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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-3)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) and Aviation Chairman Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22) released a statement following the fifth session of the bipartisan Air Traffic Control (ATC)/National Airspace System (NAS) Modernization Working Group:

“Today’s session brought together leaders from the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), advanced air mobility (AAM), and emerging aviation technology sectors. New entrants are continuing to shape how people and goods move across the country, and the discussion focused on airspace integration, traffic management, and safety as these industries grow.

“The productive dialogue during these working group sessions is providing critical insight as we work to modernize our air traffic control and national airspace systems to support the technology that will drive the next generation of air travel. We look forward to hosting additional sessions to give more aviation stakeholders the opportunity to share their perspectives.”  

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-3)

Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that President Donald Trump signed her bipartisan bill into law, aimed at addressing the impact of substance use on America’s workforce. The legislation would reauthorize the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective Employment and Reentry (CAREER) Act, which supports individuals recovering from substance use disorder, ensuring they can reenter the workforce and maintain gainful employment.

“Addiction has torn through families across Kansas, and those in recovery deserve a fair shot at rebuilding their lives,” said Davids. “I want to thank President Trump for signing this bipartisan bill — together, we’re giving people the support they need to get back to work, stay healthy, and live independently. This is about second chances and restoring stability for families, and I’m proud to champion it.”

The CAREER Act assists individuals recovering from substance use disorders by helping them access stable, transitional housing and offering essential support to reenter the workforce and sustain employment. This legislation strengthens two successful programs, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support Grant Program and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Recovery Housing Program.

The bill, originally introduced alongside RepresentativeAndy Barr (R-KY-06) and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), was signed into law as part of the bipartisan Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization (SUPPORT) Act.

To ensure a safer and healthier community, Davids has made it a priority to address the opioid and fentanyl epidemic head-on. She hosted multiple summits with law enforcement, health care workers, and education professionals on combating the fentanyl epidemic and has taken a number of legislative actions based on the specific needs of the Kansas Third District, including:

• Securing a nearly $16 million grant to help law enforcement seize illicit drugs like fentanyl, reduce violent crime associated with drug trafficking, and improve data collection.
• Voting to permanently place all fentanyl-related substances into a Schedule I class, labeling the drug as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use.
• Joining a bipartisan group of lawmakers to request funding for new handheld mass spectrometry trace-level chemical detection devices at domestic ports.
• Urging the FDA to take up expert recommendations and make Narcan, a common naloxone nasal spray, available without a prescription — which they did earlier this year.
• Helping pass a bipartisan bill to create a public awareness campaign about synthetic opioids. This came after meeting with Libby Davis, a Johnson County resident whose son passed away after taking a counterfeit pill that was unknowingly laced with fentanyl.
• Pushing for expanded federal grant opportunities so law enforcement and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) can easily acquire life-saving naloxone kits.
• Visiting the Port of Long Beach to see how the port uses state-of-the-art technologies to prevent harmful substances — like fentanyl — from entering the country illegally.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Doug LaMalfa 1st District of California

Washington, D.C.—Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement after President Trump announced an economic assistance package for American farm producers:

“I appreciate the Trump Administration for taking important action to protect farm country,” said Rep. LaMalfa. “American agriculture is faced with skyrocketing input prices and rising labor costs and is in much need of assistance. This year we achieved monumental successes for farming via H.R 1. We increased the Death Tax exemption so that family farms can stay in families. We achieved wins in the Farm Bill like crop insurance reforms and updated reference prices. Importantly, passage of the Secure Rural Schools act is on the horizon as well. However, there is still much work to be done, and I am actively working with the Trump Administration and the House Agriculture Committee to make sure all the farm commodities we have here in Northern California are supported as well. Food security is national security, and I commend the Administration for the release of this farm aid package.”

Last week, Congressman LaMalfa introduced bipartisan legislation with Reps. Thompson (D-CA), Newhouse (R-WA), Salinas (D-OR), and Panetta (D-CA): the Specialty Crop & Wine Producer Tariff Relief Act. The bill provides direct support to specialty crop growers and wine producers facing economic losses from trade relations and serves as a blueprint for supporting all of farm country, not just the crops covered in today’s announcement. Rep. LaMalfa is committed to working with the Trump Administration and Secretary Rollins to find a way to include specialty crops in future packages. Countless specialty crops have been affected by trade relations, and they need to be considered in any path forward.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa is Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba Counties.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Doug LaMalfa 1st District of California

Washington, D.C.—Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) and Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO), alongside their colleagues Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) Ron Wyden (D-OR), are leading a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in sending a letter to House leadership requesting urgent reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Self Determination Act. The bill, which unanimously passed in the Senate in June, would reauthorize the program through Fiscal Year 2026 and provide lapsed payments for 2024 and 2025.

Funding for the SRS program lapsed in September of 2023, with the last authorized payments distributed to counties in early 2024.

“. . . Counties and school districts across 41 states have seen a 63 percent cut in funding.  This $177 million loss is devastating for rural communities, leading to school closures, delayed road and bridge maintenance and reduced public safety services.  These are not abstract policy debates; they are tangible consequences for local governments and the communities that steward untaxed federal lands,” the letter reads. 

View the full text of the letter here.

“Counties applaud Senators Crapo and Wyden and Representatives LaMalfa and Neguse for leading this bipartisan push to reauthorize Secure Rural Schools,” said National Association of Counties (NACo) Executive Director Matthew Chase. “With unanimous Senate support and strong bipartisan support in the House, the path forward should be clear: SRS keeps schools operating, roads maintained and public safety services funded in communities that manage vast federal lands, and must be reauthorized now. Given that more than 700 rural counties have been awaiting these payments since the program lapsed at the end of FY 2023, we urge House leadership to act expeditiously by including SRS reauthorization in any end-of-year package.”

“Every public school student in this country should have opportunities and resources that are not determined by their ZIP code,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association. “Our students deserve access to a wide range of learning experiences that prepare them for the real world. Today, one in five public school students attends a rural public school. Rural students and the communities that support them need sustained investment. That is why we applaud the bipartisan, bicameral call for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act and send it to the President for signature. Our nation’s rural students need this support to reach their full potential. We are grateful to Senators Crapo and Wyden and Representatives LaMalfa and Neguse for their steadfast commitment to rural communities, their families, and their students through their leadership on this important measure.”

Background on the SRS program: 

• The first SRS program was authorized in 2000 with enactment of the SRS and Community Self-Determination Act.
• This legislation specifically assists counties containing tracts of federally owned forest land that are tax-exempt.
• The program provides payments to county governments in areas where those forests are located because counties do not receive tax revenue from federal land; the payments come through timber receipts and other revenue generating activities within U.S. national forests.
• Since the program was not reauthorized, county payments reverted to 1908 timber sharing law, which represents about an 80 percent cut for some counties.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa is Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba Counties.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Foster (11th District of Illinois)

Geneva, IL — Today, Representative Bill Foster (D-IL) fulfilled his pledge and donated the salary he received during the government shutdown to the Northern Illinois Food Bank. During the Republican shutdowns in 2013 and 2019, Rep. Foster also donated his pay to the food bank. 

“Even before the government shutdown, increasing grocery costs and Republican cuts to SNAP have left too many families in Illinois struggling to put food on the table. During the shutdown, Trump did everything he could to avoid fully funding SNAP and leave families without their food assistance. Now, Trump’s USDA is threatening to withhold SNAP funding from Democratic-led states if they don’t hand over SNAP recipients’ personal information.

“While uncertainty over SNAP funding still remains, I’m happy to support the Northern Illinois Food Bank. They have been an invaluable resource to those in our community struggling with hunger and food insecurity, and I’m committed to doing everything I can in Congress to support their work by pushing back against SNAP cuts and fighting for a more affordable future,” said Rep. Foster.

Earlier this year, Republicans passed a budget bill that put 360,000 people in Illinois at risk of losing their SNAP benefits—the largest cut to food assistance in U.S. history.

The Northern Illinois Food Bank is a non-profit organization focused on providing food to those in need across northern Illinois.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Ruthless Podcast to discuss President Trump and House Republicans’ aggressive agenda to lower prices for hardworking Americans through historic tax cuts, bringing investment into America, unleashing American energy, and permitting reform. Leader Scalise also previewed House Committees’ work on health care legislation to lower premiums and provide families with more options.

Click here or the image above to view Leader Scalise’s full interview. 
Highlights from Leader Scalise’s interview:On President Trump’s historic leadership:“They hate [President Trump] so much, and they hate his success. That’s, I think, what they’re jealous of, that he’s been so successful. When Joe Biden, the autopen, Joe Biden didn’t even know what he was doing because there was an autopen doing so much of it. But this guy doesn’t sleep. He’ll call me at seven in the morning on a Sunday. You hear from him at 11 o’clock at night. President Trump has been the funnest guy to work with. But I’ll tell you, he’s engaged… he understands what’s going on in all of the different areas.“He is our best salesman. He’s our best closer because he cares about getting this country back on track, and he knows the details, too. He can get in the weeds with you if you want, but he also loves the country, and you see that passion every day. It’s sad that people hate him for that. The fact that he’s getting done what he said. He ran on very specific things: I mean, I’m going to secure the border. No tax on tips. It’s all done. All done in his first three months. If somebody hates him for that, what do they hate America? I mean, this guy is delivering for America on the things that he was elected by 77 million people to do.”On House Republicans’ efforts to lower prices: “We’re working to deliver for the American people. I mean, obviously, we’ve done some big things already. There’s more we want to do. I know the buzzword today is affordability, but it’s really, do you have more money in your pocket today? Do you feel better about how things are going in the country today than a year ago and three, four years ago when Joe Biden was there? That’s ultimately the question next year. I sure know what I feel because I see what we’re doing, and I’ve already seen how it’s making an impact.“We’ve seen tens of billions of dollars per state come in in new investment. Per state. You’re talking about hundreds of billions, if not over a trillion dollars in new manufacturing plants being announced in America since Donald Trump took office, and this Congress came in and set better rules of the game. We set better tax policy, by the way. Not giving new tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, saying nobody’s taxes will go up.“No tax on tips. Average pay, by the way, $32,000 a year. Elon Musk is not working for tips. But the single mom may be working two shifts at the diner, that is going to be $1,500 more in her pocket by the end of this year. It’s retroactive to January, but a lot of people won’t really see it until they file their returns in April of next year. They’re going to get a lot of money back, by the way. No tax on overtime. Who’s that? Again, not millionaires and billionaires… Every Democrat, by the way, voted to raise your taxes 30%. There’s a real contrast going into next year: What America do we want versus Democrats?“We’re bringing a permitting reform bill. By the way, we’ve worked really hard to make it bipartisan, but you’re going to see in the next few weeks a bipartisan permitting reform bill. That will not only allow us to build more things in America, but it’ll allow us to lower costs. Why does it cost so much money for things? If you want to build a road, a bridge, a pipeline from Pennsylvania, where they can actually frack and produce oil and natural gas, into New York, where they don’t allow it, so you have to bring it in on a tanker from a foreign country. How nuts is that policy? But imagine if you could have permitting reform, and then all of a sudden, you can not only build things, but build them in two years instead of 10 years because people aren’t abusing the Endangered Species Act, and there’s some mouse nobody’s ever heard of.“How about we actually allow people to build stuff and care about the endangered American worker and bring them back? I think more people would rather bring them back. We’re working on bills to do all of those things. That lowers costs. It brings more jobs to America, but it also lowers costs.”On House Republicans’ health care agenda: “There’s some real exciting things coming. But for anybody that really went through the scars of Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, they named it, by the way. Anybody want to make the argument that it’s affordable? That’s one of the big lies; it’s like the Inflation Reduction Act. The Democrats love naming things the opposite of what they are. Inflation Reduction Act jacked up inflation. Democrats did the Affordable Care Act. What happened? 80% premium increases on families since that bill became law. No Republican voted for it because we knew, number one, it would jack up costs for families, higher health care costs. It also destroyed the doctor-patient relationship. We have more doctors in Congress now because a lot of them had to leave the practice of medicine because it didn’t work. What we want to do is not spend hundreds of billions of dollars to insurance companies, by the way, which is the Democrats’ plan. They want to prop up insurance companies, mask the high cost of the Unaffordable Care Act, and by the way, you still will pay higher premiums. We want to lower premiums and give families options.“We’re bringing a number of bills to the floor in the next few weeks… I was meeting with the Doctors Caucus. I met with every different group, along with the three chairmen of the committees of Jurisdiction. Energy and Commerce has been working on a lot of really big things. Ways and Means Committee, the Education and Workforce Committee. They’ve all been working on different pieces to do things like association health plans… There’s no competition in health insurance. Really no transparency either. Imagine bringing those elements in. Even look at the Obamacare tax credits that everybody talks about, not the ones that are expiring. How about the ones that still exist? You’re trapped, only looking at an Affordable Care Act plan that you cannot afford. How about if you made that flexible and said, hey, we’re going to roll that into a health savings account, and then you can go shop it around and buy a better plan. You want to stay in Obamacare? That’s your choice. I think a lot of people would love to get out of it, but they’re trapped right now. Imagine if you said that money, taxpayer money, can now be flexible to go anywhere, and everybody’s going to compete for your business and want you to move to a lower cost plan for you and your family, maybe a lower deductible. How about we allow those things to happen? We’ve got bills to do that.“Other things on lowering prescription drug costs. We’re going to be bringing bills to the floor in the next few weeks to do exactly that. We’ve been putting that together for a few weeks. Again, doing a lot of things, walking and chewing gum. A lot of committees are working on all of these issues. You’re going to see these votes. I love to see where Democrats are going to be on those votes, by the way. Lowering health care costs and giving families options. Is that what they’re going to vote for? Are they going to just vote to bail out the big insurance companies and continue to trap you on a plan you don’t like?”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), and Congressman Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) to discuss House Republicans’ work to safeguard small businesses from regulations and burdensome costs, protect our education system from Communist China, and lower premiums for hardworking families. Leader Scalise also condemned the horrific attack against the National Guardsmen in our nation’s capital.

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Highlights from Leader Scalise’s remarks:On the senseless act of violence against National Guardsmen in DC:“Our country was shocked the day before Thanksgiving to see just a senseless, violent act of this tragedy, attack on our National Guardsmen here in DC, the West Virginia National Guardsmen that were both attacked for just doing their jobs and keeping DC safe. I, too, want to extend my prayers and sympathy to Sarah Beckstrom’s family for the horrible loss of her life and just senseless, senseless loss of life for such a young girl with great promise. Then, of course, Andrew Wolfe, who is still at the hospital fighting for his life from the gunshot wounds that he suffered. We keep him in our prayers, his family as well, and pray that he is able to recover and come back. I know the people of West Virginia share that, the people of America share those prayers.”On protecting small businesses from Biden’s failed policies and schools from Communist China:“This week, we have a number of bills we’re bringing to the floor to continue to address some of the problems that were created by the Biden Administration that drove up inflation, that drove up higher costs. We saw so many ridiculous rules and regulations that added costs to the products we buy, our small businesses that were under attack. And so, this week, we’re bringing a number of bills to reduce those regulatory attacks on small businesses, giving small businesses relief also gives families relief in terms of lower costs.“We’re going to bring more bills that came out of the Education [& Workforce] Committee to take on what is happening in our universities, in our schools, where the Chinese Communist Party tries to move Confucius Institutes into our schools, teaching our children, trying to put Communist ideas into our children in our schools. And so we’re going to continue to have more transparency and prohibit that kind of money coming in from China to our schools.”On establishing a national framework for college sports:“Over the years, you’ve seen lawsuits erode the ability for the NCAA to even police college athletics to the point where now it’s the Wild Wild West. There are no rules in place, no structure. You have people that can play until they’re 26 years old in college athletics. You don’t have any protections for a lot of the student-athletes. And so, we first restore the ability for policing through the NCAA. Congress won’t be doing the regulations. It will be the NCAA having the ability to police college athletics again. We also protect women’s sports. We protect Olympic sports by ensuring that you have an equal number of women’s sports to men’s sports, that you have a minimum number of sports, so that a lot of the Olympic sports that are so important to our country as we see the Olympics coming up here again. In many cases, our Olympians come from the college ranks, and so we protect that, too. Again, just putting structure in place for what is right now a Wild Wild West atmosphere.”On lowering premiums and giving choices to hardworking families:“We’re going to continue to work on health care proposals to ensure that families have choices and lower premiums. That’s what Republicans care about. Democrats have never cared about that since they passed the Affordable Care Act and all the broken promises and lies that went with it. ‘If you like what you have, you can keep it.’ Probably the most broken promise in all of politics, where millions of families lost the good health care plans that they liked because of the Affordable Care Act. Of course, there’s nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act. All we’ve seen is increased costs, 80% premium increases. Democrats are just concerned about bailing out insurance companies who get record profits while families see higher premiums because of that failed law. What we want to do is give families options, lower premiums for families. Again, we’ve brought some bills to the floor already. We’re going to keep bringing bills to the floor to do those two things, to lower premiums for families and give them options so that they can get what’s best for their families.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement applauding the Department of the Interior’s renewed five-year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program to replace the most restrictive plan in our nation’s history put in place under President Biden: “I applaud President Trump and Secretary Burgum for this strong 5-year offshore leasing plan that will create more high-paying American jobs, lower energy costs for hardworking families and small businesses, and bolster our national security while helping our allies reduce their dependence on hostile nations for their energy. This plan will not only boost domestic exploration and production in the Gulf of America and provide much-needed predictability, but thanks to the language I included in the Working Families Tax Cut, Louisiana will receive hundreds of millions in new revenue sharing dollars from these lease sales to fund critical coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects.” Background:  In July 2025, President Trump signed into law the Working Families Tax Cut, which required at least 30 lease sales in the Gulf of America over 15 years. Additionally, Leader Scalise secured language in the law that increases the amount of revenue sharing dollars Louisiana receives each year from offshore drilling from the leases outlined in this plan. This provision in the law will bring hundreds of millions of new dollars to Louisiana for vital coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects. What Louisiana Leaders are saying: “For Lafourche Parish, one of our best weapons for coastal restoration is the revenue sharing dollars we receive from offshore oil and gas exploration and production. Today’s new five year offshore leasing plan delivers stability for this industry, and thanks to Leader Scalise’s language in the Working Families Tax Cut, we are set to receive millions more in revenue sharing dollars to protect and rebuild our coast for years to come,” said Lafourche Parish President Mitch Orgeron.“Port Fourchon has felt the impacts from the lack of offshore lease sales but this new five year plan brings back the certainty we need to regain our energy independence, strengthen our local economy with good paying jobs, and deliver more resources for our hurricane protection projects to safeguard industries critical to our nation’s energy and national security,” said Greater Lafourche Port Commission Executive Director Chett Chiasson.“Louisiana is one of the world’s leading markets for energy production, processing, and transportation, and this offshore leasing plan further secures our state’s vital role in America’s energy security with a strong outlook for future lease sales in the Gulf of America. Not only will this plan solidify billions in economic impact, including high-wage jobs for our region over the next five years, but it also offers the stability this industry needs to continue to invest and grow for the future,” said GNO, Inc. President and CEO Michael Hecht.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke on the House floor to celebrate Chief of Staff Brett Horton and thank him for his 15 years of service to the people of LA-01.

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Leader Scalise’s remarks:“Today, I rise to recognize a man whose dedication, steadiness, and wisdom have shaped not only my work in this chamber, but the work of this institution itself. I’m talking about my Chief of Staff, Brett Horton. There are few people who know Capitol Hill more intimately than Brett.“For 15 years, he’s been by my side. He began as my counsel in 2010 and worked his way through some of the most demanding, consequential roles in the House: policy director at the Republican Study Committee, floor director in the Majority Whip’s Office, and for the last decade, my chief of staff in both the Whip’s Office and the Leader’s Office. To me and to countless members of Congress and staff, Brett Horton has been far more than a colleague. He’s been a trusted advisor, steady in his approach, wise in his counsel, and deliberate in his words and actions. When the stakes were the highest, Brett’s voice was the one you wanted in the room. His fingerprints are on every major Republican policy victory we’ve achieved in the past decade.“Perhaps more importantly, he’s been by my side through tough personal and professional challenges that extend far beyond legislating. In the aftermath of the Congressional baseball shooting, an event that shook my family, my staff, and this entire conference and Congress, Brett’s leadership and friendship were unwavering. He helped carry us through one of the most difficult and unprecedented challenges we ever faced. Mr. Speaker, public service at this level demands trust, character, and unwavering duty for the institution that is this United States Congress. Brett Horton embodies all of these qualities. I’m profoundly grateful for his years of service to me personally, to this House, and to our country. As Brett begins his next chapter, I have no doubt he’ll continue to serve with the same excellence that has defined his entire career. The United States House of Representatives is the stronger institution because of Brett Horton’s distinguished service here. I wish Brett all the best in his future endeavors, and I tell you thank Brett, for your personal friendship and for your service to this great United States of America and this great Congress. Thank you, Brett Horton.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), and Congressman Nick Begich (R-Alaska) to discuss House Republicans’ America First agenda, including unleashing American energy, lowering premiums, and taking a stand against the radical left. Leader Scalise emphasized that President Trump and Congressional Republicans have been working to reverse President Biden’s record of failure.

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Excerpts from Leader Scalise’s remarks:On House Republicans hitting the ground running to deliver for American families:“It’s good to have the Democrat shutdown ended and the pain, the suffering that went on for way too long, finally be over. And now to see the House back doing its business. And of course, we missed a few weeks and so we’re making up for lost time.“We have a very robust schedule this week, as you can see, full five-day work week. We’re going to be working and having some late-night votes. Today, we have three vote series going into the night, and our members have rolled up their sleeves and are ready to get back to work, too. The committees are going to be meeting into the night this week and beyond to catch up and get back to focusing on those issues that we’ve been fighting for this entire Congress, and that is fighting for those families who have been struggling under the failed Biden agenda. All we saw under the Biden and Democrat agenda was higher costs for families, higher inflation, higher interest rates, open borders, chaos around the world. And President Trump has reversed that quickly. As you look at all of the things that this president has done, working with this Congress, we have been focused on fixing the problems that Biden created and then really setting a new course, getting this country back on track, lowering costs for families.”On President Trump and Republicans working to reverse Biden’s failed energy agenda:“You heard Chairman Guthrie and Congressman Begich talk about this great energy agenda that we’re continuing to deliver on. Of course, in the Working Families Tax Cut, we had a lot of provisions in that bill, in fact, Congressman Begich himself brought forward to open up areas in Alaska. I walked the Alaskan pipeline in section 1002 of the North Slope, and to see all of the ability to produce energy in America that had been shut down under Joe Biden. We couldn’t even produce the energy we know we have here in America because of stupid policies by the Biden Administration. And we’ve been reversing that. Many of those provisions that Congressman Begich campaigned on, he already delivered on in the Working Families Tax Cut. But there’s more to do.“We’re bringing some of those bills to the floor this week. You’re going to see the Department of Interior, probably this week, hopefully in the next two weeks, roll out their five-year leasing plan for the Gulf of America again, something that President Biden shut down that drove investment to foreign countries. We saw billions of dollars of energy investment moving to foreign countries because Biden shut down America. Well, America’s open up for business again, and that means more jobs here in America. But really importantly for families, lower energy costs and energy costs affect everything that we do. When you go to the grocery store, lower energy costs mean lower food costs for families. And so we’re going to keep delivering on that agenda. Obviously, this week. It’s going to be a very aggressive schedule, and we’re going to continue to move bills in the future.”On Democrats spiking health care premiums under the Unaffordable Care Act:“Something else the Democrats broke – we talked about this a lot during the shutdown here at this podium – and that is the health care crisis in America. The current law in health care is the Affordable Care Act. I think everybody would recognize it’s unaffordable for millions of American families. And yet they have dumped more families into that plan. And the cost increases are evident. 80% increase in cost for families since Obamacare passed. And yet, as the Affordable Care Act has failed to work for families, Democrats continue to try to shove hundreds of billions of dollars more into that failed program, and not giving relief to families, but giving COVID subsidies to insurance companies. That’s what Democrats were fighting for.“We’ve been working before the shutdown with our three relevant committees, Chairman Guthrie’s committee in Energy and Commerce, Chairman Jason Smith in Ways and Means, and Chairman Walberg over in Education and Workforce. The three committees that work on health care policy to focus on legislation that would actually lower costs for families and give families options so they’re not trapped in the Unaffordable Care Act policies that drive up their premiums. And so we’ve brought bills, we had some of those we talked about in the Working Families Tax Cut that didn’t make it all the way through the process. We’re going to be coming back to that.“We moved PBM reform last year, very bipartisan bill that Chuck Schumer sat on because he and Democrats don’t want to lower costs for families. We do. And we’re going to keep bringing those bills over the next few months.”On House Republicans standing against socialism:“We’re going to have a resolution Friday that says we stand up against socialism and the atrocities of it. It’s not just the bad policies. It’s led to murder all around the world where it’s been tried. And they don’t teach that history, unfortunately enough in our schools. And so a lot of young people don’t even get exposed to the atrocities of socialism. But we’ll surely be talking about it and voting on it this Friday. A pretty easy vote, I think, for most people. Hopefully, they say no, we believe in freedom, opportunity, and we stand against socialism. We’re going to have that opportunity this week as well, while we’re also focusing on affordability.”