Madam President, I am on the floor to talk about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. I am pleased to have Senator McCain on the floor because it is very hard to describe the sensation both he and I felt at the end of the last year when we got…

I strongly support this concept of increasing the contracting goal for women-owned small businesses from 5 to 6 percent.

I just want to thank Congresswoman Chu for this amendment.

Increasing this contracting goal to 6 percent will give women-owned small businesses the opportunity to access billions more in federal contracts.

I strongly support the efforts of the Committee in ensuring that small businesses receive a greater share of government contracts.

Ms. Chu. Aye.

By granting a larger share of government contracts to women-owned small businesses, we will encourage women in the workforce to start their own firms.

Last year, the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce had an insightful hearing on the negative impact that unjustified contract bundling and consolidation has on small businesses.

his observations are that Medicaid is a disincentive for work, and furthermore, that he spoke of Medicaid needed to be turned into a block grant program.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is taking aim at the Nation's poverty programs, unveiling an ambitious report Monday that will underpin other budget priorities in this election year.

Thank you Representative Garamendi, and thank you for introducing on this House Floor some of the concepts that have been presented by the President in his budget presentation to Congress. Certainly, I have been waiting with great…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Schenectady Greenmarket on their 5-year anniversary. In the half-decade since they opened their doors to the Capital Region of New York, the Schenectady Greenmarket has worked to prove that our…

Representative Garamendi, just in closing, I would state that three very important underpinnings to a modern economy--a transitioning economy, one that drives innovation--would be the investments in research, the investments in…

By all means, government, here, you can have this information. Proliferate it widely. Others are being attacked. This will help us all.

One of the things that we would really ask Congress to do is just better define clarity on information-sharing.

The success of our capital markets in the United States has to do a lot with property rights and contract law and certainty of our regime, as well as wise regulation, not the absence of regulation, which is a misunderstanding and a wrong…

Madam President, I appreciate the opportunity to listen to Senator McCain. I think facts have proven him right for many over many years of warning this country about how we have to conduct international relations in a realistic way. I had…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this act. It is really just common sense, is it not? And I think it best exemplifies how America handles crises. They adjust. They make an adjustment. This…