[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5430]
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                          LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I rise to inquire of the House majority 
leader the schedule for next week.
  Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my 
friend and the majority leader of the House.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Louisiana, the 
Republican whip, for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, on Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning 
hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed, as 
usual, until 6:30 p.m.
  On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for morning 
hour and 12 p.m. for legislative business.
  On Thursday, the House will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business.
  Next week, the House will consider legislation to address inflation 
and help bring down costs for Americans. The House will consider the 
Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act from the Committee on Agriculture and the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce to address food prices and help bring 
down the cost of fertilizer for farmers while providing more affordable 
options at the gas pump for Americans.
  The House will also consider S. 3580, the Senate-passed companion to  
 John Garamendi's Ocean Shipping Reform Act, under suspension. We 
passed it previously, and it is in the Senate. However, this is a 
compromise with which Mr. Garamendi agrees. This legislation will 
address continued supply chain problems and ensure the fair and 
expeditious flow of goods in and out of our ports, helping lower costs 
for American consumers and bolstering our domestic agriculture 
products.
  Additionally, Madam Speaker, the House will consider H.R. 2543, the 
Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Economic Justice Act, from Chairwoman 
Maxine Waters and the Financial Services Committee to promote racial 
equity and fair access to economic opportunity for those who are facing 
discrimination or bias. This will help families who are challenged in 
accessing financial services and housing at a time when every dollar is 
critical.
  Finally, Madam Speaker, the House will also consider H.R. 2773, 
Representative Debbie Dingell's bipartisan Recovering America's 
Wildlife Act.
  The House will consider other bills, Madam Speaker, under suspension 
of the rules. A complete list of suspension bills will be announced by 
the close of business tomorrow. Additional legislative items, of 
course, are possible.
  I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I wanted to ask, specifically, there was 
some talk that we may today take up the Senate bill, the bill that 
passed over a month ago in the Senate, to give stronger protections to 
Supreme Court Justices and their families.
  Of course, yesterday, something that angers a lot of us--Justice 
Kavanaugh, there was an arrest of a man that was at his house, 
attempting to murder Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. This is something 
we have expressed concern about for weeks, especially some of the 
language directed at Supreme Court Justices, people encouraging people 
to go to their houses.
  There was a bill that had bipartisan support that passed the Senate 
over a month ago to give them stronger protections. We thought that may 
come up today. I don't hear it on the schedule. Can we get a vote on 
that bill when we come back early next week on the suspension calendar 
to get that bill sent to the President's desk to get that in motion 
quickly?
  Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his question. I 
think it is a very relevant question. I am hopeful that we can move 
that as early as possible.
  I want to tell the gentleman the reason he thought that it might be 
moved this morning was because last night, I thought I had, after 
discussions with Senator Cornyn, a way forward that both the Senate and 
the House could agree on. Unfortunately, this morning, that appeared 
not to be the case.
  We are trying to pursue that because we believe that it is a critical 
piece of legislation, as are the pieces of legislation we are 
considering.
  I will tell the gentleman that the incident that occurred last night, 
of course, was covered, as the gentleman, I am sure knows, by the 
present security arrangements for Supreme Court Justices. The gentleman 
was taken into custody and apparently didn't get close to the house 
because of the security.
  Nevertheless, we share the gentleman's concerns about the security 
for our Supreme Court Justices and, frankly, their families, their 
residences, as we are for the officers and clerks of the Supreme Court 
and their families and their employees.
  So, the answer to your question is that is a priority item that I 
hope we can get done very early next week.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I hope that we can get that early in the 
week put on the suspension calendar, in the form the Senate sent over 
where there is broad agreement on both sides of the aisle, and get that 
to the President's desk to get those stronger protections in place.
  Finally, I would like to ask the gentleman, we have talked about this 
bill a number of times, H.R. 6858, which is a bill dealing with 
American energy independence, to open up more areas of our country to 
American energy production so that we don't have to be reliant on 
foreign countries, whether it is Russia, Venezuela, Iran or, now, the 
President is going to go to plead with Saudi to produce more energy 
when America has more energy that we could be producing that we can't 
because of current policies by President Biden.
  This would open those up. It would allow us to lower gas prices. It 
would allow relief to families who are struggling because of these 
energy policies that are hurting our ability to produce in America and 
making us more dependent on countries that are cartels or monopolies, 
whether it is OPEC or other countries where they want they want a 
higher price. They want to limit production.

  We want to open up American energy, and that is what that package of 
legislation would do.
  Can we get that bill added to the calendar quickly, hopefully next 
week, so that we can help get relief to families who are trying to plan 
a family vacation and can't afford to pay $4.50, $5 a gallon or more 
for gasoline?
  I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his question. He 
has mentioned this before. I am talking to the committee whose 
jurisdiction this bill is in to consider what they want to do with it, 
and I am waiting to hear back from them.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, hopefully, we can get that addressed as 
well so that we can tackle some of these other problems: inflation, 
high gas prices, border issues that we are trying to bring legislation 
on.
  If the gentleman has nothing else, Madam Speaker, I yield back the 
balance of my time.

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