We have a special obligation to try to continue to reduce tensions.

Young people fill me with hope.

Decisive action is needed to nurture a sustainable recovery and restore the resilience of the global economy.

I'm hopeful we can achieve the kind of high-standard, comprehensive agreement that the global trading system is looking to us to develop.

I express my concern about the extensive damage caused over the last several days.

Mr. Speaker, this week we took up the National Defense Authorization Act, and I was glad to join with my colleagues in working to improve the bill to meet emerging needs. Specifically, I want to thank the committee for the inclusion of two…

I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of subtitle D of title V, add the following new section: SEC. 5__. CONVENING AUTHORITY RELIANCE…

Madam Speaker, the willingness of our troops to place the Nation first is why the scourge of sexual harassment and assault in the military is so horrific. Just a single case is unacceptable. This is a self-inflicted wound that has no place…

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute vote on passage of the bill, if…

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate you yielding. And, Mr. Blumenauer, thank you for leading on this, Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Stivers as well. This is such an important issue. You know, we're a Nation of commitments, and a lot of the times Washington…

I am happy that we are having this hearing on drug abuse in the United States and I am glad that we can work together in a bipartisan manner to tackle this problem.

My constituent, Peter Jackson, tragically lost his 18-year-old daughter Emily to this epidemic.

I wonder if part of the customer, the consumer education includes encouraging families with children between 12 and 18 to have a lockbox for certain drugs so that they keep them out of the hands of children.

This hearing provides an opportunity to raise awareness and discuss action that we can take to end a crisis that is truly destroying lives, hurting families and communities across the country.

I think I do have something as a comment that is already in the record, and when it comes to the changing the scheduling of hydrocodone from its current schedule III to schedule II of the Controlled Substance Act, that was one of the…

What we're talking about is a vision for high-speed rail in America.

That's a long time.

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