Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. H.R. 3786, as amended, will direct the General Services Administration, on behalf of the National Archives, to convey property in Alaska to the city of Anchorage. I am pleased to be…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3998) to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl High School Foundation, as amended…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 3998, as amended. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3786) to direct the Administrator of General Services, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, to convey certain Federal property located in the State of Alaska to…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 3786, as amended. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3998, as amended, will direct the GSA to convey property in New Mexico to the Amy Biehl High School Foundation for fair market value. The Amy Biehl High School is a…

Mr. Speaker, I would just like to put a plug in for charter schools period. The Amy Biehl school is an example of what can be done under charter schools and how it does serve a purpose. We have been very successful in the State of Alaska…

It is unfortunate that we cannot at this point come to a bipartisan agreement on something even, it seems to me, as straightforward as this. To my friend from Michigan I would say a couple of things. One, this resolution does not prejudge…

I rise today to put the Senate on record on something very important, and that is speaking to the decision by the Obama administration to release five top Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay without consulting Congress, as required by…

Our opportunity or responsibility on the committee is to provide for the general welfare, and in doing that, get the facts on the table so that people can have faith that the products that your company produces are safe.

Mr. Speaker, crisis: IRS emails have vaporized. Where, oh, where have the emails gone? Where, oh, where can they be? In another Friday evening news dump, the administration announced that 2 years of Lois Lerner's emails have vanished…

I would caution my colleagues, this isn't a partisan affair. This is about somebody's service, and we should withhold judgment on the quality and nature of that service until the facts are known.

There are several issues that have come to light during this hearing.

What's the price, because we're not dealing with a nation state here. We're dealing with thugs, we're dealing with rogues.

The terms of the release to Qatar are quite disturbing.

The fact is it's only for a year.

Releasing five senior Taliban commanders may put the lives of our senior service members and Americans around the world at risk.

Let's hope that the Bergdahl negotiators are not the same ones currently negotiating with Iran over nuclear weapons.