Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor and mourn a great American in my district. His name is Joe Sample. He made people happy by the wonderful jazz that he played. Born in 1939, in his high school he joined with fellow students and created the Jazz…

Mr. Speaker, it is hard to overstate the threat posed by ISIL. Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker recently stated: I call it al Qaeda version 6.0. They are far better organized, equipped, and funded. They are more…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the chairman for yielding. I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this rule and the underlying legislation, which I support, because included in the underlying legislation is H.R. 1493, the Sunshine for…

I am opposed in its original form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Schneider moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2 to the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on…

Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the…

I thank Senator Boxer not only for her remarks today but for her years and years of commitment to the environmental committee and pointing out the danger of climate change and the toxicity in our air. ____________________

Madam President, I rise today to discuss the dangerous and brutal extremist organization called ISIS, the terrorist army, which in recent months has overrun vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and is a serious threat to the stability of the…

Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit the following: Americans for Financial Reform, Washington, DC, September 18, 2014. Dear Representative: On behalf of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), we are writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 4, the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Rangel for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose H.R. 4, the so-called Jobs for America Act. Six years ago this week marked the collapse of Lehman Brothers. That bankruptcy on Wall Street quickly spread across…

In 2006, in my State of New Jersey, a 17-year-old honor student named Rebecca Lohsen went to the hospital and within days died from a resistant strain of MRSA.

Yet, there are some ideas that are worth further examination, such as the ADAPT Act introduced by Congressmen Green and Gingrey.

While it is clear we should do more to encourage greater research in development of new drugs, it also makes sense that we should be investing in efforts to limit the further spread of drug resistant bacteria strains and make the best use…

When it comes to climate change, we are facing a stark choice in America. We can do nothing and see if it happens or we can do something, protect our children, and actually grow jobs and our economy. If you believe climate change is not…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to recognize Union City Police Chief Brian Foley as he retires at the end of September after almost 30 years of service. Brian grew up in California before graduating from California State University, Chico, with…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend. Look, the Joint Tax Committee has suggested that if we don't deal with this problem of corporations changing their tax address to escape their responsibilities to the citizens of this country, it will add…

So it repeals that--no effort to replace that. So it adds $26 billion to the deficit, just that provision. Not only that, but it repeals it going forward, and it also gives a rebate going backwards. So a company, Medtronic, which is right…

Mr. Speaker, today we are considering once again a range of bills to give away public resources to Big Oil, strip environmental and public health protections, and prioritize drilling over all other uses, including recreation and…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend from New York for all his good work on these issues. Just to underscore what he said with respect to Mr. Davis' proposal, we would love to have that proposal on veterans come before the floor as a…