Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, today I rise in strong support of H.R. 1404, the Vladimir Putin Transparency Act. According to the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment produced by the CIA, NSA…

I believe my friend, the ranking member, Tom Cole, will concur that biomedical research is one of the most important investments a country can make because it gives the gift of life.

For all of our greatest health crises we need our great agencies to be fully involved in finding the solutions.

The totality of this budget is contrary to the needs of the American people and the very promises of this administration.

A cut of $5,000,000,000, as the budget proposes, would reverse this trend and send the wrong signals to young scientists.

I particularly favor the efforts you have made to lower the costs of prescription drugs.

I am concerned that your budget would lead to a weakened public health system that cannot come close to meeting the needs of the public.

President Trump pretends he believes in deficits and proposes cutting $2,000,000,000,000 from Medicare and Medicaid.

It would also cut the NIH by 13 percent.

I consider this every bit as much as Defense budget as anything as DOD. I mean, as I have said on many, many occasions, we are much more likely to die in pandemics than in terrorist attacks.

Further, they are proposing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would take away health coverage for millions of Americans.

I am hoping that--and I am sure that our chair, we will be, in fact, putting more money into the Pell Grant program.

Not only do you ignore racial and socioeconomic disparities in our education system, you propose policies proven to increase the divide.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H. Res. 156, as amended, a resolution calling for accountability and justice for…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this resolution. I am proud to have authored this measure with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul), my colleague and the ranking…

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Malinowski), who is a very new and valued member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Madam Speaker, in closing, let me say, it is critical that we speak out against strong men and dictators throughout the world. We need to demand justice for those unable to do so themselves. As we have mentioned, Boris Nemtsov was brutally…

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 596) to prohibit United States Government recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as…