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I would like to thank Chairman Hensarling for all his fine work on this issue, as well as other financial services issues. I also would like to thank my good friend and neighbor in Missouri, Mrs. Wagner, for introducing this legislation…
Mr. President, I rise today to honor an important historical date in Greene County, MO, my home county. October 26 was the centennial of the historic Greene County Courthouse--the place where I worked for more than a decade as county…
Later today, the WRRDA bill will come before this body. I intend to vote against it. The reason is that there are 23 earmarks in it. I support all of those projects, but I don't have an earmark in it--and I want one. I am not one of those…
Madam President, first of all, I wish to follow up on a comment my friend from Alabama just made on Social Security and Medicare. I think it is very important that we listen carefully to what he had to say, that if we do things that are…
Madam President, today I wish to honor Dr. Tara Palmore and Dr. Julie Segre, 2013 Federal Employees of the Year, for their ground-breaking research to stop the spread of deadly hospital-acquired infections. Each year approximately 100,000…
Yesterday people across this country were shocked to learn that families of troops who died in combat are being denied death benefits, including a fellow Missourian. Like so many in my district, I was appalled to see news reports showing…
President Obama must stop playing politics with our National Park System. The parks belong to every American and should not be held hostage in President Obama's political game. In the 1960s, the Federal Government established the Ozark…
Thank you very much. It's a great honor to be here this evening to talk about the effects that ObamaCare has on the folks in rural Missouri. I also want to thank my colleague and my neighbor just west of me in Missouri, Congresswoman Vicky…
I was impressed by the comments of my friend from Illinois yesterday about NIH funding. I am for NIH funding. I have never failed to vote for NIH funding. Frankly, I have never failed to vote for an amendment that would increase NIH…
Let me say to my friend from Texas that until the leadership in the Senate changed to the current leadership 7 years ago, we always did appropriations by debating and advancing individual things. The idea that we don't want to debate…
Reserving the right to object, I would remind my good friend from Illinois that there was a time when in the Senate we dealt with all of these issues individually--as we should have last year and didn't. There were no appropriations bills…
I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. On Monday morning, I was scheduled to be at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, to look at some of their research. A lot of the research NIH does has been done in our State; one-third of the…
Moments ago, I joined veterans from all over Missouri's Show Me State at the sacred grounds of our Nation's World War II Memorial. This memorial is a monument to the spirit and sacrifice of our veterans, and yet Harry Reid and the…
Mr. President, I am disappointed that the process has failed us in the last week for my friends in the House and in the Senate who, as I did, when we ran for these jobs, said we would do everything we could possibly do to not go down this…
Deficit Day is the symbolic day each calendar year when the Federal Government runs out of money and begins adding to the already enormous debt. Despite the $2.7 trillion the government is estimated to collect this year from taxes…
Madam President, I thank the Chair for recognizing me and allowing me to follow the Senator from Alabama whose remarks I agree with. I am disappointed in what happened this week. Those of us in the minority learned another lesson for the…
Today I come to the House floor to speak on an issue that is on the minds of many of my constituents and Americans across the country, and that is ObamaCare. Enrollment is set to begin in only 5 short days, yet there is far too much…
Mr. President, I have had the chance to listen for almost a better part of an hour to my two neighbors, Senator Harkin and Senator Coburn, one from Oklahoma and one from Iowa, both of whom, as many of us know, have totally different views…