Providing for Consideration of H.R. Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act; Providing for Consideration of H.R. Equal Representation Act; Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. Providing for Congressional Disapproval Under the Rule Submitted By the Securities and Exchange Commission Relating to ``Staff Accounting Bulletin No. and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2024

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, the legislation this body brings to the floor each week speaks volumes about our priorities.

While House Democrats are defending our fundamental freedoms by fighting back against extreme MAGA Republican attacks on abortion care and fertility services like IVF, the majority believes that rather than protecting the rights of women in this country, it is essential that we protect the so-called rights of home appliances.

The difference could not be starker. In a time of unrelenting attacks on reproductive rights and when 21 States have banned, either fully or partially, abortion access, House Republicans have chosen to do nothing. They have chosen to pretend that women are not dying, that they are not being forced to carry unwanted pregnancies, and they are doing nothing to protect IVF or birth control.

Instead, they are bringing up a rule today to consider legislation to protect home appliances.

It seems that House Republicans would like toasters and microwaves to have more rights than women in this country.

Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question on this rule, my Democratic colleagues and I will offer my bill, the Women's Health Protection Act, or WHPA. WHPA is a Federal solution to the extremist Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade. It will restore the right to everyone, no matter what State you live in, to receive abortion care.

In a world where doctors are being threatened with prison time for doing their jobs, it would protect the rights of providers to provide abortion care. This is the legislation the body should be considering today, not bills protecting blenders and coffee makers.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question.

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