Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on H.R. 3584, the Transportation Security Administration Reform and Improvement Act, which would authorize, streamline, and identify efficiencies within the Transportation Security Administration. As a Senior…

we have opened a new window onto the universe and we have verified that our new telescope is working and now the fun begins.

As the only Ph.D. scientist in Congress, I'm probably more excited about this than most others who've come to hear this today.

This is a discovery that will live on in the science textbooks forever.

I think there's a better way to do it.

I would encourage you to use the same principles that this body, this committee did with the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in recognition of the annual Penn State Dance Marathon, or ``THON,'' which was held over the past weekend on Pennsylvania State University's main campus in Pennsylvania's Fifth Congressional District. THON is the…

The greater the Sword of Damocles that hangs over the head of an agency or a state or a country, the better.

I urge my colleagues to show their continued commitment to bringing Mr. Levinson home by unanimously supporting this resolution.

Friends don't let friends commit human rights abuses or back a bureaucrat who with impunity is misusing his authority.

Mr. Gurry is completely immune from any Swiss criminal or civil jurisdiction.

Are you kidding me? U.N. Security Council sanctions don't apply to Mr. Gurry? I find that appalling.

Why hasn't the Obama administration been more aggressive in trying to--I mean North Korea, you talk about rogue states, there are few nations on Earth that are as threatening as Pyongyang to the world.

If you have a bad apple, you expunge the bad apple. This is hurting their reputation.

This ought to be a demand that is backed up by punch and by a great deal of pressure just to get that report out.

We want to hear from them and ask them honest questions and tough questions.

What is the United States going to do? What does the U.S. think about this?

Let me just begin the questioning. First, you know, to take your last point first about trying and Congress generating some pressure to release it.