Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Jamie Cheney of Greenbrier, Arkansas, for her outstanding service to our community and the State of Arkansas. Jamie serves as a local medical technician and also as a volunteer firefighter on her day off…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Texas (Mr. McCaul) and my friend from New York (Mr. Engel) for their leadership on this issue and the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Speaker, let me be clear: I did not support the failed Obama- Kerry…

There has been a resurgence of economic confidence within our country.

I am sure it was more over political reasons and the political consequences of trying to support something like that rather than one on merit.

I would hope that our Committee will eventually come to terms with that and be willing to deal with it no matter how tough the political world may be.

It's now been uncovered that Dr. Levy had a misdiagnosis rate of 9 percent.

We must work together to ensure the families of our Nation's heroes get the answers that they deserve.

I think, required to address because we have a broken immigration policy.

The tragic deaths of our veterans at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg and the sexual assault allegations at the Beckley VA Medical Center are unacceptable.

As Members of Congress, how can we support the VA, and are there legislative changes we need to make to help stem leadership and accountability failures?

I said in my opening remarks that--and this is kind of a prayer that I have for our country--that we would spend as much time trying to use lessons learned in history to better protect ourselves against a recession, a potential recession…

We owe it to them to ensure that promise is kept, and that the care they receive is of a high quality.

I agree with my colleagues that talk about the need to do a budget because I do think, as Speaker Pelosi indicated, that it is a statement of your values.

We should be working to bring more of those expenditures back under our oversight, which is, in my opinion, where they belong.

But here we are today talking about how can we add to more mandatory spending in this country when any person with half a brain and decent in eighth grade math can figure out that when 70 percent of your federal spending is on the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from New Jersey very much for allowing me to speak on the subject of Hong Kong today. I rise in support of all these bills before us today, particularly the bill from my friend from New Jersey, the Hong Kong…

That's simply unacceptable, and the problems didn't end there.

The members of America's Armed Forces are promised care for life due to the sacrifice they make to serve our Nation.