Mr. President, as a member of the Climate Action Task Force, I couldn't be more proud of my colleagues on the floor tonight. I thank Senator Boxer, Senator Schatz, and Senator Whitehouse for organizing this evening. The information we want…

Mr. President, March 8 is International Women's Day--a day when we can celebrate the enormous advances women have made while pledging to continue to work for greater opportunity for all women. Rooted in the long-term struggle for equality…

Mr. President, today I rise to mark the seventh anniversary of Deamonte Driver's death. Deamonte Driver was a 12-year-old child who lived in Prince George's County, MD, whose border sits only a few miles from the U.S. Capitol Building. He…

Madam President, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the most serious breaches of the OSCE principles since the signing of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. These principles are at the foundation of the Organization for Security and…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the issue of money and politics. I address it knowing that many of my constituents and many Americans across the country are in a pretty bad mood about Washington, about politics as usual, about…

Mr. Speaker, thank you for yielding me time to speak on this bill before us. Mr. Speaker, the situation in Ukraine is important to all of us, but for me it has a personal aspect. My mother, now 90 years old, escaped from Ukraine and the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Lowey for bringing this bill to the floor in a very timely fashion. Mr. Speaker, Congress is coming together today to support loan…

There are deep linguistic and political divisions within Ukraine. Frankly, that is true of many other countries as well. Democracy by its nature provides an avenue to overcome those differences through peaceful cooperation and dialogue…

I thank the gentleman. I hope if it is not next week, it will be soon. I thank the gentleman for his information. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

So before it comes to the floor, it will be paid for. I ask the gentleman, it is my understanding that the pay-for, I don't know if I am accurate on this, but my understanding is that the pay-for is the repeal of the individual mandate. If…

I thank the gentleman for the information he has given to us. Let me say that on Ukraine, I think the House acted properly. It acted in a timely fashion to express the views of this House with respect to the Russian violation of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway) for the purpose of inquiring of the schedule for the week to come.

I thank the gentleman. Let me clarify, Mr. Speaker, this will be under a rule and there will be an amendment made in order to add the pay-for; is that correct?

I thank the gentleman, and I would say I am hopeful in light of the fact that the bill itself is a bipartisan, or at least the two committees have agreed on it, and I think there is general agreement on the fix for the SGR, but the…

I am just going to underscore how dangerous this situation is and how Russia is violating not just one, but numerous international obligations.

Ukraine has shown remarkable restraint. I commend them for being able to put the spotlight on who is the villain here, and it is clearly Russia.

I think many of us are concerned about the interim deal being the final deal or having a series of rolling interim deals.

I think our foreign policy credibility is close to shot at this time.