Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman for yielding so much time to me in favor of this legislation that I coauthored with my colleague, Ms. DelBene, on this bipartisan piece, H.R. 5723, the Expanding Oversight of Opioid Prescribing…

immigration reform would be so critical to keeping the good thing that we have going in Utah going.

I hope you will consider me and my colleagues partners in this, whether it is nothing more than the bully pulpit or facilitating or work that we can actually do here, but I definitely want to be a partner in that goal.

Your comments are just so refreshing to the real world and the ultimate result, protecting American families.

the success of what you are trying to do is so important.

Afghanistan is a critical point in democracy.

If we are going to pull out of other trade agreements, like the TPP or the TTIP, then let's put something in its place.

Mr. Speaker, let me take this time to express my appreciation to Chairman Walden and Ranking Member Pallone, for their leadership in addressing the opioid epidemic in the U.S. House of Representatives. On April 24th of this year, I had the…

They look to the U.S. Government. They look to you, Members of Congress, to go establish their rules for them that will give them the predictability and the stability they will need to continue to be successful.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to support H.R. 5605, the Advancing High Quality Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders in Medicare Act. I introduced the bill to give older Americans across our Nation more access to comprehensive addiction treatment…

Mr. Speaker, congratulations to President-elect Ivan Duque on being elected the new president of Colombia on Sunday, achieving 10 million votes, with one of the largest voter turnouts in the history of Colombia. At 41, President-elect…

Mr. Speaker, America, my colleagues, Democrat and Republican, this young girl needs our help. She is crying out for her parents. She needs our help. She needs our help now. She is crying for her mother and her father, who have been taken…

I am quite certain that across this country, every one of the 430-some Members of Congress saw this photo. Probably most have heard the audio recording of young children just like this calling out for their mommy or daddy, papa. I suspect…

Mr. Kihuen, I don't want you to stop. I want you to stay strong. I want your voice to be heard. I want your experiences to be known. Eight years old, coming to America with your parents. In this room, there are very few who would share…

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman speaks about the laws and about the potential, and every member of the Democratic Caucus has now signed on to be a coauthor of the legislation, Keep the Families Together Act. It would end immediately the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his comments and would ask him a question. The gentleman said he visited one of the shelters, and there were babies, babies a few months old.

There is something incredibly immoral. I thank the gentleman for traveling to bring the reality back to the House of Representatives. It is really important, and I thank him very much for doing that. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from…

this committee must do its job.