What Sean Casten said, and what was done

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this amendment. This amendment would give the Secretary of Defense sweeping discretion to grant the highest level of security clearances to an unlimited number of investment professionals without any contract, mission, or defined purpose.”

“The question that we have right now in this amendment is a really simple one: What do you stand for? If you stand for corruption, vote ``yes''. But if you stand for national security, for integrity, and for capitalism, vote ``no''.”

“Happy summer. It is time to fire up the grill, fire up the air conditioner, and book some road trips, if you can afford to fuel them. Since Donald Trump's election, gasoline prices have skyrocketed.”

“Mr. Speaker, what should we say to angry men in robes? What are we going to say to men in robes who are angry about the outcome of the Civil War?”

“Mr. Speaker, families across America are struggling with ever-increasing energy prices. In the last year, electricity prices have soared, increasing by 13 percent under the Trump administration. Utility bills overall have increased at double the rate of inflation.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Levin. I am going to take a little bit of a personal privilege here and tell you a little bit about Mike's and my background.”

“So fast-forward. Mike and I run for Congress. We win. Speaker Pelosi appoints us both to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security and charges us, along with our wonderful leader (Ms.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Levin for his remarks. As we prepare to close, I want to talk a little bit about how the Energy Bills Relief Act fits into the broader conversation we are having about energy permitting right now.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Sandra LaPointe, a seventh grade teacher at Westview Hills Middle School in Willowbrook, Illinois. I recently had the pleasure of surprising Mrs.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2988. I am going to be honest. I cannot believe we are still engaged in this anticapitalist doublespeak; but if my Republican colleagues are going to keep bringing bills to the floor to destroy the fabric of our market-based economy, I am going to keep standing up for it.”

“Mr. Speaker, yesterday ICE murdered an American citizen. Renee Good was a wife and a mother who has now become ICE's latest victim. To those at DHS and in this Chamber who have created and rewarded a culture of murder, I ask the same question that God asked Cain: What have you done?”

“Madam Speaker, over the weekend, two different countries experienced gun violence tragedies. In one they targeted a Hanukkah celebration, and at another they targeted students in an engineering classroom.”

“Mr. Speaker, I also rise in support of H.R. 4429, the Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act, or DEAL Act, which is a critical bill to support innovation, entrepreneurship, and capital formation.”

“Mr. Speaker, my colleague just said that to vote against this bill means you haven't studied the energy industry. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as someone who spent 20 years working in the energy industry.”

“The Republicans across the aisle are making a very articulate case for energy producers. It is not lost on us that most of them represent districts that are heavily dominated by producers.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the remarkable advocacy of Sister JoAnn Persch. For over four decades, Sister JoAnn has been on the ground helping migrants and asylum seekers in Chicagoland.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the bipartisan Mental Health in Aviation Act, which I introduced with my friend, Mr. Stauber, from Minnesota. I thank Congressman Stauber as well as Chairman Graves and Ranking Member Larsen for all of their support and close collaboration on this bill.”

“Mr. Speaker, if I were to describe Jeffrey Epstein as a nice family man who works in finance, you might question why I am saying that. If someone says that something that is neither a coin nor stable is a stablecoin, you might question why they are saying that because they aren't stable.”

“Mr. Speaker, the convicted felon I am referring to is the guy who ran Binance and not the President, but he is seeking a Presidential pardon. Mr. Speaker, the GENIUS Act sets the stage for an exponential crisis and allows the President to continue cheapening the office for his own financial gain, and I urge a strong ``no.''”

“Mr. Speaker, the only thing you need to know about the CLARITY Act is that it is designed to destroy U.S. capital markets. U.S. capital markets are the envy of the world because investors like putting their money in them.”

“Mr. Speaker, if you run a company that is losing market share, then you have three choices: You can go bankrupt, you can innovate, or you can come whining to Washington saying that competition scares me.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in your defense and in defense of all of your fellow Medicaid beneficiaries. Now before you say, wait a minute, Medicaid is for poor people, and I am not poor.”

“Mr. Speaker, I missed Roll Call vote nos. 111 and 112 because I attended my daughter's senior awards night ceremony. Had I been present, I would have voted Nay on Roll Call No. 111, H.J.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to share the story of a Federal scientist who, in his own words, was fired by President Trump and Elon Musk. Here are his words: I worked for the U.S.”

“Madam Chair, I want you to imagine that a friend came over to you and said: Donald Trump taught me how to save 50 percent on my shoe purchases.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, last week, my colleague, Haley Stevens, and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act. I am going to get to that in a minute.”

“Mr. Speaker, Haley Stevens and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act last week. This is a very simple but, tragically, an urgently necessary bill to address the hack of the U.S.”

“The first thing we do is make sure that unless you have a security clearance, a top-secret security clearance, you cannot access those records. The second thing it does is, if you have not been a Federal Government employee for at least a year, you cannot access those records.”

“Mr. Speaker, Joseph Stalin said that one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. When we talk about constitutional crises and hacks into $5 trillion systems, that risks sounding like a statistic.”

“Mr. Speaker, some people have said that this bill is unnecessary because what is being done by the White House is simply going after waste, fraud, and abuse.”

“Madam Speaker, we are in a constitutional crisis. The President of the United States is trying to delete the 14th Amendment, ignoring Congress' constitutional power of the purse to illegally block Federal spending, exposing the identities of our intelligence officers to our enemies, and sending Elon Musk's unvetted minions into our financial systems to steal Americans' private information.”

“Mr. Speaker, last week I spent an afternoon at the National Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois. I had been invited to discuss some work our office has been doing to make sure these folks are not penalized for seeking mental health care.”

“Mr. Speaker, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance defines anti-Semitism, in part, as using symbols and images associated with anti-Semitism and denying the intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany.”

“Mr. Speaker, step right up, and prepare to be amazed. This is an ordinary folder. As you can see, Mr. Speaker, no hidden compartments, and yet inside it is an invisible rabbit.”