I think self-reporting can be effective, but only when there is full cooperation from industry.

Thanks to all of you for joining us today and for your testimony.

Madam Speaker, as a member of the Rare Disease Congressional Caucus, I rise today in support of continued funding for tuberous sclerosis complex research in the fiscal year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. TSC is a genetic…

if we are finally able to fix our broken immigration system, not only is it good for our national security, not only is it good for families that will no longer be torn apart, but it is also extremely good for our workers, for our…

Mr. Speaker, when the health care law was passed on a party line vote people were assured they could keep their current doctors and insurance plans, it would cost them less, it was not a tax, and there would be no rationing of medical…

Our transit network is a smart growth, quality of life, economic issue that is critical to the viability of many New Jersey communities.

Mr. Speaker, the President filed his budget yesterday, and what a budget it is. It is going to increase spending by $791 billion--that is right, billion with a ``b.'' You would think we had all this money to spend. And when you look a…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the Dallas County High School Hornets on winning the State of Alabama title in the class 4A State basketball championship on Saturday, March 1, 2014. On behalf of the Seventh Congressional District, I pay…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to declare Alabama's Seventh Congressional District to be the district of high school basketball champions. This year, in 2014, at the State tournament held by the Alabama High School Athletic Association, teams…

Our need to invest is important.

I think that we need to begin to signal that change and that change needs to be in this NDAA.

I always want to make the point that non-proliferation is about the other guy, but there was a statement that the United States has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, and we all know that that is not the case.

It is important because of what it has done to make certain that we have peace and stability.

The foreign policy of this administration is based on fantasy; that fantasy being with respect to Russia.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and I will try to not use the whole time so that we can move forward.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in continued support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation of Ukraine and stand with the people of that country for their liberty and full human rights. The first objective of international…

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall vote Nos. 96, 97, and 98, I was not present because of a dental emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' for rollcall vote No. 96, ``nay'' on rollcall vote No. 97, and ``yea'' on rollcall vote No…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the President unveiled his budget and used the military as a punching bag to push his Big Government programs. According to a recent Charleston Post and Courier editorial: Congress should proceed with extreme…