Madam Speaker, I rise today to commend the Arkansas Department of Human Services for taking action to address the urgent need for better mental healthcare by establishing a support line to connect Arkansans to low-cost mental health and…

Madam President, it is a pleasure to be with my friend and colleague from Arkansas to talk about a tremendous State institution, something that is truly a true Arkansas institution, and we want to pay tribute to it and the men and women…

Madam Speaker, today I rise to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week, where all across the globe cities will be hosting events that will inspire millions to explore their potential as an entrepreneur while fostering connections and increasing…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey, my good friend, for yielding, and I have to thank him for his decades of service and leadership here for free expression and for liberty in Hong Kong. I was moved by the Speaker's tribute…

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

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…

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

Madam President, 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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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

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

Congress must come together in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion to reduce the debt, deliver on our Article I responsibilities and make good on our responsibility to the American people who have to balance their own budgets each month.

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

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

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

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

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mrs. Wagner and my friend Mr. Green from Texas for their work on this legislation. We don't do perfect in the House of Representatives. We do the best that we can in the House of Representatives. We have worked on both…