Madam President, I wish to talk today about a couple of issues. This first issue I will address concerns the first freedom and the First Amendment in this country, a matter which people in other parts of the world are seeing in jeopardy…

Thank you, Mr. Blumenauer. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to be here, particularly with Mr. Blumenauer and Mr. Garamendi, who spoke earlier, because they have long histories--longer, in fact, than I have been in the House--of…

Madam President, I thank my good friend from Nevada for yielding a few minutes to me. He is going to speak on an amendment which requires the Senate to pass a budget I am supportive of and support his efforts to do that, but I wish to…

Madam President, I am pleased to join the Senator from Arkansas in introducing this bill. He has been a great person to work with. I also fully associate myself with his comments about our colleagues' ability to amend these bills. Senator…

Mr. President, I want to join our Republican leader in recognizing the birthday of the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. It is possible that nobody ever came to the Presidency with a preparation that exceeded his in…

This discussion tonight is, I think, exemplary of the dysfunctionality of this place. No matter whose fault it is, we are not serving the public. I just came in from the break on a Third World road from Dulles Airport here to the Capitol…

Mr. President, I wish to talk a little bit about health care this morning. The majority leader has suggested in past weeks that all of these contacts and concerns I get from Missourians are just made up--although he didn't target…

How does the Federal Government get rid of an industry it simply doesn't like? Easy. It cuts that industry off from the financial services it needs to operate. Sound impossible? Sure, it does. However, that is exactly what the Department…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

With that, Mr. Chairman, I just want to close by saying I appreciate the gentleman from Colorado's support. This is an agency that has gone well beyond the scope of its authority. It even questions its own authority in its internal memos…

Before you is a picture, a contemporary picture of the World War I monument in Kansas City, Missouri, the tallest and most majestic of the World War I monuments. Today, we are here in an unprecedented show of bipartisanship on this…

Madam President, I want to talk a little bit about the continuing concerns we see in our office and hear from Missourians about what is happening with the implementation of the health care plan. The more people know about the path we are…

Due to an oversight, I missed the vote on Conference Report on H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act on May 20th, 2014. I had intended to vote ``aye'' on rollcall vote 220, Agreeing to the Conference Report on H.R…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for yielding me time. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3610, the Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act. Congressman Erik Paulsen authored this important legislation in order to encourage States to…

And Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3530, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. H.R. 3530 is a comprehensive, multipronged approach to address the problem of human trafficking in the United States. The sponsor of this…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia, Chairman Goodlatte, for his wonderful leadership on this issue and so many others. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, H.R. 4225, the Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation, SAVE, Act…

I thank the chairman for his leadership in this. I rise today, Madam Speaker, in support of H.R. 4573, the International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking. My very good friend, Congressman Chris Smith, a champion on…

Mr. President, I wish to say a few words about National Police Week. I am pleased to be able to cochair with the Presiding Officer and the Senator from Delaware Mr. Coons the Law Enforcement Caucus which we founded when we came to the…