I am, in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Aderholt moves to recommit the bill H.R. 265 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report…

I thank the gentlewoman and my friend as well for holding this Special Order tonight. I agree with the comments my colleagues have made here on the floor this evening. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to underscore the severity of the…

I urge Members to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 474, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 475 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 476. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to add my support to this rule. When did protecting the American people--knowing who is entering our country and having a secure border--become some kind of radical or partisan idea…

I wish to start here this morning by thanking my good friend, Senator Orrin Hatch, who happens to be in the Chamber, for his more than four decades of service in the U.S. Senate. We have served together in the Senate for 32 years; he was…

Today I rise to call upon this body to fulfill its duty to protect the American people. Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to claim that strengthening border security is about separating families or preventing them from…

I thank my colleague for his generosity in yielding a few minutes for this very important moment. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute as well to a true public servant, Rex Buffington. Rex has dedicated so much of his professional life…

Just over a month ago, Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall on the United States mainland, ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Hundreds of Americans lost everything, and more than 30 people…

Less than a year after the first disastrous tax bill, here we are voting on another bill that will double down on this betrayal and put hardworking families who are working every day to make ends meet even further into debt. As my…

We cannot risk American lives and our nation's environment because the President wants to reward big campaign donors and corporations while using the regulatory boogieman to try to destroy democratically chosen regulations.

In my experience in Alabama, people don't want to start a business when the overwhelming uncertainty of the regulatory process threatens to come down on them.

Massive corporations have the resources to hire compliance people to make sure they comply with this, but small business really gets hammered by the overaccumulation of regulations.

What this is about is having a sensible regulatory environment.

I ask my Democratic friends to join us in making this a priority.

I thank the gentleman, and I do have great hope that this can be a bipartisan effort.

We went through what I would consider a blizzard of new regulations... by 2014 we had gone from 100,000 more businesses opening than closing to 70,000 more businesses closing than starting up.

What we found was not only was there no resistance, there was enthusiasm for it.