Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to bring to the floor today H.R. 4444, the EPS Improvement Act of 2016. I want to give special thanks to our colleagues, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4444) to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to exclude power supply circuits, drivers, and devices designed to be connected to, and power, light-emitting diodes or…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to consider H.R. 4238, a bill to amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4238) to amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities…

Mr. Speaker, let me begin tonight by thanking the gentleman, Mr. Jeffries, for yielding to me this evening and to thank him for his extraordinary friendship and leadership in the Congressional Black Caucus. I want to publicly thank you for…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would like to reiterate once again that there were a lot of people involved in bringing this legislation to the floor. It would not have happened except for the persistence and…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased that we are considering today H.R. 4583, a bill to promote a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce, introduced by my colleagues, Mr. Rush of…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material in the Record on the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4583) to promote a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 4583 Be it…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to thank all of those involved in bringing forth this legislation. We are all excited about it. It does teach each one of us a lesson, though, and that is, sometimes we pass…

Mr. Speaker, I have no other speakers other than myself, and I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to add my thanks to those of my colleague, Mrs…

You ought to be the champion for our own offices.

I am glad you are taking another look at how we lease coal and that we do not give it away too cheaply.

We just don't pay them enough, or we give them too much work.

What we always forget to do is to help professionalize the legislative branch of government.

I think what we need to do is leave behind or allow staff members from the Library of Congress and CRS to travel to these emerging democracies and work with their staffs.

I, frankly, think that every library in the United States ought to have oral history of that community.

We finally got around to realizing that the military is an institution of government.