It is essential that we have an accurate map showing areas that are unserved and underserved so that we know where available resources should be focused.

Mr. Speaker, some of the political rhetoric and political opportunism is at an all-time high of ridiculous on this issue of immigration. Let's take a step back and let's think through this, and let us reason together as Americans. No…

Good afternoon, everybody. The Subcommittee will come to order.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of my bill, H.R. 4528, a bill to make technical changes to certain marine fish conservation statutes. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman…

Mr. Speaker, I do want to take a moment to thank Chairman Bishop and his team for their continued support of the Lake Bistineau Land Title Stability Act. This bill rights a decades-old wrong when the Federal Government failed to notify…

Well, given that bit of data, Mr. Chairman, I am going to reflect to you a bit of change that occurred about, oh, 18 to 20 years ago...

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. Mr. Speaker, I witnessed firsthand the scope of Agent Orange exposure experienced by our servicemen and -women while in Vietnam. I am one of that…

And it's done a lot for the climate as well. I mean, we know that emissions--CO2 emissions--have dropped by 30 percent.

I remember having a 1 at the end of my license plate which allowed me to fill up, after an hour and a half, at a Shell station around the corner here on Capitol Hill.

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Cook), whose bill we are discussing, and who actually came up with the process of involving his community to do this kind of transfer the right way.

Again, Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Johnson for this particular bill that is solving a problem that should never have been there in his particular district, for his efforts on it. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to adopt this bill, and I…

Mr. Speaker, let me just say very quickly here that what Representative Cook has done is taking an important issue and doing it the right way, by collaboration and outreach with local people who live in those areas on what they want to do…

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to adopt this bill. I have no more speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop) that the House…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5751) to redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the Transcontinental Railroad Network, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. May 10, 1869, is one of the most significant dates that we have in American history because that is the date when a congressionally mandated provision to try to unite the two oceans…

Mr. Speaker, I invite all of you out next May 10 to a celebration at this site. It will be a party you will not forget. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues' adoption, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr…