Host joining us for this conversation, the chair on border communication. Thank you for joining us. Another addition washington and washington journal comes your way at 7 00 in the morning. The house will be in order. Washington dc, september 20, 2002 only two. September 20, 2022. Present to the order of the house january 10, 2022. The chairman will now record will now recognize between the party with time equally allocated. Other than the majority in minority leaders. Limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from indiana for five minutes. Mr. Speaker i rise today to honor Corporal Kelsey lanehart. Corporal lanehart was one of the u. S. Servicemembers injured in the kabul bombings in afghanistan. Though she spent many weeks in the hospital, our brave young marine from dear born Dearborn County never lost hope. This august corporal lanehart participated in the chicago paratriatholon and finished fifth. So, madam speaker, id like to honor Corporal Kelsey lanehart today for her strength in recovery and her bravery and diligence during her difficult time. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to honor and recognize the late peter mcdaniel. His legacy will live on in the community and lives he touched. After serving his country for four years in the marine corps, mr. Mcdaniels served his community in many capacities, including 22 years with the richmond Fire Department. Peter mcdaniels was not just a public servant, but also a son, husband, father, and grand grandfather. His selflessness and dedication will serve as an example and legacy to uphold. We are proud to honor his life today. Mr. Speaker, this summer our pride and excitement rose as we beheld the events of this years Little League world series. Indianas home hagerstown in the indiana sixth district represented the Great Lakes Region in this years games. Indiana has celebrated this team from the beginning and we couldnt be prouder for their success. Mr. Speaker, id like to simply say thank you to these Outstanding Young hoosiers who took their hagertown team to the 2022 Little League world series. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to call on the speaker of the house to end proxy voting once and for all. Just this sunday President Joe Biden took to prime Time Television to declare the covid19 pandemic over. Thank god. In any other job in america if you dont show up you get fired. I could proudly say today that i never once proxy voted. Its not fair to our constituents who send us here to be their voice or to the taxpayers whose hardearned dollars were supposed to be responsible stewards off to not show up here. We all know why proxy voting keeps getting extended, so the majority leadership can control its members and limit the effectiveness of this peoples house. Mr. Speaker, i submit a letter stating its time to end proxy voting, return to regular order, and get back to the work on behalf of the American People. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Garcia, for five minutes. Ms. Garcia mr. Speaker, i rise today to celebrate and recognize the goodpaying jobs that will be created by the historic investments democrats have recently made in america. What investments you may ask . Well, let me tell you, mr. Speaker, the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and jobs act, and the chips act chips and science act. These are three laws that will power America Forward by creating jobs, jobs, and, yes, betterpaying jobs. Since President Biden took office in january, 2021, over 9. 4 million jobs have been created. Ill repeat that. 9. 4 million jobs. If we look closely at the numbers and reports of these three new laws, we get a preview of how many more jobs will be created under President Bidens leadership. First, the Inflation Reduction Act. This bill has the power to create nine million new jobs over the next decade, nearly one million jobs each year. Five million of these jobs will likely be new, Clean Energy Jobs across america. Second, the Infrastructure Investment jobs act, this act will add two million new jobs per year over the next decade. And third, the chips and science act will create more than one Million Construction jobs over the next six years to build Americas Semiconductor factories. All these laws were to create goodpaying, Union Construction jobs for plumbers, electrical workers, steel workers, laborers, electricians, and the other trades in the for working people. These are the types of jobs that residents across my district, texas 29, and millions of americans across our nation proudly work to help keep their families together, to feed their children, and to look to the future. These are the kinds of jobs that power america in its economic engine. House democrats and President Biden understand that growing the middle class means creating bert paying better paying jobs right here in our country. Thats why we passed these monumental laws. Under the leadership of President Biden who is the most proworker, prounion president in American History we have also invested hundreds of millions of dollars in registered apresent tisships and preapprenticeships to provide new opportunities for working people to get goodpaying union jobs. President biden knows its not only about providing opportunities for americans today, but its also about planning for tomorrows generation of workers and having a better life for our children. Im proud President Biden is building a better america for generations to come by putting people over politics. Sadly as House Democrats and the president are working to create better paying jobs, the republicans are job killers. They oppose this legislation because they are only focused on controlling women and their bodies. Democrats trust women. So while republicans are focused on their own power, House Democrats and President Biden remain laser focused, laser focused on producing results for the American People. And democrats are delivering bigtime. Thank you, madam speaker mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Work Force Development programs are spreading across the country because of organizations like be pro, be proud. In march of 2016, be pro, be proud was launched by the Arkansas Chamber of commerce and the associated industries of arkansas to serve foot teur leaders of americas fork future leaders of americas work force more effectively. Thanks to be pro, be proud more young people know they can find a goodpaying job and have a successful career without going to college. They have learned that there are alternatives to a baccalaureate degree, alternatives that can produce equal, if not better, outcomes. In june of this year, i had the privilege of traveling to arkansas and attending the national be pro, be proud conference alongside representative french hill and senator john boozman. The progress that has been achieved today by this organization is remarkable. And in the realm of Work Force Development, its gains are second to none. In february of this year, officials in North Carolina signed a contract that established a be pro, be proud Pilot Program within the state. This is wonderful news indeed. As you can probably tell, mr. Speaker, this is truly a stateled effort that is a model to other states and becoming a national movement. And one that is a force to be reckoned with. States need to know that the power is in their hands to implement strong and effective Work Force Development programs. They need to know that they, in fact, are in the drivers seat. Thank you to everyone who has worked so diligently to make be pro, be proud what it is today. The work youre doing will go on to leave a positive impact on americas future leaders for generations to come. Mr. Speaker, its no wonder the American People believe that washington is out of touch. Last week President Biden held an event on the white house lawn to celebrate the socalled quote, Inflation Reduction Act, end quote. He took a victory lap in front of the entire country alongside his allies on live television. But do you know who was not celebrating with President Biden . Hardworking taxpayers and their families who are being pum by the president s pummeled by the president s inflation catastrophe and inflation tax. That same day new numbers were released showing that inflation continues to surge. Mr. Speaker, President Biden couldnt read a room if he tried. The rising cost of goods and services will cost the average American Household over 700 a month. When added up, thats over 8,000 that theyll be forced to fork out in a year. Grocery prices are up 13. 5 . Food prices are up 11. 4 since last year. This is the largest oneyear increase in prices since 1979. Mr. Speaker, anyone who believes that these numbers are worth celebrating needs a serious reality check. The biden administrations fiscal irresponsibility put us in this mess and come november republicans will be the ones to fix it. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for five minutes. Mr. Green thank you, mr. Speaker. And still i rise, mr. Speaker. And still i rise. Mr. Speaker, a monumental motif of american juris preudens is the basic premise that no one is above the law. Doesnt matter your station in life. Doesnt matter whether you are the president of the United States, doesnt matter how much money you have, 2340 one no one is above the law. I would also remind us, mr. Speaker, that there is a compelling corollary to this premise and it is that no one is beneath the law. Above the law, yes. But no one is beneath the law. Doesnt matter how poor you are. Doesnt matter what kind of job you have. Whether are you a janitor. Doesnt matter whether you are a sanitation worker. Doesnt matter. Youre not beneath the law in this country. Even if you are an asylee coming here from another country, you are not beneath the law. Im so proud, mr. Im so proud mr. Speaker, mr. Speaker, to announce to my colleagues that the d. C. Council will vote on a migrant bill today. Seems on tuesday there would be an emergency bill to establish an office of Migrant Services for the thousands who are being brought here by the governors of texas and florida. These persons in washington, d. C. , they are doing the righteous thing. Theyre trying to help lawful asylees as they traverse their destiny. The governors of florida and texas, they would have derailed the underground railroad. They would have been the persons who were out looking those who a were out seeking freedom. Im proud of the mayor of washington, d. C. I dont know the efficacy of the program but at least theres effort. I will commend them. I will do whatever i can to help them. Its time to realize that no one is beneath the law. Asylees are not beneath the law. Theyre lawabiding persons. The fact they submitted themselves and seeked to have this opportunity to live in this country means that they have broken no law. So i have a question for you, governors. Governors of texas and florida, heres my question. Youre spending millions to bring people out of their way and to some extent put them in harms way. I have a question for you. How much will you spend to help them get to their hearings . How much will you spend to help them continue their journey . Yours is not a righteous cause. Yours is a cause to do what you can to prevent lawful, lawabiding asylees from having their day in court. History will not be kind to you. You ought to be ashamed of what you do. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore members are reminded to refer their comments to the chair. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Mr. Mcclintock mr. Speaker, as the tensions of the civil war reached a boiling point, president lincoln vainly reached out to democrats with these words we are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. The contrast with mr. Bidens sept september1 speech in philadelphia is jarring. In it and many remarks since, mr. Biden clearly addresses the 74 million americans who voted for donald trump as enemies who, quote, threaten the very foundation of our republic. He condemned us as extremists who do not respect the constitution, who do not believe in the rule of law, and who refused to accept the results of a free election. In other words, he called us semifascist. Mr. Speaker, we revere the constitution and the liberty that it was designed to protect. We dont understand how a government established under that constitution could use the f. B. I. To pressure social media platforms to censor and suppress free speech or to intimidate parents concerned about their School Boards with threat tags or to instruct its field offices to regard anyone who displays our founding american flags as a political extremist. Mr. President , we revere the rule of law, and our nations premise of equal justice under law. We do not understand how our immigration laws can simply be ignored as millions of foreign nationals illegally enter our country. We do not understand how a dispute over records justifies an armed raid on a former president who is also a political rival. We do not understand how Public Health officials can order our schools or businesses closed or suspend our fundamental rights to worship and assemble with no vote of the peoples representatives. We do not understand how obvious influence peddling by the son of a president can be ignored for years. And mr. President , of course, we accept the results of a free election but we do not understand how the safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections can be torn down to benefit one party. Replacing inperson election day voting with mailin ballots, ballot harvesting, monthlong voting, accepting ballots after election day, printing ballots on home computers, all of these changes undermine Public Confidence in the process that is essential to democracy. We wonder how you can call maga candidates a fundamental threat to our republic while your Party Suspends millions of spends millions of dollars to number thought them when you believe it might help you in november. Mr. President , we dont like violence. The riot at the capitol on january 6 was a disgrace and abomination that you are right to condemn and we join you in doing so. But we dont understand how you can at the same time turn a blind eye to prosecuting the Political Violence that burned our cities the year before or how you can refuse to enforce the laws that protect our Supreme Court justices from intimidation at their own homes. Mr. President , we, too, fear for our democracy. We fear armed bureaucracies that seem increasingly disconnected from the results of our elections. We remember that the i. R. S. Singled out ordinary americans because of their political views. Yet, no one was held accountable and now were adding 87,000 new agents to that bureaucracy. We fear arbitrary changes in our election laws calculated to skew results. We fear an executive branch thats increasingly taking over the legislative powers of congress and the judicial powers of the courts. And we fear the powers of government wielded by officials who view half of our people as dangers, threats, and extremists. Your words, mr. President. Lincoln spoke at the mystic chords of memory tracing back to the founding of our nation that must hold us together as americans. As friends and not enemies. Yet, we see these chords increasingly strained by an alien ideology that seems hostile to the flag, the principles and the heritage of our nation. We have only one president , mr. President , and that is you. I didnt vote for you and i wont vote for you again, but youre still my president. And the 74 million americans who voted for donald trump are still your fellow citizens. As a person most responsible for the policies we now live with and the future thats unfolding before us, i ask you to engage us as a friend and not an enemy. We must not be enemies. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore members are, again, reminded to address their remarks to the chair and not to a perceived viewing audience. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Ruiz, for five minutes. Mr. Ruiz mr. Speaker, i rise today to recognize the communities affected by the fairview fire and thank the First Responders who heroically battled the flames. The fairview fire started on september 5, and within a matter of hours, residents of hemmit were forced to evacuate their homes. Since then the fire burned over 28,300 acres, caused two deaths, and destroyed at least 36 homes or commercial structures, proving to be one of th