Of your calls on state of the union, 8 00 is when our coverage starts, you can watch the speech at 9 00, you can watch it on cspan, at cspan. Org, and the app. We now take you to the house of re the chair lays befor the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk , d. C. March 7024. I hereby appoint the honorable Michael Guest to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the spear proemre sentatives. Pursuanto thehe housef january 9, 2024, t chair will now recognize members from lists submitt by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour will alternate cognition between the parties with time equally allocated betwn the parties and each member other than the majorit and minority lears and the minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue past 11 50 mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speer, rise today to recognize andonatulate muel hundz burge huurger. He recently accepted a fully quified appointment to the unitedtes military academy in west point, new york. Samuel is the son of melissa and larry hundsburger and i the grandson of hundsburgers. As a student at keystone junior senior high school, william active on the clasoom, in the athlec field and on theta. Hes a memr of the student govement, a threeyear vsity football plar and member of ef school, samls a voluntrirefight for township companies id like to congratulate samuel for his commitment to service luck a he embarks on this exciting new pse of life at west mr. Speaker, i rise tod to recognize and congratulate eric clark of howard, pennsylvania. Ic recently aepted a fully the unedtates Naval Academy i annapolis, myland. Hes the son o amy and benjamin clark, hes the grandson of erie hes a out of the classroom. Football and wrestling team. Eric is a strong leader. He also senior class president and is aember of the naonal honor society. Eric has a clear passion for service and is a great examplee. Best wishes in annapolis,ric. I look forward seeing allha you achieve. Mr. Speaker, i rise today t recognize and cgratulate je sterling of milont, pennsylvania. Jude accepted a fully qualified appointment to thenited States Air Force academy in colorado spris, colorado. Jude is a senior at the meadow brook chrisanon of jason andnn and the grandson of shiey andujary and harry and kathy and carl. Jude is an active memr of the Civil Air Patrol where he has serv in a variety of leadership positio. s also a student pilot and a member of t Cross Country and trac and field team. Hisommitmt to service is an inspiration to us all. I confident that judes perience in and t ofhe classroom will serve him wel as he looksorward to thi exciting new phase of le. Jude, thank you for your commitment to ouration and st of luck in colorado spris. Mr. Speaker, it was an hor to name nate t men, the to nominat these young men. Their dedication to servingur country is inspirational and look forward to seeg their successes in the years come. Thank youmr. And ain, and to all of them, thank you all again for their commitment to the nation and than you, mr. Speaker, and i yield back the ban of my time. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a century ago, a ilosopher wrote that those who cannot remember the pas are condemd to repeat today in america, we are faced with ts very dilemma. We have seen attems by the ultraconservates to rewrite histornd cater to those uncoortable wit an evolving world, uncomfortable with our countrys oginal sin. In theseas longe a matter of forgetfness, but a deliberate effort to ignore the past o alter it touit their own political gain. If we aow this alternateo take hold, aree not doomed in a pursu of a more Perfect Union . Its parof the the maga movement. This movement rejects the ide that history is complex and the process casts asi efforts■l■i reon with it. Former president tru and h follers pfer to simplify things for an audience afraidf a changin wor. And in so doi, trump and his loyal followers refuse to accept the existence of complexitie st trump soictions in our shared stawrchgly defded staunchly defended robert e. Lee. History, butause leea grasp on repren vision of the past some would lim toecla. Theydather paint vision of our story unsullied bym, suppssn of womens rights or vience against indigenous people. Evenhe defition of patriotism has been corpted. But patrim realities of our wrongs. Its abo recognizing them and vowi, never again. Tryingo make things better. But ts approach fails to coexist with the magagend weve seen othseat replacent tht a whi supremacist conspiracy theory, but a goal of the democratic power. Sadly, this battle is ao■r in you o educational institutions. Governor in r stes have implented civic standar that whitewash history rather than providing students with a full derstanding of our nations founding. One prominent governor defend his states africanamerican historyurriculum standards, claingome enslavinged people developed skills that could, quote, be applied for their benefit. Our nations messy histd our prent flaws dont serve the maga goals and certainly dont empower them. They would rather rewrite the past than change the future. Because if they accept the truth, that would be reeling wishing pow relinquishing power. After all its power and the desire to retain it thaa[ drives this movement. Donald trump lying to his followers authe results of the 2020 election was aut holding onto power. To suggest enslavinged People Potential enslaved people pontially befited from slavery is about power, eve suggesting that its immigrants0t power. This stokes fear, division and violence. It also suggests to our allies an our adversaries that we cannot be accountle for our wrongs. We must show that we stand with the truth, not denialism. That we dont accep lies an was stolen, that we dont accept lies sgeing that black people benefited fm slavery, recoizing that these lies have consequences. Today we are witnessing at t wrongful rewriting of history ca lea to. Vladimir putinonnues to falsely claim russia in an attempt to jusfy his war. We may fee as tugh Something Like this, the deliberate brain washinof the puban never happen here. Well, i can and i is. We cannot allow this revisionist history to continue spreading s. Not onl f how the wor perceives us, but for our pursuitf a more pfect union. We must recognize t darker sides of the past and teach our childrenhat recognitionsot a criticism, it is a lesson. If we are to maintai a on reality in our history, we must start at t local level especially in our schls. We must ensure our children are taught the truth about we must keep working to uphold the truth at all costs, regardless of how agrable it is. This is notn affront to our history or our values, it is a promiseo build a better tomorrow. Thank you and i yield back. The spear pro tempore the chair wou remind members to refrain from engaging in onitiesoward prempti chair now e gentleman from calornia, mr. Malfa, for five minut. Mr. Lamalfa thk you, mr speaker. M going to speak to you again, once again, about our atmosphe, climate and, most specifically, about caulker docks carbon dxide, which has been weaponed in the argunt around here with vernment agencies against the people as a tl, thi, to more take the economy and people persol property. Carbon dioxide,ll remind you, is. 04of atmosphere. Oxygen, 21 . Trace gases other than that,. 03 . Gon is much bigr in our yet you would think with the its t e of orld. Np slowly, everything around hereas to be run through a co2 filter, a Climate Change filter. And its much to the detrint of our economynd theorld. Now, most recently the securiti and Exchange Commsion has adopted rules on theire are going t have to start disclosing their climate impt of how they operate their business. Climate impact. Accoting for your coo[etart production and report tt to a federal entity. Now, this is pretty ch going connected to a certain size of business and what have you. So small suppliers to a larger corporation that are caught in account for that. Will have to say you have ingredientshatt are placed into a larger for Food Products that you buy from maybe a larger conglomerate. But theres alsndividual small growers. Say a carrot farmer. Say a bean farmer. Disclose his Co Production on his farm becse he might be selling to a larger entity at is caught in the sre of the s. E. C. . Wheroes this all end . How much tim does an indidual like that haved impas going to be,their co2 espeally since its only. 04 of our and theres much debate about what amounof the co2 is caused b hum activity. Some s, oh, its 50 . Otherselve its a very al tiny pcentage, like maybe 3 . So, thes tho tt want to say, well, the scice is settled. Merely because they want to move on and take control over so many aspectsf our ecomy. So wha are some of the issues that weve seen outgr that . We havehas kno e. S. G. , environmental social and governance. Now,he country of sri lanka just a few short years ago decided to adopt and try and meet the e. S. Goals. Much to the great harm of their economy. It almostollapsed, good portions o whole country onhat to try and adopt e. S. Gmp goals. And e. S. G. Goals. So on the environmental side ofd farmers to go to oanic materials for pesticides. What immtely happened . Rice yields in the cntry dropped 2. The price of rice went up 50 for consumerse saw that that bla great big hole in the agcono in that country. Having to do bailouts to keep those farmers afloat until they caugh their senses a abandoned those e. S. Gmptoals e. S. G. Goals. Theyre also an important tea exporter which caused their exports to fal and the had millions of dollars on that as well. So economy collaed by trying to meet some arbitrary outsiders tha have this ideastic, elite whim of what peoplehoul be doing, instead what have actually wks. So i run this a by you here, the biden admintrationas been causing this kind ofarm on ourwn economy in this country. The foc of every agey seems to be cmate, climate, climate. All the tim becae ofiny increase in co2. Co2 is a rounding error in t overall atmospheric chart here. And t increase minute. So how mh you blame on human activity versus what migh be hapning with other naturall occurring isss . ■t what do we have . Our economys being outclassed by chi and others in the cic rim that can produce at will and theyre the much pollue of co2. So do you want to have a situation where we can actually have a bette reasonable regulations on how things are produced in this country . Or do we want to export it to china and places like that that . What were going to hear tonight, the president s going to b in this room. Hes probably going to talk a whole bunch autlimatend instead, why doesnt he foc on something that could have immediate help fo the devastating things going o a our border i this■ w country . Eighsteps he could take with a swing of a pen to clean up our border problems th are i yield back. The speaker pr tempore the chair now recnizes the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Tla m speaker, im from motown whereur mic has changedhe world in manyorever. But artists in my district and across our coury are struggli to make ends et in a an industry where the money shareholders. Itouldak more than 800,000 streams per month to make equivalent of 15 at the vast majority the vast majoty of our artists are on platforms like apple music, p spotify. One of the things that even for em they never ever get to 800,000 strea in a year. Big de. Streaming now represents 84 of recorded music industrys renuin the United States. But most of the artts brg y to our lives and culture aret seeing any of it. The living wage for musicians ac wch i introduced with represenowman, would change that by creating a new fund that aims to p artists at ast one pny p seam. The bill would completely refm theupporting much more diverse set of artists, enablg more recding and tourg, and send ago Ripple Effect throughout c ripple efft throught local economies. I truly encoure my colleagues to learn more about this. ■ cosponsored bill and help chan artists lives forever. Our community i deeply sadonned by the loss of chef max hardy, detroit nativeho was a trail hunger. In his advocacy to end he was the enowner of a Rosedale Park bistro. Thene chef ken 8600 undation a nonofit organization that fights agnst hunger and raiseswareness about foo insecurity. The New York Times named hardy one of 16 black chefs changing food in america in chef max also cowrote the majerle coffee cookbook with rohanajerle, bob ms son, and featured on the food network. He was a champion, champion inspiring young people in detrt, teachg the fundamentals of connc on behalf of the 12th congressional district, we send our le and condolences to he trulyill b missed. I want to recognize the remarkable work of the detroit resc Mission Ministries as they celrated 115th Year Anniversary of service to our residents. For over a century detroit resc mission has been a beacon of hope providing food, shelt, services to those in our mmunity that areost vulnerable deoit rescue mission s by davidn february 14, 1909. The Mission Began as a soup kitchenith a mission to for our mouse vulnerabl residents in the city of detroit rescue have word tirelessly to rebuild huneds of thousands of livesestroyed by addiction, homelessness, and. Im so greful f the work of the detro rescue mission for their incredible leadership in g forwd to witnessing a they will continue to accomplish in thank you. Toome. The speaker pr tpore he chair recognizes the gentleman from the gre state of ksas, mr. Mann, for five minutes. Mr. Mann th. Speaker, i rise today to discuss the cengest americs facing and identify ways we can resto order in this country. S in this very chao address the nation. Im hopefule wil sak to the real issues before us and detail w he plans to work with hou republican to get america back on track the southern border, inflation and our National Debt and weaponization the federal governmentee his immediate attention. Since last yr, House Republicans have passed legislationft legislation to secu our sthern border, spending, and endhe weonization of the federal government. We passed h. 2 to finh the prott Human Trafficking and terminate catch and release. Office, there have been more th 8. 5 million illegal crossing almost three times population of kansas, including known criminals and teortsn tha st. Just last month nation was horrified by the brutal mder of laken riley by an illegal migrant. Despite the states, failed liberal policies allowed him to sta here and an innocent young man from georgia pai the price. And witnse the crisis hen border created, he shod work with House Republicanso sece our southernorder. We passed legislation to lit future government spending, reclaim 20 billion of unaccounted for covid dollars. While the white house ss inflation is cooling, those o us in middle arica still feel the weht of washington spending problem. Our National Debt is surpassed 34 trillion. Diesel is well over 3. 60 gallon i kansas. Ericansaychecks are grossly overtaxed. And washington democrats prend the president has a no limit credit card. Thiss no way t ger fisc sanity, and h should work with House Republicans. We passed leglaon that ends the weaponization of theederal government. We are wki to hold t u. S. Department of justice accotae to applying stice equally, and pushing the u. S. E. P. To fully implement u. S. Supreme courta. s wats of the ue is uncstitutional. Were working to reduce the mber of executive orders that the Bide Administration uses to enfo are standin for the unborn. And finng a radical fighting a radicalgenda that provides funding for life is a right fromod not the government that. Right deserves to be protected. Prident biden should work with House Republicans to end the weonization ofhe feder government once and for all i hop thapresiden biden will also discuss how h will work with us to enact a strong farm bill thatl antistrengthen crop iurance, incentivize agriculturalra opportunies, promoteglobal food secity, supports agricultural research, and reflects the needs o the american farmer, ranchers, and Agricultural Producers who work to feed, fuel, and clothe the rld. I hope hell addre the importance of our cntrys energy independence, fight against china, and the strong second amendment. The list goes on andn. When the president joinss here tonight, he has the to share with kansans and mr. Speaker, im optimisc our greast daysre yet to ce. Those days require us to get thank y, mr. Speaker. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlema from california, mr. Garcia, for five minutes. Mr. Garcia mr. Speaker, i ask unanous consent to vise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without republicans have finally deced to have nter biden testify in publ on tirham impeachment now, the American People wl soon see what we allaw behind closed doors. At there is zerovi of anyrongdog by president bid who had no busine dealings. Of hunters absolutely none. And wellontinue to cl out these lies. Lets tak a look at the star wiesses that the house jorias brought forward in thisolitical stunt impeach impeachment. Alexander an indied asset. Indicted for lying and wki another who turnedut to be a spfor china■u and sold weons toran. D a third, right now, servi a 14year sentence in prison for frau u canthis stuff up. We rently learned about another disgrace krised conma who includedith the trump colluded with the trump campaign. Witnesses of the republican mority. And ofourse, we shouldnt forget Rudy Giuliani and his grand conspiracy theories which all the House Majority is left with. The g. O. P. Insists on impoaching president bin at wver the cost all impeaching president bide at whatever the cost to lponald trump reelected. Donald trump was impeached twice felony charges andesces 91 desperate for revenge. If there is anyonee should be investiging, its the trump c