Mr. President, in the next few days, we will begin to debate this important bill on sex trafficking. This is something that, for whatever reason, the country turned its back on for too long. As the ways to communicate and the ways to offer…

I thank the chairman for his hard work and leadership on our committee. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Tipton, for being such a champion for this initiative and others to bring about a more responsible, effective…

I thank Chairman Hensarling for yielding. My hat is off to the vice chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, my good friend, Congressman Tipton, for this fine piece of legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support…

Mr. President, I want to join my colleague from West Virginia, as well as our friend from South Dakota, to say how much I appreciate the effort that Senator Crapo has made to put this bill together. It is exactly how the Congress is…

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this matter today. It is kind of interesting that we have before us an amendment that basically is something that deals with a financial services bill, something that deals with a financial services…

I claim the time in opposition. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Missouri is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank Chairman Hensarling for all his great work and leadership on our Financial Services Committee and also thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk) for crafting a commonsense, bipartisan bill that requires the Federal…

In that article, George W. Bush talked about the impact Billy Graham had on his life. My favorite line from that article talked about when George W. Bush's father was President, and his father was gone, and he and his mother Barbara were…

Mr. President, I want to spend a few minutes talking about your fellow North Carolinian, Billy Graham. It is very appropriate that you are in the Chair as I do this--and some of my colleagues are going to follow--as we honor the life and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the combined rule for H.R. 4296, my bill that addresses difficulties with operational risk capital requirements imposed on financial institutions, and H.R. 4607, the…

I thank the chairman for his great leadership and for helping us with this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4296, legislation that would set reasonable parameters for Federal financial regulators when establishing…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for bringing up the Walters amendment to H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, called FOSTA. The Walters amendment reinstates critical pro-victim provisions…

I thank the gentlewoman from Alabama for yielding. Mr. Chair, in recent years, sex trafficking has moved from the streets to the internet. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has witnessed an 846 percent increase in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I love this opportunity to testify on the rule for H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA. This legislation has been born, sadly…

I thank the gentlewoman from Alabama, my friend, Mrs. Roby, for her fearless leadership and support on this issue. Today we bring, Mr. Chair, H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, to the…

Mr. President, I am pleased to come and talk today. This is a week where we had all anticipated a return to the Senate, where ideas are widely debated. I was standing by the majority leader last week when he was talking about this, and he…

I thank Chairman Hensarling for the time. To say that the current regulatory climate presents challenges for small financial institutions would be a drastic understatement. Today, regulators require more and more from community banks in…

Mr. President, when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in December, we heard a lot about what was going to immediately happen. This was going to be a tax cut for the rich. Corporations were going to use their money to buy back…