Mary Miller

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to cut the salary of Assistant Secretary for the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education to $1. The Assistant Secretary has continually refused to enforce current Title IX law, which puts our young girls in danger. Under current statute, the Department of Education is required to protect young women and girls from being forced to compete against biological men in athletics, but the Biden administration's Department of Education is ignoring the law to impose their radical political agenda on our daughters by forcing them to compete against biological males. The Assistant Secretary's office has proposed two Title IX rules that violate congressional intent for Title IX. Title IX was created to protect girls' sports and girls' spaces, including bathrooms and locker rooms, not to promote a radical leftwing political ideology. The Assistant Secretary for the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education is not following congressional intent. Please join me in standing up for our daughters and all female athletes by supporting this amendment. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I am being very serious, and this is not petty. We want to reduce her salary to what she is worth. Title IX was specifically established to give girls and women opportunities in education and athletics, and ``sex'' in Title IX clearly was meant to be biologic and genetic, not sexual identity. This is dangerous for our girls both emotionally and physically to have biological men participating in their athletics and entering their locker rooms and bathrooms. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment to cut the salary of Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Douglas Parker to $1. Under Joe Biden, OSHA attempted to fire 84 million Americans if they didn't take an experimental COVID vaccine or show their private medical documents to their employer. Assistant Secretary Parker is an unelected bureaucrat. He does not have the power to force 84 million people to take an experimental vaccine or lose their job. Thankfully, the Supreme Court stopped OSHA from implementing their rule because it was illegal and unconstitutional. It shouldn't take the Supreme Court to stop OSHA from attempting to force an experimental vaccine on 84 million Americans. When I questioned Assistant Secretary Parker during an Education and the Workforce Committee hearing, he refused to agree with the court decision and would not commit to never again attempting to force a vaccine mandate on the American people. We must rein in Assistant Secretary Parker and the entire bloated bureaucracy that is targeting the American people. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I urge support of this amendment to hold the Biden administration accountable for their illegal and unconstitutional COVID vaccine mandate, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to cease all funding to the corrupt World Health Organization because they lied repeatedly about COVID's origin and then defended communist China after the outbreak. Last year alone, Congress approved $434 million for the WHO, and the Biden administration has been actively working to circumvent the Senate's constitutional authority to approve treaties that would give the WHO control over pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. This would be a complete surrender of our national sovereignty to an unaccountable, unelected, and corrupt international bureaucracy. It would also supercharge the WHO's power and authority to promote leftist agendas like abortion, gender identity ideology, climate change, and more. The nightmare scenario is the Biden administration surrendering our sovereignty to the WHO to institute global vaccine mandates. The WHO has gone far beyond its initial purpose of being a health advisory organization and has transformed itself into a tyrannical governing body. We must cease funding to the WHO and not give in to this power grab. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to prohibit funding of Biden's Office of Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. This office is used by Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine to promote gender transition procedures for children and title X abortion resources with taxpayer dollars. The Office of Population Affairs released a guide called Gender- Affirming Care and Young People to sidestep parents and provide children with information on chemical castration drugs and surgical castration procedures. Federal tax dollars are used by the Office of Population Affairs to run a website called Find a Family Planning Clinic that links to abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. The Biden administration uses the Office of Population Affairs to promote the radical transgender agenda while preying on vulnerable children. My amendment to the HHS appropriations bill would defund this deeply political office. Mr. Chair, I urge everyone to support this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, the American taxpayer is weary of their money being squandered on programs like this. The Office of Population Affairs is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. Parents should be deciding what is best for their children, not the Federal Government. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my amendment to defund Joe Biden's radical Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Under Joe Biden, OSHA attempted to fire 84 million Americans if they didn't take an experimental vaccine or show their private medical documents to their employer. The Supreme Court had to step in and tell Joe Biden he did not have the authority to force Big Pharma's experimental vaccine on the American people. It shouldn't take the Supreme Court to stop OSHA from attempting to force an experimental vaccine on 84 million Americans. I had the opportunity to question the OSHA Assistant Secretary during an Education and the Workforce Committee hearing. I asked him if he agreed with the court decision and would commit to never attempting to force a vaccine mandate again. He refused. We must rein in OSHA, which is exactly what this amendment does. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, what is reckless is trying to force 84 million American workers to take an experimental vaccine. OSHA needs to be reined in. It took the Supreme Court's action to stop them. Mr. Chairman, I support this amendment to hold the Biden administration accountable, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment that would reduce Deputy Assistant Administrator Jake Li's salary to $1. Mr. Li oversees all pesticide programs at the Biden EPA. The Biden EPA has consistently politicized crop reduction tools, creating uncertainty for farmers. In their most recent attack on farmers and ranchers, the Biden EPA released a new herbicide strategy at the request of the radical climate cult lobby. This program would force farmers to implement costly mitigation measures, likely forcing them out of production entirely. According to the Biden administration's own estimates, this program could cost more than $5 billion for all corn acres in Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska alone. This is just one more example of how the Biden administration puts the leftwing political agenda ahead of farmers who grow food to feed America and the world. Madam Chair, please join me in supporting this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Chairwoman, I rise in support of my amendment that would prohibit funding for the Solar for All program. During an Agriculture Committee hearing earlier this year, the EPA Administrator told me that the EPA does not incentivize solar panels. This program clearly demonstrates he was not being truthful in his testimony. Under the Biden administration's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the EPA has announced a $7 billion subsidy for solar panels. China completely controls the solar panel industry, and we should not be using taxpayer money to subsidize our adversaries in the name of a leftwing political ideology. According to the EPA's own website, solar panels contain hazardous materials that are harmful to humans. In my home State of Illinois, a school roof lit on fire due to excessive heat generated by solar panels on the roof. The Biden administration needs to stop prioritizing the left's radical climate agenda over the energy needs of the American people. Please join me in supporting this amendment. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. I would like to remind my friends on the other side that China controls the mining of rare earth minerals used to produce solar panels. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, in April, EPA Administrator Regan testified before the House Agriculture Committee and told me the EPA doesn't incentivize solar panels, that they are a regulatory agency. His statement to the committee was blatantly false. The EPA does incentivize solar panels, which is why I introduced an amendment to strip all funding from the EPA's Solar for All program. The Biden administration wants to cover rich, fertile farmland that we use to grow food with Chinese solar panels. Mr. Chair, I support this amendment because we must send a message to the EPA to leave the farmers alone and never mislead Congress when testifying.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, Joe Biden has forced Americans to foot the bill for hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine while our southern border is being invaded by terrorists, drug cartels, gangs, and human traffickers. I oppose sending any additional money to Ukraine oligarchs in a proxy war that we are being dragged into because Ukraine was paying the Biden family $1 million a year in cash. Americans deserve a spending bill that puts America first by securing our border and putting us back on the path to energy independence, which was achieved by the Trump administration. Mr. Chair, I thank Congresswoman Greene for offering this amendment.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, under the Biden administration, the Department of Agriculture is being forced to pander to the left's extreme ideology instead of helping farmers in rural communities. While farmers struggle with the increasing cost of inputs caused by the Biden administration, the Biden Department of Agriculture is focusing on equity and climate change. The Department of Agriculture's job is to support farmers and rural communities, not political equity reports. I urge my colleagues to stand with me and support this amendment to ensure that no funds go toward the Biden administration's woke agenda policies. Let us refocus the USDA on its core mission of supporting farmers in rural communities. I urge the adoption of my amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.