Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support, not only of this rule, but on the underlying bill. It is time to get something done around here. Both parties have failed to address this issue for decades now; we finally…

I like domestic production, but I also see that a lot of folks making money out of the energy sector, it is not putting one drop of gas in our vehicles.

Mr. Speaker, we were so close, so close. Some Republicans were finally willing to work with Democrats on a bipartisan way forward to give certainty to Dreamers, young people who want to be able to work and go to school here free from fear…

President Trump's Space Policy Directive-2 directs the executive branch to 'encourage American leadership in space' and 'promote economic growth.'

Our entire way of life is dependent on space. And our, not enemies necessarily, but our competitors know that.

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

The U.S. currently has a competitive space launch industry, yet NASA payloads continue to fly on foreign launch vehicles.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I led my colleagues in a letter to Secretaries Nielsen and Azar asking about plans to reunify the thousands of children separated from their parents. Neither the President's executive order nor the bills before us…

Biodiesel is every bit as important to my soybean growers as ethanol is to my corn growers.

While I think the RFS program is inherently flawed, I do not believe waivers given out in secret without established processes is a good use of Administrator Pruitt's authority.

Most people here know that I am not really a big a big fan of the renewable fuel standard, the RFS.

Mr. Speaker, during my 27 years in law enforcement, I fought many threats to our families. But today, I have to say that I am ashamed that our leaders now say that those families are the threat. Families seeking asylum are not a threat…

Mr. Speaker, it has been an interesting week. We were told when we were starting the week that we were going to be taking up a couple of immigration bills. Before we could even get that started, we were met with a firestorm of absolute…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 10 p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, June 22, 2018, at 9 a.m. ____________________

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 6136, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, and I thank Chairman Goodlatte for allowing me to spend time talking about this from a personal perspective. I represent the 17th District…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Penny Celeste Forrest of Waco, Texas, who passed away on June 15, 2018. Penny was born in 1948 in Dallas, Texas. She was educated at East Texas State University, now known as Texas A&M…

Do any of you think the EPA can fix this on its own administratively or do you think that it is going to require a statutory initiative?

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I would remind Mr. Burgess that he has the levers of power now, and I predict that today, the two measures that we are going to be dealing with are not likely to…