What Nancy Mace said, and what was done

“Mr. Chair, let me be clear. There are two biological sexes: male and female. They are assigned at conception and cannot be changed. Biology doesn't care how many hormones someone pumps into their bodies or how they mutilate their bodies.”

“Mr. Chair, testosterone treatment for men serving in our military isn't gender-affirming care. We want the most masculine, the most muscular, the toughest warfighters in the world because they are in the trenches.”

“Mr. Chair, you just heard it from California: cis man. I don't even know what a cis man is. That sounds ridiculous. Talking about pretend doctors, I think we had a pretend doctor testify on the Hill this week.”

“Mr. Chair, women and girls have fought for so long to have equal opportunities in education and athletics. As the first female graduate of the Citadel's Corps of Cadets, no one understands this more than I do.”

“Mr. Chair, trans girls aren't real girls. Trans women aren't real women. Cis women, nobody knows what that is. It is not actually a thing. There are significant physical, biological differences between men and women.”

“The LGBTQ-plus-plus-plus whatever it is, queer, these are the people that are putting women at risk. They are raping them in our prisons. They are assaulting them at schools, in the locker rooms, in the bathrooms.”

“Mr. Chair, I would encourage my colleagues on the left side of the aisle to read Martina Navratilova's X account today, talking about how confirming she was a woman was not invasive.”

“Mr. Chair, if you visit South Carolina's Lowcountry, you will understand commercial shrimping and fishing are not just the backbone of our coastal communities but a part of our heritage and our way of life.”

“Mr. Chairman, since I came to Congress, I have been fighting to put an end to taxpayer-funded animal cruelty. We have seen great successes, including successfully eliminating these painful and inhumane animal experiments across the VA, Department of War, and more.”

“Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Protect Children's Innocence Act. When we are talking about ``shameful,'' shameful is castrating a kid. Shameful is chopping off the breasts of an underage girl, and that is what the Democrats are doing today.”

“Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX, I rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows: Censuring Representative Cory Mills of Florida and removing him from the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues, Mr. McGovern and Mr. Khanna, today for the time, for the 5 minutes on the floor to speak about an issue that is not political for me.”

“Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of Rule IX, I rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows: H.”

“Mr. Chair, if not wanting to castrate kids is a rightwing culture war, then sign me up because this is not the kind of thing that should be happening to children or military dependents anywhere in our country.”

“Mr. Chair, women have fought for decades to have equal opportunity in education and athletics. As the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, no one understands that fight better than I do.”

“Mr. Chairman, I will address the topic of sexual violence, particularly with my female colleagues across the aisle. I have authored dozens of bills related to sexual violence, and very few of my Democratic colleagues will sign up and cosponsor them in a bipartisan way.”

“Mr. Chair, I will say that a form that you say whether you are male or female, how you were born, what God gave you, is not an obstacle.”

“Mr. Chair, my amendment is straightforward. It would ensure the use of sex-specific spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms on military installations are based on biological sex, not ideology.”

“Mr. Speaker, when solicitors don't prosecute crimes, when judges and rogue magistrates let thugs out on the streets of America, cases like Iryna Zarutska happen, murders like Iryna Zarutska happen.”

“Mr. Speaker, under President Donald Trump's leadership, this rescissions package codifies $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts by canceling some of the most egregious Biden-era waste, fraud, and abuse.”

“My bill also requires the Secretary of Defense to update the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to require the same cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure policies, safeguarding the personal information of our servicemembers and the information vital to our national security.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call out the cowards who think they can prey on women and get away with it. Today, I am going scorched Earth.”

“We must face domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, and sex trafficking with courage; we must face it with clarity; and we must face it with compassion. We must also face it with hardcore justice.”

“Mr. Speaker, yes, I rise today to ``demonize,'' as the word was used on the left across the aisle, to demonize illegal immigrants who are here raping our women and girls, murdering our women and girls, and who are pedophiles molesting our children.”

“A 42-year-old citizen of Mexico in Moses Lake who was convicted of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. A 39-year-old citizen of Mexico in Federal Way who was convicted of communication with a minor for immoral purposes.”