thank you very much today for the opportunity to discuss the importance of paid parental leave and how it might be provided on an affordable basis via the Social Security program.

Who is going to be the default winner or loser on this?

I would like to be the one making the choice.

There has got to be some flexibility.

I would feel much more comfortable if I was able to opt in or not.

The transparency that Dr. Bucshon mentioned is important and, Mr. Griffith, the point you made about the benefit going to the patient actually raises a pretty serious question.

I actually got to say I don't buy that.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) for yielding time for me to speak on what I think is a very important bill. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this bill, the bill which is…

Madam President, last night President Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. In selecting Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump did exactly what he said he would do on the campaign…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 3187 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

First, Mr. President, let me thank my colleague, my neighbor from New Jersey, for the excellent job he does in just about anything he does but particularly today as ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His leadership is…

I would urge us also to come together around some of the other things that historically we have been able to come together around, including the Land and Water Conservation Fund and taking care of our wildlife as well.

The failure of House Republicans to take strong and swift action in the face of Russia's assault on our democracy is beneath the dignity of this oath.

The reality here is that--and maybe Senator King might have used this phrase in the past, but it is certainly something I learned from bond counsel when I was in government at the local level--deferred maintenance is debt.

the 340B Drug Discount Program is exactly that, and that's why I authored H.R. 6071, the Serve Communities Act, which will codify the program's true intent, improve program integrity, and further extend it to mitigate the opioid crisis.

If we had transparency and we knew all the money was being used for the intent of the program I think you could make that case.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4537) to preserve the State-based system of insurance regulation and provide greater oversight of and transparency on international insurance standards setting processes, and…

Mr. Speaker, it has been a long afternoon. We have covered a lot of territory, eight different bills, I think, today. As I had said earlier, there is no magic bill that is going to somehow cure or remedy some of the challenges that our…