Im from vermont. I would love to hear the president address healthnc■ in general. And why its needed for everybody. And things like that. Those are important because we all need somewhere to live and we all need care at some point. I think thats important to address. Watch the state of the Union Address. Live, thursday, at 8 p. M. Eastern. Now, our free mobile video app, or online at cspan. Org. On the eve of the state of the Union Address, House Speaker mike johnson described things as in decline because of the Biden Administration. Hes joined by other republican colleagues at this nearly 30minute news conference. ■e■ ms. Stefanik thank you for coming this morning. The American People have spoken. They made clear what we have known for months. President donald j. Trump is our republican numberree and will be the 47th president of the united states. His America First agenda secure our borders, made america alwaye needs of the American People first. That is not the state of the union we will hear from joe biden this week. Because the American People deeply understand under joe bidens failed presidency, the state of the union is in crisis. And this is a crisis of joe bidens making. As Ronald Reagan famously asked us, are you better off today than you the answer for hard working americans across the country is no. Whether the cattropc border crisis ravaging our nation and leading to tragic loss lf life, bidenflation or our most precious israel as joe biden has failed america and the American People. And what will be his final state of the union, joe biden and the white house will desperately try to pass the buck, blame congress anirkility in a desperate attempt to reis set his abysmal presidency. It wont work bus the American People are smart. There is no reset button and the democrats stenographers in thein forced to acknowledge that he has a failed record and falling in freefall. Ill host a guest joe bidens state of the union in crisis whether Border Patrol officers t loved ones due to joe bidens dangerous open border policy. Will talk about these issues as we prepare to hear from joe biden and one of members who knows is from virginias 2nd congressional district. Thank you for being here to listen to our. I represent virginias 2nd congressional district. I flipped one of the toughest seats. We ran off of Kitchen Table issues. I mom and i yield joe biden to answer tomorrow. I worry every day the debt we are inheriting and buy a new car or new house and pay off their credit card bills and put food on the table. Joe biden has taken away. And economic csi instead of taking the American Dream away including my own children. I want him to address these issues and other and dads care about their financial future. I worry about my kids safety and i worry when they are me, w, when they are out with their friends, in college and alone. He has made our communities less safe. I visited the border twice and have to put restron and stark rise in Violent Crimes just in our own communities. He has jeopardized our childrens safety and National Security. We have increase in chinese nationals and people on the terror watch list. I want him to respond to talk about safety of my children and children of all. As a former navy pilot, navy spouse and navy mom, i am concerned. It keeps me up at night. He has put my kids at risk but our military men and women by being weak on the world stage. We see what is happening and uke seeing increased aggression aggression. We know the world is involved in the chaos and war and that is due to joe bidens weak leadership. Joe biden country looks weak one world stage and i need him to respond not just with political rhetoric and empty lies but what the actual facts what he has done and what he is going to do and keep my children safe. I will beat night like so many moms and dads will be. I hope our concerns are answered. I would like to introduce mike from new york. Thank you for being here this morning. Laken riley was released in my home state. Why . Because states like new york embrace sanctuary. Governors like the governor of and threaten the very lives of our neighbors because of their failure to confront a crisis of their making. Tomorrow, i will welcome two upstate county sheriffs from the state of new york. Last night there were pundits on National Television that American Families know and understand that the crisis at our border is undermining notl t community and Public Safety, communities like those tay i represent and families like i live with and among know firsthand not only the pain and struggle that has been caused because of openorders and decisions of this president but because every day and every way policies out of this administration and out of states like new york continue to undermine Public Safety and the ability of Law Enforcement to provide for it. Tomorrow, those county sheriffs will stand in the halls of congress hoping that a president will acknowledge the crisis he created. Atheart of it. President biden not only has surrendered our southern border to cteed in an effort to mass relocate Illegal Immigrants across the country making every state in border state but more importantly threatening those very individual lives and lives of communities across this country. Tomorrow the president could repeal his executive orders that have fueled, emboldened worse this crisis. Governor hochul could end sanctuary policy. If they cared, they would. We are hopeful that the voice of the American People that chose to laugh at lastard by this and embolden members of the House Republican conference and Public Safety and closing in securing our border. I would like to introduce my fr. This morning, as a guy who served in the military in combat operations that deterred china from sending deadly fentanyl to our shores and struck out at cartels inside mexico, we face a very different world. Nearly eight million illegals entering in my country and bluet that we turned red, this is not a republican or democrat issue, but a National Security issue. And at the state of the union, let me be very clear, my guests will be the kidd■n family and their shore enshrine that everyone is facing, threats children. Their son see best tan was on the wrestling team, played golf anloved his friends and adored his parents and dealing with anxiety and a friend offered him percocet and it was laced with fentanyl. They have tried to save the lives of other families across america with their heroic work. As i vieted them to join me at the state of the union, that family asked the question that so Many Americans are asking, if red our border, would my son be alive today . The reality is we now have three years where choices were made in this white house that threaten the lives of families across america, whether it be a Nursing Student in georgia or Molly Tibbets in my hometown of iowa. Have nder siege. A particular salute for our Law Enforcement, i35, where Law Enforcement seized 30,000 fentanyl pills. Lets be very clear, pills produced ande china shipped to cartels in mexico that showed up on american shores. This is simply a weamed. The number one weapons of mass destruction. Th president comes forward, we need more than rhetoric. We need a plan. We need the type of leadership that action, life saving measures to protect our country from the International Threat at our own southern border. Mr. President , if you address nation think of the kidd family and think of how to save and ace country by doing the right thing today. No one is stronger than our own. Mr. Emmer according to reports, joe biden and his allies are billing it as big public reset moment. The American People are going to see whatever through scripted biden ends up reading off the teleprompter. The facts are quite clear. Joe biden has failed on every single issue. Our state of the union has been dwiepped by unprecedented chaos thanks to this administrations failed policies and its th American People who have been left to suffer as a result. Americans elected our House Republican majority the first chance they were given to counteract joe bidens agenda. On the economy, it was joe bidens doubledigit inflation, historic Interest Rates and bang collapses. House republicans lowered costs for families and put us on a path towards fiscal responsibility. On theouthern7s border, joe biden has refused to undo his 64 executive actions that created this in the place. Republicans pasted historic legislation reforms asylums catd release and restore remain in mexico which our customs and border would stop illegal aliens. On Foreign Policy it is joe bidens weakness and empowered on our adversaries. In stark contrast, houseicans re house policies emboldening iran, refocus our military on wning combat wars, not the democrats culture wars and unapoll getically supportingeed much moa quote reset moment out of this administration. It is time for new leadership and to make their voices heard at the ballot box this november. Until then we have to continue to do our part to combat his failed policies and hold this white house accountable. I turn it over to our leader, steve scalise. Mr. Scalise thank you, whip. Rrn the same chamber where joe biden will be giving his state of the Union Address, the taking up the laken riley act and debating and passing a bill to confront anher biden himselfa crisis that has had devastating impacts on families. I commend representatives collins and loudermilk working with lakens family who are devastated at the loss of their daughter. A tragedy that was created because joe biden opened the southern border and every community in america is seeing crime, murders, devastation at the hands of people coming here illegally and doing harm to our citins. I have seen it in my own back yard in louisiana, where a 14yearold girl was raped by someone here illegally because the southern border. How many more families will have to suffer before joe biden admits his mtake and creates what he did. We passed a bill. This house came together and passed h. R. 2 a bill that would secure our border and worked with our Border Patrol agents and others. Everyone knows what needs to happen. Jo biden went to the border he had he could have ended catch and release and worked to restore the remain in mexico policy that was so effective under President Trump. A negotiated agreement. Takes a little work to call a foreign leader and doing everything to protect your country but thats joe bidens job and he is failing on every front. He could do it with a pen and he says Congress Needs to act. He should ask the senate to pass h. R. 2, a bill that would actually solve the problem, not make it worse as we have seen in some of the other bills floating around the senate. Joe biden could do it on his own is he going to look into the eyes of laken rileys family and say he is in his power to stop this invasion. Millions of people, people on the terror coming in, he opened the border and he can close the border but he refuses to do when you look at the crisis, economic crisis, energy crisis, Foreign Policy crisis, your allies on fire and enemies are nations and talks about a reset, is it more empty rhetoric or is joe biden going to work with republics to solve these problems. We stand ready just like we will be passing the laken riley act, this house has acted and worked on solutions to fix those problems and the leader at the forefront of that effort is our johnson. Mr. Johnson i thank you for being here. The speaker i thank this of res who are here to highlight a lot of these important things. I want to summarize what has tomorrow the American People are going to hear from President Biden about the state of the union and i have been asked, if you had to describe in one word what you believe the state of the union is, you have heard the crisis, you heard catastrophe. I think m of decline and i say that with Great Sadness and because of this president and this administration that we are in our economic strength is in decline. Every day goods are more expensive. People can barely afford the cost of living, groceries and gasoline. Home ownership is out of reach. And u. S. Household debt is at alltime high. American sorchtd in decline. The southern border is a total catastrophe. Traffickers and cartels have taken control. Fentanyl poisoning is killing our children. While he opened the border with his reckless executive actions and 64 that he has taken to open that border. We learned last week he never one time spoke to the chief of the border patl. Unconscionable. Innocent americans from laken riley to the 14yearold rape victim in our home state of louisiana, have all been victimized that the Biden Administration has released in our country. He is releasing them into your state. Every state is a border state. Carjackings are up. Tea tax against Law Enforcement are rising. 600,000 known criminal aliens roaming, free to reoffend. The actual number is much higher and thats the official number that we know about. Some believe there may be as many 15 million illegals since joe biden walked into the oval office. Americas presence is on decline. Iran, russia, china, our actinge have unres. The president is turning his back on our greatest ally. And bidens botch withdrawal from afghanistan our stature has been diminished that is difficult to calculate. Presiden biden is going to try to suggest that the state of the union is strong and expect he is going to say this is aime the state of the union is not strong and everyone knows it. Doesnt matter what Political Party you are in or where you lean in. You know this country is not in good shape because of its leadership in the white house. President biden is the least popular president in modern history. America is in decline. And noing he says tomorrow night is going to change that. House republicans will continue to fight to hold biden and his administration accountable. That is our constitutional duty and responsibility and we will fulfill it and committed to saving this republic and that will november when American People let their voices be heard. [indiscernible] what would you say is the state of the republican process . The speaker republican conference is encouraged and strong and we have a weekly gathering of all the republicans and we know that for example on the appropriations bill, the Government Spending we are not going to get everything we want. We want to cut spending and limit the size and scope of the federal government. But we have divided government, we have a twovote majority, one of the smallest. Only control of onethird of the federal government. But in spite of that, we have an appropriations package that is going to cut nondefense, and going to increase defense spending at this time around the globe. Those are priorities we have advanced and advanced cuts to some of the agencies that we believe are overreachingeen turs against the American People. Cut 3 from d. O. J. And 10 from the e. P. A. That is a start. We have a lot more priorities we need to advance. We have to grow the house majority, take back the senate and win the white house and im here to tell you the reason we arethings are going to happen. [indiscernible] the speaker we committed to do 12 separate Appropriations Bills and the reason it has been difficult is because washington has no muscle memory on how to do that. Statutory law requires congress to work in a manner 1974 budget control act spells out a timetable that ends by latemmere with the spending bills well in advance of september 30. Congress hasnt done that in a long time. Since i have been in Congress Last seven years we ruled by omnibus. Congress would kick the the road and on the eve of christmas, the senate would send to the house a massivending bill that spent 2 trillion and 4,000 pages and no one has time to read and we said thats not the way to run government. It takes a long time to turn an aircraft carrier. We are forcing reforms force congress back into the statutory mode and the way in which it is supposed to work. That means 12 separate appropriation bills. I want to remind everybody that all occurred before the speaker the speaker thank you, scott perry. We are working very hard to bend that backwards and cant turn an aircraft carrier. We put into the New Invention that scott perry helped to make this work and move that deadline because it takes a long time to get this done. It is a long process and long overdue. We are very happy now we are at the point we can move be our at5 to push this back into the mode in the regular order and procedure. I think that is goodbye the american taxpayers and look forward to moving that [indiscernible] the speake results la