Mr. Price, in your testimony you mentioned how helpful NRCS is and that the personnel there are an incredible resource for ranchers.

Instead of any kind of top down approach, it is really great to be able to engage the people who are doing the work.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend my colleagues for passing H.R. 1471, the FEMA Disaster Assistance Reform Act of 2015. This important legislation authorizes appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for FY2016-FY2018…

All legislative powers are granted shall be vested in Congress of the United States.

I agree with you. I think it's Congress' responsibility to determine the expectation of privacy in this high-tech world.

I thank the gentleman from New York and the gentlewoman from Ohio for organizing tonight's Special Order to call on our colleagues in the Senate to do their job and provide their advice and consent on the President's upcoming nomination to…

We must insist that these items be funded through the regular appropriations process and authorization processes.

I do want to voice my frustration at how our committee continues to be circumvented outside of the regular order.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), who is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

I continue to believe that it is paramount that we get this new information and premature for the Department of Interior to make any decisions until new information has been received.

I don't see the requirements for SOF going down. Every committee hearing I have been to in the last year here the solution set is always add SOF, always add SOF.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge our south Florida community to attend the Live Like Bella Superhero 5K Run/Walk this Saturday, March 5, at 8 a.m. at Zoo Miami, as you can see here. Bella Rodriguez-Torres was the oldest daughter of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank my good friend, Mr. Deutch, for his eloquent proposals time and time again in our committee, on the House floor, and in every public gathering on behalf of Bob Levinson's…

I think all of us would be interested to know what the unintended consequences are on this so we can look at it and see if it adversely affects your mission.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 148) calling on the Government of Iran to fulfill their promises of assistance in this case of Robert Levinson, the longest held United States civilian in our…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. First, I would like to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel for their leadership in bringing attention to Bob Levinson's plight and for guiding this resolution through our…

I appreciate his enlightenment of the district attorney's views of this dilemma that we all face.

Thank you. Since we've gone a little far afield here, let me do so again very briefly to point out that, among others, Thomas Jefferson, who, among his minor accomplishments, was the Founder of the Democratic Party, was also a graduate of…