We are really concerned that there needs to be a rationale supported in evidence when you consider making grants with taxpayers' money.

Do you have any kind of strategy or plan or implementation or whatever to look at the issue of countering violent extremism?

When are you going to deliver that to us so that we understand?

What percentages of those applications did you receive that were addressed to domestic violence, counter violence?

So you received over 200 applications?

What I am more, equally as concerned about are people in rural America that this cost that you are imposing on us is going to be passed on to the consumer.

Am I supposed to feel good in West Virginia, then? I can't buy a car, but health benefits are going to improve around the country?

We know that 23 percent of the weight of a car has been reduced over the numbers of years. That has increased the number of rollovers and increased the number of deaths.

I think we all realize that through the CAFE standards it is going to have virtually no impact on the global climate change.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5094. Ukraine continues to face significant challenges from Russian meddling and aggression. We in Congress are under no illusions when seeing Vladimir Putin's true intentions for Ukraine…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), a very valuable member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the author of this measure.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this measure. I want to thank Chairman Ed Royce for bringing this bill forward. I want to also thank Mr. Castro of Texas for his leadership and hard…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Let me say before I close that Mr. Sanford was absolutely right in what he just said. The fact is that Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union, gave up its nuclear weapons…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill. Let me, first of all, thank our chairman, Ed Royce, for helping advance this bill. I introduced this bill in April along with the…

Aren't the standards working as proposed, even though my friend Mr. Barton wants to repeal the whole program?

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time now to close. Let me just say, in recent years, it has become very clear the way issues like global poverty fit into our broader national and international concerns. We see the links…

I have been an advocate for many years of increased production of flex-fuel and alternative fuel vehicles.

California has been a leader in programs that reduce emissions for both stationary and mobile sources.