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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Certainly. Mr. McCARTHY. I know he likes to make long speeches before he gets to a question, and I know he likes to go back in decades for the decades that he has served, but I was only referring to this Congress. I was moving to the…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, together, working with their Conference, not with us, not, frankly, with a bipartisan group that has support on this floor of 240 Members. 240 Members of the House of Representatives, and you need 218 for a majority, support…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for the information. Mr. Speaker, I note that the bill that was supposed to be on the floor either yesterday or today dealing with DACA and dealing with the children, who are an object of great concern by…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I reclaim my time just to remind the majority leader of what I asked. The majority leader likes to talk about what we did in the past. His party shut down the government, and he says I voted to shut down the government. That…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, we will close now. Neither of the questions that I posed were answered. And certainly the fact that there are 240 votes on this floor was not disputed, by the majority leader, for the Hurd-Aguilar, which addresses security at…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, he didn't answer the question, of course. He hardly ever does. 400,000 more jobs created in 2016 than 2017. He doesn't say that. They inherited a growing economy. We inherited, when President Obama took office, a receding…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), my friend, the majority leader. (Mr. McCARTHY…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Brett Guthrie
@brettguthrie· Republican · KY· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in support of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. Kentucky has been one of the hardest hit by our Nation's opioid crisis, and I have heard from many Kentuckians across the…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act incorporates legislation that I…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Jun 22, 2018

I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Tonko moves to recommit the bill H.R. 6 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. For more than a year and a half, Republicans in…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, on that, I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Gus Bilirakis
@gusbilirakis· Republican · FL· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, a bipartisan bill that will aid our overall efforts to combat the opioid crisis. I am proud that two provisions of mine are included in the…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chair, I thank Chairman Walden for yielding. Although I know my colleague plans to withdraw, I rise in opposition to this amendment, and I just want to articulate a bit of my reasoning. I think my colleagues and I both share the same…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Adrian Smith
@adriansmith· Republican · NE· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the community of North Platte, Nebraska, for its many decades of service to our men and women in uniform. Earlier this week, the North Platte Canteen came together once again to host more than 700…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Keating). The amendment was agreed to. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chairman, in Cape Cod, the islands, and South Shore and south coast of Massachusetts, the real cause of death in overdoses now is fentanyl. It is being mixed with cocaine. It is being mixed with marijuana. And this is very important…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22
Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Jun 22, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of my amendment that directs the Department of the Health and Human Services to issue and expand guidelines for medical providers for prescribing naloxone to reflect a major shift that has occurred in the…

Congressional Record · 2018-06-22