we are crowding out the investments that you gentlemen are suggesting that we continue to make to grow our economy.

It would improve the process greatly. I would encourage you to try to do that.

I am proud to support the bill authored by my friend, the mayor from Knox County, and his Democrat cosponsor, Mr. Case.

I am often asked at home: when are you guys going to get together and do something, instead of fighting with each other?

Simply put, the debt is on a completely unsustainable trajectory.

I think targets are a good idea with emergency clauses to deal with this.

I have given up hope that we are going to balance the books of the federal government.

So the constraints that you suggest that we put on ourselves, they are only there for one reason, and that is not to explode this deficit and debt situation, even further exacerbate the situation as we currently have, which most people…

the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is really about promises--making promises and keeping promises. Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party has a long history of making promises but not keeping them. You can ask a rice farmer…

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger) for yielding and for her leadership. I, too, am concerned about the direction we are heading in this continuing resolution, but I have another reason, Mr. Speaker. This CR includes a…

We need to fix it. I spent last year with the distinguished chair of the Appropriations Committee, Mrs. Lowey, as co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform. We got really close on some good ideas…

Our economy is strong. Forward momentum continues, thanks to the pro-growth policies enacted last Congress and under this Administration.

We must ensure that the Corps is truly fulfilling obligations after disasters hit and get communities back on their feet while being good stewards of scarce taxpayer dollars.

Resilience is not a one-size-fits-all framework. It must be considerate of the local geography and climate and the local industry and economy.

So who would develop those standards?

We need to expeditiously turn this funding around in order to rebuild and improve our water resources infrastructure.

The state of our water resource infrastructure is very poor.

And we would recommend that the Army Corps of Engineers utilize the non-Federal sponsors more to meet these challenges.