What Glenn Grothman said, and what was done

“Mr. Chair, just one final comment. We didn't say we were going to reduce the workforce by 200,000. We were going to say what happens if we try to do it.”

“Mr. Chair, just a final comment. I know somebody who bought a company, and he informs me that he found out that probably half of his white-collar employees were unnecessary.”

“Madam Chair, I was in a vital meeting with Torres of California. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 256. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms.”

“Madam Chair, I missed the vote due to a meeting. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 264. Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr.”

“Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to congratulate WOMT Radio in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on an extraordinary milestone: 100 years of serving northeastern Wisconsin. Since first going on the air in 1926, WOMT has become the trusted source for local news, sports, conversation, and community programming.”

“Mr. Speaker, I suppose what I should lead off with is asking for half a minute or so of silence as we consider what I think is the most damaging Supreme Court decision of my time.”

“Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill naming a post office for Ursula Ellen Kennedy, an author, mother, and dedicated leader in public service. Mr.”

“Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill naming a post office for Paul Ignatius, a dedicated soldier and public servant, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

“Mr. Speaker, in our Committee on Education and Workforce, as in so many other committees, we have discovered rampant fraud, in this case, in Federal financial aid programs as ghost students have been submitting applications for aid, getting the aid, and then the money just disappears because there is no real student.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan for fighting this onerous bill. I will add in addition to all the other things he pointed out, the candidates that the unions back usually are in favor of big welfare.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act. It is a bipartisan bill that strengthens fraud prevention efforts across the Federal Government.”

“Mr. Speaker, I think a point has to be made on the vote that is going to take place in the next hour. I am a little bit afraid that people are going to look at that vote and view it as a statement of fact as to where this body stands on Ukraine.”

“Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 8872, the Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in TANF Act. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program provides $16 billion of taxpayer money each year to help low-income families get back on their feet.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 7726, the Stop Child Care Scams Act. One of the provisions in this bill is the Combating Regulatory Abuse, Closing Known Deficiencies, and Overseeing Waste Nationwide Act, or the CRACKDOWN Act, of which I am the author.”

“Mr. Speaker, waiting until a State reaches 10 percent before requiring corrective action allows problems to grow before they are addressed. Every dollar lost to improper payments is a dollar that cannot help a working parent.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend and congratulate Giles- Luce American Legion Post 364 in Winneconne on its upcoming 100th Anniversary, which will be celebrated on June 14th.”

“Mr. Speaker, as we head out for a recess for Memorial Day, I think it is important to address a few issues that have to be countered because the normal mainstream press will not address them.”

“Mr. Speaker, the next issue which I would like to deal with is one I have dealt with many times before. It is one that I personally consider to be the biggest issue which America has to deal with today and which we are not dealing with.”

“Mr. Speaker, the final topic that I hope we take up deals with the, perhaps, over-obsession with the mental health establishment in this country. There recently was a book put out with regard to what I will describe as the overprescribing of antidepressant drugs or other drugs related to so-called mental illnesses among the very young.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, hearing the comments from a lot of my colleagues here, I will repeat a quote that has been put over and over again on the news the last couple of days.”

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to call for a vote at some time in this Chamber shortly on H.R. 979, a bill put together by Gus Bilirakis of Florida.”

“Mr. Speaker, National Police Week serves as an important reminder of the brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities.”

“Mr. Speaker, first of all, I thank Josh Brecheen for arranging this Special Order. We are speaking now on the 250th anniversary of the United States, the anniversary of this blessed Nation.”

“Mr. Chairman, just one follow-up there on that. We talk about making life easier. Life is easier if you don't become diabetic. Life is easier if you are thinner.”

“Mr. Chairman, I urge all Members to support amendment No. 21 to support grazers on our national grasslands. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”

“Mr. Chair, I urge all my colleagues to support amendment No. 22 and finally end the EID ear tag mandate on America's ranchers. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”

“Mr. Chair, we could talk at length the degree to which our welfare system allows people to buy things or use services that the average person in our society, at least if they are appropriately frugal, do not use.”

“Mr. Speaker, lies, lies, lies. Sometimes you have just got to deal with common sense. Who gets overtime? When we cut the tax on overtime, the CEO of the pharmaceutical company who makes $12 million a year, does he get overtime?”

“Mr. Speaker, on today, the day when Members fly out, I want to leave the body with some thoughts regarding some issues that I don't think enough attention has been paid to.”

“Mr. Speaker, the next thing I would like to address is soon we are going to take up a budget and begin to take up appropriation bills for the year beginning September 1.”

“Mr. Speaker, the next issue I would like to address is one that Dr. Oz got in the paper for, and that is the transgender situation in this country.”

“Mr. Speaker, the next thing I would like to point out is I thank Congressman Owens for introducing a bill that we recently dealt with in the Education Committee.”

“Obviously, the Department of Homeland Security has been in the paper a lot lately. I want to remind people of these facts: We are already letting in about 800,000 people every year legally in this country, which is at an all-time high by a mile.”

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to one more time congratulate President Trump on a great speech last night. He is a great orator. I think of the six speeches I have heard him give in this Chamber.”

“We now go on a work period back in the district for a little over a week. I think there are certain topics that haven't been talked about enough in this Chamber, and hopefully they will be talked about a little bit more when we return.”

“Mr. Speaker, if you were paying attention since we last met, more and more politicos or officials are weighing in on who should be deported to our southern border.”

“Mr. Speaker, Congress is leaving and won't be back until next week. If it is like every other weekend, a lot of what you see on television is going to be incidents going on in Minnesota affected by the immigration situation.”

“Mr. Speaker, we will take about 1\1/2\ weeks off now, as we go back to our districts, meet our constituents, and do our factory tours. Prior to leaving, I think it is important one more time to address what I think is the most significant issue this Congress and next Congress and that this President and the next President is going to have to deal with.”

“India could come here; or 100 million people from Africa would come here. America would permanently change. It would change very quickly if we respected the preposterous positions of the Governor of Minnesota.”

“Mr. Speaker, immigration is in the news again, and I don't feel the Republicans have done a good enough job of explaining what is going on here. During the Biden administration--people are going to argue--somewhere between 8 million and 10 million people were allowed in this country who were not coming here legally.”

“Mr. Speaker, yesterday in this building, we had a panel put together to address the situation of the lack of two-parent homes in America and the degree to which it is caused by huge marriage penalties in our welfare system.”

“By the way, George Gilder made another observation. When we talk about the welfare state, it obviously affects the children, it obviously affects the single women, and it affects the men.”

“Mr. Speaker, like many Americans, I caught a little of the TV over the weekend, which was dominated by the tragic events in Minneapolis. However, there is one thing I felt had to be commented on because I think there is a lot of confusion as to who we should be removing in this country.”

“Mr. Speaker, I attended a hearing today in the Judiciary Committee. There was some confusion in the committee about what we should be doing to enforce our immigration laws and who is at fault for the mess we have in Minneapolis.”

“Madam Speaker, I will one more time point out what should be the most important issue facing this body in 2026. I have talked before about the huge marriage penalties that we build into our income transfer programs, also known as welfare programs.”

“Madam Speaker, I would like to interject a little bit of common sense in the deportation debate we have had going on here. No one knows exactly how many people are in this country illegally.”

“Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to be a cosponsor of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act. I remember when I was a child I think the average high school student weighed, whatever, 20 or 30 pounds less than they do today, and we had nothing but whole milk.”

“Mr. Speaker, as we adjourn for the weekend, I would like to address three issues which affect Americans, these are issues I don't think have been discussed quite as much as we ought to.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank President Trump and his Secretary of Defense for acting resolutely when it became apparent a boat full of illegal drugs, including fentanyl, was coming across the Caribbean Sea.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the previous speakers for their kind words and assistance on this bill. I also will address the Fair and Accountable IRS Reviews Act. For decades, Federal laws required that before the IRS can impose penalties on a taxpayer, an agent must first receive written approval from that agent's immediate supervisor.”

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to comment on that last debate for a second. We are in danger in this country. One of the ways we are in danger is that there are certain politicians who are becoming more and more prominent and who have a contempt for the average American.”

“Mr. Speaker, tonight I will talk one more time about what I think is the most pressing problem facing America as we try to address the crime rate, the drug problem, and the education problem.”

“If you do a little bit of work, unlike, say, if you had a sister who is married to a husband with a salary, you would get free childcare, childcare not available to a couple with two incomes.”

“Even if they don't care if a man is in the house or not, at least they shouldn't penalize him. They shouldn't hate families in which a man and woman are raising their children together.”

“Mr. Speaker, a lot has been said the last few days about the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. I was able to attend two ceremonies over the weekend in which people gathered to memorialize him.”

“Mr. Speaker, we are going to follow up with a theme that has been talked about earlier within our Conference. Frequently, Republicans have to go home and explain why they aren't getting done what they want to get done.”

“Mr. Speaker, I think it is important that all conservative opinion makers be aware of one of the controversies that is going on here right now. The United States is over $37 trillion in debt.”

“Mr. Speaker, I am unwell today, so I am going to make this speech short. I am going to cover three short topics. The first topic is, 5 years ago yesterday, there was a horrific incident that happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank President Trump and his Department of Labor for stopping an administrative rule that was going to get rid of 14(c) certificates, which are so vital for the lives of our disabled citizens as they pursue good lives of work and self-esteem.”

“Mr. Speaker, as we leave the Capitol for the weekend, I want to leave the body here with a little bit of thought. I am going to quote from a book called ``The Tragedy of American Compassion,'' by Marvin Olasky.”

“Mr. Speaker, there are good days and bad days in this building. Today, we have a little bit of a happy day and sad day in the Grothman office.”

“Mr. Speaker, over the last couple of weekends, I have attended two events of the Hmong Americans who populate Wisconsin. Wisconsin has the third highest Hmong population in the country.”

“Mr. Speaker, I stand today to defend President Trump in one of his initial requests for next year's budget. One of the goals of the Biden administration, of course, could destroy the country by having unfettered immigration, but also to divide America by groups.”

“Mr. Speaker, first of all, due to when I was pushed back to start this, my speech will go a little less than 10 minutes, if anybody is planning around it.”

“Mr. Speaker, I feel I must address one of the key issues that we are going to be dealing with in the next 2 days, and that is: What type of new tax cuts are we going to put into the Internal Revenue Code?”

“Madam Speaker, you may say, who wants to discourage people who are married from having children? In fact, Karl Marx, of course, was very opposed to the traditional family.”

“Mr. Speaker, today in a committee hearing, in which there were probably very few people in the room, the Republican majority voted to expand the low-income housing tax credit.”

“Mr. Speaker, we are heading into what many people hope is the finishing stretch of our legislature, putting through what Donald Trump calls the big, beautiful bill. There are a lot of issues yet to be decided, and I would like to address some of those issues today.”

“The first issue I have talked about once already, but it seems to be a major holdup, the rumors are, in negotiation. There are clearly going to be some tax cuts in this budget.”

“State agency. It is naive to think anything other than these developers are politically well-connected people. I do not know why, if we think it is the Federal Government's business to provide housing to people--which, of course, it is not--we would set up a system in which a private developer gets such a large chunk of money that the Federal Government is laying out.”

“Mr. Speaker, we are on the final couple of weeks, the home stretch, with regard to our big, beautiful bill. There are going to be a lot of debates as to what we should do.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I am honored to be able to speak here and that Congresswoman Miller has yielded me time to talk about Faith Month here.”

“Madam Speaker, we had an interesting 2 weeks out of this building, and sadly my home State of Wisconsin made the news again, in an effort to remove not just any person here illegally but somebody who had broken the law, an abuser, somebody who under normal circumstances would not be viewed favorably.”

“Mr. Speaker, during a committee hearing I attended yesterday, immigration was a topic that was brought up and it seemed apparent to me that the party on the other side of the aisle didn't understand why we have immigration laws.”

“Finally, I will share a word from Mark Reihl, back from my State legislative days, of the carpenters union. Again and again, he would come into my office saying that his guys, his union carpenters, were being undercut by people coming here illegally, and he demanded that we crack down on that.”

“Mr. Speaker, I will point out one more time the perverse incentives of our welfare state. I will just mention one type right now: Section 42, low-income housing.”

“Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to hear from legislators on the experiences they had before this week as they toured their district and as they talked to normal people to see whether their concerns and observations squared with those of the people in this building.”

“Mr. Speaker, last weekend when I was home I saw a very good guy who was recently married. He already has two children, and he was happy because he was buying a new house.”

“Mr. Speaker, I will discuss the biggest highlight of the Trump administration so far, and that is what he has done at the border. We have gone from having over 300,000 people a month trying to get into this country to under 8,000 in February.”

“Mr. Speaker, we just got done with a very interesting week in which this House passed a budget bill, and now we proceed actually to the more difficult process in which, sometime over the next 4 months, we plan on passing both the reconciliation bill and appropriations bills.”

“While I certainly know many single parents who are doing a tremendous job and have done a tremendous job, when I talk to people in different fields, they say the explosion in families without a mother and father at home is causing other problems for society.”

“Mr. Chair, I think I have to address some of the things that I think are out of line or misspoke with regard to the other party today.”

“One more time, remember, America has to know that 26 percent of every Social Security dollar, 26 percent of every new tank, 20 percent of every new education dollar is borrowed, at a time where interest costs are going up.”

“Mr. Speaker, I have already spoken on the very significant hearing we had in the subcommittee regarding what is normally called welfare on Tuesday. There is another point I would like to make.”

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to highlight an underpublicized but important hearing that was held today. First of all, however, I would like to make one more time the point to my colleagues--because I recently heard one of the Senators grotesquely abusing the word--what form of government we have here today.”

“Mr. Speaker, as we wrap up this week, we will go home. If it were me, I would read books or read various topics. Last night, I saw a book I read many years ago and am going to read again.”

“We cannot seriously say we are taking on the fentanyl crisis, the crime crisis, and the education crisis unless we do something about getting men back in the family.”