the best thing to do is do nothing because it gets cut on its own in about five or six short years.

I believe I have heard from more than one of my colleagues on the other side that it only helped the millionaires and the billionaires.

Make no mistake, if we continue down this reckless path, CBO confirms that we will face the severe threat of a fiscal crisis, which will negatively impact every single American.

There is enough stink on this deficit and debt issue to go around this room and around the Congress and around previous Congresses and previous Presidents, left and right.

Republicans and Democrats have to start behaving more like Americans in deciding what we have got to do now to solve the problems today rather than kick those--that can down the road and put it on future generations.

There is a reason why we are in this fix right now. And we can blame it on taxes.

It should be deeply unsettling to all of us here in this room that Fiscal Year 2020 will be the first year since fiscal 2012 that the deficit will eclipse a trillion.

most politicians don't like to raise taxes. And most politicians don't like to cut benefits that have currently accrued a certain people, but at the end of the day when you have a trillion dollar deficit as far as the eye can see…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I commend our bipartisan group of Members on this floor tonight to rise on Holocaust Remembrance Day to pay tribute to all those who were affected by the enormity, the calamity…

I am saying if we are going to do accounting, I think we should take that into the equation because it is all part of the carbon cycle.

I am very concerned about the environment and how we are good stewards of that.

We oftentimes have regulations that prevent any kind of management or work on the forests, which exacerbates the cycle of seeing these forests go up in flames.

Madam Speaker, I am prepared to close, and let me say in closing what a pleasure it is to work with my friend from Guam on this bill to recognize our merchant mariners. I thank my friend from New York (Mr. Suozzi) who has the privilege…

I think that the bill is shortsighted in that it only looks at one side of the ledger.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize NASA Day in my home State of Arkansas, which was recently proclaimed by Governor Hutchinson to be January 27, 2020. In my district, Harding University, a member of the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of H.R. 5671, the Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2020. Madam Speaker, it is fair to say that, when we look back on the many…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ms. Kerry McCoy who is being honored with the 2019 Special Recognition for Outstanding Stewardship from Preserve Arkansas. In 1975 Kerry founded her successful business, Arkansas Flag and Banner, with…

We may be facing a sovereign debt crisis which will affect every state, regardless of size.