I do write a lot of laws on human rights, and the trafficking laws, four of them now, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

the only way that you can get justice for whistleblowers who have come forward and presented something important and who have suffered retaliation as a result, the only entity that can make a judgment about whether or not that has happened…

I do believe that some sort of resolution by Congress would be extremely helpful.

The Affordable Care Act has improved millions of Americans' lives.

This budget definitely is something that makes critical investments in the long-term health and well-being of America's families.

To make the investments that we talk about in that bill effective, we need to provide leaders at the NIH the ability to make decisions.

We need to change the incentives to try to keep people in that program.

I want to also commend you on your leadership on the heroin crisis, and just remind my colleagues that we have a co-chaired bipartisan task force to combat the heroin epidemic in particularly rural economies.

This happens to us in energy and it is happening to us in the cost of feed so that the equation between the price for milk and the cost of feed, we are being squeezed very, very hard in New England and in New Hampshire in particular.

And the estimates on returning is it could be up to 70, 80 percent of these applications are from people who are returning.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give some thanks to some of my fellow Members of Congress for coming to my hometown of Flint, Michigan, yesterday. Specifically, I want to thank Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Congressman Elijah Cummings…

I think, in the 21st century, our moral standing is affected by the fact that we are not a signatory to UNCLOS.

I will just say--look, here I am disappointed because we are messing with national security.

I mean, I am quoting from it: Workers who worked in the last 3 years shall not, again, be counted toward such limitation during fiscal year 2016.

I can't imagine the administration really thought Congress was going to say, 'You know what? Let me fall on my sword and raise taxes and fees in an election year.'

Our businesses depend on these workers. I mean, they depend on them.

Your Department has a tremendously important mission. And I am just going to focus on one of those little areas that is forgotten about.

Part of the prosperity is try to get our GDP growth above 2 percent, and if our Federal bureaucracy is impeding that growth...