[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 85 (Thursday, May 16, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMBERS IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the men and women 
serving as first responders in our communities across southwest 
Michigan.
  These brave individuals put on their uniforms every morning with no 
guarantee that they will make it back home. We must remember there is 
no such thing as a routine traffic stop these days. The tragic reality 
is that our police and law enforcement officers are being targeted and 
killed at an alarming rate.
  Yesterday, here at the Capitol and in Michigan, we honored those who 
have fallen in the line of duty while serving our communities, 
including Berrien County Deputy Sheriff Elton C. Stover, Officer Scot 
A. Beyerstedt with the Mattawan Police Department, and, more recently, 
Ryan Joseph Proxmire with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office.
  Over the last several years, increased support for the defund the 
police movement and antipolice legislation has led to a complete lack 
of appreciation for the work officers do every day.
  I support these men and women serving our communities, as do the vast 
majority of us here in Congress, and I thank them for their efforts to 
make southwest Michigan a safer place and an even better place to call 
home.


         President Biden's Immigration Policies Wreaking Havoc

  Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, President Biden's immigration policies 
continue to wreak havoc on our borders.
  According to the Department of Homeland Security, over 9 million 
individuals have illegally entered the United States over the last 3 
years.
  That alone is unacceptable, but just this week, it was revealed that 
there have been more individuals who have evaded Border Patrol and 
illegally crossed into the United States since President Biden took 
office than in the previous decade combined under Presidents Obama and 
Trump.
  Madam Speaker, it is clear that President Biden's open-border 
policies are the problem. The Biden administration must implement the 
border reforms that I voted for and the House passed, which include 
restarting construction on the border wall, ending catch and release, 
and making sure our men and women serving on the border have the 
manpower and resources they need to secure our border.

  Border security is national security, and I will continue to fight 
for border security and make west Michigan a safer place.


                       Abuses Documented at FDIC

  Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, yesterday, in our House Financial 
Services Committee, we had a big day. It was, frankly, a sad and tragic 
day because it was a day to explore what had happened at the FDIC, the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  There was an independent report, the Cleary Gottlieb report, as it is 
known, which had heard from 541 individual whistleblowers who were 
outlining the hostile work environment that exists at the FDIC. Sexual 
harassment, racial discrimination, general temper tantrums, and bad 
behavior abound.
  Some say that this has been happening for a long time. That is true, 
but there is one person, one man, who has been in charge of the FDIC 
for 10 of the last 13 years. He is now on his third tour of becoming 
the Chair, and these complaints stretch back to each time that he has 
been chairman.
  In fact, the other two intervening chairs, Sheila Bair from President 
Obama and Jelena McWilliams from President Trump, have spent their time 
cleaning up the mess that Martin Gruenberg has created at the FDIC.
  The bottom line is, Madam Speaker, if you created the environment, 
you can't fix the environment, and you are not the right person for the 
job. If you say everyone will be held to a higher standard from now on, 
yet will not hold yourself to that same standard, you are not the right 
person for the job.
  Madam Speaker, the time has arrived for the FDIC Chairman Martin 
Gruenberg to resign or be fired.

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