U.S. State Attorneys General

Years of budget cuts, continuing resolutions, and sequestration have forced our military to maintain a high operational tempo with limited resources.

In the last 3 years, fatal training accidents have taken the lives of four times more servicemembers than our enemies have in combat.

The ongoing reviews directed by Secretary Spencer and Admiral Richardson must quickly get to the bottom of this and identify root causes, corrective actions, and further accountability actions.

I agree. We should save our children. We need to start deporting some criminal gang members. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), who is the chairman of the full committee.

I know we spent a lot of time in committee talking about a lot of different issues, but maybe the gentleman forgets that we had 3 whole days of hearings on the Davis-Oliver Act, which this bill was included in, and many arguments were made…

I mistakenly cast a ``no'' vote on rollcall vote 492. While I am counted as a ``no'' vote, I intended to vote ``yes'' on the amendment. Vacating Demand for Recorded Vote on Amendment No. 175 Offered By Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania

If you become Chairman of FERC, will you commit to continuing FERC's information sharing with Hawaii?

I think what we are looking for is an open commitment to that kind of a process because apparently that has not always been thus at your Department.

I would want your commitment that in future actions you would bring to the table the stakeholders, such as the environmental people and the commercial people, before you take action.

I am not in favor of the bill because I think it is bad for consumers.

Representative Keith Ellison and I have a bill that will help consumers to reestablish their credit, by utilizing their mortgage payments, car payments, and utility payments to help build their credit score.

Something is definitely wrong. In my 9 months as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, I think I have lost count at the number of times that senior leaders from all services have come to this committee and said that 'We are ready…

I will go so far as adopt and associate myself with General Milley's comment, and I paraphrase, that continuing resolutions--and I will add sequestration--is comparable to legislative malpractice.

Eighty percent, 84 percent, I am told, of wildfires are caused by human action, but in Hawaii it's 98 percent.

I would like to note that wildfire risk is very high in Hawaii.

I intend to offer the following motion to H.R. 1628, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With…

I intend to offer the following motion to H.R. 1628, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With…

I was disappointed last week to read about some criticizing the general aviation community as a ``special interest group'' that was trying to stand in the way of progress and modernization. We are for modernization, as modernization has…

I am also concerned that the transfer of armored vehicles and high-powered firearms, as well as many other controlled items, makes our police stations look more like forward operating bases.

In response to protests in Ferguson, following the killing of Michael Brown, President Obama issued an executive order that included the creation of a DOD and Justice Department working group to ensure oversight of this program.

At some point in time, we have to make good on the promises and the commitments.

I am concluding that you no longer hold these kinds of discriminatory views with regard to women serving in the military and homosexuals in the military.

I would like your commitment that you will support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's important duty to administer the Endangered Species Act to protect species in Hawaii and across the U.S.

Thirty million dollars a year for compact impact assistance to states like Hawaii is woefully short of what we actually need.