{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2026/05/14/higgins-urges-nation-to-stand-back-up-in-the-glory-of-god-in-house-floor-speech/", "Higgins\u00a0Urges Nation to \u2018Stand Back Up in the Glory\u00a0of\u00a0God\u2019 in House Floor Speech", "2026-05-14", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) spoke on the House Floor Tuesday evening, celebrating this year\u2019s National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving alongside Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Representative Josh Brecheen (R-OK), and other Christian Republicans.\n\nBelow is a transcript of Rep. Higgins\u2019 remarks. Watch the full video here.\n\nMr. Speaker, it\u2019s a humbling moment for us to acknowledge that we are failed and fallen humans in the presence of God in service to our fellow man, standing in the chamber of the People\u2019s House. We\u2019ve been reminded that there are 23 marble busts in relief that surround the walls of this chamber above the gallery, one of which is facing you, Mr. Speaker, and that\u2019s Moses, and many men up there, George Mason, William Blackstone, Thomas Jefferson, Solomon, but only Moses faces you. Only Moses faces the podium of the chamber of the People\u2019s House in the land of the free. Our Founders were men anointed by God, and we\u2019re called upon to acknowledge that spiritual foundation, once again in our country.\n\nThis is an acknowledgement that crosses the barriers of politics, Mr. Speaker, and joins us as one people, regardless of where we stand upon the economic strata, regardless of our color or creed or heritage, despite political affiliation or party, we\u2019re bonded as one man unto God, in service to our fellow man. Yet we struggle. We struggle to know what is right. We seek that as children of God as men and women attempting to serve We the People. We struggle to know what is right. Do we not? Mr. Speaker, our Founders struggled as well. America was founded by imperfect men with a perfect vision. The preamble of our Constitution states: We the People, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union\u2013in order to form a more perfect union. There\u2019s an old saying in the horse business: the way a horse leaves the gate is the way he\u2019s going to run.\n\nOur Founders, the Preamble, is the document that established our laws, stated that they were humble men, imperfect men, acknowledged the fact that we\u2019re human, we\u2019ve failed and fallen since Adam. We seek to understand what Paul meant when he told us in Corinthians to place not your faith in the wisdom of man, but in the spirit and power of God. This is the chamber where we carry the responsibility to merge the wisdom of man within and beneath the spirit and power of God.\n\nWe all have a story, do we not, Mr. Speaker, of how our families came to be here. Many years ago, 200 years ago, a young Irishman born into indentured servitude, far away, heard whispers of a nation born where a man could own the land that he worked. This was unheard of for a common Irish lad, so he risked everything, all he had, left the land of his heritage and boarded a boat that was converted from carrying commercial goods to carrying human beings. According to a letter unearthed by my mother and my aunt many, many generations later, his sleeping berth measured 2 by 2 by 5. Literally, by the way, the winds blew, Mr. Speaker, that boat landed in the Port of New Orleans. And that young Irishman was the beginning of my family. He came here seeking freedom. He knew that he would deliver work, ethics, and principles and Christian faith, determination, and courage, but he knew he stood beneath God, and he landed in a nation that was going to give him the opportunity to build something for the next generation. And indeed, he did.\n\nI ask, Mr. Speaker, are we worthy of the things that we\u2019ve described tonight, all of us on both sides of the aisle, the citizenry we serve that sit in the gallery? Are we worthy of what it is to be an American citizen and a child of God? We seek to prove that worth every day, and yet we fall short of the glory of God, and we arise again from bended knee and struggle to be worthy of this service to our fellow Man. Let me close by saying, Mr. Speaker, that we shan\u2019t be judged by how we fall. A man\u2019s character should not be measured by how he falls, but it should be measured by how he stands back up and as a nation, this is where we are. Our children\u2019s children will not measure us by the fact that our nation has stumbled to the extent that it has, but this generation will be measured by how we stand back up. And let me humbly deliver this message to the American people: Stand back up in the glory of God! Remember the words of Paul. Place not your faith in the wisdom of man, but in the spirit and power of God. 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