But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus, for five minutes. Shimkus thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, another group that to pause and thank is my Campaign Team and supporters. How diverse this group is. They are young and old, they are live in poor, they towns, villages, and isolated country roads. Ideology, rvative in they identify as republicans, libertarians, and even independents. These are the people who walked parades. They helped pass out balloons, political signs. Hey took down signs of all sizes. They organized fundraisers both big and small. Manned booths at county fairs. What causes people to give up talent, and heir their possessions to a candidate, party, or cause . T is at the heart of a representative democracy, our constitutional republic. Going to cast a vote for you, shouldnt you know their beliefs . About an l strongly issue, wouldnt you want to help a kind red spirit . Started to run for federal office 28 years ago. Unsuccessful then. Years uccessful four later. When asked in 1992 what i stood replied, less government, individual responsibility, lower taxes, and more personal liberties. D i filed immediate im prolife nd i support the second churchgoer. And im a my volunteers subscribed to those values. Actively engaged in campaign activities. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous this list of my supporters in the record at this point. Withoutker pro tempore objection. Mr. Shimkus one way to thank them is to list them in the congressional record. I am doing today. Theres always a risk when you recognize people and name names. Of us, when we do that, forget someone. Mentioned. Have been if i have done that, i apologize. Y intent is not to exclude but to offer thanks. Office,officially leave i can add names to the congressional record, so if i let me know,n you, and ill submit your name. Many of my supporters have died. Loss with their families. I tried to attend either the wake or the funeral. We also tried to send notes, flowers, whatever was deemed appropriate at the time. All my colleagues here on both share this aisle experience. We would not be here without our supporters. Survived our ve primary or general election without a core group of people in us and would always answer the call when we needed them. People as we have willing to, as Teddy Roosevelt aid, step into the arena, and we have people willing to support them, we as a nation will be fine. My thanks to them. Volunteers and supporters. And with that, mr. Speaker, i time. Back my the speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington, mr. Heck, for minutes. Mr. Heck thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak on this last time. He my purpose is to convey two thoughts first, an expression of gratitude, paula. T, to my wife, were newlyweds. Weve only been married 44 years. To my two sons. Their support has been the only reason i have been able to do this. I have been absent. Im sorry. Better. E to do thank you, as well, to my staff. Aintmember here knows we nothing without them. We are just the ornament on the and they are r, the engine. Undying love my and gratitude. Colleagues. My my life is enriched and i am a etter person for having known you. And a very special callout to my dear friend, albeit messy oommate and outstanding roommate, derrick kilmer. Thank you to the people of the 10th Congressional District of i affectionately and sincerely refer to as my bosses. Me here to represent a ewly created Congressional District. It has truly been my privilege. Thank you. Second, a plea, a plea to follow here. Nurture lease work to this institution. Us. Itutions sustain be they are houses of worship or our faith or this secular equivalent for our democracy. They get us through hard times, to them. If we tend citizens in a democracy have, of rights and responsibility. Members of this institution, likewise. Were all too aware of our the s here, but it is responsibilities that bear emphasizing. A responsibility to conduct ourselves in a civil fashion. Selfevident that civic discourse in america has degraded, some would say that even become vulgar. Reach w, it is hard to agreement with a colleague tomorrow that we have character today. Nated so let us not measure our terms of the number of twitter followers we have gathered through emotion charged clever attacks. Let us not define those with whom we disagree, even if that is profound as the other. In a pluralistic society. Is tof our responsibility figure out how the political together. Be comes getting to yes among different and competing points of view. Result where everyone can get up from the table, perhaps not with everyone but with enough to vote yes while still being true values. Here is such a thing as principled compromise. Ndeed, i believe that principled compromise is the only way we can move forward and around us in desperate need of our help. Do we no longer believe that . Or did we forget it . Where i have failed to live up your se ideals, i beg forgiveness. Can only promise to keep trying. Finally, i cannot help but think wisdom of our former colleague, john dingell, he longest serving member of this chamber in our nations history. When i arrived here, every walked on downer to where he sat and sought his advice and he gave the same to same to everyone. He would look us in the eye and job. You have an important job. Y important ou are not a very important person. Indeed, john taught us that we do not possess power, we only hold it in privilege of holding the trust for these last am forever i changed. And forever grateful. Miles out and headed home. With that, mr. Speaker, i permanently yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. Brooks, for five minutes. Brooks mr. Speaker, this is my fourth speech in a series on fraud, election theft, and the president ial election. For emphasis, the constitution that congress, not unelected federal judges, whoers the final verdict on won the 2020 president ial election. Oday, i began addressing systemic flaws in americas election process that promote election theft, undermine americas election system, and threaten public our republic. In america, only citizens are lawfully allowed to vote and americas elections and destiny. 1993, plorably, in democrats rammed through voter s the National Registration act that incredibly to s it illegal, illegal require proof of citizenship that prevents illegal aliens and registering to vote. Why do democrats undermine our illegal alien e and noncitizen voting easier . To win elections, of course. Is no secret to democrats or republicans that, consistent 2014 study by old ominion university and George Mason University professors, noncitizens and illegal citizens for 80 of the time democrats. Mr. Speaker, there are many tens aliens ons of illegal and other noncitizens in america. Found 11 he census million illegal aliens in merica, a 2018 yale study estimated as many as 22 million illegal aliens in america. Simply so many that no one can keep track of how many. One knows how massive the illegal alien voting how many voted in 2020. Undreds of thousands almost certainly. Millions very likely. But what we do know for sure is the illegal alien voting block was large enough and ritical enough to winning the president ial race that, at the debate, 2 president ial joe biden openly and publicly byicited their illegal votes promising, quote, within 100 ays i am going to send to the United States congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 undocumented people, end quote. Think about that for a moment. Candidate on national tv promises amnesty and illegal aliens in hopes of inspiring them to vote and register to vote for that candidate. If that brazen solicitation of voting, up to 22 million criminal aliens is not solicitation of voter fraud and lection theft, it darn well ought to be. And dont think for a moment that joe biden did not know exactly what he was doing. All, on may 11, 1993, hensenator joe biden personally voted for the National Voter registration act illegal, illegal to require proof of citizenship hen illegal aliens and other noncitizens seek to register to vote. All americans deserve an election system that tops voter fraud, prevents election theft, and accurately votes cast lawful by eligible american citizens. Unfortunately, americas so riddled tem is with systemic flaws that far too any elections are stolen from candidates and the American People. In my judgment, that is exactly 2020 appened in the president ial election, where the election theft was so massive as compared to that old adage, you cant see the forest for the trees. My judgment, if only by eligible cast american citizens are counted, President Trump handedly won the college and second term as president. The ch, its my duty under United States constitution on january 6, if they require, one will join me to object to and later vote to reject lectoral College Votes submissions from states whose election systems are so badly render their vote submissions unreliable, unworthy of , and acceptance. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore members reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward elect. Sident the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona, mr. Five minutes. R mr. Ohalleran i thank you, mr. Speaker. We are again as the c. D. C. Just announced that through the going most difficult time in u. S. Public health history. Why are we here again . Two weeks ago, i asked that this leave and we stay until a covid up process of package. Today, were back here again that. Not having done and now christmas is approaching. We will probably be leaving here next week, hopefully with a that e, but right now, unknown. An the we stay before the august break and get package done in a bipartisan way working towards protecting protecting people, the families of america, protecting american businesses. Then, we now have a one of the top projected roups that deaths, and theyre saying 350,000 deaths just after christmas. 2,760 people died. December 2, 3,067. They are identified as increasing because of the amount of people hospitalized and the percentages historically that have been indicated. I ask leader mcconnell to please consider reconsider his statements. First he indicated we were going to be able to address this issue just after the election. Politics should not be playing a role in this process. Now its when a new decision comes up by the Bipartisan Group in the senate, he says he rejects it. And that maybe after the first of the year well get to it. How Many Americans have to die before we get serious about this . How many of our fellow citizens have to die . Our friends, our neighbors . I dont know if there are any family members who have died, but they are in danger. Can guarantee that. Our hospitals, our doctors are pleading day after day after day do something about this. Please do something about this. We are overwhelmed. We can find beds for the doctors to be able to treat our citizens in. What we cannot do is find doctors and nurses and technicians that are working seven days a week, 16hour days going back to their families, going to bed and coming back again. I do not understand it at all. If we are concerned about the economy, lets be concerned about the economy. The more deaths, the worst our economy will suffer. Homelessness, food instability, increasing Mental Health issues, education, increasing domestic violence, crime this is going to continue to get worse unless we address the covid issue. Now. Not later, but now. Our leadership has been attempting to address this issue for some time. There is only one stumbling block and thats over in the senate. I dont care if you agree with what has been proposed or not. Sit down at the damn table and talk about it. If you have to be there 20 hours a day, sit down and talk about it. You wouldnt do this in your normal life in business. I have never done that in my normal life in business. When we have something moving forward, we work at it time and time and time again. And we have to do that now with covid. Ot later, now. I also want to talk about arizonas first Congressional District and our country on the need to extend the tribal deadline from december 31 for another year to make sure they have the opportunity to use the funds that were given to them. There is an assumption that you can over a sixmonth period put millions of dollars out there and get something done right away. Well, i know that. Im a former project manager. I know to build a building it takes two, three years to get the planning done and get the work done. And here the cares act clearly indicated a need for covid relief for the tribal nations. Not just because they have not been able to address the issue, but they need to address the issue. With that, mr. Speaker, i will yield and say one more time, lets get this covid thing done. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Mr. Mcclintock thank you, mr. Speaker. Governor newsom made a groundbreaking discovery regarding covid19 last week. Apparently it has learned to tell time. Thus acting under the strictest standards, hes ordering californians to run home before 10 o 00 p. M. , lock their doors, and hide from this insidious virus until daybreak. Unfortunately, covid doesnt seem to be following the curfew so newsome is now threatening yet another hard lockdown of virtually the entire state throughout the christmas season. Don we now our plague apparel. There is just one nagging question the governor hasnt bothered to answer. If these lockdowns are so successful, why do we need to keep having them . We are told not to worry. We are cheerfully assured the jobs being destroyed interest nonessential. Thats their torm, nonessential. Why term. Nonessential. I have news for these selfabsorbed elightists, if a job is putting food on your table and a roof over your head, that job is essential for you and the family that depends upon you. Last spring i asked Anthony Fauci if he had taken into account the human cost of these lockdowns, the suicides, the drug and alcohol abuse, the domestic violence, the deferred Health Screenings and treatments, and the poverty related deaths that his policies were setting into motion . No, we really havent considered that, he breezely replied. Dont know, dont care. But before fauci and his followers took a wrecking ball to our nation, poverty dropped to its lowies rate since 1959. Unemployment was the lowest in 50 years. The income gap was narrowing. Wages showed their strongest growth in 40 years. How many millions of these jobs have now been wantonly destroyed by autocratic officials who seem owe blibous to the damage they are causing . Oblivious to the damage they are causing . According to the c. D. C. s best estimate, those under 50 have a 99. 98 chance of recovering from covid if they get it at all. 99. 98 . 40 who get it dont even know they have t even for the most vulnerable group, over 70, the survival rate is 94. 6 . Now, sweden did not force its businesses to close. Sweden didnt shut down its schools and abondon its children to the sweets. Sweden didnt even adopt a mask mandate. Sweden did what free societies do, they gave the best advice they could and they trusted their citizens to use their own good judgment of what measures made sense to them. The result . As of this morning swedens mortality rate from covid is 154 deaths per million below that of the United States. If we had swedens rate, that would mean over 50,000 fewer american deaths from covid. Meanwhile, sweden has sustained a fraction of the economic damage our o lockdown left inflicted on innocent americans. Globally, the United Nations warns that 130 Million People will starve to death around the world because of the economic damage caused by these measures . Mr. Speaker, this has to stop. The good news is that more and more americans are questioning the lunacy of these policies and the hypocrisy of those who impose them. Newsomes curfew order was met with spontaneous defiant demonstrations across the state. Elected sheriffs are increasingly refusing to enforce these autocratic orders. Pastors are reopening their churches. Businesses are reopening even as their owners are taken away in handcuffs. All mass hysterias are driven by blind fear, fanned by politicians and shar la tans charlatans who see opportunity in them. We have learned such fear can cause a free people to abandon their legacy of freedom and independence, their prosperity, and their common sense. But only for a while. Every time in history that this has happened, there is always a moment when the fear fever breaks and the hysteria suddenly burns itself out. The french revolution, the salem witch trials, the communist hysteria of the 1950s, all had a moment when the absurdity of it all became so apparent that it overcame the fear. And the people turned on their tormenters. I dont know if the recent wave of business and religious persecutions, the unlimited home detention orders, and the demonstrated hypocrisy of those who have ordered them signals that moment. But every shopkeeper who defies these petty tyrants, every parent who confronts their school officials, every person who refuses to submit to the dysfunctional distaupian world created by the lockdown left brings us one step closer to that turning point. It cant come soon enough. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. Espaillat, for five minutes. Mr. Espaillat thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor the life of a great new yorker, someone that has made us all proud. Someone that we all stand on his shoulder. N. Late major mayor david dinkins. Words cannot express how we feel in new york with the passing of mayor dinkins. Many of us stand on his shoulders as many of us here in this chamber stand on the shoulders of other giants that came before us. None of us really stand on our own. We stand on the shoulders of those trail blazers, those pioneers that opened the door to men and women across the country. Mayor dinkin was such a leader. He was the first and up to today the only africanamerican mayor in new york city. A city that prides itself on diversity. In fact, new york city says that its strength really comes from the depths of its diversity. People from all over the world. Immigrants, as i was, in 1964, coming from the dominican republic. People from all over the world come to new york city looking for that dream. Different races, ethnicity, religions m