Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentlewoman for making this possible, Colonel Bill Webb, of the Korean Memorial Foundation, and, of course, my buddies and colleagues, Congressmen Johnson and Conyers. Why this is so important to me is not for…

I truly think that there is a broader lesson for government, not just in Puerto Rico, at the Commonwealth level, but for our States, for our Federal Government, as well, when we look over to Greece.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 37 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, February 25, 2016, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous materials on the subject of this Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Mr. Speaker, I had the extraordinary privilege of being in the room when Pope Francis was given a small cross, a crucifix. This crucifix belonged to a young Syrian man who had been captured by the jihadis and then given a choice--convert…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Lipinski as well for his tireless commitment to justice, to human dignity, to human flourishing. Really, ultimately, that is what this resolution is intended to do, to call it what it is, a genocide, in…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his thoughtful commentary and leadership as well on this essential issue. In fact, it is not an issue at all. This is an assault on all humanity. This is a threat to civilization itself. If a group of…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. When I was informed of the Justice's death, it came across my electronic devices. I texted my wife back home, and I said: I just want to cry. I had the extraordinary privilege of getting…

I agree with you on the emergency fire spending. That is a problem we have to fix.

I think we should manage the land you have instead of acquiring more.

There is too big of a project. There is not enough smaller projects so that the average logger in the area can actually do the project.

I do hope that there would be informal discussions as to how we can help our country out and avoid people saying that, under this President, nothing meaningful will be done.

I am always encouraged when there is words like 'bipartisanship.'

It would seem to me that we ought to get together, as Members of the Committee, and decide what it is that we would want to do without the hearings.

I am saying these multinational corporations are leaving our jurisdiction and avoiding tax liability so they don't pay the 35 percent. Isn't that true?

When we see vague, ambiguous language, or words that have not been defined in the law, and there seems to be an abundance of those type of words, it seems like sometimes, in this Administration, people are looking for words that have never…

Justice Scalia says in one of his dissents: ``I have exceeded the speed limit on occasion.'' He said: ``A man who has no enemies is probably not a very good man.'' He said: ``If you read the rest of the section, you would say, to find a…

My goal is to see this project receive a new, higher authorization number in WRDA 2016.