Mr. President, I also ask unanimous consent that my military fellow, our military detailee, MAJ Aaron House be given floor privileges during the duration of my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Mr. President, I am honored to join my colleagues here to talk about President Bush. The outpouring of appreciation from the country has been significant. His son, the 43rd President, said that it takes a long time for the determinations…

I rise because today we are voting on a 1- week extension of the National Flood Insurance Program. This will be the eighth short-term extension since fiscal year 2017, and it is unacceptable. My district floods every year, and it is…

Mr. President, I have two topics. I want to talk in a moment or two about National Adoption Month, but before I do that, I want to talk just a minute about Russia's continued outrageous behavior in Ukraine and the most recent incident…

Madam President, I think by any standard, as we conclude this Congress, the House and Senate, working together, have put more legislation on the President's desk that has long-term impact than at any time in a long time, whether it was the…

Mr. President, I want to talk a little bit about what my good friend from Delaware talked about with regard to our being judged by history. Some of what I want to talk about today is of the history of this system and of others who have…

Mr. President, my colleague just talked about standing up for the Senate, about standing up for the values that traditionally have been our values. One of those principal values has been ``innocent until proven guilty.'' What we have seen…

Recently, I spent time listening to farmers, large manufacturers, and leaders of smaller companies in my district express their frustrations on how tariffs are affecting their bottom line. I visited a steel fabrication company, an…

I thank Representative Tipton. I rise today to speak on behalf of the bipartisan Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act. The International Labor Organization estimates that, globally, over 40 million people were…

As one of the only professional pilots in Congress, I rise today in strong support of the long-awaited FAA reauthorization bill. I was happy to work closely with the chairman, ranking member, and all of our Senate counterparts to reach the…

Dow Jones has said that the information provided to it from NGOs like Liberty Asia and others is relevant and actionable in its anti-money laundering work. This bill enables FinCEN and financial institutions to gather hard intelligence…

Mr. President, today we are about to mark a milestone. Maybe it wouldn't be a milestone for any other group except for the U.S. Congress; that milestone is getting a significant part of our work done on time. This will be the first time in…

I regrettably missed votes on Thursday, September 13, 2018. I had intended to vote ``yes'' on rollcall vote 399. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus), who is vice chair of the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, and the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty) for their work on this legislation. For years, the…

Madam President, I want to speak for a few minutes about the hearings going on today with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I had a chance, as you did, to meet him a little over a month ago. It was clear from that conversation that he is clearly the…

Mr. President, I know we have a series of votes coming up, and I won't stand in the way of those votes once we get over the next couple of minutes, but I didn't want to let the week go by without talking a little bit about John McCain here…

Mr. President, I appreciate the concern of my friend from Wyoming on this. I will be voting to waive the point of order. My colleague from Wyoming was exactly right when he said this is a complicated formula. It is a combination of…

Madam President, we will vote in a few minutes to move forward with the Defense, Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations bill. That probably sounds like a pretty unusual combination, even though I think most voters, most taxpayers…