HONORING DAPHNE MUSE

  (Ms. SIMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Daphne Muse, a daughter of
Washington, D.C., who made Oakland, California, her home for more than
50 years. She recently transitioned at the age of 81.
  Daphne was a mother, a mentor, an intellectual, an avid disability
rights advocate, a writer, and a keeper of Black letters. She helped
run Drum & Spear Bookstore here in Washington, D.C., a legendary Black
bookstore here in the Capital.
  For the crime of selling books to Black folks in the civil rights
movement, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI placed her under surveillance.
  She answered with a life's work: collecting and gathering more than
22,000 letters and papers documenting Black life across the diaspora.
  At Mills College, she served as a leader, mentored countless young
women, and gave her heart to the education of girls and women. I was
one of the beneficiaries of her love and her brilliance.
  Oakland, California, raised a giant, Mr. Speaker. May her name be in
remembrance always.

                    PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT IS WINNING

  (Mr. KHANNA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
  Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, the progressive movement is winning across
the country, from the heart of New York to Michigan to Maine.
  The people are saying no to foreign wars, and they are saying no to
genocide in Gaza. They are saying no to the unfair and lopsided economy
that has allowed a few people to hoard extreme wealth and power, and
they are saying yes to Medicare for All, to unions for all, to
childcare for all, to making sure that we have a housing guarantee for
kids by the time they are 35 if they work hard.
  Now, some of the oligarchs don't like it. Elon Musk has been
threatening to sue me or jail me, but I will tell you what: They should
judge us by those who are attacking us.
  We will not be intimidated. We stand for transforming this country
for the working class over the billionaire class.

                          TRUMP HOUSING CRISIS

  (Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2025, Mr. Green
of Texas was recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority
leader.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. And still I rise,
unbought, unbossed, unelected, liberated Democrat. And I rise today,
Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding the fact that I have been censured by this
House, censured but not silenced.
  And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, because the housing crisis that we
confront has taken on a new dimension. I am in full support of the 21st
Century

ROAD to Housing Act, full support of it. Many others are, but I rise
today to announce that this is now the Trump housing crisis. It is the
Trump housing crisis, and I should like to present evidence to
substantiate my claim.
  It is the Trump housing crisis because, yesterday, the President
declined to sign the bill that was voted on in this House and passed
and in the Senate and passed, a bicameral bill. Rarely do we get such a
thing, but this one also is bipartisan. It has huge Republican support
and huge Democratic support.
  Let me read from an official document. This is from Congress.gov. The
indication here is that this piece of legislation had 191 Democrats
vote for it and 166 Republicans, a total of 358 for the legislation.
That is the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. In the United States
Senate, it had 85 yeas and only 5 nays.
  It had overwhelming support, the kind of support that would cause
people to come to the floor of the House of Representatives, as they
did. I was here. I came to the floor of this House of Representatives,
and many persons on both sides of the aisle talked about the
collegiality--perhaps not using that exact word, but the collegiality--
and talked about how this was one of the rare moments when we have
received bipartisan, bicameral support for a piece of legislation--a
great piece of legislation, I might add. It is a piece of legislation
that was a long time in the making, a piece of legislation that this
House passed and the Senate passed, as I have indicated before, by
large margins.
  I heard persons stand here at this podium, at that podium, and the
podium in the well and proclaim that this piece of legislation was
indicative of what we can do when we work together, the symbiosis that
was created by Democrats and Republicans working together.
  Everyone was in a great mood, a celebratory mood. Persons were ready
to move on to the next phase. After all, you have to have the House and
the Senate to pass a piece of legislation, and there are many people
who say that before you can get a House and Senate to pass a bill, they
first have to have the will.
  They demonstrated the will after having negotiated for some time.
That was the first phase of it. The first phase of it included some
persons who are of note and should be mentioned. The Honorable Maxine
Waters should be mentioned and the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. The two
of them worked together to bring this to fruition. They worked together
after a chasm had erupted as it relates to the bill.

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  There was a chasm that many thought would be impossible to span, but
I called them the Ws: the Honorable Maxine, I always say that because I
have such great respect for her, and the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. I
have great respect for the Honorable Elizabeth Warren. They were able
to span this chasm and make this difference.
  I would also mention that in the Senate it had bipartisan support
because the majority leader and the leader of the Senate, the majority
leader and the minority, they both signed off on it. This was something
that took great work to accomplish.
  I would also add this: It took people who were experienced. This is
one of those times when experience with legislation made a difference.
I am not sure that a neophyte could pull off what they were able to
accomplish, and I am very proud to say that I support what we have
done, and I support the bill.
  So with all that said, everybody was prepared for the signing
ceremony. It was going to be a celebratory time, and everyone prepared
to receive an indication that the President was going to sign it at the
White House. I think everyone was, I was, surely, prepared for this.
  The President, in his own way, indicated that, no, it would not be
signed at the White House. The President said that he would come to
this Capitol and he would sign it here. Of course, the Speaker, in
preparation for the President's arrival, decided to do all of the
things to make sure that we had the proper pomp and circumstance
available to the President, the President of the United States.
  Everything was set. The flags were in place, the table was arranged,
and people were notified. Everyone was prepared for the signing of the
legislation saving the President. The President sent a message
indicating that he would not, N-O-T, would not sign this piece of
legislation.
  The President indicated that he would not sign it and he had some
things to say about it that were not flattering. He diminished the
magnitude of the legislation. He went on to indicate that this was not
something that he thought was appropriate.
  I don't know what his rationale was. It never comes through clearly
because the President contradicts himself in the sentence where he
makes any given statement at any given time. I have no idea what that
was all about, but I do know this: When he decided not to sign the
legislation, when he decided that he would literally allow it to just
linger in limbo, I suppose, when he decided to do this, he then took on
the housing crisis.
  The housing crisis is now that of the President of the United States.
It belongs to the President of the United States. He decided that he
would not sign legislation that is much-needed in this country,
legislation that can make a difference in the lives of people in this
country.
  He put in petty politics above a piece of legislation that can make a
profound difference, petty politics above a profound difference that
can be made by him by only affixing his signature to a piece of
historic legislation, landmark legislation in my world.
  When he decided he wouldn't do it, here is what he also decided: He
decided that he was not going to concern himself with the many people
who cannot afford a home right now. Many people cannot afford a home.
Affordability is a problem. It is a crisis. The President is well aware
of this.
  He either knows or should know that this is a part of the solution,
this bill, and he has not given a rationale, a clear rationale, for why
he would not sign it. However, he took on the notion that people who
cannot acquire a home, that this is now a problem for him to have to
resolve in some other way I suppose. I doubt that he will figure out a
way to do it. But he is not supporting those people who are in need of
a home.
  There are people who live in areas where the homes are being
purchased by corporate America, not all of corporate America, but
various companies that are in the business of purchasing homes and then
leasing or renting these homes.
  He is not supportive of this. In something that he said, he was
antithetical to that, he was opposed to, but he is now supportive of
this because he won't sign the bill that deals with this very issue,
the issue of the homes that could go to first-time home buyers being
purchased by corporations. As a result, those homes are now being
placed on the rental market.
  The United States would become a country where the American Dream is
a dream to rent a home if the President does not sign this bill. He now
has embraced these people who would prevent persons from acquiring a
home by simply buying up the property and leasing it.
  He also has done something that I never thought I would see him do
because he is, generally speaking, supportive of the construction
industry. He says he is a person of great knowledge when it comes to
construction and the whole notion of being a great builder. He
considers himself a great builder.
  He now is at odds with the builders in this country. The builders in
this country are ready to build more homes. This bill would allow them
that opportunity because it eliminates a lot of the red tape. I have
had the builders come to me and tell me about the red tape they
encounter when they are attempting to build a home on a piece of
property. There is red tape associated with the codes across the 50
States, and this red tape associated with these codes across these 50
States is something that they encounter that makes it difficult for
them to move expeditiously and construct homes.
  This piece of legislation deals with this notion that 50 States are
going to have 50 different means of getting something done, and it
incentivizes the