Glenn Grothman
Representative for Wisconsin · Republican · United States
“There is 1 minute remaining. Messrs. GROTHMAN, and VAN ORDEN changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Ms. De La CRUZ, Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, MRVAN, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mrs. DINGELL, Messrs. DeSAULNIER, BEYER, LUTTRELL, PATRONIS, HERN of Oklahoma, RILEY of New York, Mrs. McBATH, Mr. BARRETT, Mses.”
“(Mrs. Cammack) (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2108 So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. personal explanation Ms. RIVAS. Madam Chair, I missed three votes during a vote series today. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 255, NO on Roll Call No.”
“BRESNAHAN, WEBSTER of Florida, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Messrs. McCAUL, SHREVE, PALMER, and HUIZENGA changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Messrs. CLOUD, JOYCE of Pennsylvania, HAMADEH of Arizona, ROSE, LUTTRELL, BALDERSON, CISCOMANI, and McGUIRE changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected.”
“There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2105 Mr. KNOTT changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Stated against: Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Chair, I was in a vital meeting with Torres of California. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 256.”
“There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2151 So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Chair, I move that the Committee do now rise. The motion was agreed to. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Stutzman) having assumed the chair, Mrs.”
“Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in part A of House Report 119-755 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order: Amendment No. 1 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 2 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 3 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado.”
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“There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2122 So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Hunt The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 7, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hunt), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 215, noes 214, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No.”
“Gooden Graves Griffith Grothman Guest Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Hurd (CO) Issa Jack Jackson (TX) James Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kean Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (UT) Kiggans (VA) Kim King-Hinds Knott Kustoff LaHood LaLota Langworthy Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McDowell McGuire Messmer Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WV) Moran Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Onder Owens Palmer Patronis Perry Pfluger Reschenthaler Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rouzer Roy Rulli Rutherford Salazar Scalise Schmidt Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Shreve Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spartz Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Strong Stutzman Taylor Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner (OH) Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Wagner Walberg Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Wied Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOES--219 Adams Aguilar Amo Ansari Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bell Bera Beyer Bishop Bonamici Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Budzinski Bynum Carbajal Carson Carter (LA) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crenshaw Crockett Crow Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dexter Dingell Doggett Edwards Elfreth Escobar Espaillat Evans (PA) Fields Figures Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Friedman Frost Garamendi Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Goodlander Gottheimer Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guthrie Harder (CA) Harris (MD) Hayes Hernandez Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiley (CA) Krishnamoorthi Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Mannion Massie Matsui McBath McBride McClain Delaney McClellan McCollum McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Mfume Min Moore (WI) Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Nadler Neal Neguse Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley (NY) Rivas Ross Ruiz Ryan Salinas Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Sewell Sherman Simon Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Whitesides Williams (GA) NOT VOTING--9 Baumgartner Biggs (AZ) Clyde Fine Gosar Plaskett Radewagen Waters Wilson (FL) Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR (during the vote).”
“259] AYES--208 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei (NV) Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Barrett Bean (FL) Begich Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Boebert Bost Brecheen Bresnahan Buchanan Burchett Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Ciscomani Cline Cloud Cole Collins Comer Crane Crank Crawford Cuellar De La Cruz DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Downing Dunn (FL) Ellzey Emmer Estes Evans (CO) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fleischmann Flood Fong Foxx Franklin, Scott Fry Fulcher Fuller Gallagher Garbarino Gill (TX) Gimenez Goldman (TX) Gonzalez, V.”
“Hunt), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 208, noes 219, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No.”
“There is 1 minute remaining. Messrs. GROTHMAN, and VAN ORDEN changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Ms. De La CRUZ, Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, MRVAN, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mrs. DINGELL, Messrs. DeSAULNIER, BEYER, LUTTRELL, PATRONIS, HERN of Oklahoma, RILEY of New York, Mrs. McBATH, Mr. BARRETT, Mses. PELOSI, MATSUI, McCOLLUM, Mrs. BICE, Messrs. THOMPSON of California, MOULTON, WESTERMAN, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. AMO, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. LOFGREN, Messrs. PALMER and STANTON changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Hunt The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 6, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr.”
“Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Grothman Guest Guthrie Harder (CA) Harrigan Harris (NC) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Hinson Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (TX) James Johnson (SD) Joyce (OH) Kean Keating Kelly (PA) Kennedy (UT) Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Knott LaHood LaLota Langworthy Larsen (WA) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mannion McCaul McClain McClintock McDonald Rivet McDowell Messmer Miller (WV) Min Moolenaar Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moran Moylan Murphy Neal Newhouse Norton Obernolte Pappas Pettersen Pfluger Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rouzer Rutherford Scalise Scholten Schweikert Scott, Austin Sessions Shreve [[Page H5011]] Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Stauber Strong Suozzi Tenney Thompson (PA) Timmons Trahan Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Epps Van Orden Vasquez Veasey Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Waters Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Cohen NOT VOTING--9 Biggs (AZ) Clyde Fine Gosar Plaskett Radewagen Reschenthaler Salazar Wilson (FL) {time} 2119 Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR (during the vote).”
“258] AYES--265 Adams Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Ansari Balint Barragan Barrett Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burchett Burlison Bynum Cammack Carbajal Carson Carter (LA) Casar Casten Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Collins Comer Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crockett Crow Cuellar Davidson Davis (IL) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Dingell Doggett Donalds Elfreth Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (PA) Fallon Fields Figures Fischbach Fitzgerald Fleischmann Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Gallagher Garamendi Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Gillen Gomez Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Haridopolos Harris (MD) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Himes Horsford Houchin Hoyle (OR) Huffman Hunt Jackson (IL) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Krishnamoorthi Kustoff Landsman Larson (CT) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Mackenzie Mann Massie Mast Matsui McBath McBride McClain Delaney McClellan McCollum McCormick McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller-Meeks Mills Moore (AL) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Neguse Nehls Norcross Norman Nunn (IA) Ocasio-Cortez Ogles Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Patronis Pelosi Perez Perry Peters Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley (NY) Rivas Rose Ross Roy Ruiz Rulli Ryan Salinas Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Schrier Scott (VA) Self Sewell Sherman Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Stutzman Subramanyam Sykes Takano Taylor Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tiffany Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Tran Van Drew Van Duyne Vargas Velazquez Vindman Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Zinke NOES--161 Aderholt Amodei (NV) Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Baumgartner Bentz Bera Bergman Biggs (SC) Bresnahan Calvert Carey Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Case Castor (FL) Cole Crawford Crenshaw Davids (KS) Davis (NC) Diaz-Balart Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Evans (CO) Ezell Fedorchak Feenstra Finstad Fitzpatrick Flood Fong Foxx Franklin, Scott Fuller Garbarino Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gonzalez, V.”
“A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 265, noes 161, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No.”
“(Mrs. Cammack) (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2108 So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. personal explanation Ms. RIVAS. Madam Chair, I missed three votes during a vote series today. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 255, NO on Roll Call No. 256, and NO on Roll Call No. 257. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 4, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.”
“Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Huizenga Hunt Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luttrell Lynch Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Min Moolenaar Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Newhouse Norcross Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley (NY) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOT VOTING--12 Biggs (AZ) Clyde Fine Gill (TX) Gosar Jordan Mills Plaskett Radewagen Reschenthaler Rivas Wilson (FL) Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR.”
“The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 65, noes 359, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 257] AYES--65 Auchincloss Bean (FL) Begich Biggs (SC) Boebert Brecheen Burchett Burlison Cammack Cline Cloud Collins Comer Crane Davidson Donalds Downing Ellzey Estes Fedorchak Figures Franklin, Scott Fry Fuller Griffith Hageman Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Houchin Houlahan Hudson Hurd (CO) Joyce (PA) Kennedy (UT) Knott Luna Mace Maloy Mann Massie McClintock McCollum McGuire Miller (IL) Moore (AL) Moore (WV) Nehls Norman Ogles Perry Roy Rulli Schmidt Schweikert Self Smith (NJ) Spartz Strickland Tiffany Van Drew Whitesides Wied NOES--359 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Beatty Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros [[Page H5010]] Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Emmer Escobar Espaillat Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Feenstra Fields Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Friedman Frost Fulcher Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V.”
“There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 2105 Mr. KNOTT changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Stated against: Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Chair, I was in a vital meeting with Torres of California. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 256. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 3, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered.”
“Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guest Guthrie Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Harrigan Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hunt Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luttrell Lynch Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Min Moolenaar Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Newhouse Norcross Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley (NY) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steil Stevens Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Westerman Whitesides Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOT VOTING--15 Biggs (AZ) Burlison Clyde Fine Gill (TX) Gosar Grothman Mrvan Plaskett Radewagen Reschenthaler Rivas Thompson (PA) Torres (CA) Wilson (FL) Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR (during the vote).”
“A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 61, noes 360, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 256] AYES--61 Balderson Barrett Bean (FL) Begich Biggs (SC) Boebert Brecheen Burchett Cammack Cline Cloud Collins Comer Crane Davidson Donalds Downing Emmer Fedorchak Fischbach Fitzgerald Fry Fulcher Fuller Griffith Hageman Haridopolos Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Houchin Joyce (PA) Kennedy (UT) Langworthy Luna Mace Mann Massie McClintock McGuire Miller (IL) Mills Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (WV) Nehls Norman Ogles Onder Patronis Perry Roy Rulli Self Spartz Stefanik Steube Taylor Tiffany Webster (FL) Wied NOES--360 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balint Barr Barragan Baumgartner Beatty Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V.”
“BRESNAHAN, WEBSTER of Florida, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Messrs. McCAUL, SHREVE, PALMER, and HUIZENGA changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Messrs. CLOUD, JOYCE of Pennsylvania, HAMADEH of Arizona, ROSE, LUTTRELL, BALDERSON, CISCOMANI, and McGUIRE changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 2, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.”
“Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guest Guthrie Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lucas Lynch Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Min Moolenaar Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Stevens Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Womack Yakym NOT VOTING--10 Biggs (AZ) Clyde Fine Gosar Plaskett Radewagen Rivas Wilson (FL) Wittman Zinke [[Page H5009]] {time} 2102 Messrs.”
“255] AYES--65 Balderson Bean (FL) Begich Biggs (SC) Boebert Brecheen Burchett Burlison Cammack Ciscomani Cline Cloud Collins Comer Crane Crenshaw Davidson Donalds Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Fry Fulcher Fuller Gill (TX) Griffith Grothman Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Higgins (LA) Houchin Hunt Jordan Joyce (PA) Kennedy (UT) Knott Loudermilk Luna Luttrell Mace Massie McDowell McGuire Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Mills Moore (AL) Moore (WV) Norman Ogles Patronis Perry Rose Roy Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Spartz Steube Tiffany Van Drew Wied NOES--361 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Beatty Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V.”
“McDowell of North Carolina. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. Amendment No. 1 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 15-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 65, noes 361, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No.”
“Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in part A of House Report 119-755 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order: Amendment No. 1 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 2 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 3 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 4 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 6 by Mr. Hunt of Texas. Amendment No. 7 by Mr. Hunt of Texas. Amendment No. 8 by Mr. Gallagher of California. Amendment No. 9 by Mr. Carter of Georgia. Amendment No. 14 by Mr. Crane of Arizona. Amendment No. 15 by Mr. Crane of Arizona. Amendment No. 17 by Mr. Crank of Colorado. Amendment No. 18 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 19 by Ms. Mace of South Carolina. Amendment No. 20 by Ms. Mace of South Carolina. Amendment No. 26 by Mr.”
“8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, with Mr. Weber (Acting Chair) in the chair. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 26 printed in part A of House Report 119-755 offered by the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McDowell), had been postponed. Announcement by the Chair The Acting CHAIR.”
“Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 119 (Tuesday, July 21, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 21, 2026)] [House] [Pages H5008-H5018] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1438 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 8800. Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber) kindly take the chair. {time} 2031 In the Committee of the Whole Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill (H.R.”
“It has informed its listeners, connected its community, and proven that local radio is not only alive and well but is thriving in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. I congratulate them. ____________________”
“Each week the station produces more than 40 original programs focused on the people and issues that matter to Manitowoc. Its broadcasters celebrate local achievements, provide a platform for community voices, and ensure that local stories are heard. Since the 1960s, the Seehafer family has carried on this tradition of local service. Today, under the leadership of President Mark Seehafer and Vice President Terry Stevenson, WOMT remains a third-generation, family-run company with deep roots in the community. WOMT's excellence in truly local focus have been recognized by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association which has named it the Medium Market Station of the Year for 7 consecutive years, a well-deserved recognition. For a century, WOMT has done more than broadcast.”
“Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)] [House] [Page H4465] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CELEBRATING 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMT RADIO (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to congratulate WOMT Radio in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on an extraordinary milestone: 100 years of serving northeastern Wisconsin. Since first going on the air in 1926, WOMT has become the trusted source for local news, sports, conversation, and community programming. At a time when much of the media has become nationalized, to its detriment, WOMT remains proudly local.”
“It has informed its listeners, connected its community, and proven that local radio is not only alive and well but is thriving in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. I congratulate them. ____________________”
“Each week the station produces more than 40 original programs focused on the people and issues that matter to Manitowoc. Its broadcasters celebrate local achievements, provide a platform for community voices, and ensure that local stories are heard. Since the 1960s, the Seehafer family has carried on this tradition of local service. Today, under the leadership of President Mark Seehafer and Vice President Terry Stevenson, WOMT remains a third-generation, family-run company with deep roots in the community. WOMT's excellence in truly local focus have been recognized by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association which has named it the Medium Market Station of the Year for 7 consecutive years, a well-deserved recognition. For a century, WOMT has done more than broadcast.”
“Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)] [House] [Page H4465] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CELEBRATING 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMT RADIO (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to congratulate WOMT Radio in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on an extraordinary milestone: 100 years of serving northeastern Wisconsin. Since first going on the air in 1926, WOMT has become the trusted source for local news, sports, conversation, and community programming. At a time when much of the media has become nationalized, to its detriment, WOMT remains proudly local.”
“Our country will be protected if we turn to God and ask for forgiveness. We will be given the wisdom and the good fortune to make our country the Bible-believing country that it has been through most of our history. We will get back to the moral country that we all envision the United States to be. However, if we continue to go down the path of rejecting God and just thinking that all the wonderful blessings that we have are going to show up automatically, we will be in deep trouble. I, like the other speakers tonight, ask the American people to ask for forgiveness and ask for God's wisdom and ask us to make the appropriate decisions that America again become the moral and religious country that John Adams wanted us to be.”
“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I am honored to be able to speak here and that Congresswoman Miller has yielded me time to talk about Faith Month here. When our country was founded, John Adams said that our country was made for a moral and religious people and totally unfit for every other kind. We, therefore, must be especially concerned--and I realize there are many good people who do not go to church--that church attendance has fallen so overwhelmingly in the last 40 years, particularly in the last 20 years. I believe it has fallen 25 percent in a very short period of time. I think we should be very concerned that the number of people who say that they don't believe in God of any sort has, from the statistics that I have seen in the Gallup poll, gone up by about 9 to 1 over the last 40 years.”
“I remind people in this Chamber that we have a system of benefits right now whereby, if you are a single parent and you marry the father of your children or mother of your children, you can easily lose over $25,000 a year. In other words, the U.S. Government spends $25,000 a year bribing single parents not to get married. I thought we were supposed to treat people equally in this country, but we don't treat people equally. We have an overwhelming bias in favor of keeping parents from being married. I hope Members in this Chamber remember that as we put together Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill. We should not pass that bill unless we do something first about the massive marriage hatred that we have. ____________________”
“We do not have to have sympathy for people who came here illegally. I think it is important that we educate the American public on that because we are soon going to have to start the next phase where we not only get rid of the criminal element that came in here, but we have to get rid of the 10 million people who may not have broken a horrible law but broke the law just by coming here. It is a complete kick in the teeth to anybody who wants to come here legally to allow the 10 million people who Joe Biden let in during the last 4 years stay here. There is one more thing I will address as we begin to work on Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.”
“When you begin to flood this country with another 10 million people, as happened during the Biden administration, given the law of supply and demand, we know it is driving up rents, making it more difficult all the time for the average American to attain the American Dream. I also point out that we have significant numbers of visas which allow people to come here, as well. We have about 900,000 temporary workers or trainees at any time. We have well over 5 million people here on visas for temporary visitors for business and pleasure. As far as college students are concerned, we allow another over 400,000 people into this country on student visas. It is incredibly easy to get into this country. Rather, it is not always easy, but millions of people come into this country legally and are able to do so.”
“There are 850,000 people who did it right. It is not impossible to make your way here. By the way, that is historically a very high number. If you go back to the fifties and sixties, frequently that number was only a little over 100,000. The number of people being sworn in as new citizens is already eight times what they were in the sixties and fifties. {time} 1230 Nobody should apologize or say that we are being mean or not letting people in here. When we let in people who came here illegally, what we are doing is kicking anybody who did it the right way in the face. We know we have a housing crisis in this country.”
“This was after about a month ago, our Governor, Tony Evers, nice guy, came out with a directive implying that State employees ought not be that gung ho when it came to removing State employees from this country if they were here illegally. We have two examples in Wisconsin alone in which elected officials aren't on the page of addressing the immigration laws. I think it is important that we all be articulate enough to explain to people back home why these immigration laws are necessary and be articulate enough to explain we are not being mean to immigrants. I do not hear enough people talk about the fact that in the prior 3 years--it goes up and down by year--but if you take a rolling average, in the last 3 years, we have over 800,000 people every year sworn in as new citizens legally in this country. How often do you hear about that?”
“Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 70 (Monday, April 28, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 70 (Monday, April 28, 2025)] [House] [Page H1632] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] WISCONSIN IN THE NEWS (Mr. Grothman of Wisconsin was recognized to address the House for 5 minutes.) Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, we had an interesting 2 weeks out of this building, and sadly my home State of Wisconsin made the news again, in an effort to remove not just any person here illegally but somebody who had broken the law, an abuser, somebody who under normal circumstances would not be viewed favorably. We had a judge in Wisconsin stop the hearing. Oh, let's not worry about putting this guy in jail. Let's let him sneak out the back door so he is not removed from this country.”
“Worse, because it is new housing, I had a staffer looking for a new apartment building with her new husband, and they found out the best apartments in town were the low-income housing. In order to be eligible for low-income housing, you almost certainly can't be married. In order to be eligible, you can't be working very hard. I think this body ought to get out of the business of encouraging people not to work hard, and they especially ought to get out of the business of discriminating against people who are married with children. I sure hope that this body, when we finally deal with the reconciliation bill, gets rid of these perverse antimarriage incentives. ____________________”
“Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 64 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025)] [House] [Page H1555] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] PERVERSE INCENTIVES OF OUR WELFARE STATE (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I will point out one more time the perverse incentives of our welfare state. I will just mention one type right now: Section 42, low-income housing. Section 42 low-income housing is very generous to property developers, who wind up only having to pay for 30 percent of the cost of their housing.”
“I hope my colleagues, as they put together the big, beautiful bill, take them to heart, stop penalizing the nuclear family, start treating manufacturing especially the way it should be, and crack down on special tax provisions that benefit the very wealthy. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________”
“We have got a nice low tax rate for Wisconsin manufacturers, but we would like to see a lower rate for manufacturers in the United States than these other countries. If we are going to be a great country, not only do we need stronger families and to stop penalizing these families, but we have to stop educating our poor, young people that we are a racist country. To be a great country, we need a strong manufacturing base. We want it to be preferable to manufacture stuff in the United States than in Europe or Asia or South America. The way to do that is a lower tax rate for manufactured items. I thank the chair for paying rapt attention to all the comments I have made here tonight.”
“You are not a wealthy country because you have a lot of law firms. You are not a wealthy country because you have a lot of advertising agencies. You are a wealthy country because you make things. Our manufacturers, unlike some of these other industries, have to compete against companies abroad. Mr. Speaker, when these big multinational corporations have to decide if they are going to set up shop in Germany or Korea or Brazil or India or wherever, we want it to be favorable taxwise to set up shop in the United States. Therefore, I do believe that, when the final tax rates are laid out by the Committee on Ways and Means, I would like to see lower rates for manufacturers who, after all, are responsible for producing the wealth in this country. It is something I have pursued in my own personal career.”
“In other words, people who are investing other people's money and making, frequently, millions of dollars a year are taxed at a much lower rate than people who are welders, people who are nurses, or people who make their money any other way. President Trump came out against the carried interest loophole when he ran for President in 2016. He wasn't able to get rid of it at that time. This time, I hope that our Committee on Ways and Means, together with President Trump, stops taxing these wildly wealthy people at a lower tax rate than what the average guy or woman is making in this country. That is another good thing to do. The final tax provision that I point out is President Trump has floated the idea of having a lower tax rate for manufacturing than other industries. I applaud him for that. To be a great country, you have to make things.”
“I think we could promote that industry with a much smaller amount if we deal with some exemptions from manufacturing I am going to talk about in a second. That would be another way to bring more semiconductor manufacturing into this country. I strongly believe, along with President Trump, that a subsidy of $700 per person in this country for the semiconductor industry is unnecessary. The next thing I will bring up is the carried interest treatment for hedge fund managers. Under the carried interest loophole, you might call it, people whose primary income is derived from being entitled to some of the money they make for their investors is taxed at capital gains rates rather than regular rates.”
“First of all, even though a lot of the money is already out the door, President Trump came up against the CHIPS bill. The CHIPS bill was a public-private partnership, I guess we should call it. Whenever you hear about a public-private partnership, I think you have to hold onto your wallet, because that means a private-sector group wants some government money. The CHIPS bill is to encourage more semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. I think we have to encourage more semiconductor manufacturing, but it costs about $280 billion. That is about $700 for every man, woman, and child in the country. Does anybody really believe that the Federal Government should be grabbing $700 from everybody just to promote one industry?”
“It is a good thing if President Trump tries to get this stuff out of our institutes of public instruction. I think it is really too bad if people feel it is cool to adopt this lifestyle. It is something for us to remember, and hopefully, we will be having hearings on this topic as we delve into whether people would adopt this lifestyle in the first place if there weren't so many powerful special interests that encouraged people to adopt this lifestyle. {time} 1945 Mr. Speaker, my final point, when we come to our big, beautiful bill, a lot of it is going to have to do with taxes. I stand with President Trump on some of his items here that he has brought up in the past and some of them are the reasons why I like him. President Trump is not afraid to stand up to the special interests that seem to be so persuasive in this Chamber.”
“I think the biggest scandal is that we are educating our young people to adopt a transgender lifestyle. In Europe, when they backed off on pushing this lifestyle, the lifestyle not exclusively but largely disappeared. In other words, we have made it cool by what they do in Hollywood promoting this lifestyle. Sadly, the schools are promoting this lifestyle. I will mention, again, my own anecdotes. When I was campaigning last year, I ran into a couple of grandmothers whose grandchildren were going down this transgender route, and it broke their hearts. They wondered why this had to happen because it wasn't something they saw when they were children. It happened because our education system and our popular culture promote this lifestyle.”
“Until they took it off their website, a more recent group, Black Lives Matter, was overtly antifamily. The feminist extremists in the sixties--Kate Millett being the prominent one; you can call her the mother of women's studies--were very anti-nuclear family. These anti-nuclear family people got the upper hand, and that is why we have gone from about 4 percent to over 40 percent. I hope, as the people in this body put together their great big, beautiful bill, that we remember that a lot of the programs in our current budget are programs designed to destroy the nuclear family. I have two other quick comments. One is with regard to transgender and local schools. A lot of people have talked about men in women's sports, and I don't even think that is the biggest scandal.”
“We don't have enough money to help our daughter go through college, so she had to take out a lot of student loans. My sibling is not working, and her daughter got free grants from the government, grants she wouldn't have gotten if she was married.'' Again, is that a good thing? I am not sure it is. Again and again, in program after program, we discourage the nuclear family. That is why we have gone from a 4 percent rate of kids born without a mother and father at home to 40 percent. It was like it was by design, like somebody wanted to destroy the nuclear family. It is important to remember that we may individually not know these people, but there have always been people who wanted to destroy the nuclear family and feel that is the key to bringing down America. Certainly, the Marxists wanted to destroy the nuclear [[Page H1447]] family.”
“They said, ``Glenn, my husband and I are looking for a place to live after we get married, and the nicest places are all low-income housing.'' That doesn't seem to make any sense, unless you look at it again as certain people are out there trying to destroy the nuclear family and trying to discourage people from entering into that sort of relationship. The same thing is true of healthcare. We need healthcare for everyone, but the same thing is true of healthcare. You don't have the big deductibles that you have when people get their healthcare from working in the private sector. You might have a $10,000 or $15,000 deductible. You don't get a deductible like that if you are on the government plan. The same thing is true with Pell grants. A woman came up to me and said, ``My husband and I got married.”
“If you talk to people at the local convenience store, talk to people at the local grocery store, people are taking advantage of these programs. They may be able to buy food items that the person who is working behind the counter can't afford. We know when it comes to housing that there is section 42 tax credit housing, which is a screwed up program for many reasons. It is aimed at lower income people. The developers are incentivized to make these projects as nice as possible. I had a staffer who got married in Wisconsin.”
“These programs are familiar to all of us: earned income tax credit; what I think is the most damaging, the low-income housing programs; the healthcare programs; the food stamp programs; the Pell grants. There is program after program you get, but you would lose these programs if you had both parents in a home. Nobody takes advantage of all 90 programs, but I think it is probably not unusual to have people take advantage of 6 or 7 programs. Then, it would not be unusual for people who have a mother and father at home to be penalized over $20,000 a year if they get married. We have to look at these programs, and frequently, these programs materially put a married couple at a disadvantage. We have all heard stories of Food Share.”