We are examining five pieces of legislation that will improve public health and build on this committee's record of advancing and enacting very bipartisan bills.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to applaud the important work being done in Indiana's Second Congressional District to fight poverty and end hunger. This August I visited the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, which serves six counties and church…

Was the cash transaction legal? My guess is if any private citizen had done what this Administration had done, they would be indicted on money laundering.

I believe it not to be a good U.S. policy. Otherwise, 4 hostages may lead to 40 hostages, and that may lead to 400 hostages.

Cash is the currency of terrorism. We paid cash to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism.

The American people want to know, did this Administration pay ransom?

The American people deserve answers.

All I ask you to do is just be truthful.

I think it is absolutely wrong.

When everything is classified, nothing is classified. When everybody has a security clearance, nobody has a security clearance.

Mr. Speaker, as September is National Suicide Prevention Month, I am proud to join my colleague, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, in introducing a resolution to address this silent epidemic which took the lives of near 43,000 Americans last…

Mr. Speaker, this is Suicide Prevention Month, and we have a lot of work to do. In July the House passed H.R. 2646, our mental health reform act called the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act; but since September 1, the beginning…

We don't know where he is going to land. What I want to say is that wherever he does land, it is going to be a fortunate thing for the Democrat who is his partner. Working with Senator Inhofe has been so amazing and so productive, and this…

Mr. President, my understanding about this amendment is that it is a jurisdictional dispute between Democratic Senators. I think the best way to go is to see if we, Jim and I, can do what we have done before when we have had conflict among…

Mr. President, I am in full agreement with the remarks of my chairman, Senator Inhofe. Once again, I think we have proven we can get this done. We can get infrastructure done. I think the way the agreement came together with the two…

Senator John McCain as a co-sponsor.

Of course, I have. He's a murderer and thug.

If I might respond to my friend through the Chair, he speaks for me on a lot of these infrastructure issues. It does shock a lot of people because they know that the most conservative, the most progressive--how could they ever get along…