supplemental. >> we are leaving this program to keep our commitment to live house coverage. they are said to goblin. live coverage of the house here on c-span. -- they are set to gavel in. live coverage of the house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. september 28, 2022. i hereby appoint the honorable sean casten to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 10, 2022, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. bost, for five minutes. mr. bost: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. bost: thank you. mr. speaker, i rise today in sell -- to celebrate the service of staffers on the v.a. committee. ms. samantha gonzalez has dedicated her over 10 years of her career to our nation's veterans, their families, and their survivors. she started on the committee as an intern and has worked her way up to being the communications director and senior health policy advisor. samantha helped craft messages and advance a number of bills supporting veterans and their families. notably the choice and v.a. commissions act, the commander jon scott hannan's mental health care improvement act. the pact act, and so many more landmark pieces of legislation. there is no doubt that the entire veteran community is better off because of her tireless work on their behalf. samantha, thank you. for your commitment to america's veterans and best of luck in your next adventure. you will be missed. mr. speaker, i rise today to remind everyone that while national suicide prevention awareness month is concluding, we cannot afford to lower our guard. it dismays me that still so many veterans take their lives every day. in 2020 approximately 16 veterans died by suicide daily. another year with more than 6,000 veteran suicide deaths. we must stay vigilant. it took an incredible amount of work to get staff sar gent suicide prevention grant program passed in legislation through congress. and i am pleased that the first grants were awarded just last week. now 80 community-based organizations in 73 states, d.c., and the american samoa will receive funding to provide or coordinate suicide prevention services for veterans and their families. where and when they need it. so many veterans either cannot or will not access the v.a. but their community knows how to find them, how to get them out of isolation. and out of trouble. and get them the care they -- that can save their lives and offer them a future of hope. and i am excited to see just what these grants can do. mr. speaker, i rise today to celebrate the life of richard martin. a good friend, great man who passed suddenly this week. you know, you get to know people very, very closely in stressful conditions. well, many of you know that i as a professional firefighter. and richard always had my back. richard and i both served in murphy's fire department. richard served with the department pore 32 years from 1984 until 2016. during that time he was a member of the firefighters pension board and serves as a treasurer and president of the local 3042. never fully retiring, went on to become the southern district's legislative representative for the associated firefighters of illinois. richard was dedicated to his family, his friends, his career of service, and our hometown and the community. our prayers are with his family, including daughter olivia and sons eli and zeke. during this difficult time. he was a close friend. he'll be missed tremendously. his ain't to teach others the art of fighting fire and doing it safely and the amount of lives that he saved and the property he save ld not be forgotten for his service. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by senate to inform the house that the senate has passed, s. 4673, an act to re-authorize the national computer institute of the united states secret service and for other purposes, in which concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, and still i rise. a proud descendent of the enslaved people who made cotton king and america great. the enslaved people who had a hand in the construction of this capitol. who had a hand in the construction of the white house. the enslaved people who constructed roads and bridges across the bidth and bred-h breadth of this country who worked for more than 200 years without a payday. they made the difference for what we call the united states of america on the global scene at the time. i'm honored to be a descendent and honored to say also that this house on july 27 took the historic step of according them slavery remembrance day. a day to remember their lives and to commemorate their accomplishments. it's important that we do this because for too long we have reviled the slaves and revered the enslavers. for too long we have placed them in such a position as to cause the people who are the very desendants to be ashamed of who they were associated with with reference to their heritage. so i'm proud that this house has taken this important historic step with the slavery remembrance day. i'm also proud to say on 2:00 tomorrow in room 14 a-a at the washington convention certainty, we'll continue to talk about this piece of legislation that we passed, h.res. 517, the original slavery remembrance day resolution. we'll talk about this. give a legislative update. the reverend al sharpton will be there. and will he give insightful information on this very topic. i'm just proud that we no longer fear having those persons who made this country great recognized by this congress. and that has been the case in the past. so i thank all of the members of the congress, 218 of whom voted for this legislation. i thank the president who recognized slavery remembrance day. i thank all of the leadership for allowing this resolution to come to the floor. i thank miss warren, elizabeth warren, the senator who supported it. and i thank mr. hoyer. mr. hoyer was a man of his word, a person of his word. he said this resolution would come to the floor for a vote. he supported it. and it came to the floor for a vote. i thank you for the courage that you showed, mr. hoyer. and the judicious insight that you utilized to make sure that we had this opportunity. tomorrow we continue what i cannot finished today at the convention center, 2:00, room 145-a. i thank you for the time and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from california, mrs. kim, for five minutes. mrs. kim: mr. speaker, i rise to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. kim: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to support the people of iran protesting ayatollah regime after 22-year-old young woman who died after being detained by iran's morality police for allegedly incorrectly wearing a he jab -- hijab. iranians are standing up to the ayatollah's greem of oppression of women by cutting their hair, burning their hijabs and demanding freedom. the iranian government began a violent crackdown on the protests that have resulted in dozens of protestors being killed, including women and teenagers. when ien rannian women to know that the united states stands with you in your fight against ayatollah's oppression, and the iranian people have our support in your fight for freedom. and i urge my colleagues to join me in amplifying our voices for the people of iranian and holding the regime accountable. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey, mr. payne, for five minutes. mr. payne: mr. speaker, i rise today to discuss an issue that's very troubling. it is an issue that needs to be addressed. because, you see, i rise today because of the outrage and shock that brett favre stole money that was supposed to be used to buy formula for babies in mississippi, to build a volleyball stadium at the school his daughter played at. today i join the calls of millions of americans demanding that he and the corrupt mississippi republican governor be held accountable for this action. brett favre is a millionaire. in a 20-year football career he made over $100 million. it would take an average mississippian 20 years to make just one million. instead of coming out of his own pocket, he used his power, influence, and relationships with the corrupt republican lawmakers to steal the money from those in mississippi who need it the most. his actions were criminal, shameful, reckless, and irresponsible. brett favre is from mississippi. one might think he should have cared that his home state is one of the poorest in the nation. and suffers from one of the highest rates of child poverty in this country. he should have cared that one in every five mississippians lives in extreme poverty. one might think that he should have cared that jackson, mississippi, the capital, almost 25% of the households depend on minimum wage. and these families, most, earn less than $15,000 a year. one might think he should have cared that hundreds of thousands of mississippians often have to boil their water due to the corruption and the neglect by the leadership in mississippi, the republican leadership. neglect that brett favre was a key and influential factor of neglect. that he and the corrupt governor been fitted -- benefited from but brett didn't care. in july, 2019, brett texted governor bryant telling him how much he loved nancy and john davis for what they did for him in southern miss. he called the thet of funds amazing -- the theft of funds amazing, governor bryant knew that money could have been used to provide thousands of low-income families with a year's worth of rent. . he knew it could have covered the cost of their electricity and their childcare bills. and he knew that it could have provided thousands of mississippian families with as many as nine meals a day. but they didn't care. they didn't care that year after year many mississippians, the most vulnerable people, can't shower, cook, or bathe for weeks on end due to systemic neglect in their water system. in a report released earlier this month by vox, been gee jones -- benjie jones explained, and i quote, infrastructure is often poorly maintained or intentionally overlooked in particular places, leading to a lack of access of affordability and safety for many communities of color. brett and governor brian intentionally overlooked the needs of mississippi's poor people for a volleyball stadium. perhaps this new york times headlines says it best. brett favre's most memorable stat may now be the $8 million he helped steal from the poor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. payne: this is a travesty in this country, to take from the poorest of the poor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. payne: brett favre and that government -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is no longer recognized. the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, for five minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the american people are at their wit's end. they fear our great country has fallen into a state of disrepair, the likes of which have never been seen before. they've watched as our time-tested institutions have become engulfed by a smog of bureaucratic rot. they have gathered at their kitchen tables for nights on end wondering how much further they can stretch their budgets to support their families. all the while washington has trujd on-ward -- trujed onward with more irresponsibility policies that are poisoning america. mr. speaker, i cannot overstate the catastrophes this administration has created. from the southern border being overrun to inflation that has robbed hardworking americans and their families, no matter where you turn, the carnage is palable. republicans are taking a stand to end this madness and move america in the right direction. that starts with our commitment to america. the american people deserve an economy that is strong, a nation that is safe, a future built on freedom, and a government that is accountable. these are the tenets of the -- tenants of the commitment to america. mr. speaker, let me be clear, the american people can no longer afford one-party democrat rule in washington. under one-party rule, americans are bearing the brunt of 40-year high inflation. crime has exploded in major cities across the entire country. millions of illegal aliens have poured across the southern border. gas and grocery prices are growing by leaps and bounds. the list goes on and on, mr. speaker. there's no denying that. americans are not witnessing progress under one-party rule. they're watching our republic crumble by the second. it's time for a serious change in leadership in washington. no more reckless spending. no more policies that are antithetical to the will of the american people. no more bureaucratic assaults on the freedoms and values that this country was built upon. mr. speaker, the american people deserve much better than the hand that washington democrats have dealt them. in a few short weeks, americans across the country will make their voices heard and i can guarantee you that they will not speak softly. the disarray, incompetence, and negligence in washington must be put to an end. it's time that washington truly delivers on the priorities of hardworking tax taxpayers e paers -- taxpayers and families across our country. there's not a second to lose. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney, for five minutes. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last week -- actually, a couple days ago, medicare beneficiaries all across america received very welcomed news. for 2023, medicare announced that the part b premiums, which, again, are deducted from seniors' social security checks, will actually be reduced by $6 a month. that's the first time in 11 years that the medicare program has actually cut the premiums that, again, erode month by month social security checks. there's a reason for this. which is last year there wasn't a spike in terms of the part b premiums. it was driven by the fact that a new drug was approved just about the same time the actuaries were calculating the part b premiums. the drug costs, when it was initially approved by f.d.a., was $58,000 per patient. that one medication resulted in half of the increase last year in terms of medicare part b premiums. there was a human cry about the cost of that drug after, again, the new premium had kicked in. they cut the price this from $58,000 per patient to $26,000. and medicare also limited the use of that drug in terms of experimental controlled settings because, again, it was so brand new. unfortunately, the premium had already been -- had kicked in and a number of us were working with the department of health and human services saying that the premium should be adjusted because, again, it was based on data which had, again, been overtaken by events. at that point, it was too late for medicare to readjust the premium in the last calendar year, 2022. but next year, again, they will make the adjustment and those premiums will go down. in about a week or so, the government is going to be announcing the cola for social security for 2023 for seniors, again, which is obviously a very intensely watched event. right now the projection based on, again, the market basket system that they use to calculate cola looks like it's going to be an 8% increase for social security for 2023. again, i think it's important to note that in past years, some of those cola increases have been eroded, as i mentioned earlier, by increases in the part b premium. but in 2023, the opposite is going to happen. there will actually be not only a cola increase but a reduction in the premium and that means more money in the pockets of seniors and people on disability. again, this is very welcomed news. obviously, inflation has been really tough for a lot of families and particularly seniors on fixed incomes. but, again, in 2023, there is going to be, again, more relief coming their way. if also coincides with the new inflation reduction act, which will be capping the cost of insulin starting in january at $35 a month. for seniors who are on medicare today who need insulin, which is, again, a life or death drug, insulin roughly costs about $160 per month. again, there will be savings, not only in terms of a new cola and a reduced part b premium, but also the cost of insulin will be capped at $35 a month. and in 2024 and in 2025, under the inflation reduction act, because of the savings resulting from price negotiation, which the bill finally enabled and empowered, we are going to see an overall cap of out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs at $2,000 for seniors through the part d program. you talk to anybody who has an m.s. condition or an m.s. patient in someone's family, the mere infusion of a roughly m.s. treatment basically forces most seniors onto medicaid because it's thousands of dollars per treatment. starting with this new program, their overall cap for a year will be $2,000 for a year. and that's why the multiple sclerosis society supported this bill as well as many advocate groups, the existing system is still way too expensive. with the inflation reduction act we'll cap insulin, we'll cap overall medications. the minority came out with their commitment for america where they want to repeal the law that barely the ink is dry that will provide hope for seniors to pay for the cost of lifesaving drugs. we can't let that happen. again, starting in january, we'll see the real benefits of that law, as well as, again, welcome news in terms of a higher cola and smaller part b premium. with that i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. joyce, for five minutes. mr. joyce: mr. speaker, i rise to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. joyce: mr. speaker, today, fourth-year medical students submitted their applications to residency programs across our country. preparing to enter the workforce as surgeons, specialists, and family doctors. as these students begin the process of choosing the hospitals where they will work, i urge them to consider working in rural communities. working in facilities that are struggling right now to recruit new physicians, and these new medical students, these new highly trained individuals will be able to serve communities that desperately need them. for too long, a lack of doctors has been a significant barrier to care for families in rural pennsylvania. to address this critical shortage, i'm proud to have created the homegrown health care initiative, which pairs third and fourth-year medical students with hospitals across pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. so far we've been able to place nearly 30 students in hospitals in blair, cambria, fulton, and franklin counties. it's time to ensure the students who were raised in rural communities return to these communities to live, to work, and to practice medicine. to all of the medical students applying for residency today, good luck, and thank you for all the work that you will do on behalf of your patients. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today we recognize the problems that we are facing with a country that has spiraling out-of-control inflation. we have an opportunity with the commitment to the american people, the commitment that the republican party has put forward to make a nation that is safe, to make a nation that is accountable, and as republicans, we have brought forth four-part statement that will have the necessary oversight to control and have the citizens have the ability to have their voices heard. the commitment to america is the path forward throughout this spiraling inflation that is affecting each and every american today. i urge all amecans to look at this valuable commitment that we as republicans will bring forward. thank you and i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from hawaii, mr. kahele, for five minutes. mr. kahele: aloa, mr. speaker. i -- aloha, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kahele: mahalo, mr. speaker. honor september as hawaiian history month in my home state of hawaii. today the hawaiian language, joseph -- [speaking hawain] mr. speaker, these words that i just shared are a simple recitation of bigraphical facts regarding joseph, who was a native hawaiian, nationalist, a leader, a legislator, a lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a painter. this speech has been memorized by hundreds of elementary school students, my own who attend the hawaiian language emergent school. they not only honor these native hawaiian heroes but ensure their flames are heard and their work lives on through them for generations to come. mahalo nui loa, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will provide a translation of his remarks. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. lamalfa, for five minutes. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pointing to a map here. several fires we had in northern california. this is only a small snippet. there's much more besides that i could show you. this is mostly in my district, the first district of northern california here. over several years. the dixie fire being the big one here last year, about a million acres. and the campfire, a lot of people heard about, that consumed the city of paradise back in 2018, but many others. what am i talking about here today? the idea that rural america is not worth saved, is not worth having. . there are those questioning should we have rural towns anymore? should we have people living in them? should we help them recover? i go back to the problem. first i think the answer is yes, because we need rural towns. we need people out there that are the productive people that used to do pretty amazing things before regulations and environmental groups shut them down. but that we would not have the product that is come from these areas. so not only rebuild them, but dot things that help them to thrive. it isn't just about some jobs in a rural town. it's also about everybody in this country prospering from the products that come from. what am i talking about? in this area timber, lumber products, paper products, heaven knows we use a lot of paper around here. do we want that to come to the united states from our workers frrks our productive lands? or do we want to continue as the united states for some reason is number two importer of wood patriots of the world -- products in the world. we are burning millions of acres in the west every year. why is that? i could also say mining, that used to occur more heavily here and other parts, anywhere from minnesota through the western states as well. and farming, which is under attack. the water's being taken away from many of the farmers in my district. and in california in general. because it's going for environmental purposes. so, yes, rural america feels under attack. a recent "los angeles times" article comes out saying, should billions continue to be spent rebuilding burnt towns? this is the case for calling it quits. i appreciate the "l.a. times" covering the fire affected and most recently the dixie fire in the town of greenville, 75% wiped out from that fire. the town of paradise before, 90% wiped out. i wish they would tell the whole story. they didn't tell my part of the story. yes, it is difficult to keep asking for money back in d.c. to come help whether it's one of my disasters, i'm sure my colleagues in the south like right now dealing in florida, do they enjoy having to come back to help get rebuild money for florida after the hurricanes they are dealing with or flood or what have you? no. they don't enjoy that. i don't think we want to have to ask the taxpayers for t fire is something we can manage. we can't manage the weather, we can stop hurricanes. we can't stop other things like that. so we have the ability to manage our forests in such a way that towns would not be subject so much to immediate wildfire. harvesting buffers around them. putting fire breaks up. things -- when you do rebuild the town, they are building them with newer, better materials for the housing and things like that. they are undergrounding power lines. it's not going tonight same town that interup 100 years ago that started out as a timber town, ag town. it does improve t does get better. it is worth of value the bottom line is even though we want to blame climate change and say that's the big problem, we got to kick people out of rural areas. kick them out of these communities because of climate change. well, it's the climate is changing what are we going to do about it? are we going to not have timber products? are we not going to ensure the safety of those areas? we still need these people out there producing these products fuvment want to have electric cars, someone has to do mining somewhere. and the mandate keeps kopg down the pike. in my own state and more and more around the country. we are not going to have those products. we are not going to have wood and timber product, paper products come interesting somewhere besides being imported. you know what happens when we get too dependent on import. and our food, everybody is seeing food prices skyrocketing at the shelves. sometimes that very shelf is empty. it's the acres we got left out because the water got takenway this year in california. food shelves are going to be even more empty and prices even higher. someone in rural america has to produce something. for people to say, well, climate change, times are change, we have to shift in a new direction. we don't need these -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lamalfa: we do need these towns. we need them there and help them to live by letting them manage the timber. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lamalfa: thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from puerto rico, miss gonzalez-colon, for five minutes. miss gonzalez-colon: thank you, mr. speaker. earlier this month we were thinking about five years since hurricane. in five years felt like nothing. maria was wunsch our greatest natural disasters costing collapse of all essential infrastructure in puerto rico. we still see defects linger. my colleagues in congress came with me to the island and responded with funding for recovery. staff from fema and other agencies have been working hard, but the effects have been slow to be seen. many obligations for permanent infrastructure began only in the late 2020. and meanwhile, challenges continue. earthquake, covid, supply chain crisis, a power grid that remains unreliable. uncertainty about the continuity of medicaid and additional assistance funds. the people were exhausted and stressed. and then came hurricane fiona. fiona did not bring category 4 or category 5 winds. instead rainfall noter before, up to 30 -- not like ever before. up to 30 inches. fiona cause add lot of f floodi. it was historic. in many places in the south of the island, and the mountains beyond what was experienced for maria. thousands of families needed to be moved from floodwaters in places leaving behind everything. in rural areas bridges that have been repaired or replaced after maria and roads that have been cleared and repaved are again washed out. damaged and blocked by land sliedz. house transportation work done after the disaster, some barely finished, needs to be addressed again. and the power system again fell into a blackout. although a majority is back up it's still shaky. more than 70% of the island has power. available units are running to capacity. distribution networks needed to be attended by local governments. these slowed down recovery of the water system is a problem for citizens needing life support devices and keep business closed. there is sufficient fuel and supplies in some communities, they have difficult receiving enough because of transportation problems at a time of increased demand. the agricultural sector that was experience -- expecting finally the first normal productive year after the devastation of maria, lost everything again. we lost 90% of our agriculture in planting, bananas, and many others. back to square one. across the land, mostly small or family farms now are at risk of simply never coming back. some from damage and others heartbreak. our low-income families face fathers depletion of the funds for medicaid and nutritional assistance programs. it's not just a matter of more eligibility but continuity of the funding. a real answer to these will be two permanent equal treatment for puerto rico in these federal programs. instead of a special provision over and over every year. i have engaged the president and many federal agencies on this and other issues. and to seek the needed support for the island at this moment. so members of the congress, this house, in puerto rico after fiona and i am again inviting all my colleagues one to come and join me to see the need directly and hear from those who can tell what you is really happening. today we watch florida, also face a major disaster. and knowing firsthand what that means i keep the people of florida in my heart. take care and god bless. keep you in this time. i'm sure that both florida and puerto rico we will come back from this disaster, and as americans we must all stand together in our partisan way to make sure that we build. with that, thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. hartzler, for five minutes. miss mississippi hartzler: than, mr. speaker, i rise to honor the extraordinary heroism of chad and staff sergeant price during the afghanistan evacuation last year. their selfless actions evacuating tens of thousands of afghan interpreters and their families, vulnerable women and children, persecuted christians, and american citizens represents the highest levels of patriotism. i met chad through his work supporting our nation's veterans as the founder of the mighty oaks foundation. a leading nonprofit serving the military veteran and first responder communities around the world. through faith-based combat trauma and resiliency programs, chad has been instrumental in ensuring our brave warriors are supported when they return home from the battlefield. chad's work doesn't stop there. he's also the co-founder of save our allies. a nonprofit focused on the evacuation and recovery of americans, our allies, and the most vulnerable people trapped in afghanistan. save our allies began as a personal quest for chad as he set out to rescue his long-time friend and afghan interpreter. however, the mission quickly evolved because of chad's compassion for all people and a servant's heart. while the u.s. military held the kabul airport in afghanistan, the safe our allies task force successfully extracted approximately 17,000 evac wees in a period of -- evac wees in a eerd of 10 days a report from the u.s. joint chief of staff estimated over 142 thousand vulnerable afghans remained in the country following the exit from kabul. with the complete takeover of afghanistan by the taliban, the report projected 20 million women will be vulnerable to sexual abuse and slavery. christians will be persecuted and executed. afghan interpreters and their families will be hunted down and killed. children would be abused to religious manipulation. and the 1,000 plus americans left behind would be killed or held hostage for ransom. understanding the ruthlessness of the taliban as a former force reconmarine, chad knew the rescue mission had to continue. in response, save our allies launched several operations to explore new ways for extractions. they first identified possible ground evacuations that could be feasible by cross border movements into tajikistan and quickly plan a reconnaissance operation. he hand selected staff sergeant price a. force reconmarine and scout sniper to take part in the mission. i want it share two stories from that mission to highlight their incredible acts of sacrifice, service, and bravery. early in the mission, staff sergeant price sought a higher vantage point to evaluate a potential river crossing area. upon his ascent up the mount yea, he came under cy the speaker pro tempore: sniper fire two separate times pushing him back to return to -- he came under a fieper fire two separate times pushes him back to the safe house. is he they discussed their families and all that would be left behind should they not make it out. both men agreed to continue their mission of building safe passage for american and afghan evac wees, during day three of the mission. staff sergeant price found himself 10 feet away from an armed chinese militant hiding in the bushes. utilizing the vegetation as concealment. using his uncanny operation and combat skills, noticed the looming threat and physically ushered staff sergeant price into a nearby vehicle before he could be captured or killed. ultimately saving his life. because of this heroic act, the two men were able to continue providing real time information to american intelligence agencies. during their 10-day operation, they were able to cover 90 miles of border between afghanistan and tajikistan. remaining undetected by countless rush-and-and chinese military -- russian and chinese military patrols avoiding taliban infested areas and checkpoints. these examples and countless others that cannot be shared due to their sensitive nature under score their exemplary efforts. . underrer taken mr. speaker, i'm humbled to stand before the house to honor their craningous bravery and willingness to sacrifice their lives for their fellow man. the mission these men had will save hundreds and possibly thousands of lives. on behalf of a grateful nation, i'd like to express my sincere gratitude. god bless chad and staff sergeant price for their service to our country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from iowa, mrs. miller-meeks, for five minutes. mrs. miller-meeks: thank you, mr. chair. thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize national clean energy week. and the benefits of alternative energy sources. national clean energy week is a time to recognize and celebrate innovative policies that allow the united states to limit greenhouse gas emissions. iowa leads the nation in clean energy production, and iowans are constantly seeking ways to make clean energy more affordable, accessible, and abundant. just last year, the american clean power association reported that over 50 % of iowa's electricity is the most, ranking the highest in the united states. renewable fuels, organin, wind create affordable electricity. additionally, alternative energy sou sou sou sources -- since taking office, i advocated for conservative legislation. consumers should be provided for choicings, which lowers the costs of goods and services which is crucial now for record high inflation. i also introduced bipartisan legislation such as the biocharge research act of 2022, to expand clean energy in the united states. this bill would create a national biocharge research network where the benefits can be further tested and explored. research would include how they sequester soil health, improves water quality, and reduces fertilizers and pesticides regularly used. i'm grad that senator tester introduced a similar bill in the senate last week. and lower food and fuel costs which expands year-round e-15 and the home front energy independence bill which would prohibits the imports of petroleum from russia while expanding the availability of biofuels, increasing energy production and the use of biofuels will also help our allies around the world wean off russia's dirty oil and cut off funding for the russia's war machine. i when determining our nation's energy strategy, we must look at natural resources in the area. different geographically features allows clean energy to succeed such as solar in the west, hydropower in the northwest. i hope my colleagues will look to iowa as an example of an any and all-of-the-above approach. in order to leave a healthier planet for our children and grandchildren, we must enact policies that benefit a wide variety of energy sources, where they work best, and flexibility within the states to do so. i'd also like to wish a happy birthday to kenda who is a portfolio manager in our office. happy birthday. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from new york, ms. tenney, for five minutes. ms. tenney: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to highlight a looming catastrophe for new york farmers, farm workers and consumers across new york state and the country. on september 6, the new york state farm wage board voted to advance a proposal to lower the state's overtime wage threshold for farm laborers from 60 to 40 hours per week, despite overwhelming opposition to the recommendation. during the public comment period, farmers, farm workers and consumers all turned out in droves to oppose the legislation. farmers who are struggling with inflation already are worried about keeping up for another price hike. they're concerned about the possible lost hours on the job, cutting their wages, and consumers should fear even higher increase to food costs which have already increased 11.4% over the last year, the biggest increase since 1979. with prices continuing to go up. their fears are real. cornell university's college of agriculture and life sciences projected that the overtime rules implementation could force 2/3 of dairy farmers to make significant changes to their operations, including and dramatically bad leaving the industry or investing in other states. new york state already leads the nation in the highest outmigration of people and jobs. this would be a disaster for our agricultural community. it also found, cornell university ag science, found that half of new york's fruit and vegetable farmers likely would have to reduce operations or leave the industry altogether. the second largest apple producing county in the entire nation is wayne county, located in upstate new york. despite all this, the board still voted to advance the recommendation anyway. we are incredibly disappointed that the board ignored such compelling input from important stakeholders, worsening the already difficult headwinds for new york's agriculture sdri. they -- industry. they undermines the people they're supposed to be serving. i had a roundtable discussion hosted by dale and his son in seneca castle, new york. the feedback from the farmers was unanimous. lowering the overtime threshold will devastate new york's agricultural industry and have a critically difficult impact on the future of family farms in new york and could leave new york as one of the few states in the country with such an onerous and unreasonable restriction on family farms. family farms, large and small, are the lifeblood of new york's economy. everyone thinks it's new york city. it's actually agriculture. now, the recommendation is with the state labor commissioner, roberta reardon. i asked her to keep the current 60-hour threshold. farmers can't bear any further price increases. i joined my other new york colleagues, elise stefanik and chris jacobs in introducing a legislation in congress known as the protect local farms act. if there are no farms, there will be no nutritious food to feed our state, nation, and, yes, the world, as we face a potential food shortage worldwide. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now recognize the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin, for five minutes. mr. langevin: mr. speaker, i rise today because americans are divided. our public discourse is broken. instead of fostering open and honest political debate, our flawed information environment creates ecochambers and partisan silos. at times, it feels like the very fabric of our nation is being torn at the seams, and this toxic polarization has infected the capitol, too, where it's becoming increasingly difficult to get things done in a bipartisan manner. the nonstop outrage and anger must end. to begin solving some of these issues, i proposed an idea which i developed in partnership with my former science and technology policy advisor, eric, a phen phenomenal doincognitive sciencd artificial intelligence researcher. together, we call for redesigning what is popularly described as the marketplace of ideas. as economists point out, markets are information systems. the invisible hand of supply and demand discovers the value of goods and services and the equal access to information in a market yields collective efficiency. now, imagine a market where suppliers or in this case speakers of ideas talk in public squares while listeners sample and choose the news, stories, and opinions they prefer. the best ideas would win by virtue of the audience's discernment and collective wisdom, right? well, what if the markets information architecture, the modes and pathways of information exchange and processing is fundamentally broken? well, just like a market wouldn't function properly if the vendors, loud speakers, and televisions were damaged, the algorithms, platform designs that govern our marketplace of ideas are clearly not working and when a market is broken, it is the responsibility of government to act. so how do we fix it? well, we start by levelling the playing field by modifying the shape, not the content, though, of our ideas' marketplace to facilitate healthy exposure and competition among all ideas within our political discourse. as it currently stands, our marketplace has been distorted to resemble a dome-like shape in which discourse is driven to the extremes of each side. instead, we propose bending the dome-shape of our marketplace into a bowl-shape, encouraging people to seek common ground and creating space for productive conversation among ideological foes and come patriots alike. by leveling the playing field by tweaks to both supply and demand side, we can create a marketplace of ideas where fairness and civility are rewarded and extremism is discouraged. on the demand side, we can level -- we can invest in civics education initiatives that teach children critical reading, listening, and thinking skills like how to spot disinformation on social media. adults, too, can lose awareness of how their buttons are being pushed by sophisticated prop go andists -- propagandaists. so as our founders recognized, our democracy requires an educated citizenry. however, the demands of our modern media environment require our education system to grow and adapt accordingly. so we can borrow from the playbook of other countries like finland and the baltic states who have developed a robust civil defense against insidious disinformation campaigns emanating from neighboring russia. so we can even motivate public awareness and engagement through playful, competitive, an financial incentives to reward people for knowing basic sicivi and following factual, unbiased and informational sources. we should encourage participation in nonpolitical areas of life such as sports, hobbies, recreation, civics projects and family activities to reinforce the common bonds between us. solutions arise on the supply side as well. in a traditional public square, each speaker's identity is known and, thereby, can be held accountable for their speech. but on social media, phony accounts and troll farms can spread lies, disinformation, and distorted narratives without consequence. so a solution may be found in modern technologies for digital identity tools which can ensure that every social media account is held by a unique real human being. congressman bill foster's improving digital act of 2021, which i am a proud co-sponsor, advances associations -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. langevin: and promotes identifying technologies. this is a complicated issue. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 p.m. today. >> 32 bills including several dealing with transportation and veterans issues. seed seat to democracy. >> 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