Speech #1130111286

In the last 3 days of legislative business before a summer recess of 112 months. House Republicans are using this valuable time in the peoples Chamber to simply pass a bill that obstructs the Endangered Species Act rather than deals with any of the critical issues facing our country. Congress should be considering legislation to secure the border or deal with the crisis of unaccompanied minors on our southern border. to balance our budget. to reform our broken immigration system. to deal with wildfires. to raise the minimum wage. to protect workers. But instead. here we are debating partisan changes to a piece of legislation that has. frankly. served us well and our ecosystems well over the prior decades. We do have an emergency on our southern border with regard to unaccompanied minors from El Salvador.