on the american people and face the fact that history has so clearly written a socialist utopia simply does not exist. today i ask them on behalf of every single american in this nation to find the courage and rise and say, enough. thank you. i yield back. mr. john con: -- mr. johnson: socialism never works, never has. a fool's errand. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from tennessee. >> i thank my colleague from louisiana for the opportunity to address the house today this week president biden signed into law the $1.2 trillion infrastructure and investment jobs act. mr. rose: which focuses more on pushing democrats' far left socialist policies than on america's crumbling -- crumbling infrastructure needs. madam speaker, the signing of this bill comes on the heels of democrats' reckless taxing and spending spree and senseless policies that have created an economic crisis of monumental proportions. as the president biden -- biden administration takes a victory lap, the american people are in no mood to celebrate. inflation is at a 30-year hievment as prices on everything are more now than they were just one year ago. gas is up 49%. beef is up 20%. home heating bills are up 28.1%. under the biden administration, working families are getting crushed. increased costs at the grocery store and the gas pump and higher home heating bills are squeezing americans dry. skyrocketing inflation is driving down real wages for hardworking middle class families and making it more difficult for those living on fixed budgets to make ends meet. instead of addressing the root cause of inflation, which, by the way, and for the record is largely caused by out-of-control government spending, house democrats are continuing to push their sweeping $1.75 trillion build back broke act. this package would once again hand out cash to households and create new paid leave benefits with no expectation of work. however, as we all know an engaged work force is key to invigorating economic recovery and slowing inflation. make no mistake, wasteful and increased spending by democrats, much of which is being funded by even more borrowed money, won't slow inflation. it will super charge it. i strongly urge president biden and democrats in congress to reconsider the devastating economic consequences they are proposing to enact. thank you. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. are you so right about that. the hardworking american families are feeling the pain from tennessee all the way to california. with that, madam speaker, i yield two minutes to my good friend, mr. obernolte. mr. obernolte: i rise today deeply concerned this body is scheduling a vote on what will likely be the most expensive spending package in the history of united states -- of the united states without knowing the true cost of that package. our hone house rules, house rule 13 requires us to wait for a score from the congressional budget office before voting on a budget bill. and the budget reconciliation control act of 1974 requires the c.b.o. to issue that score. unfortunately, we are rushing through this vote without even knowing the true cost of the bill. last week i led a group of almost half of the house of representatives in sending a letter to the speaker urging her not to vote on this bill until its true costs are known. i'm sure most americans saw the president of the united states go on television two weeks ago and tell the american public that this spending bill will not add a single dollar to the national deficit. our response to that is, if that's the case, mr. president, prove it. prove it by waiting for the c.b.o. to issue a score on that bill. the reason why we are so concerned about this issue is that any economist will tell you that deficit government spending is dangerously inflationary. and we are already seeing the highest inflation in the united states in over 40 years. folks in my district are paying over $20 more today to fill the gasoline tank on their cars just to go to work than they were just a year ago. this inflation is hurting everyday americans and it will hurt them more if this bill spends more than it takes in in taxes. every indication is that it will. madam speaker, i urge this body to wait for the congressional budget office to score this bill before voting on it. it's the responsible thing to do. anything less would be an abdication of our responsibility to the people we represent. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. madam speaker, delighted to yield the gentleman from new jersey -- he's right behind me. two minutes to mr. van drew. mr. van drew: i thank the gentleman from louisiana for doing this and for yielding and all his good work. i rise today a week before one of america's oldest, most deeply rooted holidays ashamed of what this administration is doing to our great united states of america. american families look forward to a thanksgiving feast where they are finally able to see distant relatives, reflect on their lives, and, of course, share a table covered in food made from old family recipes. yet this year families aren't thinking about that. they are not thinking about what they'll cook but rather how they will afford a thanksgiving meal. turkey prices are up 18%. pumpkin pie is up 17%. carrots, strangely enough, up 50%. some families might not even have to worry about these rising food costs because they might not be able to travel to see their families due to soaring gas prices. a gallon of gas is up 61%. on average. if they are able to travel despite the price increases, they may enter a fridged home as the cost to heat our homes has increased by 54%. the root cause of these price increases is no big secret to anyone, they are the direct result of failed biden policies. policies that have led to rampant inflation, a crippled supply chain, and labor shortages on a scale that we never would have ever imagined. despite recent comments made by this administration, and the media, inflation is a bad, bad thing. buying a home? more expensive. building a home? more expensive. renting an apartment? more expensive. gas, groceries, turkeys, and presents, more expensive. this is the biden thanksgiving tax. americans deserve a joyous thanksgiving after the suffering our nation has endured over the past two years. and this administration is on track to be known as the grirch who not only stole christmas but the grinch that stole thanksgiving as well. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, appreciate those comments. madam speaker, i'm delighted to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, lieutenant colonel pfluger. mr. pfluger: thank you to my colleague from louisiana. madam speaker, i rise today to address a very important issue in our country, crisis after crisis after crisis that we see. including last week where the president gathered with world leaders to discuss a fairy tale climate agenda that will dismantle america's energy security which is part of our national security f we continue down this path, all americans should worry about one thing, where is our energy going to come from? we are told we must dismantle the american oil and gas production to save the planet. in 2019 u.s. harmful emissions were 13% less than they were in 2005. 13% less. no other country has cut their footprint more in that short amount of time. what's responsible for this? it's not electric vehicles. it's not unreliable energy sources. it's the american shale revolution. clean burning natural gas is critical in allowing us to achieve affordable, reliable energy supply without the harmful emissions and increases like we see from major polluters like russia and china. but instead of building on that progress, president biden and democrats are crippling the american energy sector and emboldening our foreign adversaries. i'm proud to represent the men and women of the merman basic and -- basin and the -- permanentian basin and the job they do. it's running every single day. it's time to put midland over moscow. any vote for reconciliation might as well be a vote for russia. i'm urging my colleagues to vote no. with that, madam speaker, i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. midland over moscow. we ought to print t-shirts with that one. madam speaker, i now yield the gentleman from tennessee where they are deeply concerned about this as well. mr. burchett. mr. burchett: thank you for yielding to me and the adequate job you are doing. i recently overheard some east tennesseans talking be gas pumps at the local pilot station. a fell said -- fellow said it's almost like these politicians want to make gas more expensive. well, i think my constituents are on to something, madam speaker. vice chairman johnson. conversations like this when i have heard at my local pilot station have been happening everywhere across this country. americans are so displeased with gas prices they are slapping these biden,dy that stickers on the pumps. i did that stickers on these pumps. i don't recommend doing that but somebody has taken the initiative to do it. joe biden's war against affordable energy is hurting millions of americans' ability to travel. family road trips, trips to the park, airline travel, all are soaring in costs. the white house lacks any and all sympathy for what this crisis means for working americans. joe biden's energy secretary even laughed when asked how her department planned to stabilize gas prices. i thought that was the ultimate act of arrogance. it's the let them eat cake, too, kind of thing. i guess this is easy for joe biden and his cabinet to ignore. american taxpayers fund all their travel in those fancy private cars and jet airplanes they fly in. their attitude is insulting and arrogant. no wonder joe biden is blind for whatever it's gone. he never sees a bill for any of that. the holiday season is right around the corner. people will celebrate hanukkah and christmas and i believe holiday travel will be the most expensive on record. americans will have joe biden and war on energy to thank for their travel expenses. thank you, vice johnson, i appreciate the adequate work you are doing. mr. johnson: your adequate comments are more than that. they have to amend and print new stickers for the gas pumps. if our democrat colleagues vote for this, they have to make a new sticker that says i am the house democrat that did that. that's what's going on. madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia. >> i thank my friend from louisiana. that's exactly true. the house gems have done this. it's all one big party. mr. hice: while we are celebrating thanksgiving next week, families gathered together, giving thanks. i'm kft dent there will not be one family in america giving thanks for the economic crisis created by president biden and the democrats. the crisis, economically, that they are serving the american people. according to the u.s. department of agriculture, this is going to be the most expensive thanksgiving in history. from turkey to potato, pumpkin pie, you name it. this is going to be the most expensive thanksgiving ever. probably a whole lot fewer second trips for food or thirds or whatever your family is accustomed to. meanwhile, what is the are giving us. democrats want to spend trillions more dollars, put more pain and suffering around the thanksgiving tables and the pocketbooks of the american people. while americans are pinching their penny, literally, to live within their mean, president biden and his socialist cronies on the other side of the aisle here in washington are wanting to spend even more of the hard-earned money of the american taxpayer and the american worker. the democrats' socialist gravy train has left the station and the american people, i assure you, are not at the table. they are not on board with what's happening in this country. americans are the ones paying the price for this. they are paying the price for president biden's budget busting policies, more money at the gas pumps, more money at the thanksgiving table, more money for everyday goods. we can go down the list. it's high time, it's past time, that president biden and the democrats stop this reckless, runaway spending. our economy cannot afford trillions of more dollars than we don't have for unnecessary spending for socialist, marxist spending, robbing us not only of our hard-earned income but our liberties, our freedoms that we love and tier niche this country. it's time that we put a stop to this nonsense. with that, i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend that voice from georgia is so strong, i think we'll stick with that theme. i yield to another gentleman from georgia, mr. klein. >> too many things can be said about the democrat's radical tack and -- tax and spend bill. the american people deserve to know the truth about passing this irresponsible wish list. let's unpack some of the greiges by folk ios. compl pl cleveland: they claim it's fully paid for and will cost american taxpayers zero dollars. this is false. while we have not yet received the official c.b.o. score, models show that the biden big government socialist spending package could cost more than double what democrats have previously reported. the number could be upwards of $4.5 trillion with $3 trillion of it being in new debt. additionally, president biden has touted for months that this legislation will not raise taxes on americans earning less than $400,000 a year. according to early reports if the congressional budget office, this is completely false as well. a recent analysis from the tax policy center found that the reckless reconciliation bill will hike taxes for 20% to 30% of middle class families next year. yet taxpayers in the top 5% will see a combined total tax cut of $32 billion. what a slap in the face to the millions of small businesses, hardworking employees, and their families. lastly, the president and his democrat allies have absurdly stated that passing their pricey package will help ease inflation. ease inflation? really? this is completely illogical and defies all reason, unless of course your intent is to deceive. injecting trillions of dollars of borrowed federal none into the economy with billions of it going to climate change will only worsen the already burdensome effects of record high inflation. the result will be americans struggling to afford gas, groceries and heating bills. keep in mind, the sole intent of the biden-bernie bankruptcy act's enormous cost is to fund unpopular and radical policies such as tax-payer funded abortion, weaponizing the i.r.s. and mass amnesty for illegal my grants. and don't forget about the 150-plus new government programs that will further expand the federal government's size and scope. simply put, the unfortunate truth is that byraming thru their big government socialist spending spree, democrats are selfishly prioritizing their dangerous, for a left agenda over the needs of the american people. thank you and i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. appreciate those comments. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from alabama, sticking with our southern theme, many moore. mr. moore: i appreciate your leadership on. this i rise alarmed at the unprecedented wasteful spending from washington that is fueling inflation and risking the future of our republic. last week this congress passed a $1. # trillion infrastructure bill despite the bill's characterization less than 10% went to traditional what us southerners and commonsense people call roads and bridges. but $200 million went back to a park in speaker pelosi's own back yard. according to "the new york times," certainly not an ally of the republicans, said the democrat's reconciliation bill before us this week includes, i quote, $4.1 billion tax break for people who buy electric bicycles. $2.5 billion for tree equity, not sure what that is. and another $2.5 billion to help contingency fee lawyers recoup expenses. this captures exactly what is wrong with washington too many politicians up here will gladly endorse trillions in new spending for a few pennys of pork to come back to their district. they put their political futures above our own nation. i'm sick of it. the american people are too. congress is bleeding the american people dry with waste, pet projects it claims is being spent in their own best interest. i would love the federal government to build a new road in my district but i refuse to sacrifice the health and viability of this nation to get it and most patriotic americans agree with me. roads and bridges come and go. if we foolishly squander the nation of our forefathers they fought so hard to create we will selfishly allow this great american experiment to die because of our own greed. shame on us because we will have ultimately failed those who elected us and sent us here to protect their best interests. with that, i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. that's so well said. another plain-spoken southerner, i'll bring up from the state of georgia, mr. carter two minutes. mr. carter: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, the spending spree continues this week as democrats continue to try and ram their ridiculous reconciliation bill down our throats. the radicals have been back seat driving far too long. our holiday cheer is now being threatened by this administration's refusal to cut up the credit cards. it's truly astonishing. we're all set to experience the most expensive thanksgiving in our country's history, thanks to these reckless spending habits perpetrated by the white house. turkey prices up 27%. potatoes up 13%. carrots up 47%. and the beloved pumpkin pie from costco up 17%. the consumer price index is up 6.2% overall. this is an indicator of how much extra people are having to pay for their goods. in addition, natural gas up 40%. home heating oil up 60%. americans are being forced to pay more to heat their homes in a time when the weather is at its coldest. nowhere in america should hardworking tax pay verse to choose between heating their home and putting food on the table. these are not pandemic-related issues anymore. they are government created issues. this is what socialism looks like. joe biden says get used to it. empty shelves. runaway inflation. and government control. this no longer looks like america. it looks like a failed socialist nation. that's what it looks like. we will not cave to the desires of the for a left. we will push back. america will remain free. and we will prevail. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you for that optimistic close. as reagan said, we are the last, best hope of man on earth. we better hold it. madam speaker i'm delighted to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from illinois, mrs. miller. mrs. miller: thank you, mr. johnson. the only thing president biden, speaker pelosi and the democrats in congress will be building back better is china's economy. truly, they are building beijing back better. a new report released today shows that china has officially surpassed the u.s. as the richest nation in the world because congress gave china most favored nation status under the clinton administration. they've definitely tipped the scales for chinese manufacturing. d.c. politicians themselves have been enriched off china while the american middle class suffers. now, democrats are pushing the green new deal policies that will make the middle class suffer even more with higher gas prices and home heating bills this winner. biden's policies enriched china because they manufacture solar panels, lithium batteries and windmills. and taxpayers are going to be forced to subsidize this. china mines these minerals for batteries and solar panels with child labor and slave labor. when asked about the slave labor behind the green new deal, john kerry said it was, quote, not my lane. that's despicable. thank you and i yield back. mr. johnson: i thank you, my friend. it's a shame that china is being assisted by these democrat policies even as they openly challenge us. another thing ronald reagan warned us about is weakness invites aggression. it's a dangerous game. madam speaker i'm delighted to yield two minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. pence. mr. pence: i thank the gentleman for yielding. american families and businesses across the country are facing a cry us is inflation the lines of which we haven't seen for 30 years. last month, the consumer price index hit a 30-year high. what does this mean for everyday americans? gas prices up 50% from last year. food prices rising to the highest flefl 12 years. the price of eggs up 42%. the price of milk up 17%. the price of a new car up $5,000. and home prices going through the roof. last week i met with farmers and ranches for the central oregon who are paying far more for fertilizer, feed, and all crop inputs. mr. bentz: this on top of the incredible difficulties caused by historic drought, supply chain disruptions and a shocking shortage of labor. given all this, what are president biden and speaker pelosi doing to address the biggest enflagsnary spike in decades? they have no plan except to spend even more trillions of our tax dollars on more and probably irreversible welfare programs. the $2 trillion spending bill will raise taxes, increase our national debt and drive inflation even higher. sadly american families will pay for this bill one way or another. almost immediately right now through inflated prices on everything from diesel fuel to the thanksgiving turkey. the $2 trillion build back better bill is on top of the $1.9 trillion spent in march and the $1.2 trillion spent two weeks ago. even former officials from the obama administration warned that these unprecedented levels of spending will result in higher inflation and american farmers are warning that this spending bill could result in the demise of many family farms and ramples. spending trillions upon trillions of dollars will cause crippling inflation for families and businesses. this radical reconciliation bill will not help us build back better. instead, it will damage my state and our nation for years to come. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. bentz. it will damage your state and all our states. we have another gentleman from tennessee, mr. kustoff, i yield two minutes to. mr. kustoff: i want to thank my friend from louisiana for rarnging time to talk with the nation today about these very important issues. i rise today to talk about the reckless spending plans put forth by democrats which i think without a doubt have put our country in a real economic crisis. let me take you back to march. when along purely partisan lines, democrats pushed through a $1.9 trillion spending bill. then just two weeks ago, democrats pushed through another $1.2 trillion in spending. this week, we may likely vote on the democrat's social spending plan which would drive the total spending to almost $5 trillion. when you add together all three of these spending bills. now, if you will, focus for a moment on the runaway inflation that's really been exacerbated and inflamed by this massive spending. it was reported just last week that the consumer price index which measures this data, rose over 6%. that's the highest level in 30 years. that means that the price of everyday goods skyrocketed. i'm talking about everything. cars. appliances. food. gas. you know, estimates are that the price to heat your home this winter could be 54% higher. this year. compared to last winter. americans really our constituents, they're getting hit really hard financially. and there's no end to it in sight. without a doubt the huge social spending bill that we may vote on this week will leave severe and long lasting consequences. i want to point you to a story that ran yesterday in the "washington times." here's the headline. "biden social biden social welfare bill breaks plem not to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000. the newspaper cites the joint complete on taxation. here's the deal. with the social spending bill beginning in 2023, taxpayers making between $50,000 and $75,000 annually would see a tax increase. for people earning $75,000 and $100,000 a year, the tax increase, 2.9%. folks making between $100,000 and $200,000 per year would be a tax increase of 7.4% in 2023. to my colleagues, let's listen to our constituents. let's focus on the real world problems that dealing -- that they are dealing with every day. let's work on the supply chain. focus on the threat to china. let's stop this massive spending. with that, i appreciate it and i yield back. mr. johnson: i thank my friend for prosecuting the case. that was his background. madam speaker, may i inquire how much time remains? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 20 and a half minutes remaining. mr. johnson: i'm delighted to yield to the gentlelady from oklahoma, mrs. bice. mrs. bice: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for up to two minutes. thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to address the record breaking inflation that will make next thursday the most expensive thanksgiving in history due to biden and democrats' detrimental policy decisions. the american people will feel the impact of rising inflation this thanksgiving and holiday season. prices of ingredients for the traditional thanksgiving dinner are sky-high, with turkey costs up 27%. pumpkin pie 17. and carrots up 47%. beyond the pricey meal, travel costs are surging because a gallon of gas costs 61% more than a year ago. and airfare is expected to increase 18%. placing a burden on families to visit loved ones for the holidays. on top of this, simply staying warm this winter will cost more. heating built are projected to rise as much as 54% compared to last winter. while these everyday prices are skyrocketing, wages are stagnant. which means decreased purchasing power for hardworking americans. not only will they have less money to spend on thanksgiving traditions and holiday gifts that will have a damaging impact on small businesses and our overall economy, but the livelihood of americans will be harmed by the difficulty to afford day-to-day necessities. madam speaker, biden's failed policies are hitting home. as shown to the significant drop in his approval rating, americans are desperate for a solution to fix these insane price increases. instead, what is biden's response? continue to push the partisan reconciliation bill that would pump the economy with trillions more dollars in spending for social programs that are not paid for. further exacerbating this inflation crisis and causing american taxpayers to suffer the effects for generations to come. there are grave consequences to careless action. i urge my colleagues and the american people to recognize this thanksgiving as a direct result of excessive government spending and shutting down our country's energy production. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. mr. johnson: i'mdelighted to yis to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. gotman. gotman -- mr. grothman: thank you. i'd like one more time to address the reconciliation package. we know that it's a very large spending package and will result in more welfare and more taxes which will put a damper on the economy. let's look at the type of vision democrat party has for our country given what they are spending the money on. we know we have a big illegal immigration crisis in this country. everybody knows 8,000 people in the country last july. 105,000 this july. what are we going to do with it? we have record numbers--record amounts of fentanyl coming across the southern border. we respond with a provision giving seven million people a path to amnesty. which is a magnet to get more people here. we make it more difficult to remove people from the country if they commit crimes, including sex offend -- offenses and firearm convictions without any discretion from the d.h.s. you want to make it more difficult to even get the criminal element out of the country. finally, we promised anybody coming in the country free college. pell grants designed for poor americans are going to go to people who come here illegally. we want the average american to sit there at home paying $30,000 or $40,000 tuition in debt until they are 30 or 40 years old. you come here illegally, boom. free college. the second thing we get out of here is a welfare problem in this country. we are encouraging people not to work. we are encouraging people not to get married. how do they respond? looking at the recent increase in food share benefits, a massive amount of money going to low-income housing. the increased in earned income tax credit. the larger pell grants. everywhere you look in this bill it's more money for people of a certain lifestyle at the expense of the person who is getting married and working harder. race preferences. throughout this bill it seems like they are incapable of doing a program that benefits all americans. it's always targeting somebody from this race or that race or this gender or that gender. very divisive bill. great increase in government's role in raising the children. the government pays for all the 3 and 4-year-old kids. the opposite of what america is supposed to be. where the child's upbringing is the family. now we want to make the child's upbringing government centered. finally, a more surveillance state. 87,000 new i.r.s. agents. what could they possibly do? obviously you can see where we are headed as a country. the time where our factories and farms can't find anybody to work, we are going to take the unemployed people and make them i.r.s. agents. in any event i urge america to pay attention to where this money is going in this bill because it's the type of america our forefathers never would have imagined. thank you. mr. johnson: so much common sense there. we'll continue with that theme. i'm happy, madam speaker, yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. baird. mr. baird: i want to thank my colleague for giving me the opportunity to speak. madam speaker, at a time when americans are facing the highest inflation rates in decades, and small businesses are struggling to recover from the devastating impact of covid-19, house democrats will soon consider the most radical spending package in american history. unfortunately, instead of giving families and businesses a hand up by giving able-bodied americans back to work and tabling steps to resolve our supply -- taking steps to resolve our supply chain issues, democrats' far left socialist package will do little than exacerbate our inflation crisis and harm the growth of small businesses. earlier this month the university of pennsylvania's wharton school of business released a model that found the bill will cost more than twice the estimated cost. if that's not bad enough, the tax policy center recently found that this spending spree would raise taxes on middle class americans by up to 30%. this anti-growth package will destroy thousands of jobs. burden many business owners with restrictive taxes to help pay for this bloated spending bill. and will surely be a death knell for many businesses on a struggling main street. and hardworking americans struggling to contend with soaring inflation rates. month after month we watched the biden administration deliver disappointing jobs reported with the labor force participation rate falling to 61.6% in september alone. this labor shortage is only fueling our economy and our economic supply chain crisis. but instead of encouraging americans to get back to work, president biden and house democrats are including provisions that discourage unemployed americans from finding a job. if democrats really want to build back better, they should be championing policies that actually help our small business owners and the middle class not exacerbating the problems they are struggling to overcome. yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. bronze star and purple heart speaks, we ought to listen. mr. speaker, delighted to yield next to the gentleman from virginia, mr. cline. mr. cline: i want to thank my friend for yielding and for sponsoring this evening's special order. madam speaker, this week the labor department's consumer price index jumped 6.2 prers in october from a year earlier. respecting an increase in the cost of goods and services as well as energy and food, fuel costs surged 30%. i have a quote from someone here in washington about that. this politician said, by all accounts the threat posed by record inflation to the american people is not transitory, and is getting worse. from the grocery store to the gas pump, americans know the inflation tax is real and d.c. can no longer ignore the economic pain americans feel every day. now, that wasn't my colleague, congressman johnson, that wasn't minority leader kevin mccarthy or congressman jim jordan. no, that was senator joe manchin who said that just today. he's recognizing that not just west virginians but all americans are feeling the pain at the pump, grocery storks and all agros -- grocery store, and all across the economy. it's coming from legislation that our president pushed earlier this year and that house democrats helped get behind the so-called american rescue plan. no less than the president ourself said about public frustration, people are feeling it. they are feeling it. did you ever think you would be paying this much for a gallon of gas? in some parts of california they are paying $4.50 a gallon. that's why it's important we do everything in our power to stabilize the supply chain. what he did through passage of this american rescue plan is actually cause inflation to jump that much further forward. he conceded on wednesday that inflation is at a three decade high because, quote, people have more money now as a result of the $1.9 trillion stimulus legislation. what does he propose to do now? double down and spend an additional $2 trillion. what does he think that will do to inflation in this country, madam speaker? he has already said that, quote, the irony is people have more money now because of the first major piece of legislation that i passed. you all got checks for $1,400. you got checks for a whole range of things. it changes people's lives. what happens if there is nothing to buy and you have more money to compete for getting goods? it creates a real problem, biden said. did he say that and it did create a real problem. it creates a problem to the tune of inflation rates at a 30-year high and gas prices up 61% from last year. so the president recognizes his last multitrillion dollar bill caused the economics peril we are facing, why is he proposing to spend an additional $2 trillion on social programs we don't need and can't afford. 150 new government programs. propping up the green new deal won't solve the economic crisis. weaponizing the i.r.s. against americans won't lower inflation. taxing middle class families won't put more money into people's pockets. you know what would help? fiscal responsibility. americans want a thanksgiving meal that won't be the most expensive in the history of the holiday, not a progressive wish list that will only make the situation worse. i yield back to the gentleman. thank you. mr. johnson: thank you. we are going to feel the pain. you are right. madam speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: congressman johnson, i want to thank you for this time. madam speaker, we are here to talk to the american people about ideas that roam across our nation. they are conversation that is take place around every tame. next week at thanksgiving we'll have those conversations at my tame taibl and others -- my table and others around the country. you heard a good discussion about inflation. part of inflation comes from government spending. part of government spending comes from policy that this president, this administration, democratic party supports. 1.6 million people have come to our borders. we are doing the things that will encourage them to come here. we are doing the things that will encourage them to give them free, free education, free health care to pay for them and to do those things. . inflation is related to federal monetary and fiscal policy. inflation is that thing that occurs in the economy when the price of goods and services rise and rise exponentially. normally an administration would look at about a 2% growth, 2% inflation rate 2% which would generally be considered acceptable growth or g.d.p. model as well as inflation rate. this administration, however, began with president biden going down and visiting the king of inflation, former president jimmy carter. talking to this nation about how great jimmy carter's service was. what he meant to say is i admired his policies, progressive, liberal policies, that took this country to have 16% and 18% interest rates. things, interest rates that raised prices in excessive amount of money for families for a generation that could not buy homes. madam speaker, the republican party is here speaking just as the american people are and we recognize that this administration has made dear and great friends with the conditions that create inflationary spiral. this administration knows exactly, they have smart people there, but it's their policies that they demand to have and those policies bring about results that end up making friends with inflation. higher prices for goods and services. more government spending. this is big, expensive government spending across the board. so the american people will have the most expensive thanksgiving in years. the highest inflation rate in 30 years. oh, that would be back to jimmy carter. no wonder president biden visited his favorite or second favorite president, jimmy carter because he wants to make friends with the conditions that create inflation. big government spending. prices rising. government control of the goods and services. and just like jimmy carter, he had a senate, a house, and a presidency to be very successful. madam speaker, the american people spoke again last night. and local elections down in south carolina. they spoke a week ago in state elections. madam speaker, the american people deserve better. better comes from policy and better comes from adults who will recognize that it's not just politics, it's about the american people who want and need to have more take-home pay and more ability to take care of themselves. not big, expensive socialist government that even breaks the laws of this country. congressman, i want to thank you for your service to this conference but more importantly for making sure that the american people here -- hear the other side of the story. i yield back my time. mr. johnson: thank you so much. the american people are going to speak again next fall. we know that for certain. i'm happy to yield an additional minute to the gentleman from georgia. >> madam speaker, madam speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of a jackson county deputy, linda marshall, whose picture is displayed beside me right here. last week, jackson county lost a mother and heroic officer after responding to a domestic call that spiraled into a violent shootout, she lost her life trying keep georgians and our community safe. while i never had the privilege of meeting deputy marshall personally i'm deeply moved by her immeasurable sacrifice and willingness to put georgians' safety above her own. i believe i can speak for all of us in the county in seeing that we are forever thankful for deputy marshall's dedication and her bravely -- bravery. my wife jennifer and i continue to pray for her family and for fellow officers in this time. may god bless our men and women in blue who selflessly put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. thank you and i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend. sorry for that tragic loss. i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. lamalfa. mr. lamalfa: thank you to my colleague from louisiana. i rise tonight as we talk about this issue with our upcoming thanksgiving holiday expected to be the most expensive meal in the history of that holiday. more proof that the democrats are driving up inflation with their spending policies, spending piles of dollars is not cree -- does not create an economy. it hurts the value of the dollars. turkey market news showed the price of turkey will be up 20% from last year. pie, cranberries, potatoes all up a -- all up in price. inflation is the most regressive of actual taxes on people because it hits those on fixed income the hardest. low and middle income have tough decisions to make on how they're going to handle their food costs and upcoming heating oil and gas to stay warm this winter. democrats advocate taxing billionaires but we see them creating inflation directly harming low and middle class americans while making tax breaks for the rich. congress can't spend its way out of that problem as some in the administration have suggested. it will only make the issue worse. we must work on the burdensome regulations and get it out of business' way so they can thrive, expand their business and hire employees. inteed we need to work on the important supply chain issues still clogging our ports, keeping our products from being exported. from agriculture, those things that immediate to be shipped out, instead we aren't cutting very good deals with china when they can just send their stuff other to us. that would insulate us from inflation by having a real which i here at home not dependent on borrowed dollars or big spending. indeed, keep asking, biden administration, whose side are you on? thank you. i yield back. mr. johnson: thank you, my friend, for those comments. madam speaker, how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has five seconds. mr. johnson: with that, i thank my friend for -- friends for participating and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentlewoman from new mexico, mss recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. ms. leger fernandez: thank you. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of my special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. leger fernandez: madam speaker, you know, monday was such an exciting day for our country. president biden signed the infrastructure investment and jobs act into law. and we tame one step closer toward making the necessary investments to help our community thrive. to help them thrive not just survive. and you know, i want to point out that although the -- it's called a bipartisan infrastructure act, we had very few republicans in this house vote for that bill. you know. in my state, the republican congresswoman did not vote for the infrastructure act so she voted against the clean water, she voted against the broadband, she voted against the infrastructure that we need to keep our roads safe and our bridges strong enough so that kids can cross them in their school bustos get to school. but the democrats delivered that bill. and the democrats are going to deliver the build back better agenda. and the reason why we need to pass the build back better act is for the people. it's for our communities. just a few weeks ago, my progressive caucus colleagues and i held a special order hour dedicated to the many great things in the build back better act. but there is so much in there that is good that we are back here tonight to continue to highlight the benefits for our communities. you know, madam speaker, throughout the pandemic, knew mexicans lost their livelihoods. they put saving toward just surviving. if it wouldn't have been for the american rescue plan, they would have lost their homes. eviction moratorium helped them. housing. i want to talk a little bit about housing. that's something i worked on for many, many years in my district. we know that housing instability and the shortage of affordable housing hurts our working families. many saw their dreams of home ownership vanish with the pandemic and the recession. but with build back better, we have an opportunity to change that. we know that the biggest barrier to purchasing a home is the lack of savings needed for a down payment. people just don't have $10,000 or $20,000 to put down on a down payment. current benefits like mortgage deductions don't help low income fam if i -- families looking to buy a home they've don't help middle class families. because you know, you need the money at the time you're buying the house. at closing. so to successfully address the affordable housing shortage, and the growing racial gap that comes along with it, we need to make sure there is access to home ownership. especially for communities like in new mexico or native american, latino, african-american, blacks, you know, indigenous communities. we need to make sure that we provide them with the home ownership assistance when it's needed, which is at closing. and you know what? build back better does just that. it makes one of the largest investments in housing down payment assistance in history. you know, i'm proud to have been one of those many in our caucus who advocated for the $10 billion that is in build back better to help first generation home owners purchase their home. in my beautiful new mexico, we're lucky to have an organization that i worked with for 20 years, it's called home lives. an organization that creates successful homeowners so families can impreux their long-term financial wealth. we have financial fitness classes. but we also help people with down payment assistance. but we could use more of that. we never have enough down payment assistance. but one of the people that we helped was maria louisa. maria louisa first came to the united states from mexico. she had a dream to own a home of her own and create a better life for herself. she found that dream hard. she found herself living on the streets of santa fe where she turned her life around. she got her g.e.d. she got jerez dency. her greencard. she took classes at the santa fe community college in community health and she found home life. she found her first home with our help. she said being a homeowner lifts her spirit and gives her confident in her own future scheffel knows she'll be able to pass along the savings incorporated into that home of her own to her children. spirit and confidence in the future. that's what democrats are about. we're about opportunity. we are about opportunity cy ating that belief in the future and making it possible for working families. and i am glad to be on the floor with my progressive colleagues to talk about the many opportunities that build back better has. but i want to take a little moment right now and have us walk back a year. thanksgiving. do we remember what thanksgiving was like a year ago? in my household, we always have a sit down dinner for about 24 people. we believe in those extended tables. and everybody comes, somebody will make the turkey. somebody else will make the green chille and red chille uric can't do without red and green chille if you're from new mexico. everybody brings what they made with such love. we sit around and share stories and good food and laughs. last year, did we do that? no. last year we had a zoom thanksgiving. last year we were living in despair. we were living with our former president who made fun of covid. we were living with politicians from the other side of the aisle who called it a hoax. and we could not gather. we could not celebrate. what a difference a year makes. what a difference leadership makes. under president biden and the american rescue plan, we have made it possible for our families to gather together once again. because we made sure that they didn't get kicked out of their homes. that they had a place to invite their family to. with the money we put into rental assistance. we made sure that they could get that vaccination. that they could have those shots. and anybody who wants it in the united states can get a shot, can be vaccinated, cab get their booster so that they protect everybody in their community and that's what we need to celebrate and that's what we need to respect. because a year later, the american rescue plan has done so much for our communities. yes, s true as those on the other side of the aisle state, we are seeing inflation. but gas prices, oil and gas companies. who protects oil and gas companies, republicans do. they protect those corporations. they do not let us attack their corporations and democrats have to do it themselves. we need to remember that it is greedy corporations who are raising the prices and who are profiting off of working families. we need to remember that it is grubhub that is increasing the price of the deliveries by 30% and none of that is going to back to the mom and pop restaurants but to those corporations who don't want to pay taxes. in the build back better act, we are going to make sure that corporations can pay their fair sure and fueling what the republicans protect. they are fueling the inflation. let's call it like it is, but right now, i want to go back to all the amazing things that are in the build back better act and i'm going to go call on my colleague who stands ready to tell the stories of what does it mean on the ground in her community from visions like the build back better. thank you, representative. >> i have been inspired by my colleague's benefits and helping us to remember and to re-imagine. i remember thanksgiving as well and there are 30 of us who get together. i didn't happen last year but because of this leadership and this administration, this democratic caucus in this house and in the senate, we were able to deliver resources for the people for things to stay in their homes. and i am happy to say my whole family is vaccinated and have the booster and we will get together for this thanksgiving dinner and thankful for the visionary president joe biden about this. but i'm going to speak about something i'm passionate about. i'm rising today because i feel that the way our coup try has treated working people has been unacceptable and the middle class and working class people who built this country. our system is against against and it is broken. our country has failed its people and we must do better. we can't do better, though, without building back better. although the current bill doesn't include what we would hope it would, it is going to transform the lives who need it most. for example, it will give working parents the freedom to raise their newborn children and make a living. that's why the build back better has the extremely successful that the democrats passed and incorporates my healthy mom act to ensure that new mothers have 12 months of post heist partum health care coverage so they are supported and will make an unprecedented investment inputting floors beneath our feet and roofs above our heads and includes $65 billion for safer and accessible public housing and $25 billion to construct low-income family housing and to safeguard our children's health. this bill also puts us back on the right path to repair climate change. it makes a historic $29 billion investment in greenhouse reduction and a justice block grant and ban new offshore oils to create a cleaner, brighter future for all our children can survive. the american dream is just that, a dream. for far too many people. building back better is a crucial step of making that dream a reality. since our nation's founding, working americans have paid more than their fair share and it is time we reward them. today's build back better act is not the bill we had in mind when the president first announced his agenda but we are still on the verge of making the biggest investment in working american families in more than half a century. i am very proud of that. we all ought to be very proud of that. we ought to be proud that we can work hard and we stood together and fought together and together we can make it happen. i thank you for this opportunity and i yield back. leg leg new jersey is so lucky to have you because you know what is needed on the ground and yes, indeed, it is together. and that's what i like about our caucus and what we are doing, we are doing it together. we are not about division. we are about unity and that is what we represent? communities working together, living together and growing together is how we succeed in life. i want to raise another part of where the build back better is very important. i am chair of the indig generalous -- indigenous people and navajo and 16 tribes in my district and they tell me about their needs. i have walked in their villages and i have sat there and i know the pandemic hit them the hardest of all. we have seen the death and despair in our tribal communities. so what we have done in congress and in the natural resources committee was to make sure that their voices were heard and we provided $14 billion in the american rescue plan and $12 billion for their communities. we have been hearing about the incredible sad stories that come from the fact that there was a time in america's history when we took the children, we took the children away from their tribes, away from their culture and put them in boarding schools, and many died. we were trying to erase the savage indian and that was the words that were used. the tribes are alive and with us. but we must respect that history. and i am proud that both the american rescue plan and build back better plan have $220 million for native american languages because it is through languages that you preserve a culture and identity and when you add that together when we are going to have $470 million for climate resilience and moved tribes from their homelands and put them in places where they are at the greatest risk. and we include money for drought relief because they are at the greatest risk of thirst because of the droughts that will be caused. $2.3 billion for the indian health service and help us address the backlog. 1993, we started setting out the list of indian health services, building that needed repairs and we still have a 1993 list that we have not met and i am proud that we are addressing our native americans. i will now like to recognize my colleague in the congressional progressive konk cuss, the wonderful woman from massachusetts, fierce and proud representative pressley. ms. pressley: and thank you to my colleague for convening us this evening. i rise today on behalf of the communities in my district and across our nation who for too long have been asked to wait. for those who have had justice delayed time and again by obstruction or the status quo. i rise today because i support the worker and their family. caregivers and child care workers, parents and essential front line workers, our environmental and injustice communities and immigrant neighbors. for months we held the line to ensure that we have no family or new community behind so we can the strongest investments for our most marginalized and to improve the conditions and impact their daily lives. this week, the house has the opportunity and the rockets to legislate justice and rebuild a stronger more just nation that takes care of its people. not because it's the politic. i will let the pundits speak for that. we have a mandate from the people to deliver policies and budgets that value their lives and the livelihoods of everyone in our communities. that means passing the president's full agenda, which is the people's agenda. i represent the massachusetts 7th district, one of the most unequal in the district and commonwealth. life expectancy drops from 92 years to 59 years in roxbury. where child care costs remain some of the highest, 21,000 a child for center-based care and the rising of asthma, and sea-level rise impacts chinaatown, east boston and i see it every day. these inequities are not naturally occurring. they are the direct result of decades of precise and intentional policy violence that have been codified into our laws and budgets for generations. in this moment, as we do the work to build back better and do so equitably, we must be precise in legislating and in healing. that's why we can't leave any worker or family or community. the build back better is our chance to chart a new path forward and reverse policy violence inflicted on our most vulnerable and make universal paid leave for this, black and brown women who have been pushed. and making a choice to care for themselves or a sick loved ones and can't make enough to take care of their own to invest in home and community-based services for the elderly, to finally make affordable child care and universal health care and finally honor our promises to our immigrant neighbors, these investments are possible. they are popular and they are necessary. we can wait no more. there is no deficit of resource in this country, only deficit of empathy and political courage. we must pass it this week and make the investments that our families and communities have been denied. our nation is in crisis. how we meet this moment will have lasting impacts and history will remember us for it. thank you. leg leg thank you, representative pressley. this reference to how history will judge us is important because we are facing a historical moment right now. and the decisions we make on the floor of this house this week will determine whether our future is one that is inclusive and that includes every single family and community in this great union of the united states or whether it continues to lead -- leave people behind. and right now, those who are being left behind include the vast majority of americans and what we are doing with this legislation is creating the kind of opportunity, the creating the kind of jobs so that everybody can come forward and thrive. the fact that we are focusing on the build back better is the women's agenda because the women have to drop out of the work force to care for their children because it wasn't enough child care available, or, it is too expensive. almost 21% of the women in new mexico dropped out of the workforce because they could not afford childcare. build back better is going to address that. it will make sure that no family pays more than 7% of their income on childcare. that's the kind of agenda that every family wants, because they want to make sure that their children are cared for and are either in a great childcare center or are in that pre-k that is so essential so that they can succeed later in life. we know that the science has showed us that if you have quality pre-k for your 3-year-old, for your 4-year-old, you are going to have a successful life. you are going to earn more in your income. you are going to graduate from high school. you're going to earn additional degrees. it's going to be better, so we are taking the investments today that we will recoup the benefits 12 years from now, 18 years from now. and that is believing in our future. we are investing what we believe in. i also want to take a moment to address the fact that this bill is fully paid for. so when anybody ever says that it is going to increase our deficit, it's not true what they say, because this bill is fully paid for. it's paid for by making sure that tax cheats don't get to cheat anymore. we are' going to invest in the i.r.s. so that they can audit and go after tax cheats. who wants to defend tax cheats? do you really want to be defending tax cheats? i hope not. because everybody should pay their fair share. we are going to make sure that nobody earning less than $400,000 a year pays any more in taxes. indeed, this is one of the biggest tax cuts that we are doing for regular people. not like the tax cut they passed in 2017, which benefited only the wealthy and the corporations. this tax cut is a benefit to our working families, to our middle-class families. the child tax cut is available to all now. everybody who is receiving that $300 per child payment every month, that is going to continue because of the american rescue plan and because of build back better. so if anybody says it's going to add to the debt, know that they are not speaking the truth. the other thing that build back better does is it's the biggest impact on addressing and combating climate change in american history. anybody who's lived through this summer, through last winter, the storms, the climate disasters knows that it is not a hoax, as some have argued. climate de insider -- deniers say that. we know it will cost us billions and trillions of dollars if we do not act. if my beautiful new mexico, if we do not act to combat the climate crisis, we will become an extension of the desert. i love the mountain stream. i love the snowfalls that fall on our ski resorts and our mountains and trickles down to our rivers and provides us with the water we need for our farms and our fields and to quench our thirst. i love that snow. if we do not address the climate crisis, we will not see it in winters to am co. we may not -- winters to come. i am glad we're fighting against the climate croix cisin the build back better -- climate crisis in the build back better bill. it also protects our communities from the dangerous methane that is spewed into the air. we know that methane is many times, 35 times more dangerous to our climate than carbon. and so plugging up those orphaned wells that oil and gas companies have abandoned, and they're spewing methane into the air right now. i visited one with our labor secretary. it was right next door to a school. that methane that leaks from that abandoned and dirty well is breathed into the lungs of our students. so the infrastructure bill will help clean it up. but the build back better bill will say, we don't want this to happen over and over again. so the build back better says, you can't walk away -- oil and gas companies, you can't walk away from those wells and leave for the taxpayers to clean them up. we include -- we ask the interior department to strengthen the bonding requirements so that the bonds cover the cost of cleaning them up. we also establish an -- a way that the oil and gas companies don't allow these wells sit unattended. if you are not going to be pumping from the well, close it down. don't just let it spew methane into the air. i also helped secured $240 million for just transition investment fund, to create new economic opportunities in our energy communities. new mexico relies on oil and gas for jobs and tax revenues. i am acutely aware of the benefits that this industry has brought to our state. but i am also acutely aware of the need to transition in a way that honors our communities and our workers who have worked in this industry, who have fueled our economy. we now need a transition to renewable energy and to a clean energy economy, but in that transition, we cannot leave any worker behind. and so the build back better includes money to invest in those communities so we can see new businesses arise. and it also includes money to invest in the workers so that if they need to gain new skills that we are there for them, that our community colleges are there for them, that our apprenticeships are there for them. but many of the skills that we need, like cleaning up the orphaned wells, are the same skills you would use in the industry itself. so we are going to be creating good-paying jobs, and we're making sure in the build back better plan that those jobs are union if they want to be. we are making sure that we prioritize the jobs that pay well and that treat their workers well. we also are investing in a civilian climate car. i am very proud to have had my first job in the conservation corps, the youth conservation corps. it taught me that cleaning and protecting our environment is hard work. i went out there with my boots and my shovel and my pick ax and we helped create trails and we helped clean up those trails. it taught me about work ethic, but it also taught me about the importance of caring for the land that we love. the civilian climate corps will do the same but it will grow it. i have met with those who are engaged, like the rocky mountain youth corps. i give a shout out to the rocky mountain youth corps because they are there managing our forests, working to protect our forests and earning their degrees, earning -- starting new businesses coming from that experience in the climate corps, in the rocky mountain youth corps, and we are going to be investing in thousands and thousands of jobs for young people who will be able to go on and secure education if that's what they want or start a business if that's what they want from the skills that they will have learned from the climate corps. we also are going to be strengthening domestic manufacturing and the supply chains for critical goods, because it is only when you address the root cause of the problems, which is our supply chains, we want to bring back manufacturing to this continent, to this country. and there are those who talk about it the same way they talked for years about infrastructure week. it doesn't help if all you do is talk about. what you need to do is deliver. and in the infrastructure plan, we are delivering to bring back the jobs that are needed to build those bridges. we are building that infrastructure. we are delivering because democrats deliver. and in build back better, we are going to be delivering the jobs of the future. we are going to be delivering the investments in manufacturing. we are going to be delivering the investments our consumers can realize the benefits so they are paid more. and can really have the respect that comes along with the job that has the kinds of benefits you need. we are going to be delivering prescription drug price negotiation. we are going to be delivering the lowering of health care costs. because for too long, we have had those who would stand for big pharma instead of for those who need insulin, those who need humera, those who need the kinds of drugs that make their life bearable, those who need the kinds of drugs that allow them to survive. and what we are doing in build back better is making sure that we can negotiate to reduce those drug prices. that is something that we know americans want. and so when we do not get a single republican vote for lowering drug prices, remember that, that republicans were unwilling to vote to lower drug prices, because that's what this bill does. that republicans were unwilling to vote for infrastructure, because that's what the infrastructure plan did. i am asking, however, that we receive those votes, that we receive bipartisan support for the kinds of investments that we are going to be doing for our people. i would like to take the time now to recognize an amazing colleague in the congressional progressive caucus, an amazing colleague from the equality caucus who has fought for the rights of all americans. he's fought tore the equality -- he's fought for the equality act. he's one of the drafters of the equality act. so i'd like to recognize my wonderful colleague, the gentleman from rhode island, mr. cicilline. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i appreciate the opportunity to speak about the president's vision for really investing in working families in this country and doing it in a way, particularly after covid, the economy is rebuilt so that everyone has opportunities and that not only people at the top realize their full potential and reap all the benefits but that everyone in this country can benefit from the economic recovery that the president has articulated in the build back better. you know, this -- i've been in congress now 11 years. i don't know we have ever had a better example of what leadership from the president means in terms of understanding that the best way to grow the economy is to invest in working families, to invest in middle-class families by making sure they can access all of the opportunities that exists in this country. and what are those struggles? affordable childcare, universal pre-k, job training, lowering prescription drug costs, lowering the cost of health care. all of the many -- you know, when the president made his address to the joint session of congress, what struck me in that speech is that president biden identified virtually every single struggle i hear from my constituents in rhode island. the high cost of prescription drugs. the high cost of health care. the high cost of childcare. the inability to access pre-k. difficulty retraining because of the absence of job training programs. it's as if the president put together everything i've heard that folks struggle with every day in this country and he drafted it to include those in the build back better provisions. so when you take the bipartisan infrastructure bill along with the build back better legislation, which we're about to pass, we're going to create 1.5 million jobs a year for a decade. and that's extraordinary. these are good-paying union jobs. we are going to for the first time take on the climate crisis. we are going to drive down costs everything from prescription drugs to childcare to health care, and the best part of it is, it's paid for by making sure the wealthiest people in this country and the most profitable corporations pay their fair share. my constituents pay their fair share. they expect everyone to do the same. and so we have this extraordinary investment in working families that are going to give people an opportunity, move so many of the obstacles that allow folks to return to the workforce, particularly women, women who are devastated by the pandemic, particularly devastated. and so if we did the bipartisan infrastructure bill alone, a lot of that economic recovery would escape women in this country. and the build back better provisions are going to ensure many of those obstacles that prevent women from re-entering the workforce are addressed so that our economy can realize the full benefit of the extraordinary talent of women in the this economic recovery we are craving for tay that economic recovery is going to reach everyone in this country and begin for working-class families. i'm excited and feel to be part of congress this moment and thank the president for his leadership in developing a plan to rebuild the middle class and address some of the challenges. and i thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak and look forward to the passage of build back better for families in my state. leg leg i love when the president said we are going to rebuild this economy from the bottom up and he is focused on giving us the opportunities my constituents as well. my constituents, there could not be two states than rhode island and new mexico. but these are the same things that we hear in new mexico. and we are addressing those in the build back better and i can't be more exrieted as a freshman to be able to be here on the floor of the house and vote for the american rescue plan. the american rescue plan saved our economy and saved families from homelessness and lowered hunger. it addressed the pandemic by giving us a vaccine. the second step was the infrastructure bill. and we talked about how last thanks giving, last thanks giving we were apart. this year, we are together. but the infrastructure bill, that is about repairing our infrastructure which has been too long ignored and ignored and the last one, build back better and work on these things that will be benefiting my grandchildren and their grandchildren and leave them in this beautiful place we call home intact. and with that, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: t he chair recognizes mr. keller for 30 minutes. mr. kelly: i ask -- mr. keller: that members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the greatest threat that this pandemic has imposed is growing government control over their lives. a stalled supply chain, plodding inflation require immediate attention. the biden administration is not addressing any of these issues. and impose a crushing vaccine mandate that will affect 80 million americans and decimate our work force. we have had enough with president biden's tone-deaf mandates. i was joined by 50 republican senators in interviewing a congressional review act to nullify president biden's vaccine mandate on america's workers and businesses. this is illegal and i'm joined by my colleagues to explain why we need to stop this. with that, i yield one minute to the gentlelady from illinois, mismary miller. >> it is great to finish with this speaking order. the fifth circuit blocking osha's covid mandate, this is a huge win for the american people and biden and the far left aren't go to go give up. this vaccine mandate would destroy what is left of our economy. we are forcing people to quit their jobs with unconstitutional mandates from an out of control federal government. this mandate is causing people to be less safe by making firefighters, police officers, border patrol and nurses to choose between the jab or the job. if u.s. military members are discharged, china and our beneficiaries stand to be the beneficiaries. natural immunity is ignored because it doesn't have a lobbyift. we cannot sit by to ignore the personal health. americans have the right to the pursuit of happiness and we will not bow to king biden and his constitutional edic tmp. mr. keller: i yield to tracyman. mr. mann: i rise with you and calls to talk about this. president biden has circumvented and possessing vaccine mandates on employees, health care workers and private businesses with more than 100 employees. they are forcing americans. and today, they are out of a job. congress will review and take up legislation to stop vaccine mandates to prohibit osha. anyone who wants to receive a vaccine and that is a personal health care decision and not a mandate and i'm disappointed by his policies. i will continue to push against these overreaching mandates. with that, i yield back. mr. keller: i now yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, congressman rick allen. mr. allen: thank you for leading this important effort. as i said since day one, folks should consult with their doctor and get the vaccine if they are able. but instead of allowing local health care providers to instill confidence in the vaccine, the biden administration is choosing a top-down government mandate which does not work and never works. workers across the country are facing the choice to get vaccinated or lose their job. this is the apit me of government overreach. and this mandate is unconstitutional and i will watch it moving through the courts. and it is our duty to fight this legislatively and that is why it is important to and nullify this rule. i'm proud to fight for over 80 million workers who will be impacted by ensuring this rule has no force or effect. with that, i thank you and yield back. mr. keller: i thank my friend from georgia and i take the opportunity to recognize my colleague from wisconsin, congressman grothman. mr. grothman: i'm sure -- my office has received many calls from people objecting to the osha rules related to employees. doctors and nurses and other employees who have good reasons not to take the vaccine. whether their doctors told them don't take it because you have too many anticipate bodies or doctors hotel their patients you better not take the vaccine, your cancer is in remission and again and again and again, it appalls me that dr. biden decides to weigh in and knows what is better for these people not to mention there are plenty of things on the internet which may be true indicating that some people, very articulate people believe the vaccine is not for you. it is such a gross grab of power to think you can tell other people what you have to do with your own body. i hope america stands up and says no to this hatred and arrogance. mr. keller: thank you for those words. i now yield a minute to my good friend from oklahoma, congressman kevin heroin. mr. hern: i -- hern. mr. hern: president biden is characterizing his agenda build back better. it should be build back broke. our supply strain and our inflation is out of control and our friends across the aisle refuse to recognize that. at the heart, and a few commonsense measures would address these measures and bring an end to the crisis that president biden chose to vaccinate workers forcing small businesses to either fire workers or face large fines. osha announced it will suspend enforcement of biden's unconstitutional mandate after being blocked by the fifth circuit court. biden knew it would not be held up in court. further their allegiance to the socialist mob rather than to the constitution of these great united states. to every american who raised your voice up and stood up to the gross overreach, this victory is for you. i stand in opposition to this government overreach and i yield back. mr. keller: i yield one minute to my colleague, buddy carter from georgia. mr. carter: i rise in opposition of the president's unconstitutional vaccine mandate and suspended the vaccine mandate in response to the circuit court's mandate. the only reason this happened because republicans and the people demanded that our rights be protected and use the power given to us to defend those rights and we can't stop now. if it is about public health, why do a third of physicians disagree with them? why do they not take effect january. why are we looking at vaccine status and not natural immunity. washington democrats are trying to control you. democrat leaders can't follow their own rules and expectations and gather and party with no masks and expect their constituents to wear masks at gatherings or not gather at all. president biden, hypocrisy is not a viable covid-19 mitigation strategy. i yield back. mr. keller: i thank the gentleman from georgia. and i yield to the gentleman from alabama. >> thank you to my colleague, mr. keller. madam speaker, i rise to oppose president biden's unconstitutional vaccine mandates on our businesses. i believe this vaccine is effective, that's why i took it and reason my family has taken it. but i strongly believe that getting a vaccine should be a personal choice and not a mandated choice. the federal government has no right to mandate the vaccine on job creators or workers who are trying to struggle from this pandemic and get our supply chain working properly back again. the last thing they need is more government rules and regulations and that is all we are seeing out of this administration. the american people are fed up with government overreach in our lives. and i stand with so many of my colleagues to interviews this resolution which would officially strike down president biden's illegal, illegal vaccine mandate on our businesses. we will continue to fight back against president biden's war on american workers and i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand with us and i yield back. mr. keller: i yield to my good friend and colleague, congressman tim walberg. mr. walberg: today, we are here to take a stand against president biden's unconstitutional vaccine mandate on private businesses and their employees. by invoking the congressional review act, we're taking an important step to protect the liberties of millions of americans in the workforce. and more importantly, to protect american ideals and the freedoms we expect. in his first year as president, president biden has led a lackluster economic recovery, plagued by supply chain backlogs and workforce shortages. his mandate will only worsen issues within the workforce as millions could face termination. wrongly. and unnecessary. i've heard from many constituents concerned about their livelihoods, small businesses concerned about keeping their doors open, rural health care providers concerned about meeting staffing demands and even staying in business. while i am encouraged to see the early court rulings on this issue and osha's step to back up a little bit today, congress mustn't stand on the sidelines. i'd like to thank my colleague from pennsylvania for his leadership introducing this legislation, and i'm proud to be a co-sponsor. we've had enough top-down mandates, and i yield back. mr. keller: i thank the gentleman from michigan. i yield to a great mentor, an outstanding person, my good friend, the gentlelady from virginia -- from north carolina -- excuse me -- virginia foxx. ms. foxx: well, i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank him for leading this special order tonight. the biden administration's unprecedented osha vaccine mandate is a massive power grab. this national dictate was recently found likely to be unlawful by the fifth circuit, and it stretches the power of the federal government beyond recognition. requiring employers to be the vaccine and testing police and telling them who they can and cannot employ is a bridge too far. further, this mandate will crush businesses with exorbitant costs while exacerbating the worker shortage. why would the biden administration make this crisis worse? it's clear that the biden administration is using this pandemic as an excuse to inflate the power of the federal government as far as possible. that is what we must resist. to get our economy back on track, we don't need more crippling mandates and regulations. we need to support workers and job creators. i yield back to the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. keller: i thank the gentlelady. and i now yield to my friend and colleague from tennessee, congressman tim burchett. mr. burchett: thank you, representative keller. thank you for your better than lackluster handling of this event tonight. it's much appreciated. for the past several weeks i've been coming down here, madam speaker, to make the point over and over again that joe biden's vaccine mandate is ridiculous and unconstitutional. many of my colleagues have done the same. we all agree that no american should lose their job for deciding not to take the coronavirus vaccine. today, our efforts paid off. biden's occupational safety and health administration announced just a few hours ago that it is suspending plans to mandate a vaccine on large employers. the bureaucrats saw the writing on the law and a court -- joe biden and his administration will try again to punish americans who decide not to take the shot. as a matter of fact, they're even advising some to disregard the court order. i appreciate you, representative keller, for leading this effort to overturn biden's vaccine mandate. it's good to know we have this legislative measure ready to go if biden launches another attack on unvaccinated americans. many americans still have questions about the coronavirus vaccine, madam speaker. they should have the freedom to make the choice that's right for them without government threatening their jobs. our country is a symbol of personal liberty and freedom. a government vaccine mandate is out of touch with these values. we have a responsibility to preserve our nation's values and protect our constituents from extreme government overreach. thank you, representative keller. and i yield the remainder of my time. mr. keller: i thank the gentleman. nice job. i yield to the good gentleman from texas. >> thank you to my colleague from pennsylvania. i rise to shed light on the outrageous vaccine mandate that's devastating the lives of americans, including those that i represent. everywhere i go in my district, i hear from workers across all sectors who are facing the prospect of being fired. why? simply because joe biden and the white house think they know better, that they have a different medical decision than the powers that be in the white house? mr. pfluger: a soon to be mother who doesn't want to take the vaccine until after she gives birth is facing termination. the countless health care workers who have sacrificed so much for the last year and a half-plus to save the lives of all of us, to be there, to serve us, and now they are facing termination. a married couple recently moved to san angelo during the pandemic in search of freedom and personal liberty that texas so desperately promises the rest of the country. the husband, a border patrol agent, faces termination due to president biden's egregious federal overreach. this is about control. this vaccine mandate is another example of democrats' belief that the government should control every aspect of our lives. america, wake up. the message is the same, that the president thinks he knows better for you than you know for yourself. we must strike down biden's unconstitutional vaccine mandate now. and i yield back. mr. keller: i thank you very much for those remarks. i now yield to the gentleman from utah, blake moore. mr. moore: i thank my colleague from pennsylvania. madam speaker, today i stand in opposition to president biden's vaccine mandate on business. business issued by the occupational safety and health administration, or osha. the fifth circuit court of appeals confirmed the biden administration is severely misusing his power. while osha's delegated authority was intended to be used with precision intact, president biden has wielded it carelessly. just yesterday, in keeping with the fifth circuit's ruling, osha itself suspended implementation of this mandate. even so, my colleagues and i in congress know we, too, must fight against this mandate. the covid-19 vaccines are miracles of modern medicine and have saved lives and quickened and ended -- in ending the pandemic. my family has embraced it. i'm comfortable with my parents having used this to live a more outward life. but we cannot forget that america is founded upon principles enshrined in our constitution that protect an individual's ability to make their own decisions. when i swore to uphold the constitution, i promised to fight against efforts to undermine these rights, and i stand by that oath today. i urge support for this c.r.a., and i yield back. mr. keller: i thank you for -- i yield to my good friend and colleague from the state of kansas, congressman ron estes. mr. eszterhaus: -- mr. estes: following the biden administration's overreaching vaccine mandates, hundreds of kansans have shared their concerns with me about how this will affect their jobs, livelihoods and families. one vaccinated individual wrote saying, i would love for people to be vaccinated. mandating a vaccination and even worse, making employers be the enforcers is yet another example of the government pushing more onto the plate of managers. some near retirement. some who have continued to work faithfully in person each day through the pandemic, especially our first responders and health care workers. yet, they're being demoted or forced to retire or resign because they've made some personal health care choices. one teacher wrote, my doctor and i discussed the vaccine and deemed it would not be good for me to get it. madam speaker, these kansans aren't anti-vaccine. they just don't believe that the federal government should be forcing them and their neighbors to make a health care decision or lose a job. my colleagues and i are utilizing the congressional review act to attempt to strike down one of these mandates, hopefully putting an end to this overreach by the administration and the federal government. with that i yield back. mr. keller: i thank the good gentleman from kansas. and i now yield to my fellow pennsylvanian, good friend, congressman lloyd smucker. mr. smucker: i'd like to thank mr. keller for your leadership on this issue. wonderful colleague from pennsylvania introduced the congressional review act, and i rise today in strong support of this act, which would block president biden's misguided and frankly, i think, unconstitutional mandate. so thank you for your efforts. i'm very, very happy to be able to support that. you know, i'll say, first, that i think the u.s., and what we'd accomplish in developing a vaccine through operation warp speed, was a remarkable achievement of science and of system in our country that develops the best medical system, the best drugs from across the world. and to be able to do that in the amount of time that it was done and to manufacture those drugs in a large scale is nothing short of amazing. and personally for myself, my family, you know, we've discussed this with our doctor. we got the vaccine early on when it became available,nd i've -- and i've encouraged pennsylvanians to speak with their own doctors and make their own decisions about the direction they want to take. and many pennsylvanians have. i think, mr. keller knows this as well, we are now at over 70% of our commonwealth vaccinated. which begs the question for me -- whatever happened to herd immunity? whatever happened? every one of us were in the room early on during this vaccine when we heard from dr. fauci and heard from other experts who talked about herd immunity. they were talking about herd immunity being achieved when about 730 -- 70% or even less when covid was not as fatal as originally feared, 70%. at that point we could do away with government mandates. many of that were unnecessary in the first place, by the way. but we could reopen the economy and could control covid. 70%. we're there. but nobody's talking about it anymore. c.d.c. doesn't talk about it. this administration doesn't talk about it. what happened? and so i agree there's got to be something else going on, and other speakers tonight talked about it. there's got to be something more. and i fear it's control. it's control that people want. i think we should trust the science. i think we should listen to your medical professionals. certainly shouldn't be government top-down mandates. you know, i hear from employers every day who are worried that this mandate will further harm their ability to hire and retrain staff. they are already having a lot of problems due to some of the policies of this administration. but this will make it a lot worse. and i also hear from employees every day that are worried that this mandate may threaten their jobs and may threaten their livelihoods. i have been heartened that over half of states have sued the administration to reverse this mandate, and i've also joined with my republican colleagues from pennsylvania to call on our attorney general in our state to join that litigation. so i stand ready to oppose this mandate, do everything that i can to block this and any vaccine mandates that this white house puts forth. so thank you, mr. keller, for your leadership. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. mr. keller: i thank the gentleman from pennsylvania. and i now get to yield to my good friend from california, congressman doug lamalfa. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. keller, for doing this tonight. what do we have? the biden administration has been trying to keep their fingerprints off of it for a long time. they've been trying to let others do their dirty work, the airlines, the hospitals, forcing these vaccines on these people. why is that? they don't want their fingerprints on it. so now they're getting impatient, you say. it's not the role of the federal government, by jen psaki. now they don't care. they're pushing forward. so the fifth circuit came in and said, you are going to over to get osha to do the dirty work for you. they said it was staggeringly overbroad. they told them take no steps to implement or enforce the mandate until further court order. raises serious constitutional questions. likely exceeds the federal government's authority. so they stepped out of line and they've been slapped back. it's amazing because the people on the frontlines, year and a half, our nurses, doctors, and others that are called the essential employees have been playing good ball. now they're being told, oh, that's not good enough anymore. you can't have your job anymore unless you take the vaccine. personal decisions. you want undo a vaccine when you -- once you've had it taken. so the aggressiveness of this administration towards people's personal decisions is just amazingly overboard. i'm pleased we're doing this congressional review act to nullify osha's mandate that's been at least for a while set aside by the fifth court and hopefully joined across the street by the supreme court. mr. keller, thank you for the time. mr. keller: i appreciate that from the gentleman from california and all of the members that stood here today. i thank i thank my colleagues in the house and senate for standing with the american people in opposition to this blatant overreach by president biden. our congressional review act resolution puts every member of congress on record. you're either for this blatant government overreach and control, or you're against it. you're either with this kind of control, or you're with the american people. i tell you right now, my colleagues who spoke here today, the people helping with this congressional review act, my colleagues in the senate, we're with the people for which we work. we're with the american people saying, they know best. it is not the government that runs things here in america. it is we the people. we stand with the people in opposing this overreach by the biden administration. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities twharyd president and to direct their remarks to the chair. under the speaker's announced pl spoifl january 4, 2021, the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. newman, for 30 minutes. ms. newman: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of my special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. newman: thank you. madam speaker, i rise today on behalf of the transgender americans who must fight every day for the right to live as their authentic self. this saturday, november 20, marks transgender day of remembrance, a day to honor the memory they have transgender and nonbinary people whose lives were lost this year in acts of violence. tomorrow, i am proudly joining my colleagues and fellow transgender equality task force co-chairs representative paramilla jayapal and jennifer wexton, to formally introduce a resolution to nationally commemorate this very somber annual observance. at least 375 transgender or nonbinary individuals across the globe have been killed this year. 375. in our nation alone, it break misheart to say that so far this year, the human rights campaign has reported at least 46 transgender or gender-non-conforming people killed by violent means. we say at least because we believe this number is actually much higher. due to the unfortunate prevalence of underreporting or misreporting violence against this community. they were friends, family, loved ones, parents. and they were taken far too soon. we must honor their memory with a commitment to fight anti-trans-hate and violence anywhere it exists and it is with this commitment that i now read the names of each of these americans into the congressional record. may their memory serve as a call to action for all of us. taianna alexander. samuel edmond damien balanchine. bianca muffin banks. domonique jackson. sydney dan. alexis braxton. china co-ray io. jeffrey j.j. brights. jasmine kennedy. jenna franks. diamond kyrie sanders. rianna pardo. jada peterson. domonique luscious. remy fenls. tiara banks. natalie moot. tiffany thomas. kerry washington. jahira gialto. whispering wind bear spirit. sophie vasquez. danika "danny" hanson. serenity hollis. oliver "oleie" taylor. thomas harden. poe black. e.j. boykin. adeline evans. taya ashton. shy vanderpump. tiara marie lewis. ms. koko. hugh johnson. desia mo nee briana hamilton. cartier. mel grove. royal poet call stars. zoella rose martinez. joe acker. jesse hart. jenny delay lyon. may we honor their memory today and every day. thank you, madam speaker, i will now yield to my colleague from the great state of rhode island, the chair of the cob gretional lgbtq +equality caucus, representative david cicilline. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and for leading us in this special order hour and for saying out loud the names of the individuals who we have lost. i'm proud today to rise in recognition of transgender day of remembrance which we will mark this saturday, november 20, and in remembrance of the transgender and gender nonconforming people whose lives were take then year. 5 # years ago in the early morning hours of june 28, 1969, new york city police raided the stonewall inn, a popular gay bar in greenwich village. it had become a refuge and well known gathering place for lgbtqi+ villagers. tired of the harass. , patrons began clashing with police on the street. this is not the first time lgbtq+ people fought back. this sparked an uprising over the next sick days and changed lgbtq plns activism in the united states and the world. at the forefront of this uprising were transgender and nongender conforming people like marsha p. jackson, p standing for pay it no mind, something she'd often say to people questioning her gender. they are too often left out of the movement, especially transgender women of color like marsha, and sylvia rivera and griffin gracey. they continued to be the back bone of the civil rights movement. ms. major continues to fight against the incarceration rates of transgender people. tragically this year at least 46 transgender or jonder nonconforming people have been killed by gunshot or other means in our community. 2021 has been the deadliest year on record for transgender and gender nonconforming people. the deadliest year on record for trans and gender nonconforming people. this particularly affects transgender women of color. who make up more than three quarters of the recorded 46 violent deaths this year. these deaths are horrific and we must act to end this violence. the right to live freely without fear of persecution or discrimination is one that every person needs and deserves. the equality act adds sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes ensuring that the transgender community would have the same protections as everybody else. i'm so proud we passed that out of the house and it's awaiting action in the senate. the 2021 transgender day of remembrance house resolution of which i'm a proud co-sponsor commemorates november 20, 2021, as a day of remembrance and memorializes those lives lost at the hands of anti-transgender violence in the united states and around the world i have urge my colleagues to support this resolution. now is the time to show solidarity with the lgbtq community. they bear the front of violence, abuse and even death. it cannot continue, we must not let it continue. as we remember the names of the transgender individuals that gave their life for this cause, we honor their legacy by continuing the fight to ensure that all people regardless of gender and gender identity are treated equally and justly in this country. the forces working against progress are strong but we are stronger. i want to thank congresswoman newman for being one of the co-dhiefers transtask force of the equality caucus dpr the good work in developing this resolution and leading this special order hour tonight. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and i yield back. ms. newman: thank you, congressman cicilline who is an amazing champion for the equality act and all things lgbtqi. another great colleague, i'd like to yield to my colleague from the great state of california, also a co-chair of the congressional lgbtq-plus equality caucus and chairman of the house veterans affairs committee where he champions legislation to serve our lgbtq+ veterans, mark takano. mr. takano: thank you for yielding, congresswoman newman. what a great honor it is to be here today and under such somber circumstances. madam speaker, i am here today, i rise today in recognition of transgender day of remembrance and transgender awareness week. it is with a heavy heart that i recognize that thb ha -- this has been the deadliest year on record for our transgender sisters, brothers and siblings. i want to share with you the names of three individuals that we lost in my home state of california. i grieve with the families, loved ones and communities that lost these young peopler far too early for no reason other than hate. reyanna parham, age 26, was a beloved daughter and sister living in east los angeles who left behind a family and community that loved her deeply. she was lost in march of this year. natalya smut, age 24, a celebrated drag artist from california. she gave captivating performances and had a courageous and creative spirit and was described by -- described by those who knew her as a jewel in her community. she was lost in april. po black also known as oliver jackson and legion was an indigenous transmasculine and two-spirit activist and artist. he was a tireless advocate, he used his special media plat tomorrow to support various social justice causes, include big documenting his transition to educate and inspire his followers. he was lost in may. each of these young people leaves behind a network of family, friends, and a community upon whom they have made an indelible impression. i join their communities in honoring their light and legacy and share in the grief that they were taken from the people that love them. it is in remembrance of these three individuals that i say this. transgender week of awareness cannot only be about awareness. it also must be about action. we cannot pretend that the rhetoric heard here in this chamber and in state houses across the country does not have a direct impact on the lives of transgender people. this year we have seen the introduction of over 100 anti-transbills in state legislatures, whipping up a moral panic around the identities of adults and targeting children. the dehumanizing debates over whether an individual should have control of their own body, whether they should be allowed to compete on the athletic field, whether they even exist, these arguments all connect directly to the types of attacks that killed reyanna, natalya, po black, and more. it is not enough oto only recognize the deaf stating statistics. we must also make policy decisions that recognize transgender people for who they are. who are they? they're loved ones, community member, family members, individuals who add depth and richtons our society and are defined by far more than statistics, hatred, or bigotry. so this transgender day remember those who were lost by making noise. raise your choice against the persistent and dangerous misinformation about transgender identity. raise your voice in celebration of loved ones, friends, family and community members who are transgender. raise your voice to support the next generation of transgender and nonbinary young people so that they may recognize the bright beauty and joy in their identity rather than living in fear or shame. we cannot bring those that have been lost back to their loved ones. but we can play a role in ensuring that other friends, families, and communities do not have to suffer a loss like reyanna, natalya, and po black's communities did. i call on my colleagues this year to turn awareness into action because making policy that censors the safety, equity and proses pros perty for transgender people should not be an effort that lasts only a week. but it should be all year round and throughout the rest of our lives. so thank you, thank you, my friend, and i yield back. ms. newman: thank you, congressman takano and thank you for your leadership. i now yield to my friend from the commonwealth of massachusetts, a champion of lgbtq+ rights and whose intersectional approach to all her work is inspirational, representative pressley. ms. pressley: i rise in remembrance of transgender day of remembrance. rita was murdered in austin, a neighborhood in my district, the massachusetts seventh. in response to this horrific tragedy, this day was created to memorialize the loss of her life and far too many others due to transphobic violence. this is something we should confront and root out wherever it exists. whether in music or on television or in the hallowed halls of the nation's capitol, there is no place for hatred because someone is brave enough to show up exactly as they are. and to live their truth. yet, in 2021, we have seen at least 46 transgender or gender nonconforming people killed. we have been robbed at least 46 souls, disproportionately black and latinx transwomen and people and they are the ones properly reported. on the floor of congress we say their names. tianna alexander, samuel edmond, damian valentine, dominique jackson, 50 bands, alexis braxton, china core ilia -- corilla, jenna franks, diamond kyrie sanders, are r -- rayanna, dominique lucius, remi, tiara banks, natalie, iris santos, tiffany thomas, kerri washington, whispering wind bear spirit, sophie vazquez, danika, serenity, oliver taylor, thomas harden, po black, e.j. boykin, adaline evans, tya ashton, shy vaneder pump -- vanderpump, ms. cocoa, poo johnson, desia, briana, mel goes, royal political stars, zoe rose martinez, joe acker, jesse hart, ricky atamoro, markisha lawrence, and jihara de -- dealto who was murdered in my district. jihara, a friend, a mother, an activist, who spoke out when rita hester was killed. as a survivor of domestic violence, she advocated for gender affirming shelters and with kindness in her heart opened her home to queer and trans people with nowhere to go. her compassion will forever be her legacy, alongside her legendary status from the ballroom community for serving everyday realness. while we grieve the loss of loved ones, neighbors, and colleagues, we must hold space to celebrate their life. and the differences they make in ours. transgender people are community organizers, military soldiers, justice seekers that put their bodies on the line, domestically and abroad to fight for a safe and equitable society. they are artists and healers and entertainers that nurture our soul and spread joy wherever they go. and most importantly, transgender people are beacons of hope and pillars of courage. serving as living testaments of what it means to be unapologetically you. while transphobia seeks to erase these myths, we must affirm the dignity of every men of the trans community so i rise to recognize transgender day remembrance and work for justice and equity for all people, including my transgender siblings in the movement, our destinies are tied. i yield back. ms. newman: thank you very much, congresswoman presley, and thank you for all your -- pressley, and thank you for all your great work. i will now yield to my colleague from the great state of california, the proud sister to a trans brother and gender nonconforming sibling, representative jacobs. ms. jacobs: well, thank you, congresswoman newman. thank you to the equality caucus for organizing this special order. as you mentioned, i am the proud sister of a trans brother and a gender nonconforming sibling. i am also the proud representative of hill crest, the heart of san diego's lgbtq ploys community. -- lgbtq-plus community. every time we hear about another trans person being murdered, i think about my siblings and my constituents and my heart breaks, because this epidemic of violence has gone on for too long. they have been ignored, disrespected. whether they're trying to access health care, trying to find housing, or even when they're trying to go about their daily lives, our trans neighbors and friends face dis-cris name, harass -- discrimination, harassment and lack of resources. even in this body, we have colleagues actively working to prevent equality for the trans community who continue to misgender and dehumanize our trans friends and family. who want to continue denying them the support they need and who are trying to keep them on the margins of our society. and this receipt recognize and this anti-trans legislation making their way through the country has real-world consequences. with the recent news of marquisha lawrence in south carolina, 2021 became the deadliest year for trans and nonbinary people. at least 45 trans people have been killed and it is at least because when trans people are killed, their details are miss reported. not only are their lives being taken from them, their authentic identity, who they really were and fought so hard to be is also being erased. we must continue to say the names of people like po black and natalia who were killed this year in california. their lives are a reminder we must continue to fight for trans equality, especially for transwomen of -- trans women of color. as important as it is to celebrate the lives of the trans people who are taken from us, we also need to celebrate trans people when they're still alive. so this transgender awareness week, let us commit to uplifting trans people when they're still here, not only after they're gone. so to the trans community, i honor your strength and resilience. i will continue to make your voices heard in the halls of congress, and i will continue to advocate for the support you have been denied for far too long. and to any young person who's watching, know this. you are perfect. you are loved. and you are needed in this world exactly the way you are. and i will be here every day fighting for you. thank you. i yield back. ms. newman: thank you, congresswoman jacobs, for your kind remarks. we have one more speaker this evening, madam speaker. we have representative al green, an lgbtq ally, and i will yield to him now. mr. green: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentlelady as well. and still i rise, madam speaker, as a proud ally of the transgender community. and i rise tonight with a special message. this message means a lot to me because i truly believe that the pledge is correct. we pledge of allegiance to a flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, with liberty and justice for all. all cannot exclude the trans community. all has to include the trans babies, the children in texas who are having to suffer through debates about what they can do athletically. all has to include people who lose their lives simply because they're being who they are. i rise with the message of, i am with you, i am your ally, and i live today to live to see the day that trans women will not have to live in fear of dying because of who they are. and trans children can grow up and simply be children in this country where we pledge liberty and justice for all. i thank you and i yield back. ms. newman: thank you, congressman green. and you are absolutely right, all is all, and love is love. that concludes our special order hour. i want to thank each of my colleagues this evening for their participation and, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for 30 minutes. mr. green: thank you, madam speaker. and still i rise. and i rise on this occasion to bring to the attention of this house h.res. 746, the original national domestic violence awareness month resolution of 2021. h.res. 746 expresses support for national domestic violence awareness month, and that congress should continue to raise awareness of this issue. this resolution has 60 -- 160 original co-sponsors, including 18 republicans. it is a bipartisan resolution. and i'm honored to say that the lead co-sponsor from louisiana, mr. garrett graves, is a person that has been very helpful in helping to get this resolution presented and get signatures of persons who would be supportive. domestic violence is of more prolific a problem than many realize. domestic violence is a problem that too often is concealed. many people don't report the fact that they're being abused. people are locked in. they find themselves having to live with abuse because the abuse is being perpetrated by someone that they love, someone that they care for but someone that does not care as much for them. nearly one in three college women say they have been in an abusive dating relationship. 92% of homeless women experience severe physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lifetimes. a 2020 survey by the national network to end domestic violence reported that 76,525 violence victims were served by domestic violence shelters and programs around the nation in a single day. and additionally, 11,047 requests for services went unmet. went unmet because of a lack of resources. we have to do more to help the victims of domestic violence. congress can do more to help the victims of domestic violence. congress should do more to help the victims of domestic violence. domestic violence impacts individuals of any gender. one in four women, one in seven men ages 18 and older will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. women ages 18 to 34 experience the highest rate per capita of intimate partner violence. domestic violence iment pacts -- impacts individuals of any race. african-american women experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white women. and about two times, 2.5 times the rate of women of other races. 21% to 51% of asian-pacific islander women report domestic violence, physical assault, sexual assault or both, during their lifetime. 37.1% of latinx females are victimized by intimate partner violence in a lifetime. one in three native american women will be raped, and six in 10 will be physically assaulted in their lifetime. domestic violence affects women of any sexual orient action. 61% of bisexual women. 43% of lesbian women, 37.3% of bisexual men and 27.4% of homosexual men experience violence in their lifetime. too often children are affected by domestic violence or sexual assault. one in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to such violence. children exposed to domestic violence are more likely to attempt suicide. abuse drugs. and alcohol. run away from home. and become victims of human trafficking. our children are suffering. those who witness these acts of domestic violence need help. we need to provide more counseling for children. even when this tragedy occurs, it is shameful for children to have to witness it but more tragic than that, when children themselveses are victimized they have to carry that memory with them far lifetime. one in 10 district of columbia high school students reported experiencing physical violence from a dating partner in the past year. half of youth who have been victims of both dating violence and rape attempt suicide. compared to 12.5% of nonabused girls and 5.4% of nonabused boys. one large study found that men exposed to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and adult domestic violence as children were almost four times more likely than other men to have perpetrated domestic violence as adults. the point to be made is, those who suffer from domestic violence and abuse are likely to perpetrate domestic violence and abuse. not all. but a good many. there's a need for primary schools, secondary schools, and postsecondary schools to educate students about the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking. education is the means by which many can avoid becoming victims. we must do more to educate our young. the term domestic violence is often inadequate because it fails to capture the full extent of the impact that the event can have on a victim's life. the average cost of intimate partner violence over a victim's lifetime for medical and mental health care services is about $103,000 plus. that's for women. and $23,000 plus for men. the term domestic violence also fails to capture how in some instances, domestic violence literally means domestic murder. because on average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or their boyfriends in the united states every day. most murdered transgender women are killed by intimate partners. however, in spite of all of this, there is hope. survivors of domestic violence are strong, courageous, and resilient but they need help. surviving the physical and mental abuse requires more than simply relocating. many times, counseling is needed. the strength that they have is something that we can admire but that strength can be fortified if they can have proper counseling so that they can get the assistance that they need not only to stabilize themselves mentally, but also to understand that they are not the reason for the violence being perpetrated upon them. too often, the victims believe that they are responsible for the actions of the persons who are abusing them. they need help. this is what we can do. we can help to make sure people understand that victims are not responsible for what perpetrators do. a recently released multistate study shows that the nation's domestic violence shelters are addressing victims' urgent and long-term needs and are helping victims protect themselves and their children. domestic violence advocates provide life-saving essential services. there's a need to increase, there's a need to increase, not reduce, funding for programs aimed at intervening in and preventing domestic violence in the united states. so therefore i'm so proud tonight to say that we should resolve that the goals and ideals of domestic violence awareness month are important. that these goals and ideals should be pursued. that this house of representatives can do more to help the victims of domestic violence. i would also add that this resolution expressing -- expresses the sense of the house of representatives that congress should continue to raise awareness of domestic violence and its devastating effects on individuals, families, communities, and support programs designed to end domestic violence in the united states. madam speaker, people ought not have to live in fear. because they happen to be in an abusive relationship. yes, people can take their issues to the police, women can. but too often they have to debate within themselves the consequences of going to the police. the authorities. because they understand many of them, that they have no other place to turn to. but thank god that this congress has provided enough money for shelters so that many can leave the environment where the abuse is being perpetrated. this is a serious issue that we should all be concerned with. if we allow the perpetration and perpetuation of domestic violence to continue, it does not bode well for the fiber and fabric of our country. this is a great country. and a great country can protect people who are being abused in their own homes. madam speaker, i'm grateful for the time and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to section 11-b of house resolution 188, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. next, debate over censuring representative

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