Rosa DeLauro

Ms. DeLAURO

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Pressley).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Castor).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Escobar).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentlewoman from Texas an additional 30 seconds.

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Manning).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Ms. Sherrill).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Ms. Bush).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Pursuant to House Resolution 555, I offer amendments en bloc.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 45 seconds. This is an en bloc amendment and includes a number of proposals offered by Members on both sides of the aisle. It includes amendments offered by both Democrats and Republicans and several offered jointly by Members of both parties on which the vast majority of this body can agree. I urge support for this bipartisan en bloc, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Panetta).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Gottheimer).

Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Garcia).

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I am ready to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Carter).

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise to clarify that if this amendment passes, it does not fund the specific project referred to by Mr. Pfluger in debate. I support this general type of funding, and the text in the summary of the amendment are general, but the Committee on Appropriations has established a process for consideration of a specific community project funding request. That process is designed to ensure transparency and accountability. The intention of this amendment, as explained by Mr. Pfluger during debate, appears to fund such a project without going through the vetting process. Accordingly, I would encourage my friend to submit the project to the Appropriations Committee under the established process next fiscal year. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. Spanberger).

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I support this amendment and urge Members to pass it. I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin).

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 555, I offer amendments en bloc.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. While I have offered this en bloc amendment for the purposes of legislative efficiency, I strongly oppose it. The en bloc makes severe harmful changes to the bills under consideration. Within the Labor-HHS-Education division, the amendment would support discrimination, it would attack workers' rights, cut money from education, put affordable child care further out of reach for families. The amendment strikes a general provision from the bill that prohibits funding to organizations that do not follow the Federal regulation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Under the previous administration, HHS used taxpayer dollars to fund child welfare organizations that were willing to discriminate against families. The United States has over 400,000 children in foster care, over 125,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted. Children in foster care need and deserve every chance to be placed in loving homes. America's workers, this amendment prohibits the Department of Labor from revising the previous administration's antiworker rule, granting taxpayer-funded contractors the extraordinary power to hire and fire employees based on religious beliefs. The rule weakens antibias protections for workers by shielding Federal contractors from complying with workplace antidiscrimination laws. The amendment undermines the highly successful registered apprenticeship grant program by wasting taxpayer funds on low-quality, predatory programs with no accountability. At a time when quality, affordable education is more important than ever, this amendment cuts $122 million from the higher education account and the underlying bill. The amendment takes money away from Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, Asian-American and Native-American Pacific Islander-serving institutions, and other minority-serving institutions. Finally, as our Nation faces a childcare crisis, the amendment reduces childcare options for student parents who rely on university childcare programs supported by the Childcare Access Means Parents in Schools Program. Harmful changes. This barely scratches the surface of funding cuts and harmful policy provisions espoused in this amendment. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose this en bloc. I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Schrader).