Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for yielding, and for your very hard work on this Department of Defense Appropriations bill. Mr. Chairman, as the daughter of a veteran, I know how important it is to fully fund and support our…

Mr. President, yesterday I chaired, along with Congressman Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, the Congressional-Executive Committee on China. At this hearing, Terry Sefranek, a Clevelander actually from Brooklyn Heights, OH, a suburb of…

Will the gentleman yield? Ms. McKINLEY. I yield to the gentlewoman from California.

I rise to address this amendment, Mr. Chairman. I thank my cochairman, Mr. McKinley, on the National Guard ChalleNGe Program. {time} 1630 Thank you for your great help in the outreach to all of our Members of Congress. We have been working…

This extraordinary intrusion into the lives of many farmers, ranchers and small business owners has the likely potential to be economically devastating and must be stopped.

EPA and Corps are proposing to expand the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act to include nearly every damp patch of land in the United States.

Mr. Speaker, coordinated medical rehabilitation provided in an inpatient rehabilitation setting is crucial to Medicare beneficiaries with injuries, disease, disabilities, or chronic conditions. Unfortunately, beginning in 2010, the Centers…

One of the foremost issues facing agriculture today is newly proposed rules released by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Many experts have suggested that, upon closer review, the specifics of the new rule appear to be nothing more than a power grab meant to expand the jurisdiction of these two agencies into areas the Federal Government does not currently…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Bill Cline for receiving the 2014 Colonel Edwin Drake Legendary Oilman Award, presented by the Petroleum History Institute. The award is named after the famed Colonel Edwin Drake who, in 1859…

I thank you, Chairman Frelinghuysen, for yielding for the purpose of a colloquy. I want to thank you for your tireless efforts for our Nation's brave servicemen and -women and, just as importantly, for those who served and never made it…

The Baha'i community is the largest single non-Muslim minority community in Iran, yet since the 1979 revolution, they have faced unrelenting and unforgiving persecution by the Islamic regime.

This was an opportunity for the United States to lend its support for a reform movement in Iran, but instead the administration refused to support the Green Movement.

It was thought that the human rights situation in Iran couldn't possibly get any worse than it was under the tyranny of Ahmadinejad.

Thank you very much, all of you, for powerful testimony.

Madam President, I am pleased to join the Senator from Arkansas in introducing this bill. He has been a great person to work with. I also fully associate myself with his comments about our colleagues' ability to amend these bills. Senator…

Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Coffman). The amendment was rejected. Amendment Offered by Mr. Nugent

Texas would end up with a new source performance standard that is below EPA's own standard.