Mr. President, in recognition of Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, I am here to convey the urgency of responding to this crisis. We are coming to the point of no return in this national discussion of opioid addiction…

Mr. President, President Obama has issued a proclamation that this week is Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week. As the President explained, we pause to remember all those we have lost to opioid use disorder. We stand…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Minnesota. Many have already heard these statistics: Our Nation is experiencing more deaths from drug overdoses than from gun violence or auto accidents. Nearly 30,000 people in the United States…

Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, the Obama administration admitted to transferring $1.3 billion in cash to Iran after delivering a $400 million cash payment on the same day that Iran released American prisoners. The Obama administration tried to…

Mr. President, throughout his life, the late Senator Paul Simon believed that for the United States to be a true world leader, our country and its citizens needed to strengthen our international understanding. In a 1995 floor speech, he…

Mr. President, this weekend the doors will open on a new American treasure. The National Museum of African American History and Culture tells the story of a people whose toil and genius helped create America and whose contributions in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the fact that September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This gives all of us a chance to come together to promote awareness about the issue of suicide prevention and how we can all help…

This has been a fascinating subject here that I didn't realize was so emotional to so many people both on the panel and in the audience.

Unfortunately, though, since 1976, Congress has sought to undermine this important constitutional right by attaching the so-called Hyde amendment to annual appropriation measures.

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized a woman's constitutional right to make what is perhaps the most personal of healthcare decisions--when to start a family--free from undue government interference.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Antiquities Act, 100 years of our National Park Service, and to thank our current President and administration for doing more than any administration before them to…

Mr. Speaker, in the fifty plus years since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., articulated the dream of a generation, this nation has seen inspiring progress toward the ideal of equality under the law. Nowhere has this progress been more…

Can you address how allowing for too many credits could undermine the goals of the CAFE standards?

Fortunately I think we have made great advances in auto safety as well as fuel efficiency.

Understanding the impact our emissions have on the atmosphere is particularly important for today's hearing.

We must take meaningful steps to reduce fuel consumption, and strong standards push the auto industry toward greater efficiency and innovation.

Over the past four decades, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards have been an important tool in improving fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Those of us serving on these subcommittees have responsibility to reject hollow arguments put forth to justify lower targets.