I want to ensure that inspections by the Mine Safety and Health Administration will continue at WIPP at least four times per year, as required by law.

I believe it's important for the Department of Energy to prepare a lifecycle cost estimate cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I am very concerned about President-elect Trump's statements about withdrawing from the Paris agreement.

We're eager to see that the Waste Isolation Plant be reopened, and that be done with worker and community safety as a top priority.

Today, 20 percent of the U.S. electricity, and as the Chairman said, 63.3 percent of our carbon-free electricity is produced by approximately 100 light water nuclear reactors.

Thank you, Secretary Moniz, for being here, and for your excellent testimony on all ends of the nuclear issue.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise in support of H.R. 5587. First, I want to thank the Members for coming together and certainly their staffs for recognizing the important piece of this legislation where we are…

This issue is critical to ending veteran homelessness given the significant population of veterans with PTSD.

And I want to first thank each of you for being here. I also want to thank Louise Slaughter.

Louise had the opportunity, when she served as chairman, to sit through and try and make wise determinations.

What I am going to promise you is I am going to dive, not back into that issue, but to see where we are going on that progress.

I think that if I were going to be forthright with you, I should accept the challenge to say, how about in just the major bills that come out of committee.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 5587, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, legislation that I am proud to introduce with the gentleman…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I include in the Record a letter from the Office of Special Counsel to Representative Kirkpatrick praising her for her amendment. I understand the majority also supports the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I am concerned that the bill before us today will actually undermine whistleblower protections rather than strengthen them. The Office of Special Counsel echoes my…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I wish to comment on the assertion that it is the Attorney General's and the President's responsibility to enforce the law, as it does say that and as it is reflected…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself as much time as I may consume, and I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 5620. Now, there is no dispute whether Congress should take action to increase accountability at the VA. On both sides of the aisle, we…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of H.R. 5985, a bill to extend certain expiring provisions related to care at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This bill makes sure that some of the vital…