We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

We should instead be using this time to build the law's successes by improving quality affordable care now available to our constituents.

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.

This area is such a large part of our economy as well as such a large part of our question of national security.

The work that the Innovation Center is doing will help us become more efficient and achieve our shared goals of containing costs.

It has been a pleasure serving on this committee.

Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for yielding, and I thank the chairman. Even though we may disagree on this piece of legislation, I believe he has been a fair chairman to work with all members of the committee. When I became a…

We are shrinking in options and opportunities going into 2017, yes.

the President's health care law is a quagmire of bureaucratic red tape, regulatory hoops, and cost-shifting tax increases

For every person I hear that has been helped by the program, I can give you two that have been hurt.

I thank my friend from Minnesota (Mr. Walz) for yielding to me and for helping me with this amendment. Mr. Chair, this is very simple. It would just remove all of the accountability provisions from the bill and give the House an…

This is not the first time the Science Committee has abused its oversight authority to defend oil-and-gas interests.

I have serious concerns about subpoenas, the subpoenas issued by the Majority to some nine environmental advocacy organizations.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall 502 and ``yea'' on rollcall 503. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to welcome the very gracious and accomplished Pastor Wayne Lomax to the House floor as our guest chaplain. Pastor Lomax is the founder and senior pastor of the mega church, The Fountain of New Life, located in…

Mr. Speaker, today, at 12:30 p.m., I will be convening an emergency press conference from the U.S. Capitol on Zika. This is a bipartisan press conference of Floridians, Democrats, and Republicans who are concerned about their State. Please…

Mr. Speaker, last month the Nation watched as our friends in Louisiana were inundated by record rainfall and unprecedented flooding. More than 7 trillion gallons of water fell in Louisiana and Mississippi over 8 days. Thirteen lives have…

There is an obvious political agenda here, I believe, and I hope that we will put an end to infringing on states' rights.