Floor Statements

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 611 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 612.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 603.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 594, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 595, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 596, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 597, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 598.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 599.

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairwoman Black for her leadership on this budget. It is important that we do a budget--and it is always difficult to bring a budget forward because it represents the views that we have, and, of course, we in the House passed a budget that shows the country how we can get back to a balanced Federal budget, how we can get our economy moving again, and how we can finally rebuild the middle class.

Mr. Speaker, that is really what is at heart with this budget vote. This budget starts the process of actually going out and cutting taxes across the board so that middle class families can have a better opportunity for the American Dream. If you look over the last 10 years, we have seen our middle class evaporate in this country.

So many times, we have seen company after company move jobs overseas. And anybody who has complained about that--and I sure have been angry about it--the first thing you do is you go ask them: Why did you move the jobs overseas? And they say: Because America is not competitive again.

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, in the entire industrial world. And what it means is, middle class jobs are being shipped to other countries. We can complain about it all day, Mr. Speaker, but how about we actually do something about it? This bill starts that process--working with President Trump who wants to bring those middle class jobs back to America.

We are talking about high-paying jobs, $60,000- to $150,000-a-year jobs that left our country. We can bring those jobs back. That is what this vote is about. That is what this budget is about: starting the process to finally rebuild our middle class, to finally bring those jobs back, and to finally give a tax break to families who have been struggling for so long under slow economic growth.

Let's actually grow our economy. Growing our economy is not just good for rebuilding the middle class and for those hardworking taxpayers who will get real relief under this bill, but also to our ability to reduce the deficit and finally get back to balanced Federal budgets so that we can create a healthier economy and a healthier America.

Mr. Speaker, I urge everybody to vote ``yes'' on this budget.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted Nay on Roll Call No. 575, Nay on Roll Call No. 576, Nay on Roll Call No. 577, Nay on Roll Call No. 578, and Nay on Roll Call No. 579.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted Yea on Roll Call No. 580 and Yea on Roll Call No. 581.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 551, and YEA on Roll Call No. 552.

Mr. Speaker, during my medical recovery, I missed the following Roll Call votes. Had I been present, I would have voted:

June 15, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 308

June 20, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 309

Yea on Roll Call No. 310

June 21, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 311

Yea on Roll Call No. 312

Yea on Roll Call No. 313

Nay on Roll Call No. 314

Yea on Roll Call No. 315

June 22, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 316

Yea on Roll Call No. 317

Nay on Roll Call No. 318

Yea on Roll Call No. 319

June 23, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 320

Yea on Roll Call No. 321

Yea on Roll Call No. 322

June 26, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 323

Yea on Roll Call No. 324

June 27, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 325

Yea on Roll Call No. 326

Yea on Roll Call No. 327

Yea on Roll Call No. 328

Yea on Roll Call No. 329

Yea on Roll Call No. 330

June 28, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 331

Yea on Roll Call No. 332

Yea on Roll Call No. 333

Yea on Roll Call No. 334

Yea on Roll Call No. 335

Nay on Roll Call No. 336

Yea on Roll Call No. 337

Yea on Roll Call No. 338

June 29, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 339

Yea on Roll Call No. 340

Nay on Roll Call No. 341

Yea on Roll Call No. 342

Nay on Roll Call No. 343

Yea on Roll Call No. 344

July 11, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 345

Yea on Roll Call No. 346

July 12, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 347

Yea on Roll Call No. 348

Yea on Roll Call No. 349

Nay on Roll Call No. 350

Nay on Roll Call No. 351

Yea on Roll Call No. 352

July 13, 2017

Nay on Roll Call No. 353

Yea on Roll Call No. 354

Yea on Roll Call No. 355

Yea on Roll Call No. 356

Nay on Roll Call No. 357

Nay on Roll Call No. 358

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Yea on Roll Call No. 362

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Yea on Roll Call No. 366

Yea on Roll Call No. 367

Yea on Roll Call No. 368

Yea on Roll Call No. 369

Yea on Roll Call No. 370

Nay on Roll Call No. 371

July 14, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 372

Yea on Roll Call No. 373

Yea on Roll Call No. 374

Yea on Roll Call No. 375

Yea on Roll Call No. 376

Nay on Roll Call No. 377

Yea on Roll Call No. 378

July 17, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 379

Yea on Roll Call No. 380

Yea on Roll Call No. 381

July 18, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 382

Yea on Roll Call No. 383

Yea on Roll Call No. 384

Nay on Roll Call No. 385

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Yea on Roll Call No. 391

July 19, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 392

Yea on Roll Call No. 393

Yea on Roll Call No. 394

Nay on Roll Call No. 395

Nay on Roll Call No. 396

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Nay on Roll Call No. 399

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Yea on Roll Call No. 402

July 20, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 403

Nay on Roll Call No. 404

Nay on Roll Call No. 405

Yea on Roll Call No. 406

July 24, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 407

Yea on Roll Call No. 408

Yea on Roll Call No. 409

July 25, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 410

Yea on Roll Call No. 411

Yea on Roll Call No. 412

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July 26, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 414

Yea on Roll Call No. 415

Nay on Roll Call No. 416

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Yea on Roll Call No. 419

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Yea on Roll Call No. 425

July 27, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 426

Yea on Roll Call No. 427

Yea on Roll Call No. 428

Yea on Roll Call No. 429

Nay on Roll Call No. 430

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Yea on Roll Call No. 435

July 28, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 436

Yea on Roll Call No. 437

Yea on Roll Call No. 438

September 5, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 439

Yea on Roll Call No. 440

September 6, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 441

Yea on Roll Call No. 442

Yea on Roll Call No. 443

Yea on Roll Call No. 444

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Yea on Roll Call No. 456

September 7, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 457

Yea on Roll Call No. 458

Nay on Roll Call No. 459

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Yea on Roll Call No. 462

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Yea on Roll Call No. 478

Yea on Roll Call No. 479

September 8, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 480

Yea on Roll Call No. 481

Yea on Roll Call No. 482

Nay on Roll Call No. 483

Yea on Roll Call No. 484

September 12, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 485

September 13, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 486

Yea on Roll Call No. 487

Yea on Roll Call No. 488

Yea on Roll Call No. 489

Nay on Roll Call No. 490

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Yea on Roll Call No. 515

September 14, 2017

Nay on Roll Call No. 516

Yea on Roll Call No. 517

Yea on Roll Call No. 518

Yea on Roll Call No. 519

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Yea on Roll Call No. 524

Yea on Roll Call No. 525

Yea on Roll Call No. 526

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Yea on Roll Call No. 528

Yea on Roll Call No. 529

September 25, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 530

Yea on Roll Call No. 531

September 26, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 532

Yea on Roll Call No. 533

Yea on Roll Call No. 534

Nay on Roll Call No. 535

Nay on Roll Call No. 536

Yea on Roll Call No. 537

September 27, 2017

Yea on Roll Call No. 538

Yea on Roll Call No. 539

Yea on Roll Call No. 540

September 28, 2017

Nay on Roll Call No. 541

Wow. Mr. Speaker, you have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the people's House.

As you can imagine, these last 3\1/2\ months have been pretty challenging times for me and my family. But if you look at the outpouring of love, of warmth, of prayer, my gosh, Jennifer and I have been overwhelmed with all of that outpouring. It has given us the strength to get through all of this and to get to this point today, and it starts with God.

When I was laying out on that ball field, the first thing I did once I was down and I couldn't move anymore is, I just started to pray. And I will tell you, it gave me an unbelievable sense of calm knowing that at that point it was in God's hands.

But I prayed for very specific things, and I will tell you, pretty much every one of those prayers was answered. There were some pretty challenging prayers I was putting in God's hands, but He really did deliver for me and my family. And it just gives you that renewed faith and understanding that the power of prayer is something that you just cannot underestimate. So I am definitely a living example that miracles really do happen.

The first place I want to go to thank true angels along the way starts with the United States Capitol Police. When I was elected majority whip, as you know, the elected leadership has a security detail, and if anybody ever wondered why we are assigned security detail, I surely found out that day.

Let me tell you, I want to specifically mention Crystal Griner and David Bailey. Crystal and David were assigned to my security detail that morning. Day in and day out, they are part of our family. Jennifer and I truly do treat them as part of our family because they are with us everywhere we go. On that day, it was no different.

On June 14, they came at 6:30 in the morning. We arrived at the baseball field just to play and practice for a game of charity baseball. Nobody would have suspected what ensued, and yet, as soon as those shots were fired--I will tell you, when I was laying on the ground, one of the things I prayed for was that David and Crystal would be successful in carrying out their duties.

Both David and Crystal are incredibly well-trained and incredibly professional. But when I was laying there, not long after the first couple of shots were fired, I could hear a different caliber of weapon. That told me that they had immediately engaged the shooter. Let me tell you, if they didn't act so quickly--even after being shot both themselves, they continued to engage the shooter and ultimately got him down, which not only saved my life, but saved the lives of a lot of other people that are here in this Chamber today.

Crystal couldn't be with us today, but David Bailey is with us. David, you are my hero. You saved my life. Thank you so much. Tiger blood.

I also owe thanks to a lot of the people who were on the field with me. Right after the shooter was down, a lot of my colleagues came and ran to come check on me. One I want to mention in particular is one of those things that Jennifer and I call the little miracles that happened that day and throughout the next few months of our recovery.

We happened to have Brad Wenstrup on the field that day, and he was one of the first to come to my side. As you know, Brad is not only a doctor, but he is a decorated Army Ranger who served in combat. And one of his roles and missions was to take care of people that were wounded before they went off on the helicopter to go get prepared. Who would have thought that God would have put Brad out there on that field with me because the tourniquet he applied, many will tell you, saved my life so that I could actually make it to the hospital in time with all of the blood loss. So, Brad, where are you at? Right down in front.

Once I arrived at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, I was a little bit out of it at that point. But luckily, I ended up in the trusted hands of Dr. Jack Sava and his great team over at MedStar. They gave me a second chance at life. Through many, many surgeries, where my life was truly in the balance in a few of those, they did a wonderful job at making sure that I was well taken care of and, ultimately, made it through that point so I could get to Dr. Golden and his team who actually put me back together again, which was quite a task, to the point where I am actually able to relearn how to walk again. So, Dr. Sava, Dr. Golden, thank you for being here and thanks for your team's work.

Above all else, I want to thank my lovely wife, Jennifer. Those of you who know her know how strong Jennifer is. She is an incredibly warm and loving wife, and she is an incredible mother to our children. Somehow, through the late nights and the surgeries and all of the other things, she managed to hold our family together, to make sure that Harrison and Madison were cared for as well. Still, to this day, she is not only by my side, but she is also serving as a great mother. I am lucky to have you. Thanks for being here. I love you, Sweetheart.

While it has been a challenging time for my family, the thing that really

overwhelmed us from the start was the outpouring of love and warmth and prayers. From southeast Louisiana, the district that I represent, we saw blood drives at St. Catherine of Siena Parish. We saw prayer groups at First United Methodist Church in Slidell.

But what we also saw were prayer groups and well-wishes being given from people that we never met before throughout all of your districts. You shared it with me, and it was one of those things that was hard for us to completely comprehend that you had people from all walks of life that had never met me before, and yet, they saw what had happened and they just wanted to offer prayers.

Let me tell you, to each and every one of you--and please convey it to your constituents, and I sure convey it to my constituents back home--that warmth and love gave us just incredible strength that you can't imagine during some really, really difficult times. So that is one more example of the power of prayer.

Something else I saw firsthand wasn't a surprise to me, but it was the outpouring of love from you, my colleagues, both Republican and Democrat. I know right after the shooting--we were practicing on the Republican side and the Democrats were practicing too--my colleague and friend, and sometimes archrival in baseball from back home in New Orleans--unfortunately, the star of the game too many times--Cedric Richmond somehow figured out which hospital I was sent to, and he got there. He was probably the first person there on the scene, in his baseball uniform, to check on me.

So many others of you, again, both Republican and Democrat, reached out in ways that I can't express the gratitude and how much it means to me, Jennifer, and our whole family. It really does show the warm side of Congress that very few people get to see.

I want to thank each and every one of you for that. You don't know how much it meant to me. When I came back into this Chamber here today, just seeing the faces of all of you, it just means more to me than you can imagine. So thanks for all of that love and support.

A lot of people ask: Did the event change you? And I think those of you who know me know I am an optimistic person. I am just a fun-loving person. I am from south Louisiana, and we believe you work hard and you play hard and joie de vivre.

Is an event like this really going to change that? The first thing I can tell you is, yes, it changed me, but not in the ways you might think. It has only strengthened my faith in God, and it has really crystallized what shows up as the goodness in people. I got to see that goodness in people.

While some people might focus on a tragic event and an evil act, to me, all I remember are the thousands of acts of kindness and love and warmth that came out of this and kept me going through all of it and, again, just reemphasized just how wonderful most people are and how much compassion there is out there.

Finally, I want to talk about something that I guess hit me and probably struck me more than anything that I was not expecting, and that was the outpouring of love and support from world leaders, people I have met and have known. Benjamin Netanyahu and I have had some incredible conversations from the hospital. And Theresa May, King Abdullah of Jordan--leaders that so many of us have met--reached out. But other world leaders also reached out, people I had never met before.

That touched me in a different way because each and every one of us, we come here and we fight for the things that we believe in. I have passionate beliefs. For some reason, some of you don't agree with all of those. But it is so important that we come up here. We are the people's House. This is the place where these ideas are supposed to be debated, and we fight through those issues. But, ultimately, we come together on whatever the board shows is 218. If you can put the majority together, that is what rules the day. It is so important that, as we are having those political battles, we don't make them personal.

One of the things I saw--and I guess this is the thing that really kept coming back to me--is I tried to make sense of all of this. In comprehending the outpouring of love that I saw, it kept coming back to those world leaders. Why would leaders from around the world that I had never met before reach out and say: ``Steve, we hope you can get back to work. We hope you can come through this.''?

And what it says is, sure, they cared about my wellbeing, but more than that, they saw this as an attack on all of us. They saw this as an attack on the institution of the United States Congress and our government. And they really count on us to be successful.

Look, we all know the United States is the leader of the free world. It is something that we have, frankly, had the honor as a country to hold as a distinction for generations. And yet, when you look at that title, what it really means is, is that there are people all around the world that want freedom, maybe that have freedom, but they know the United States being strong is critical to the rest of the world having the opportunity for freedom.

That is why I am so excited to be back because, as we are fighting through the issues of the day, let's just keep in mind that we rise above the challenges of the day and understand that it is not just us and our constituents and the country, the United States, that is counting on our being successful. People all around the world who believe in freedom are counting on us as well, and we will deliver for them. That is why I am so honored to be back here in the House serving with you.

God bless each and every one of you, and God bless the United States of America.

(By unanimous consent, Ms. PELOSI was allowed to speak out of order.)

Answered Prayers

Mr. Chairman, I want to first thank my colleague from Ohio for his leadership on bringing forth this important legislation to actually help us focus more resources on killing mosquitoes, especially as the mosquito season starts, as we see so many threats with Zika, with West Nile, just the damage that we see happening around our country from mosquitoes. We have decided we are going to put resources into killing mosquitoes, and then we come about and find out about these regulations that were imposed by the courts in a way that actually makes it harder for us to kill mosquitoes.

What you hear so often from people around the country is: Why is it that you have got things happening out of Washington that make no sense?

Congressman Gibbs identified one of those areas and said it really doesn't make sense. We tried to work through a different remedy to try to get the administration to fix it, and they pointed to a court case that keeps them from fixing it.

It is one of the big frustrations you have that it actually takes an act of Congress to bring common sense into the process of killing mosquitoes, for goodness sake. But here we are doing it. At least we are spending the people's business doing something that actually injects common sense back into the things that people do in their daily lives.

All across our community and across this country, you have local governments that are really the ones that focus on killing mosquitoes, and we started hearing about this problem. Of course, Mr. Chairman, we asked the EPA to identify just how much this is actually costing.

So as everybody scrambles and fights and you hear agencies saying ``I need more money to do this,'' ``I need more money to do that,'' we need to be more responsible with the taxpayers' money, and people are saying, ``Live within your means.''

And we have asked the EPA. The EPA, Mr. Chairman, told us that the cost of implementing these EPA regulations is an extra $50 million a year. Think of how ludicrous that is. Because of the way the EPA is implementing the law, as we are trying to kill more mosquitoes, it is costing $50 million a year to comply with burdensome, duplicative regulations--rather than killing mosquitoes. We should be spending that money, $50 million, killing more mosquitoes, not killing trees to comply with ridiculous regulations.

So I want to commend my colleague from Ohio for bringing this back. The House passed this in a very bipartisan way last Congress. We didn't get it all the way to the President's desk. So this year, hopefully, we will get this bill not only passed through the House, but through the Senate and to President Trump's desk, where he will sign a bill that injects common sense back into the process of killing mosquitoes.

Let's spend our money killing mosquitoes, not killing trees and having to comply with ridiculous regulations that come out of Washington and make no sense. Let's pass this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to honor an American hero. Jeremy ``Scott'' McGuire was a special agent assigned to the National Security Investigations Division at the Department of Homeland Security in New Orleans.

Scott began his career in law enforcement while pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he received the Most Outstanding Undergraduate Pursuing a Career in Law Enforcement Award. After graduating with honors from USM, Scott was hired by the former U.S. Customs Service, where he was an import specialist.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Scott was selected to be a special agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement team at the Department of Homeland Security. There, he received numerous awards and citations while he investigated successes that included preventing the export of radioactive material in Iraq and halting an attempt to smuggle military aircraft parts to Pakistan, just to name a few examples.

On January 25 of 2016, Scott was killed in the line of duty while conducting investigations to dismantle transnational criminal and terrorist organizations that threaten the United States.

Scott will forever be in our hearts and minds. I want to thank his family for being here with us in the balcony.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairwoman of the Budget Committee for yielding.

I was in strong support of this bill, Mr. Speaker, that finally provides relief to the American people across this country from the failures of ObamaCare.

Just how bad is it failing?

You don't have to look any further than what happened in Iowa yesterday, where literally they are going to have in 94 out of 99 counties nobody to write insurance for people that are in the ObamaCare exchanges.

So what do the people, Mr. Speaker, that are opposed to this bill say to those millions of people in Iowa who are about to have no place to go to get health care?

What are the people that oppose this bill, Mr. Speaker, going to say to the millions of people with preexisting conditions across the country who are being faced with double-digit increases in their health insurance every year and, oh, by the way, premiums and deductibles as high as over $10,000, which are creaming those folks that are struggling under the weight of this bill?

So what we are replacing it with, Mr. Speaker, are reforms that actually lower premiums, that actually put patients back in charge of their healthcare decisions so that elitists up here in Washington won't tell you what you have to buy. You actually get to make that choice yourself.

You get to focus on plans that are good for your family at lower costs so that you can be in charge. And, by the way, reforming the Medicaid system, one of the most broken forms of health care so that States actually have the ability to innovate and help low-income families.

This bill is important, Mr. Speaker, to rescue the American people from a law that has failed dismally. Let's end the skyrocketing premium increases. Let's lower costs and put patients back in charge of their healthcare decisions.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor an incredible man, Capitol Police Special Agent Angel Morales, who is retiring after 21 years on the force. Angel has dedicated his entire life to serving our country.

From 1986 to 1991, he put on the uniform of our country serving in the U.S. Army, working his way up to sergeant. From there, Angel traded his Army uniform for a police uniform and served with the D.C. Metro Police.

Starting in 1996, Angel joined the Capitol Police force, where he has protected thousands of visitors, staff, and Members of Congress who come through our Nation's Capitol every single day.

Since 1998, Angel has been assigned to the United States Capitol Police Dignitary Protection Division, working with many House leaders, including Dick Armey, Roy Blunt, Eric Cantor, and, for the last 3 years, as the leader of my detail team.

I would like to thank Angel's wife, Susan, and his two kids, Tatiana and Mike, for selflessly allowing Angel to serve our Nation in these roles.

Angel, on behalf of my family and the entire Capitol family, thanks for your service. We will miss you, young man.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for bringing forward this legislation.

The FTC's light touch in case-by-case enforcement had fostered an internet economy that has become the envy of the world, much to the benefit of all American families and consumers across this country.

But rather than following the FTC's proven framework of privacy protection, the FCC came in and overreached and missed the mark with these rules, injecting more regulation into the internet ecosystem. With all due respect, the internet was not broken and did not need the Federal Government to come in and try to fix it.

The bottom line is that families expect and deserve to be protected online with a set of robust and uniform privacy protections. These rules simply do not live up to that standard.

Rather than regulating based on the sensitivity of our data, these rules are applied unevenly, based on what type of company you are or what kind of technology you use.

Consumers should feel assured online that there is a cop on the beat with a track record of success, not an agency with a history of regulatory overreach. These midnight rules are harmful, inconsistent, and should be repealed.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to adopt this important resolution.