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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“John Adams said our country is built for a moral, God-fearing country. In a free country, families have to be strong and self-reliant. Beginning in the 1960s, in this country, we had a massive increase in subsidies, which ignored a family with a mother and father at home. In the 1950s, about 4 percent of the children born in this country were born without a mother and a father at home. Within the next 30 years, after Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society, that 4 percent increased to over 40 percent. Many other problems came with it. Why did that happen? It happened because, right now, we have approximately 90 programs that you are not eligible for if you are not in poverty. In other words, for a mother or a father at home making $40,000, $50,000 a year, they would not get these programs.”
“Then, there are going to be millions of people, and the same people who encouraged them to come here, knowing full well they were breaking the law or having to lie about needing asylum to come here, the people who caused the mess are going to say it is horrible to remove these people. Our President Trump is going to have to step up to the plate and undo the damage done by the last administration, and he is going to remove many, many of these people. One has to remember, the reason he is removing them is because the prior administration, with a lot of encouragement from people on the other side of the aisle, were bringing people here who were coming here on false pretenses. The next issue we have to look at is one that I do hope is included in Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill. This is, I think, the biggest crisis facing America today.”
“We are now over four times that amount. Nevertheless, there are people who are going to go out there to try to divide us who say that we are not letting people come here from abroad, that we are being cruel. Mr. Speaker, 850,000 people. That is something to remember. That is before you get all the people coming here on work visas, all the people coming here on tourist visas, and all the people coming here on student visas. One just has to look around and realize that the idea that we are being cruel to people who came here across our southern border is ridiculous. Many people are coming here. Obviously, if we are going to enforce the law, we have to remove the people who came here by pretending they needed asylum and didn't.”
“What can we tell the people who feel we are being unnecessarily cruel? Every year in this country, about 850,000 people are naturalized. They are sworn in to become American citizens. I like to show up at these ceremonies. They have them in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I try to show up at one or two a year. It is kind of thrilling to watch people from all over the globe--a lot of them have good jobs; a lot of them already have their own businesses--as they are sworn in as American citizens. When you take it in 3-year increments--there is always one year or other years as an outlier. If you look at it in 3-year increments, that 850,000 over the last 3 years is the most that we have taken in, as far as I can tell, in this country's history. When I was growing up, the number of naturalized people every year was about 200,000.”
“Remember, the reason they adopted the DEI ideology is because they wanted to destroy America. They wanted to set people from one continent against another continent. Remember the statistics of how well people do here and make sure that our next generation is not polluted by this because we have way too many people floating around this country who got a certificate in DEI or a major in DEI, and they are up to no good. Another thing I want to mention here is with regard to immigration. President Trump is trying to enforce the law. I think one of the difficult problems he has dealt with is we just got done with a President who did all he could to ignore our immigration laws. As a result, we took in about 10 million people here in the last 4 years, and that is not something that we should have done.”
“Other groups that do tremendously well are the Taiwanese, the Filipinos, the Cubans, people who come here from the West Indies. They are all doing far better than the native born, despite the fact that they are not of European heritage. If anybody knows anybody who has been corrupted by this wicked ideology that implies, in America, you can't succeed unless you are a White European, look at the facts. Look how people come here and succeed again and again. I would hope you would realize by looking at these facts that you should throw the DEI ideology being taught to our college kids, and in some cases taught to our high school and middle school kids, in the garbage. Remember a communist by the name of Herbert Marcuse, who thought up this stuff in the seventies and eighties.”
“These people came to America and [[Page H1446]] didn't even know English when they were children. Nevertheless, they have come here, and now they all own houses. Their children are doing well. Their families are strong. Again, this is despite the fact that they are not of European descent. Indeed, if you look at statistics that are put out there by the Census Bureau, if you look at different ethnic groups from around the globe, you find easily the most successful group is people who came here from India, another group that didn't even necessarily know English when they got here. Indian Americans make far more income than the average American. Indeed, they make almost twice the income as the average European American.”
“The first thing we can do to prove that it is not true and every child ought to know it so they aren't corrupted by these DEI professionals that our colleges and universities are spitting out or this horrible ideology our young people are educated into is--as I was reminded again going back to my district, I met with a group of Ahmadiyya Muslims from Pakistan. Here is a group that didn't come from Europe. They aren't Christian, but nevertheless, they have a mosque in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in my district, and they are obviously succeeding very well. They have strong families. They have a good work ethic. If America were Eurocentric, as they say, they would not be so successful. I have also seen the same thing with Hmong in my district. I have a substantial Hmong population from Laos.”
“Prior to this time, people who wanted to destroy this country thought they could divide it by income, and they thought they could make everybody very mad and jealous of very successful people and tear down America by doing that. They tried in the 1960s. There were bombings, and there were anti- Vietnam protests, but they failed to bring down America because Americans themselves are hardworking, and they realized the middle- class lifestyle in America would be like a wildly wealthy lifestyle everywhere else in the world. {time} 1930 They failed. They thought: Let's educate our so-called minority people that America is a horrible country and that you are being held down because you are not a White male. President Biden made it clear that he was somewhat hostile to White males.”
“DEI or Affirmative Action has been a big part of America's landscape over the last 60 years, and it is not something that is going to go away overnight. President Trump can do what he can to wipe out this odious philosophy, but nevertheless it is important for us to educate the young people in this country as to why it is so odious. It is based on the premise that what you accomplish in this country or what you should be given in this country is based on your ancestry or your gender. It was based on the idea I think largely thought up by a guy by the name of Herbert Marcuse in the early 1970s that we can destroy America by dividing it by ethnic group or dividing it by gender. He was a genuine Communist sort of person.”
“Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025)] [House] [Pages H1445-H1447] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2025, Mr. Grothman of Wisconsin was recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.) Mr. GROTHMAN. After returning from our districts, Mr. Speaker, it is time to bring to the Chair's attention a variety of issues which we have come across over the weekend and issues that the minority party has brought up. The first issue I bring up is that regarding DEI.”