We don't take responsibility for our own actions. We should blame somebody else for our poor behavior and our incitement of violence.

Bipartisanship can actually happen when we work together and with your participation.

Cobb County alone has experienced a $600,000 decline in CDBG funding this year.

You would not be where you are sitting without that helping hand.

I want you to think hard, man, about those helping hands, because, when you zero out the budget of the CDBG program, you are cutting off the helping hand for the poor.

Without that, plus a helping hand, many helping hands, for us to come to where you are sitting, as a Cabinet official for the President of the United States, and, of course, me in my 15th year as Congressman.

Don't cut the helping hand off.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and missed recorded votes on rollcalls Nos. 291, 292, and 293 on June 26, 2018. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 291, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 292, and ``yea'' on…

Mr. Chairman, for more than a decade, we have overused and underinvested in the United States military. This bill marks a welcomed change of direction and a recapitalization of the American military. I could go through a lot of the weapons…

When we opened the session, today, I believe it was our Chairman that started with words like, I believe that words matter. Let me just say, I certainly believe that words matter--talked about diversity of words.

There is something we agree on, and thank you for your statement that we are in a very dangerous place now and we can only be torn apart from the inside.

I am concerned that we don't discriminate.

Let me end with this: We have been quoting the Bible. God will repay each person according to the work they do.

Words matter.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I especially thank the gentleman for his cooperative, constructive, and bipartisan approach to the legislation, and improving the legislation. We are in agreement on this point, that…

We hear this refrain from many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that the tax bill was tax cuts for the rich.

Mr. Speaker, this effort has been a success because we are balancing the imperatives of national security with maintaining an important open investment climate in the United States. Why that balance is so important is because preserving…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act. I want to thank the House authors of this bill, particularly the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Pittenger), for his outstanding leadership on…