Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and thank him for his hard work on this legislation, along with Mr. Keating. After listening to both of you speak on this legislation, I am really happy that you get it, that you understand…

As a co-chair of the NISC, in developing the regional biosecurity plan for Micronesia and Hawaii, the RBP is meant to assess and provide a path forward on addressing invasive species' risks to the Pacific area.

I appreciate this year's budget request. It maintains compact impact discretionary funding of $3 million.

As one of directed energy's strongest advocates up here in the Congress, I just want to recognize that technology has tremendous potential to change the game in our favor.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank our witnesses for testifying today on the President's fiscal year 2017 budget request for Special Operations Command [SOCOM] and special operations forces.

The SOFWERX initiative has the potential to capture and spur some exciting technology.

Mr. Speaker, today we learned of the Obama administration's decision to renegotiate a set of export controls that could have been hugely detrimental to our national security. I want to thank President Obama for his leadership on…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank Mr. Smith for his powerful words and for sharing the very powerful and very moving words of Bob's family. I ask my colleagues to think about the Levinson family as if they…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of the resolution. I thank my good friend and partner, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, along with Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz and Congressman Diaz-Balart, for…

I'm not looking to Apple to write the legislation to balance these very difficult issues between privacy and public safety.

So should we be concerned, Mr. Vance? ... that there is at least the risk that that gets stolen...

I want to agree with Mr. Gowdy that if this were as easy as public safety or privacy, I think most of us, probably all of us, if we had to make the choice, we're going to opt for public safety for the very reason that Mr. Gowdy spoke of.

The responsibility of Congress to make adjustments, the leadership of Congress, the role that Congress plays...

I applaud the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisting the gray wolf in the Great Lakes states and Wyoming.

I really appreciate Ranking Member Pallone's comments, because I do have frustrations with that and elder law attorneys who try to find these ways to protect assets when those assets should be used.

I think that there is a position here that we do not understand why we are acquiring more land when we have a backlog of just maintaining the land?

You cannot get much closer or better view for all the Commissioners, and we will save a lot of money.

I just transferred. I have got on the President's desk transferring an empty 120-bed nursing home to the State of Florida.