Floor Statements

Mr. Speaker, I kindly ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Joseph A. Campbell for his service to the United States Congress. Today, Joe is retiring after almost a decade of service with the Architect of the Capitol, concluding a professional career defined by not for self, but for country.

Raised in a Navy family, Joe is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served for twenty-five years in the United States Navy. Rising to the rank of Captain, Joe brought his professional training as a Civil Engineer to bear in combat operations and non-combat assignments around the world. His service was distinguished and meritorious, earning a Bronze Star, four Legions of Merit, and even jump wings as a Naval Parachutist.

Since joining the Architect of the Capitol in 2016, Joe has served in numerous positions across the agency, from the Supreme Court Building to the House Office Buildings to his final role as Deputy Architect since September 2024. Joe has worked tirelessly to directly support Congress' legislative and the Court's judicial missions. As Acting Chief Financial Officer, Joe ended fiscal years with clean audits and guided the agency through multiple continuing resolutions.

Joe's steady hand and integrity have garnered him the respect of colleagues and stakeholders across Congress. His leadership across Capitol Hill has strengthened the effectiveness and credibility of the Architect of the Capitol with a tenure defined by composure, efficiency, accountability, and quality.

As Joe completes his service today as Deputy Architect of the Capitol, we extend our warmest wishes for a fulfilling next chapter still rooted in public service, stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and protection of the homeland. Joe's three and a half decades of outstanding performance of duty stands as an example honor, courage, and commitment, and his service merits this special recognition and the deep gratitude of the American People.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1499, I call up the resolution (H. Res. 1490) providing for the condemnation and denouncement of socialism in all its forms, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by thanking the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Crank) for authoring this very timely resolution.

Mr. Speaker, let's set the stage. Socialism has no place in the United States of America. Hard work and merit are the backbone of American Dreams, not socialism in government outcome and government control.

Our Nation is at a crossroads. Across the country, socialist policies are increasingly dominating democratic politics. Members of this body openly support key elements of the Democratic Socialists of America's platform.

The mayor of our largest city is a socialist. The U.S. Senator who was a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President is a socialist.

America has a choice. We can go down the path of Big Government socialism, or we can keep fighting to shrink government and help the American people keep more of their hard-earned money.

The resolution condemns socialism, and it exposes the radical policies of the Democratic Socialists of America's platform.

Let's quickly look through the platform. It supports giving the right to vote to 12 million noncitizens and criminals who are currently incarcerated. It supports ranked-choice voting for all elections. It calls for abolishing the electoral college and the United States Senate. These are radical policies, and they would undermine the integrity of the American election and destroy our democratic system.

Now, contrast this radical agenda with what Republicans support. We believe that American elections are for American citizens only. We are focused on making it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Our goal is to strengthen election integrity. That is why we are pushing commonsense reforms like requiring photo ID and citizenship verification when individuals register to vote.

Socialists are opposing these commonsense ideas because they fundamentally oppose securing our elections. Mr. Speaker, socialism is easy to elect, but it is nearly impossible to remove. That is because socialist ideology concentrates power in a way that has led to totalitarian rule, time and time again.

Here at home, DSA leaders have repeatedly described our bicameral Federal Republic as inherently undemocratic. Make no mistake, if socialists are given the chance, socialists will abolish our democratic system.

Mr. Speaker, socialist policies are responsible for the death of 100 million people worldwide. This resolution rejects and condemns this dangerous ideology.

I urge my colleagues to support this resolution, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

I note my colleague said this resolution allows Members to state how they feel, where they stand. I think that is actually reasonably true.

You can pull out the Democratic Socialists of America program, and you can flip to page 15 and read through some of the highlights: defund the Pentagon, free Palestine with Jerusalem as the capital, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of legal status.

This is a chance, as my colleague says, to show how we feel and where Members stand. The American people will get to see. Do they stand with the Democratic Socialists of America or do they stand with democracy and freedom and oppose the socialist policies that we are seeing from the radical left?

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Crank), the author of this resolution, to speak.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis) to speak on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, per the comments that this calls out socialism and not communism, it calls out socialism in all its forms. So if the gentleman who just spoke dislikes communism, he has a great opportunity to vote for this resolution.

Per the commentary about election law, this is a direct contrast between the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America who want to dramatically change the election process in the United States of America. The Democratic Socialists of America want to change how we elect the President of

the United States. They want to abolish the Senate. They want to dramatically transform the democracy of the United States of America.

Why?

It is because socialism concentrates power. What they want to do is establish socialism, which is easy to elect but very difficult to remove.

That is why this resolution is so important. It is so the American people will know where their Member stands.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg) to speak on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman asked what we oppose. You can actually just pull out the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America, and it is like shooting fish in a barrel of what we oppose: defund the Department of Defense; free Palestine, with their capital in Jerusalem; provide amnesty to all immigrants, regardless of legal status. The list goes on. We oppose a lot of it. That is why this resolution is actually very relevant.

The radical left is taking over portions of the Democratic Party. This isn't your grandfather's Democratic Party anymore. This is a new radicalized Democratic Party that wants to install socialism right here in the United States of America.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Kim).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McDowell), no friend of socialism, to speak on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, as we all know, socialism is a promise that is going to make everyone equal, equally poor. This is why it is so important to stand up and vote ``yes'' on this resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Mann) to speak on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock) to speak on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to vote for this important resolution. A lot has been said here on the floor, so let's try to re- encapsulate what has been discussed.

It was just referenced about the importance of the price of groceries and the importance of the price of gas, and I couldn't agree more with the importance. If we look at the contrast between the policies of those of us on the right and how we want to reduce those with those on the left, I think the contrast becomes quite clear.

My colleagues on the left and the Democratic Socialists of America want government-owned grocery stores. That will not lower the price of groceries. My friends on the left want a Green New Deal, and it is right here in the platform. They want to end the use of fossil fuels. That will drive up the cost of energy for hardworking American families.

Instead, we should be continuing our work to unleash American energy, to lower the costs for American families. It is a clear contrast between those that support the socialist ideals and the socialist ideas and the Democratic Socialists of America's platform with those of our platform.

We talked about election law. The Democratic Socialists of America start with the premise that America has never been a democracy. Mr. Speaker, America is the world's greatest democracy. The Democratic Socialists of America want to replace the popular vote for President with an executive chosen by Congress. That might be one of the scariest parts of the entire DSA platform.

They want this body to choose the President of the United States of America, not the people. They want to strip that power away from American citizens and instill that power here in Washington, D.C.

They want to allow noncitizens to vote. In their platform, they would allow all permanent noncitizens of the United States of America to vote. I believe, and my colleagues believe, that U.S. elections should be for U.S. citizens only.

If we want to see how this plays out, I can look right here in our Nation's Capital in Washington, D.C., where under current law noncitizens residing in Washington, D.C., can vote in municipal elections.

Let's just set this clear as to how extreme this is. An individual working in the Russian Embassy could walk out with a passport in their pocket, not need to show up because they don't require photo ID in our Nation's Capital, walk to the polls, and in 9 weeks from today cast their ballot for Mayor in Washington, D.C.

That is the current law. Noncitizens are allowed to vote in municipal elections in Washington, D.C., and the DSA platform lays out what their plan is to allow noncitizens, millions of noncitizens, to vote in American elections, but they want them all to vote.

How do we know that? You can turn the page to other sections of their platform where they want to provide amnesty for every illegal alien in the United States of America. They want to allow them to be a U.S. citizen then they can all vote.

We can see exactly what the playbook is of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The list goes on. They want aggressive taxes on successful individuals. They want to abolish the Senate. The list goes on as to where the Democrat ideas are, and they call it Democratic socialism, probably because stealing doesn't poll terribly well, Mr. Speaker.

This is a stark contrast between where the radical left and the Democratic Socialists of America want to take this country and where we believe and know this country needs to go. In particular, I am making sure that we have election integrity. We can see in the platform of the DSA exactly how they would gut the election integrity provisions that we rely on.

They want to allow noncitizens to vote. They want to drive forward a socialist agenda. As I remind everyone, it is very easy to vote socialism in. It is very difficult to remove socialism. It is why this resolution is so important so the American people know exactly where their Member stands.

Shortly here today, we will be able to vote on this resolution and everyone in the United States of America will know where their Member in the United States House of Representatives stands.

Do they stand with the Democratic Socialists of America who want socialism to drive forward in the United States of America, or do they stand with the freedoms and liberties that we know and cherish here in the United States of America?

Mr. Speaker, I encourage all of my colleagues to vote for this resolution, to stand up against the evils of socialism, and to stand in support of the greatest country in the world, the United States of America.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mr. Chair, I thank my friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington), who is the chair of the Budget Committee, for his work in this regard.

Mr. Chair, we are here today because we can advance commonsense election integrity.

House Republicans have pushed two key commonsense reforms that are not yet across the line.

First, Mr. Chair, you should be a citizen to vote in this country. You have to prove that when you register. Second, Mr. Chair, when you head to the polls to cast your ballot, you have to verify your identity with a photo ID.

Mr. Chair, now is the time for election integrity. It was just revealed in New Jersey that 6,600 noncitizens were admitted and registered to vote. According to The New York Times, nearly 400 of those noncitizens cast a ballot.

Federal law requires States to give voter registration materials to everyone when they get a driver's license. It is a problem.

During the Biden administration, millions of illegal aliens poured into our country. In many blue States, of course, they can get a driver's license.

What is to stop them from registering to vote? Currently, that is by checking a box that they are not a citizen. That is not enough.

Stories like what happened in New Jersey undermine confidence in our elections. It is time to take action. Our commonsense proposals will boost voter confidence, increase voter participation, and ensure that it remains easy to vote but hard to cheat. We have

a real opportunity before us to strengthen election integrity in all 50 States.

Mr. Chair, I urge passage of this resolution.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1438, I call up the bill (H.R. 7008) to amend chapter 131 of title 5 to require certain restrictions on stocks for Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include additional materials on this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Stop Insider Trading Act. There is a lot of talk in this town about draining the swamp and cleaning up Washington. Today, the rubber hits the road. Good governance matters, and the Committee on House Administration is leading the way.

Under current law, Members of Congress are required to publicly disclose their stock trades. The disclosures lack details and are often filed months after a transaction.

This lack of transparency and the continued practice of Members purchasing stock is fueling public frustration. It is time we ban Members of Congress from being able to buy individual companies' shares of stock. Doing so removes even the appearance of impropriety.

Mr. Speaker, we have an opportunity to pass transformational congressional ethics reform. This is the first congressional stock trading ban to receive a vote on the floor of the House. Today, every American will know where their Member stands.

If you want to day trade, there is a place for that. It is called Wall Street. If you want to come to Washington, you should be working on behalf of the American people.

In addition, this bill also includes a commonsense proposal that we have advanced through committee on voter ID. Voter ID strengthens election integrity and is nonpartisan and common sense. In this country, you have to show a photo ID to fly, to open a bank account, to buy a beer, and, more recently, to enjoy a never-ending pasta bowl at Olive Garden.

You don't have to show an ID to vote in States like Minnesota, Illinois, California, and others, which are literally not doing the job of securing our elections, when the easy task of photo ID is in front of us.

Mr. Speaker, it is a simple concept: To vote in a Federal election, you need to show a photo ID. Twenty-four States already require a form of photo ID to vote. This bill, of course, allows provisional voting if someone forgets their ID when they go to the polls--again, common sense.

That is why it is so popular with the American people. They understand it. They know the need for this commonsense reform. Photo ID will help strengthen election integrity, bolster voter confidence, and increase participation. That is a good thing for our democracy.

Mr. Speaker, these two proposals will clean up Washington and strengthen the integrity of our elections.

Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller), a member of the House Administration Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to a comment that was just made by my colleague, in particular, what we refer to as the spousal exception. It is very important to know.

The legislation before us on the Stop Insider Trading Act applies to a Member, a Member's spouse, and the dependent children of that Member. There is what we call the spousal working exception, so if a Member's spouse works in a capacity that engages in stock, think of a life insurance salesman, maybe your spouse is selling life

insurance, Mr. Speaker, we want to make sure that individual can continue their work. Of course, they would be banned under this legislation from buying individual company's shares of stock. I think it would be incorrect if we didn't correct the record where it was not accurately stated that there are no restrictions on family members. This bill, specifically, takes that into account. It includes Members, their spouses, and dependent children.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Alford).

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), who has been a champion of this topic. We would not be here on the floor of the House of Representatives with an opportunity to pass this stock trading ban without his work.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) to speak on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Kean).

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Kim).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nunn), my friend and colleague, to speak on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Lawler), my colleague and friend.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time, and I am prepared to close.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, as we close out today, I begin by thanking leadership for giving us this opportunity. Congress has not had a bill on the House floor on this topic with this opportunity before.

I thank Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise, Whip Emmer for their work on this. I also thank the Members of this body who have doggedly worked on this issue, in particular Congressman Chip Roy, as well as Brian Fitzpatrick, Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna, and others for their feedback and work throughout the process to get to this point.

Before us is the Stop Insider Trading Act.

Mr. Speaker, I will touch on a handful of things that came up today about what is in and what is not in the bill. I think this is important for the American people to know.

Some of the arguments made today are what I call a Goldilocks argument: The bill doesn't do enough. The bill does too much.

Let's take this moment to take a real and substantive step forward. I will begin as I close by discussing what is in the bill. The bill ensures that Members and lawmakers cannot use their positions to profit off of insider information.

Mr. Speaker, insider trading is already illegal, and individuals who engage in it should be held accountable by the full force of the law. However, as we know, prosecuting insider trading is actually quite difficult. It is why this bill is so important to provide a bright-line rule to remove even the appearance of impropriety that someone has leveraged their position for financial gain.

Under this bill, Members, their spouses, and their dependent children are prevented from purchasing individual companies' shares of stock, period, full stop.

The question then becomes: What if a Member arrives in Congress with stock in their portfolio? Say they are saving up for their retirement or their children's college education. We provide an opportunity with 7 days advance notice to be able to make that sale. That 7 days of advance notice tells the American people what is going on in advance rather than current law, which allows a 30-day filing after the fact.

This prevents Members from being able to profit off of any insider information they may gain in this institution.

Mr. Speaker, the violations and penalties associated with this bill are steep: a fine equal to $2,000 or 10 percent of the transaction, as well as a disgorgement of profits. Violators would be forfeiting any gain realized if they fail to comply with this legislation.

The legislation is critical in restoring trust in this institution. One of the challenges we face is that this institution 15 years ago passed the STOCK Act, publicly disclosing any trade a Member of this institution makes. However, the disclosure rules lack detail and are filed a month after the transaction.

When you couple that with the increased attention to Member trades, in particular, through social media accounts, it has fueled public frustration. I believe this is our opportunity where we can simply stop Members of Congress from trading individual stocks, period, full stop.

Doing so removes even the appearance of wrongdoing. Americans should be confident that individuals working here are working on their behalf, not on behalf of their own financial interests.

This bill is coupled with the Voter ID Act. In jurisdictions across this country, States that neighbor mine, like Illinois or Minnesota, or as far away as California or New York, voters can go to the polls on election day and cast a ballot without providing proof of their identity.

Our Voter ID Act implements commonsense election integrity measures by requiring voters to show photo ID when casting a ballot in Federal elections.

Mr. Speaker, 24 States already require some form of photo ID to vote. The bill simply takes this standard and makes it nationwide.

Both of these provisions are commonsense reforms, but, in particular, the Stop Insider Trading Act is a moment when we can take a tremendous step forward in the ethics here in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, and in this institution.

At a period of time when Americans are struggling to gain confidence in Congress, this legislation before us gives us that opportunity to begin restoring the trust.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage all of my colleagues in this body today to vote in favor of the legislation before us, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 37) and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3535) to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the prohibition against contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with elections to contributions or donations in connection with ballot initiatives and referenda.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3535, the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act, introduced by my friend, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick.

U.S. elections should be for U.S. citizens only, and only U.S. citizens should be participating in and donating in political causes.

Today, gaps in our existing laws undermine this principle and actually permit foreign actors to fund U.S. political activities. It is true. Current law allows foreign funding to infiltrate State and local ballot initiatives, referenda, and recall elections.

As we have seen in recent history, those races can attract millions of dollars in outside spending. Some of that has been foreign money, and right now that is completely legal.

Shadowy groups, like Sixteen Thirty Fund, funneled millions of foreign-linked dollars into ballot initiatives and campaigns in States, including Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio.

It sounds crazy, but it is true, Madam Speaker.

We should all be able to agree that foreign funds should not be influencing or financing ballot measures, referenda, or recall elections. Current law, as we know, already prohibits foreign money in Federal elections, and this bill broadens that nonpartisan, commonsense prohibition to similar State and local elections.

Madam Speaker, elections should be decided by Americans, and they should not be influenced or funded by foreign nationals.

Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation and ensure American elections remain for American citizens only, and I reserve the balance of my time

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Madam Speaker, this bill is broadly about making sure that American elections are for American citizens only.

As my colleague Mr. Morelle noted, there is a significant, gaping hole in U.S. campaign finance laws, and, in particular, that is in relation to the measures that we have spoken about, about ballot initiatives, other essential pieces of American democracy that currently allow for foreign funding to come in and influence those campaigns.

While that is not an office seeker for elected office, I think it is without a doubt that those elections and those ballot initiatives are in many ways equally essential to American democracy. Closing out this gap and making sure that foreign funds are not finding their way into U.S. elections is absolutely essential.

I thank my colleague, Mr. Fitzpatrick, for authoring this legislation, understanding the importance of making sure that we are rooting out foreign funds inside U.S. elections. There is a basic premise and a basic principle, and in a particular period of time when it is so simple and so easy for funds to be transmitted into these political activities here in the United States of America, an individual outside of the United States could easily move funds in to influence a U.S. election.

Of course, it is illegal for a donation to be made to an individual seeking Federal elected office, but right now the underlying law does not ban that for purposes of ballot initiatives, local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections.

This legislation fixes that very important point.

Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick), the author of this bill who is not only a colleague but also a friend.

Madam Speaker, I will close by saying I thank my colleague Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania and Ranking Member Morelle for their work on closing this gap in Federal law.

I encourage all of my colleagues to vote in favor of H.R. 3535, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 8738) to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require electronic report filing for persons making certain electioneering communications and to permit political committees to make disbursements other than by check.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in strong support of H.R. 8738, the FEC Administrative Improvements Act.

I thank my friends, Ranking Member Morelle and the chair of our Subcommittee on Elections, Representative Lee from Florida, for their leadership on this legislation.

Our campaign finance system wasn't designed for the digital age. That extends to the statutes governing the work of the Federal Elections Commission.

This bill implements several recommendations from the FEC to modernize their administrative operations and reduce outdated administrative burdens.

The bill expands the electronic filing requirements to electioneering communications reports and allows political committees to make disbursements by methods other than checks.

Madam Speaker, the work of the FEC is important to our Federal election system. This bill improves their efficiency and modernizes our campaign finance system for the digital age.

I urge immediate passage of the legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, the ranking member, Mr. Morelle, for his work on this legislation. There is a lot of work to be done to update our campaign finance laws for the digital age, and this is an important piece of legislation. I encourage all my colleagues to vote in favor of H.R. 8738. I yield back the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the ordering of a recorded vote on the question of reconsideration of the vote on adoption of House Resolution 1398 be vacated to the end that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table and that House Resolution 1377 be laid on the table.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate this year's winners of the Congressional Award.

The Congressional Award honors those who strive to be part of something bigger than themselves. With this award, Congress recognizes young Americans who devote their free time to an important activity. It could be taking on a public service project, pursuing a hobby or new skill, starting a physical fitness program, or going on an outdoor expedition.

Participants set goals in these areas, and how they do in meeting them determines the level of award they receive. Just as important, they receive the sense of pride that comes with fulfilling a mission. The program, established in 1979, is a great way to motivate young people to develop the building blocks of good citizenship.

I congratulate each of the award's winners.

I include in the Record a list of this year's Congressional Award Gold Medalists from around the country, including two recipients from the great state of Wisconsin:

2026 Congressional Award Gold Medalists

AK: Rachel C. Anderson

AL: William Crocker, Joshua Macri

AP: Chloe Lee

AR: Brianna Moore

AZ: Gulfinaz Atceken, Johnathan Barbeau II, Anastasia

Bradley, Renae Brown, Amanda Grace Burlington, Esther Cui,

Furkan Dorum, Jessica Finnie, Hazel Hurlbut, Pariyat Jain,

Cooper Johnson, Hiyun Lee, Chloe Mayfield, Kalyn McLeod, Ella

Meaker, William Steenken, Sadiya Uddin, Eric Wang

CA: Romeo Ahn, Timothy Ahn, Selim Aksu, Dila Alkan, Marah

Alomari, Claire An, David An, Stephan Moses An, Ismail Alp

Arslan, Madison Bae, Daniel Baek, Seoah Back, Eugene Ban,

Ethan Bedetti, Connor Benin, Logan Benin, Bhuvana

Bhamidipati, Aron Bhavsar, Diya Bhootra, Freya Bikel, Grayson

Bloes, Lilly Boman, Ellie Byun, Lila Callaway, Katharine

Campbell, William Candela, Joshua Chae, Aiden Chang,

Elizabeth Chang, Sailee Charlu, Chloe Chen, Elise Chen,

Isabella Chen, Justin Chen, Beckett Cheng, Ian Chhek, Elliott

Adam Chi, Gohith Chittajallu, Daniel Cho, Isabel Cho, Junmin

Cho, Mikel Cho. Allen Choi, Gavin Choi, Peter Choi, Soen

Choi, Timothy Choi, Yejoon Choi, Elizabeth Christensen,

Michael Christensen, Brianna Chu, Ian Chu, Chloe Chun, Isaac

Chun, Andrew Chung, Daye Chung, Andrew Chyu, Camryn Cooper,

Joseph Curtis. Phoebe Dang, Rohan Dhameja, Derek Di, Ocean

Du, Yusuf Durmaz. Selma Emekci, Kerem Eren. Ali Forbush,

Caroline Rose Foster, Ethan Fu, Vivienne Fullerton, Neha

Ganesan, Sanaa Garach, Rishabh Garg, Mekan Geldiyev, Ian

Gopen, Anusha Grewal, Niveta Sree Gunda, Adya Gupta, Anshika

Gupta, Rajvansh Gupta, Shreeya Gupta, Suhani Gupta, Jaden

Ham, Sophia Han, James Hart, Hajra Hasan, Avery Hexun, Conway

Ho, Paige Hoffmann, Reagan Hoffmann, Ann Hong, Ashley Yoonsuh

Hong, Ethan Hong, Grace Hong, Kayden Hong, Kushi Hosahalli,

Thomas Houston, Grace Huang, Hayden Hughes, Andrew Jaehoon

Hwang, Ellen Hwang, Jake Hwang, Sol Hwang, Isaac Jang, Junue

Jang, Peter Jang, Phillip Jang, Rachelle Jang, Seongwon Jang,

Milla Jans, Daniel Jin, Andrew Jo, Saanvi Juneja, Elizabeth

Jung, Sydney KIm, Nikhil Kalburgi, Alex Kang, Andrew Kang,

Ashley Kang, Jake Kang, Taeui Kang, Andrew Kao, Neel Karur-

Parekh, Ishaan Kendale, Berra Keskin, Kamil Keskin, Burak

Keskinturk, Rayhan Khan, Aaron Kim, Aiden Kim, Aiden Kim,

Alice Kim, Andrew Kim, Angela Kim, Benjamin Kim, Bethany Kim,

Cameron Kim, Chaeeun Kim, Chloe Kim, Claire Kim, Danielle

Kim, Elaine Kim, Elliot Kim, Euna Kim, Hailey Kim, Hyunjun

Kim, Jason Kim, Jayden Kim, Jayden Kim, Jiwon Kim, Joshua

Kim, Matthew Kim, Nicole Kim, Ryan Kim, Seohyun Kim, Susan

Kim, Yena Kim, Yulyi Kim, Zachary Kim, Alison Ko, Claire Ko,

Yegeon Ko, Rithik Kompelli, Noah Hamin Koo, Anya Kothari,

Joanna Kruglick, Jane Kwak, Wing-Hong Lam, Aaron Lee, Alvin

Lee, Asher Lee, Brandon Lee, Brian Lee, Caleb Lee, Chris Lee,

Christian Lee, Daniel Lee, Daniel Lee, Denise Lee, Dongha

Lee, Emily Lee, Eunhyeok Lee, Eunsang Lee, Geonhee Lee, Hajin

Lee, Hea Lee, Hwanyi Lee, Isaac Lee, James Lee, Jamie Taeeun

Lee, Joel Lee, Jooha Lee, Joshua Lee, Katelyn Lee, Matthew

Lee, Mike Lee, Nicole Lee, Noah Lee, Riley Lee, Sean Lee,

Seohoo Lee, Soeun Lee , Lorin Leung, Calli Levine, Jinghan

Li, Zihan Li, Ethan Liang, JingJing Liang, Katie Libby,

Brandon Lim, Joseph Lim, Kayla Lim, Lynzie Lim, Theo Lim,

Brandon Lin, Grishm Lingareddy, Toby Litman, Caltong Liu,

Kevin Liu, Joshua Lo, Dhruva Madhan, Anya Malhotra, Erika

Marasas, Richelle Maruya-Cho, Benjamin Blue McDonald, Katie

Meggers, Luke Meggers, Nick Meggers, Hailey Mellot, Georgia

Merriam, Chris Min, Sophie Min, Chloe Moon, Michael Moon,

Leah Mordehai, Evan Myung, Kate Nagareda, Jacob Nahm, Shriram

Naidu, Jathan, Nandi, Tejas Nandi, Hyunjoon Noh, Mirela Novak

Tamellini, Azra Odabasoglu, Andrew Oh, Andrew Oh, Harold Oh,

Hyunjung Oh, Jonathan Oh, Yeonwoo Oh, Yashwanth Oruganti,

Caden Ouh, Keisha Pai, Jihan Pak, Paige Pak, Saisha Pal,

Sonya Paleja, Riya Pallikonda, Anuj Parikh, Aiden Park,

Aileen Jihye Park, Celine Park, Jaeyun Park, Jason Park,

Jubin Joshua Park, Kailyn Park, Kihwan Park, Lawrence Park,

Sharon Park, Siwoo Park, So Hee Park, So Yeon Park, Soyun

Park, Kavin Patel, Krishna Patel, Vihaan Patel, Zahra Patel,

Agasthya Pattipati, Aaron Peter, Casey Peters, Colin Phan,

Catherine Pi, Soham Pinapala, Lucas Pipkins, Virika

Podichetty, Rishabh Prabhat, Nysha Prasad, Roland Pratt, Arit

Prince, Giovanna Quevedo, Aadya Rai, Arjun Raj, Meghna

Rangarajan, Saanj Rao, Ayaan Raza, Taara Reddy, Naina Rewal,

Neil Rewal, Zachary Reynolds, Annette Rhee, Dahee Ryu, Jehoon

Ryu, Taina Saenz, Gabriel Sanchez, Neha Shaik, Armand Shaken,

Stefan Shaken, Nimishii Sharma, Hugo Shek, Riya Shelar,

Makela Shen, Chenpeng Sheng, Nisha Shenoy, Aryav Sheth, Suri

Sheth-Shelat, Ethan Shi, Andrew Shin, Hayden Shin, Abhinav

Shivalli, Mourya Sibala, Niyant Sithamraju, Xinqing Situ,

Olivia Skeete, Chloe Son, Daniel Son, Younga Son, Emma Song,

Isabel Song, Akash Sriram, Carolyn Suh, Jiyun Suk, Miju Suk,

Zihan Sun, Miu Takahashi, Tanvi Thallapalle, Amber Thornal,

Claire Thrasher, Ananya Tirumala, Vaani Tiwari, Kiyan Torabi

Parizi, Natthakun Towashiraporn, Thomas Tran, Nerissa Tsai,

Ritvik Urkude, Eashan Wahi, Noelle Wan, Brandon Wang, Melody

Wang, Christa Wong, Logan Wong, Daniel Wu, Erin Wu, Evan Wu,

Sarah Xiang, Kaitlyn Yamanaka, Vera Yang, Bowen Yao, Evelyn

Yao, Matthew Yap, Samantha Yee, Sriaditi Yellamraju, Felix

Yin, Alexander Yoon, Cecilia Yoon, Chloe Yoon, Emily Yoon,

Matthew Yoon, Yeowon Yoon, Allison Yu, Joshua Yu, Kathy Yu,

Miles Yui, Jolin Zeng, Angelina Zha, Andrew Zhang, Matthew

Zhang, Tiana Zhang, Xiruo Zhang, Aaron Zheng, Iris Zheng,

Oscar Zhong, David Zhou, Patrick Zhou, Vanessa Zhou, ZiHan

Zhou, Zifan Zhou

CO: Ellory Anne Bauersfeld, Zachary Gao, Owen Tribbett,

Michael Zhang

CT: Emma Frisbie, Shaoheng He, Henry Jin, Anushka

Khubchandani, Cole Kim, Grace Lee, Jai Patel, Allison Phelan,

Daksh Suryadevara, Carina Weidmann

DC: Ayonlah Mckia Carter, Arin Tucker, Luke Paul

Kannankeril Voss

DE: Joseph Zogheib

FL: Christy Banker, Matthew Bartel, Sam Crimaldi, Grace

Diez, Noor El-Helw, Lilly Freese, Suma Gadde, Anusha Gupta,

Cameron Hamilton, Tristan Hoon, Noah Howes, Yash Jhala, Eric

Mathemeier, Evangeline Mathemeier, Enzo Paesano, Yuthika

Panigrahi, Joseph Penkala, Andrew Polhemus, Ashleigh

Polhemus, Kaya Price, Adeline Roach, Carina Rocco, Alana

Rodante, Zanele Sanchez, Selena Shen, Arav Shintre, Andrew

Slentz, Michael Wagner, Michelle Wagner, Yuelu Wang, Evan

Warford, Bo Warnken, Xiaowen Zheng

GA: Veeksha Annapureddy, Rhythm Bazari, Kessler Bibb,

McFerrin Bibb, Read Elizabeth Blanco, Cailin Bohm, Jatin

Bottu, Lia Heard, Elizabeth Hong, Nyla Hopkins,

Siddhu Jitta, Sahasra Kalva, Emiliana Korin, Katherine

Kringelis, Jin Won Lee, Jason Park, Mary Thomas Smith, Colbie

Stanek, Aaron Michael Urbanawiz

HI: Cassidy Goldyn, Jessica Lee

ID: Philip Broome, Jiwon Park, Kyle Brill Rohlinger,

Harrison Wise

IL: Ava Babula, Noah Cho, John Ciok, Daniel Goodwin, Gage

Lang, Riya Narepalem, Amritha Praveen, Cameron Rajcevich,

Kate Reidenbach, Ria Saini, Aislinn Taylor

IN: William Chambley, Samuel Dixon, Paige Earls, Lindsey

Gunter, Sydney Kruger, Sophia Miller, Ethan Preyss, Lucas

Preyss, Alessandro Salerno, Jonathan Smith

KS: Jaya Bhoot, Ben Caisley, Mira Gupta, Landon Lobaugh,

Sarim Rashid, Aditya Rastogi

KY: Katie Allison, Kate Solon

LA: Spencer Sutton Creech, Charlotte Gomes, Luka

Mikaberidze

MA: Keira Condon, Charlotte Elwy, Rebecca Fusco, David

Kang, Sara Khan, Hugh Kramer, Donya Shah, Hanna Suzuki, Ryan

Tang, Lucas Yang, Tomas Young

MD: Alexander Butler, Evelyn Chao, Luke Cho, Sophie Huang,

Amira Mhoon, Liam Riley, Junie Ro, Fenley Scurlock, Anabel

Sha, Jonathan Zhong Shan, Madison Shapiro, Jeremy Tao, Evan H

Xin, Sophia Yeung, Brandon Yu, Lin Zheng

ME: Victoria Elizabeth Wahlig

MI: Tommy Bullinger, Nicholas Caplea, Hannah Davis, Noah

Davis, Lauren Hatto, Jishnu Kandalam, Daisie Knoll, Yuna Sun,

Maya Thornton

MO: Ruby Ackermann, Marina Benson, Avalee Flores, Juliana

King, Jonathan Dean Roberto King de Paz, Shelby Lombardo,

Rehema Oyugi, Lawton Satterwhite, Claire Xiao

MS: Ella Boykin, Trevor Philips, Robert Luke Schilling,

Lilly Lauren Shannon

NC: Sumeyye Ates, Jordan Baker, Arianna Bhaskar, Omer Deniz

Demirci, Ruthwik Dhama, Rex Dover, Vivian Funderburk, Jessica

Gozali, Sia Gullapalli, Ada Helms, Manasi Iyer, Ashley Ji,

Siena Lewis, Rocky Lutz, Marlena Marrelli, Anish

Thirupaiahgari Meruva, Rohnish Panwar, Rian Patel, Delaney

Santoro, Vikram Thakral, Parker Townsend, Pramithi Upadhya,

Seehe Veera, Asya Yuksekkaya

NH: Lauren Berning, Cecilia Bihari, Alex Chen, Lillian

Lybrand

NJ: Jayden Altamura, Varish Ananth, Florianne Arnado,

Isabella Aschettino, Amogh Basker, Nicholas Billows, Ethan

Cha, Chloe Chen, Rebecca Cooper, Alyssa Marie Delos Santos,

Esha Desai, Noah Eichert, Noor Fatima, Rhea Fernando, Myra

Gupta, Nazim Kaban, Jishnu Kalaivan, Dohee Lee, Ezra Lerman,

Swayum Mehta, Swastik Nanda, Haktan Ozyildiz, Danny Paik,

Aabha Paranjpe, Isabella Addison Perrone, Alexander Poon,

Tulika Punia, Rohan Raghu, Alisha Redlich, Rami Rifi, Blake

Robinovitz, Akshaj Sama, Sidharth Sandeep, Umang Sharma,

Goldie Stein, Victor Tse, Oluwasorefunmi Wale-Akinrinde,

Elizabeth Wang, Eunseo Whaong, Levent Yildiz

NV: Leighton Bekhor, Matthew Caliboso, John Fitta Denman,

Chloe Kim, Mark Moonie, Gennavieve Nakhle, Lily Nethercott,

Rehan Pervaiz, Sachin Reddy, Claire Song, Idin Toussimehr

NY: Nagi Aitbayeva, J'Viona Baker, Marissa Banson, Ryan

Dedianous, Azalea Dietz, Jasmine Eyal, Annie Falcone, Arihunt

Garg, Skylar Holliday, Salahaldeen Ibrahim, Sumaya Jashim,

Paige Josling, Hayden Ko, Crystal Lau, Sofia Leder, Ana Marie

Loter, Daniela Luci, Euan Nathan, Nikhil Rughwani, Julia

Senders, Andrew Sion, Madeline Sotomayor, Chase Timberger,

Eyal Traeger, Sophie Wang

OH: Chenuli Attanayake, Abinav Dinesh, Prisha Echuri, Ellie

Falb, Ayesha Faruki, Aarush Gupta, Kira Iovenko, Sanya Joshi,

Bridget Kirwin, Aryan Niranjan, Vainavi Ravi, Aviraj Soin,

Angela Tang

OK: Krishna Bhadriraju, Clark Bigler, Maryanna Ebert, Owen

Lavigne, Hannah Linsenmeyer

OR: Clara An, Lisa Chien, Ishita Grandhi, Olivia Lu, Naomi

Robinson, Ronav Sharma, Yeda Song

PA: Logan Bohrer, Riley Bohrer, Joshua Chen, Dylan Fearing,

Matilda Gebhardt, Ryan Gringeri, Amir Hasan, Sean Jeon,

Rachel Kim, Junah Lee, Nathaniel Otto, Claire Titus, Emel

Turkmen, Jingxuan Wang, Ryan Wen, Andy Wu

PR: Siona Pramoda

RI: Justin Kuo

SC: Savannah Boyes, Caroline Brandes, Tori Li, Molly

Scribner, Jordan Whitesides

TN: Roselyn Joseph, Hudson McCall, Cooper Mears, Allie

Paschall, Tyler Sparks

TX: Madam Abdelrasoul, Zeynep Aydogdu, Samyukth Ayyar,

Sneha Bondalapati, Dylan Bosita, Shanti Buchanan Bolanos,

Sashi Bui, Alex Cai, Shri Chada, Dhruv Chandak, Navya Chandu,

Erin Choi, Sunwoo Choi, Alden Comes, Alissa Feng, Yash Nirmal

Ganatra, Edwin Gao, Ethan Gao, Divya Gouni, Ajay Gundlapalli,

Brice Halfman, Serene Han, Ahyan Hassan, Clayton Hicks, Neel

Hiremath, Padma Jaghannaathan, Andrea Johnson, Austin Jones,

Kristin Joseph, Vedanth Kashyap, Siva Khande, Anika

Krishnamoorthy, Tahir Kuscu, Willow Lemanski, Jeffrey Liu,

Ciara Lyon, James Joseph Mahon VI, Sambith Manohar-Reddy,

Matthew Martinelli, Esra Marulcu, Kerrin McDevitt, Shanttal

Miller, Maureen Min, Sukhadeva Mitta, Clara Grace Moore,

Samuel Mun, Sonia Naidu, Neil Narvenkar, Delainie Nichols,

Brynley ORourke, Zayaan Rab, Aathmika Raj, Rishab Randeep,

Akshara Reddy, Riya Sajan, Molly Patricia Schmid, Beyli

Shalin Shah, Saanavi Shah, Neha Sharma, Isabella Sim, Olivia

Sim, Rahul Singhal, Arnav Sivakumar, Ashley Song, Trevor

Suggs, Jay Tamirisa, Manveer Singh Tib, Reilly Tol, Oliver

Tsao, Halil Tunc, Holly Vessa, Elise Wakefield, Emily Wang,

Piper Whittenburg, Dev Satvik Yadlapalli, Anna Yi, Allen

Zhang, Luke de Waal, Timothy de Waal

UT: Elmira Aziyeva, Zachary Judkins, Ziling Li, Sejid

Muhic, Jonah Wood

VA: Nalan Beyazoglu, Amna Bibi, Sanaya Bothra, Emily

Christina Brown, Adhiraj Chhoda, Gavin Couling, Derin

Goktepe, Colleen Harrington, Scott Heilig-Roby, Eshan Iyer,

Vedanth Iyer, Dhruv Jagasia, Matthew Kao, William Kennedy,

Rushil Kukreja, Jonathan Li, Yousef Malik, Zarnishan

Mirzalizade, Nikhilesh Narendran, Velan Natarajan, Elif

Okandan, Neya Ramvel, Karan Sadiora, Luca Sanchez, Dorothy

Rose Shirley, Brandon Skaredoff, Jonathon Slegar, Anya

Thakker, Rhea Thakker, Numan Top, Elijah Wilson, Arthur Wu

VT: William Cunningham

WA: Ye Chan Ameling, Marjorie Bunch, Logan Burkard, Cody

Edwards, Maria Fletcher, Colton Hong, Channing Huang, Kiyan

Kamran, Steven Kim, Scarlett Kinville, Ethan Lee, Angelina

Lu, Kaela McLachlan, Devin Sharma, Callie Wilkinson, Meryem

Yalcin, William Yoon, Seoyoung Yun

WI: Jovan Joseph, Jacob Lindsay

WY: Max Andersen, Deanna Davis, Reagan DeBall, Presley

Frink, Kami Harris, Sam Harshberger, Kayleigh Hood, Ellese

Klaassen, Hattie Lynn Lerwick, Joseph Lucero, Olivia

Reynolds, Carly Robertson, Slade Taylor, Jillian Trimble,

Tyler Trimble, Bella Nicole Yoder

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the consumer product company SC Johnson for their longstanding commitment to eliminating malaria and other types of insect-borne disease. Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin, which I have the honor to represent in this chamber, SC Johnson is dedicated to creating a more sustainable, healthier, and transparent world that inspires people and creates opportunities. SC Johnson's commitment to working for a better world is evident in how the company has brought its expertise in science, innovation, and partnerships to address the challenge of preventing and eradicating malaria.

For nearly 70 years, SC Johnson has used its entomological expertise, philanthropy, and product innovations to help families protect themselves from malaria and other deadly insect-borne diseases. In 2013, the company established a dedicated Healthier World Initiative team, which has been focused on preventing insect-borne disease among the world's most vulnerable populations and increasing health education in communities around the globe. In this effort, SC Johnson has established a network of 86 community health posts across four countries--Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Indonesia. These clinics serve over two million people annually who would otherwise not have access to care. In Rwanda in particular, the clinics have reduced the average walking time to receive care from 3 hours to 30 minutes.

The company's primary focus in this initiative has been to develop and distribute a new class of tools known as spatial repellents to prevent the transmission of diseases like malaria and dengue. Ten-plus years and more than $120 million invested in development, testing, production, and deployment has produced two spatial repellent products--SC Johnson and Guardian and SC Johnson Mosquito Shield. In August 2025, the World Health Organization announced a policy recommendation for spatial repellents to be used to fight insect-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, and Zika--allowing these prevention tools to be distributed to communities with a high malaria burden at a much larger scale. This is one of the first new categories of vector control tools to receive a policy recommendation from the WHO for malaria prevention within the last 25 years.

A second important milestone took place on May 13, 2026, when SC Johnson, the U.S. State Department, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria announced a three-year agreement to expand access to Guardian spatial repellents. That collaboration will support the procurement and distribution of approximately 30 million units of Guardian to protect more than 60 million people in high malaria burden countries over the next three years.

Guardian is a low-cost, electricity-free tool that provides protection for up to a year and can be used in a wide range of household and humanitarian settings. SC Johnson's partnership with the Global Fund demonstrates how American innovation combined with the Global Fund's global procurement and delivery platform can expand access to life-saving malaria prevention tools, while also enabling sustainable manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, partnering to deploy this innovative American malaria prevention tool aligns with the America First Global Health Strategy, which seeks to promote American public health innovation and technology around the world through private sector engagement and collaboration.

Finally, as a testament to SC Johnson's commitment to improving people's lives around the world, the manufacture and distribution of their Guardian spatial repellent remain a not-for-profit initiative for SC Johnson.

Sadly, malaria remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, causing more than 600,000 deaths each year, most of them children under the age of five in Sub-Saharan Africa. And nearly every minute, a child dies from this entirely preventable disease. While these statistics may seem discouraging, the innovative work of companies like SC Johnson, along with many other organizations that are united in the fight against malaria, gives me great hope that we are moving closer to eliminating this terrible disease that robs individuals and families of precious futures.

Mr. Speaker, I commend SC Johnson, along with the vision and commitment of their Chairman and CEO Dr. Fisk Johnson and the dedication of the company's Healthier World Initiative team, for working to protect vulnerable families from malaria and other insect- borne diseases. I have no doubt that SC Johnson's innovative malaria prevention tool will be a true gamechanger in achieving our shared vision of a world where no one dies from a mosquito bite.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1300, I call up the bill (H.R. 1329) to permit the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum to be located within the Reserve of the National Mall, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1329, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Act, introduced by my colleague, Representative Malliotakis, from New York.

This year, our Nation marks its 250th birthday. It has been 250 years since we declared independence. As we celebrate this milestone, I think it is all the more worthy that we pass this bill and begin construction of the museum dedicated to the history of American women.

Throughout our history, women have played a pivotal role in so many of our Nation's most celebrated achievements and innovations. In my home State of Wisconsin, three women participated in the famous 1854 meeting at the Ripon schoolhouse, where the Republican Party was born.

Mr. Speaker, I was proud to support previous legislation authorizing the creation of this museum. Today's bill takes the important next step by designating an exact location on The National Mall. Additionally, it creates guardrails to ensure this museum does not represent history in a partisan way.

I thank Representative Malliotakis for her work on this bill and her continued support to get this to the floor. She has been tenacious in a great way to get us to this spot. I thank her for her hard work.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I remind my colleague that Democratic leadership had the full opportunity in the 117th Congress to bring forward this legislation. They chose not to. They used their time to do things like rename the Cannon Caucus Room after the current Speaker in the 117th Congress. That is just a reminder of the importance that this bill has on our side.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis) to speak on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Lee), also a member of the House Administration Committee, to speak on this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Florida.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Cammack), the mother of Augusta, to speak on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. De La Cruz) to speak on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis), who is the author of the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support H.R. 1329, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Act, as introduced by my colleague Representative Malliotakis from New York.

As we know, this year is the Nation's 250th anniversary, and we have an opportunity to place the Women's History Museum of the Smithsonian on The National Mall. The bill designates and takes an important step by designating the exact location of where that museum would be on The Mall and provides guardrails regarding the content of the museum.

Mr. Speaker, I thank, again, my colleague Representative Malliotakis for her hard work on this issue. I encourage my colleagues to support this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, per House Resolution 480 and Committee on House Administration Resolution 119-13, the Chief Administrative Officer has informed the Committee that all current Members of the House have completed the required training for 2025.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 4530) to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, the bill before us today was drafted to address staffing shortages with the United States Capitol Police.

Currently, officers are forced to retire at age 57, unless they receive a waiver from the Capitol Police Board. With a waiver, an officer may continue working until they are age 60. S. 4530 extends the waiver timeline.

Under this bill, the Capitol Police Board will have the authority to grant waivers to sworn officers until they turn 62. Right now, nearly 60 sworn officers are working with a waiver.

Unless we pass this statutory change, each of these officers will be forced to retire within the next few years. These forced retirements will only compound the staffing shortage issue that we are facing within the Capitol Police force.

Notably, there is past precedent for this policy change. On two occasions, Congress has temporarily raised the mandatory Federal law enforcement retirement age to 65 to address staffing issues at the FBI. I will also note that this bill gives the Capitol Police Board discretion when deciding who is still fit for the job.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the leader of the Republican Conference.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

I just thank my colleague, Mr. Morelle, for his work in moving this bill through quickly as well as the leadership of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for also engaging this, as well as Leader Scalise. I think we all recognize the hard work that the men and women of the United States Capitol Police force do day in and day out to make sure that this institution is open and accessible to the people and those who visit here, as well as staff and Members are kept safe.

This bill is a real opportunity to make sure that those individuals who have crossed the age of 60 but still are ready, prepared, and able to serve in the United States Capitol Police are able to do that.

I appreciate the work of all of my colleagues in moving this through. I encourage all of our colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.