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E PL U RIB U S U M N U Congressional Record United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 117th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol.

168 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022 No.

120 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by the Speaker.

f MORNING-HOUR DEBATE The SPEAKER.

Pursuant to the order of the House of January 10, 2022, the Chair will now recognize Members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning-hour debate.
The Chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each Member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to 5 minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. f DEMOCRATS TRUST WOMEN The SPEAKER.

The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. GAR- CIA) for 5 minutes.

Ms. GARCIA of Texas.


Madam Speak- er, I rise today in support of House Democrats and their efforts to protect women and their reproductive rights.

In 2020, more than 930,000 women had an abortion nationwide, exercising their fundamental human right.

These are women who made one of the most intimate and personal decisions for their family and their futures.
However, with the decision to over- turn Roe, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved the dark and extreme goal of stripping away a woman’s right to choose.

In doing so, they erased nearly five decades of progress.

For the first time in Amer- ica’s history, our daughters have less freedom than their mothers.

This is plain and simply shameful.

To make matters worse, now MAGA Republicans are determined to take it a step further and strip women of their right to contraception.
I repeat: Ex- treme rightwing Republicans want to strip women of their right to birth con- trol.

House Democrats won’t stand for this.

We are fighting for you.

We trust you.

We always have, and we always will.

Today, we will act.

We will continue to fight.

Tomorrow, we will pass the Right to Contraception Act to protect women’s access to birth control.

We are doing this to protect the more than 60 percent of U.S. women of repro- ductive age who use contraception.
This bill will guarantee the right to ob- tain and use oral contraception, emer- gency contraception, and IUDs because no one—and I mean no one—should have the right to take away a woman’s right to choose their own healthcare.

While Republicans seek to control a woman’s body for their political base, Democrats remain the party that puts people over politics and protects women and their reproductive rights.

It is simple.

Democrats trust women.


We trust women to make their own healthcare decisions without any ques- tions.

To everyone listening, you have my promise that I will never stop fighting for women and their reproductive rights.

I trust you, and I will never stop fighting.

f BIDEN’S INFLATION CATASTROPHE The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. BONAMICI).

The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. FOXX) for 5 minutes.

Ms. FOXX.
Ms. FOXX.

Madam Speaker, you don’t need to be an economics guru to understand that President Biden’s in- flation catastrophe continues to knee- cap our country.

But if you ask the President, the White House press secretary, or anyone in the administration, for that matter, they would tell you that the United States is ‘‘stronger economically’’ than ever.
How dense does one have to be to claim that, unless this administration is trying to cover up its ultimate end goal of turning the United States into Venezuela by taking on so much debt that we implode?

That doesn’t seem farfetched in the slightest.

Madam Speaker, inflation is the pickpocket that Americans run into every day, from the gas pump to the grocery store, and it is only growing worse.
Since the administration and the President haven’t figured this out yet, let me put this in terms that they un- derstand: 9.1 percent.

End of quote.

Re- peat the line.

9.1 percent.

9.1 percent.

A WOMAN’S HEALTH DECISIONS END WHEN THE LIFE OF AN UNBORN BECOMES INVOLVED Ms. FOXX.

Madam Speaker, our col- leagues keep talking about the issue of women’s health and women’s reproduc- tive freedom.
In ‘‘The Merchant of Venice,’’ Shy- lock thought he had won a great vic- tory when he thought he was going to get his pound of flesh.

But Portia, the attorney, said to the judge: You may have your pound of flesh but not one drop of blood.

I think that is a good analogy for what our colleagues are saying.

No one is opposed to women pro- tecting their health.

But those of us in the pro-life movement are concerned about when that woman’s health deci- sion destroys an unborn life.
So, a woman’s health decisions end when the life of an unborn becomes involved.

f CONGRATULATING IRENE TOVAR The SPEAKER pro tempore.

The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California (Mr. CA´ RDENAS) for 5 min- utes.

Mr. CA´ RDENAS.
Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and congratulate a tremendous community leader, a friend of mine, and a friend of the community of Los Angeles and beyond, Irene Tovar, for being conferred an honorary doctorate from California State Uni- versity at Northridge, otherwise known b This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., b 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.
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