Mr. Chairman, I come down here every year on this type of amendment. When I came to Congress 14 years ago, I went to Afghanistan and I went to Iraq. I visited with our troops. Since that time, I have on my wall 40 Americans of all races…

Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 21 printed…

But, no--I think that, I look at my case, if my parents couldn't take in my brothers and sisters, I had a brother and two sisters.

What I am trying to get is a clear vision of where we are going because I still don't see, under the current proposals, how we get to there, those things that benefited me and my parents.

I am a product of public housing myself, lived in public housing until such time that I graduated law school with my parents.

We also have ongoing concerns about the 85-year-old strongman Paul Biya who has either served as Prime Minister or as President since 1975.

If you could, what exactly are we doing? And, I mean, how do we define pressing the Cameroonian Government, the military?

Cameroon's political stability is of great importance to the United States because the country plays a critical role in American counterterrorism efforts again Boko Haram in the West and Central Africa.

It is necessary to reevaluate further counterterrorism cooperation with Cameroon to ensure the protection of Cameroonian citizens and respect for civil and political rights.

The amount of money you mentioned seems to be a drop in the bucket for what I think sustaining the health and well-being of those refugees and IDPs would be.

Thank you for providing very, very sobering and distressing numbers of people are being hurt, killed, displaced.

Deductions like that, will cause the working poor not to be able to move.

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike ``pinnipeds'' in each place it appears and insert ``sea lions''. Strike ``pinniped'' in…

Mr. Chair, I thank Chairwoman Granger and Ranking Member Visclosky for their bipartisan work in support of our Nation's military. I also thank the staff on both sides of the aisle because they have worked very hard to put this very…

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 2083, which would provide targeted relief to endangered salmon and steelhead stocks in the Columbia River and its tributaries from the threat of…

Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to H.R. 2083. This simple amendment would narrow the scope of this bill to clarify our intent that the lethal take authority should be limited to sea lions, rather than all pinnipeds. This…

Mr. Chair, I have no further speakers on this amendment. Mr. Chair, I thank the majority for their support of this amendment and for moving this important legislation forward, and I urge my colleagues to adopt it. Mr. Chair, I yield back…

We shouldn't measure success--and you always talk about this, Mr. Secretary, don't measure success by how much money we actually spend, but what impact our programs have on people's lives.