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Thanking Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Her Service

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 10, 2024
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor my friend and dear colleague, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, for her service to our country and the committee, everything that she did with the committee, and the way it affected our Conference, this Congress, and this country.

First and foremost, I have been honored to serve with Cathy, our chair for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, for more than 10 years, the last 4 years as our leader. What an outstanding job she has done. Under her leadership, we have worked together on healthcare policy. She put her faith in me to make me the subcommittee chair for the Health Subcommittee.

By doing that, I was able to gain expertise. I am a manufacturing guy by background, and I really dug in and learned healthcare and learned other parts of the committee. As I think my good friend from Tennessee just said, I was honored by the selection to follow her in her wonderful footsteps. I have big shoes to fill, and I look forward to having the opportunity to do so.

Under her leadership, we took on some difficult things. She has fought to force the sale of TikTok, something that is really hurting all our youth and a lot of people in our country, in a way that the court has said works. She took a while to do it, but she wanted to make sure it was right. She wanted to ensure that people have access to TikTok, people can use TikTok. She did not ban TikTok. All she said was a foreign adversary cannot own this type of business in our country.

Thank you for your leadership and for what you do, but more importantly, thanks for your friendship.

When my friend from Tennessee talks about prayerful leadership, that is absolutely the case. When the chair says, I am praying for you, you know that she is, and it is really heartfelt.

Not only do I get the opportunity to follow in your great, great path, but I also get to continue to follow you and your young and beautiful family.

What I always say, what happens in this House affects people in their homes. Congress is a snapshot of America, and our chair is a fantastic wife and mother. The experiences in her home I know she brings here, and it affects families across this country because of her leadership.

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