I figure--you know what? Each one that we help to get on in a positive way with their lives, that is worth doing.

What very much impressed me was that this was a situation where the veterans that were homeless are in transitional housing.

Certainly, increasing access to VA benefits, cutting or eliminating the backlog to claims, ending homelessness, the mental health issues, the suicide rates--these are all areas that we have bipartisan support on the Committee.

Mr. Speaker, my remarks this evening will focus on the crisis facing Ukraine and our world, the most significant test of the will of liberty-loving people since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The events…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for allowing me this time. I want to commend the committee of jurisdiction for bringing this bill before our body in a very timely manner. I am very proud of our country, the standard bearer for…

I thank Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York for taking time out of a very busy day to work way over time tonight and to be here and to join our plea for the people of Ukraine. Thank you for your leadership in the Ukrainian Caucus…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman King for being here this evening, also for attending the briefing this afternoon and for participating fully in that effort. As you were speaking, I have a piece of the Berlin Wall in my office. I knocked…

I happen to believe that one of the most important aspects of charter schools are that they are laboratories of innovation within education.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas and also my friend from Pennsylvania. As you heard Congressman Barletta talk about, 90 percent of the 1,800 fire departments in Pennsylvania are all volunteer. These are men and women from the…

Mr. Speaker, today the House acted on an important piece of legislation that strikes at the very heart of our democracy--the Equitable Access to Care and Health Act, or EACH Act. The individual mandate of the 2010 health care law included…

Thank you, Ms. McCabe, for your testimony, for being with us during this long morning into the afternoon.

I want to place into the record without objection a letter from the North Dakota Industrial Commission.

If building international and interstate pipelines was easy, we would have a lot more of them right now.

But in the most recent proposal, you actually do state that carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants are from CCS has not been implemented and that we believe there is insufficient information to make a determination.

As you know, in order for this, if we had the carbon capture technology and if it was adequately demonstrated and it became commercially available and it was economically feasible to do it, and to meet the growing demand.

I support it but I don't think we should displace coal with it.

I would love to burn more than, you know, that 30 million tons of coal we burn in North Dakota every year.

This is day 2,000 of the Keystone XL pipeline's review process, which the EPA has largely criticized and opposed.