Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This resolution, H.J. Res. 78, continues a very familiar pattern that we are seeing from this Republican majority: distractions and scapegoats instead of dealing with real crises…

House Republicans stand ready to work alongside President Trump to implement a responsible budget that puts America first.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on passage of H.J. Res. 78 will be…

President Trump’s plan ensures every federal taxpayer dollar spent is used to serve the American people...

Too often, mothers are left behind in this chamber.

Mr. Speaker, I want to honor the incredible life and legacy of my dear friend, George Saba, who served metro Detroit's immigrant community for over four decades as a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited representative. George would walk…

In the richest country in the world, no mother should worry about feeding her children or affording basic care.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Ms. Joan Quaterman, a remarkable woman who has dedicated 52 years of service to the city of Savannah. As a longtime employee of the Leisure Services Bureau, she played a vital role in shaping the lives of…

I have been saying in this building repeatedly that the math has to math. The math has to add up. Would the gentleman agree that that is the fundamental and core problem in this town when we are talking about the state of affairs? For…

Would the gentleman yield on that? One of the things that I have been saying in this building for the last several months is this debate about what we call, I think somewhat wrongly and incorrectly, ``mandatory spending,'' because it is…

Mr. Speaker, I do want to take one second before I yield to my friend from California to honor a dear friend of mine who passed away a couple weeks ago, Diana Denman. Often called the godmother of the Texas Republican Party, she passed…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert). We have engaged in a colloquy on his time. I am going to start my 30 minutes. He, of course, is welcome to stick around a little bit if he wants. I am going to just jump off…

If the gentleman is asking a rhetorical question and the gentleman does not have his--

We distort, and so they want help. I get it. Yet, what do I do? Do I vote for food stamps? I am a cancer survivor--you know that--and I have cancer groups coming in and asking for money. I look at them, and I say: Well, can you go find…

You are trying to explain it about the amount of money we are borrowing per family or taxpayer per second. Yet, to put it in stark terms, what we are talking about with the debt and the deficits, what it really means is the inability to…

Now, I bring that up because nobody at home understands that. You are doing a good job trying to put it in context.

Mr. Speaker, the question I have for the gentleman: When I graduated from law school at the University of Texas in 2003, the national debt was somewhere in the $6 trillion range, $6.5 trillion dollars. When I came to Congress, when I was…

Let's fast-forward. What we are really talking about--for everybody at home watching C-SPAN, all 14 of you--we have a situation where ObamaCare expanded the Medicaid population, and it expanded it massively to a population that is much…