I sense a perfect storm happening for our Reserve components.

Do you support the construction, the building of tankers in American ports, or American shipyards, to export this strategic asset, liquified natural gas, with American-flagged ships, with American sailors?

The President has stated repeatedly that he wants to rebuild the American manufacturing sector.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to pick up where you were taking this conversation with regard to major threats: the nuclear threat, the dirty bomb threat.

Well, I hope you realize that that rule is going to have a tough time up here, and to get the money to enforce it is going to have an even tougher time, so thank you.

The economic impact of that kind of a power grab would be absolutely profound.

I am absolutely amazed that this big a change would be proposed with hardly any consideration apparently on the Corps' part on all these things.

This is a dramatic change in current law.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to bring attention to the Hobby Lobby case, which is being argued today at the Supreme Court. In this case, a for-profit company is refusing to cover the birth control of its female employees, citing the owners'…

I think that we should reconsider this misguided approach.

Director Ashe, your agency announced in December that you were going to start issuing licenses to kill for eagles.

Why did it take the Fish and Wildlife Service until December 13, 7 months after the request was sent, for this memo to be provided to us?

H.R. 2119, the Veterans Access to Speedy Review Act, introduced by Representative Raul Ruiz (D-CA-36), would require the VA's Board of Veterans Appeals to offer alternative sites and/or technical modalities to Veterans for their appeal…

Our goals remain to: (1) counter violent extremism and prevent the establishment of a terrorist safe-haven in Syria; (2) avoid the collapse of the Syrian state and its institutions; (3) prevent the transfer or use of chemical weapons (CW)…

Thank you for holding the hearing 'Syria after Geneva: Next Steps for U.S. Foreign Policy.'

We continue to believe that the Assad regime is a magnet for terrorism and that the best, most durable resolution to the conflict is a mutually agreed-upon political transition.

One in 12 American households is unbanked, meaning they do not have a checking or savings account.

I think this is an incredibly important hearing.