If that offer to come back is not accepted that they would reserve the right to subpoena him, to force him to come back.

Mr. Speaker, I represent the central coast of California, known to many of my colleagues as the salad bowl of the world. It is where agriculture is the number one industry, and it is where the farm labor movement was partially founded…

Mr. Speaker, I have something very, very special for us in the next 3 minutes. This is an opportunity for us to vote on something everybody in this Chamber wants. That is right. Everybody in this Chamber wants American jobs, they want…

In its current form, I am. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Garamendi moves to recommit the bill H.R. 218 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to…

Mr. Speaker, without regard to the argument in opposition to my amendment, I think we ought to go home and let it be. I am not going to ask for a recorded vote. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is not recognized for debate. The…

Mr. Speaker, I was absent during rollcall vote Nos. 403 through 406 due to my spouse's health situation in California. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on H.R. 2825--DHS Authorization Act of 2017, ``yea'' on the Tsongas…

Mr. Speaker, many health insurance executives say they are raising premiums and leaving exchanges because of uncertainty and the threat of not paying the cost-sharing reductions and not funding them. Brad Wilson, CEO of Blue Cross Blue…

Attorney general Sessions should no longer serve, I believe for other reasons. He's already lost the trust of the American people. He wasn't forthcoming about his contacts with Russia as they were interfering in our campaign. He…

I think Attorney General Sessions should step down, given tonight's breaking new news, which cast doubt on the attorney general past statements on contact with Russians.

This is a time for Congress to thoughtfully and aggressively put a check on this president.

For all of those reasons, so that the Justice Department can function without this chaos, I don't think he should any longer be the attorney general.

We have to tell the country that the so what is that our democracy has been undermined by a foreign adversary and we have to do everything now as leaders in Congress to never put our country in a position like this again.

The Senate should not recess or do anything that would allow a recess appointment to take place. They should ensure that whoever would be appointed next, if he does step down, is somebody who is going to allow the Russia investigation to…

I think he should come before our committee. We should be able to have access to all of the evidence so that we can again confront him with it to see just what is the truth.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2825 includes H.R. 2518, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017, in division E. The Coast Guard Authorization Act is a product of bipartisan efforts of the Transportation…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about one of the most basic rights that serves as the cornerstone of our democracy, and that is freedom of speech, freedom of expression for all Americans guaranteed in the First Amendment in our Bill of…

It should be no different for gold, silver, copper, or any other minerals.

the West has been settled.