Mr. Chairman, under the Obama administration, we have seen an explosion of new regulations that have impacted every area of our lives. From the way we heat our homes in the winter to the way that we choose our health care, this…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of West Point Cadet Tom Surdyke from Festus, Missouri. I had the honor to appoint Tom to West Point in 2015 and to share in his family's celebration the day he earned his Eagle Scout. Tom was a…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 72, line 11, after the aggregate dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $88,282,000)''. Page…

Many of the issues that come before this committee are and have been mainstays in the public discourse since the terrorist attacks of September 11.

I think it was a horrific decision politically motivated, and my hope is that they will revisit it even before next year because it was a mistake to give a passing grade to a country where sex and labor trafficking flourishes.

I think what's important, my second point here, is that there is a process of change going on on the island itself.

Since December 17, we've made what I think is a healthy shift to a policy of engagement that over time is far more likely to make a real difference in the human rights situation in Cuba.

There are violations of freedom of speech and freedom of association. There's only one legal political party on the island.

Today we will examine the sorry state of the civil and political rights in the Castro brothers' Cuba.

This subcommittee of the House directed by Congressman Christopher Smith has been an unshakeable bastion of the promotion and defense of the freedom values of the American nation.

I think we've seen greater political openness, and greater political debate, and greater access to and sharing of information in the last several years than we have seen in previous decades.

I would have hoped you would have raised his case.

the EPA has failed, failed for more than 30 years, in its cleanup of nuclear waste dating back to the Manhattan Project and World War II.

it is past time, past time for action.

the EPA has time and again made promises that failed to deliver results.

Since Dodd-Frank, we have seen bank small-business loans decline by 11 percent, and 58 percent of startups report unmet financing needs.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Representative Fitzpatrick, the chair of our terrorism task force here, along with Representative Lynch, Representative Sinema, and others, for moving forward on this issue and legislation. I stand today…

Madam President, I am here to speak on the Koch brothers, but first I want to say briefly to my good friend from Alaska: Instead of playing political games, if he wants to pass a defense bill, we all know what has to be done in a…