[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 21, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H3001-H3002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING OUR INTERNS

  (Mr. Latimer of New York was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, as I have recognized the excellent staff 
members who are working with me in this, my freshman term, may I also 
recognize and thank the young people, college students and recent 
college grads, who have labored in the inglorious role of intern doing 
day-to-day grunt work necessary but often boring. They have given 
months of their young lives on my behalf, and I am grateful.
  They include Pearl Vinard, Emma Balber, Annie O'Connell, Marion Karp, 
Jacob Niedzielski, Reese Chamberlain, Cheyenne Etemadi, Lauren Flum, 
and Zachary Couzens.

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  I trust this experience was a good one for each of them and that in 
the years to come they will achieve great professional and personal 
success.


                              Project 2027

  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, we have spent 1\1/2\ years watching this 
majority implement Project 2025. I think it is time for us to discuss 
Project 2027, the things that this House can and should do under new 
leadership.
  Let me highlight a priority for 2027: Stop insider trading by Members 
of Congress, the Cabinet, the President and Vice President, and their 
families. We will never gain the faith of the American people 
proclaiming that we have their best common interest at heart when they 
see examples of elected and appointed officials putting their own 
personal economic interests at heart.
  My hometown in New York's 16th Congressional District includes many 
of the most successful financial minds on Wall Street, but it also 
includes everyday, hardworking people who don't have any holdings on 
Wall Street. Let's make sure the playing field is fair, not stilted in 
favor of those who have access to information not available to all.
  Let's prove we mean what we say. If this majority in 2026 won't act, 
then let a new majority act in 2027.


                                 Canada

  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, permit me to jump forward and to provide 
unsolicited advice to a person I do not know. On January 22, 2027, that 
will be the third day of the Presidency of the 48th President of the 
United States.
  I encourage that person to fire up Air Force One and fly to Ottawa; 
invite Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to meet them on the tarmac 
and give them a big public hug; motor together to the Canadian 
Parliament, address the collective legislature, and tell them: America, 
your friend, has come home; announce the end of Canadian tariffs and 
open up a dialogue on the issues between us.
  In so doing, you will not only be sending a message to Canada, but 
you will be sending a message to England, to France, to Germany, and to 
Japan. We will begin to restore the respect that we have lost in the 
capitals of the free world.

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