I will take your recommendations and ideas back to Washington and continue to work with my colleagues at the Small Business Committee to improve federal policy so that entrepreneurs can start businesses, access the capital that they need…

One thing I want to mention is our Committee and the full House advanced H.R. 5236, which you mentioned, the Main Street Employee Ownership Act.

One of the goals of this Committee and of President Trump has been to try to reduce unnecessary and burdensome regulations to try to be able to free up the private sector.

We need to better market and communicate who we are as a community.

I believe that there will be another tax reform clean-up bill. The President calls it Tax Reform 2.

We want more small businesses awarded subcontracts for projects like the deactivation.

I want to mention something else that has nothing to do with this one, but it does have to do with West Kentucky.

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for yielding the time, and I thank her for her leadership in opposing this bill. I, too, oppose the bill. This bill is yet another in a long line of so-called tough-on-crime bills that…

Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2851, the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act. This bill is well intentioned but fatally flawed. I agree with the goal of preventing dangerous synthetic drugs from evading…

Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. Griffith for his succinct and excellent summary of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Griffith-Raskin-Jackson Lee amendment. I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his excellent work on this…

Mr. Speaker, on June 15, 2018, I was absent. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 267 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 268. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, last night, we had our annual Congressional Baseball Game and some healthy competition with our colleagues. But today is the big showdown, when the Bensalem High School baseball team will play for the State championship versus…

Mr. Chairman, Kristen Holman adored her little brother, Garrett. She cherished his warm heart and his bigger than life personality. She loved her brother unconditionally, as did her mother and father, Bobbie and Don. Unfortunately, on…

Mr. Chairman, this is a thoroughly thought-out bill. I encourage my colleagues to support it to help stop the spread of deadly synthetic opioid analogues. Let us remember why we are here. It is children like Amanda and the parents who…

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate all those who have put so much work into this, especially Mr. Katko of New York who has been relentless in his battle to stop illegal fentanyls from coming in and killing. I rise today in support of H.R. 2851…

This illegal fentanyl that comes into our country from foreign countries, generally through our mail facilities, has been one of the deadliest waves of the opioid crisis to hit our Nation. Representative Katko's bill will modernize the…

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my colleague from Texas for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2851, legislation that would give Attorney General Jeff Sessions through the Drug Enforcement Administration sweeping new…