Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding. I voted for this bill in committee because we have brave servicemembers in harm's way that depend on it. But I want to make clear that I don't believe we have done our job to address…

Mr. Chair, I will just say that going pro, as Mr. Rooney has said, is not the goal of our military academies. If we are concerned about morale because we want to make sure they can go out on the football field and have great games against…

The loss of Liu Xiaobo has once again brought attention to the issues of human rights in China.

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me time. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the minority leader's words. I did three tours as a U.S. marine. This is the silliest opposition to this amendment that I have ever heard. You are joining the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the life of Mr. Mike McGarvin, a role model for one and all, and a gentleman who truly made a difference in his lifetime. Mike was the beloved founder of the Poverello House, a homeless shelter…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Valley Children's Hospital for their recent recognition as one of the Nation's top 50 children's hospitals in the country, which I represent. I have been there and know of the work they do. In…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Cole amendment. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for his work in pushing Congress to have a debate on an AUMF. I had offered an amendment as well to the…

His courage became a poignant symbol for freedom-loving people across the globe.

Liu Xiaobo's death is a tragedy and a deep affront to the basic notions of justice and human dignity.

The world grieves the loss of Liu Xiaobo, one of the great moral voices of our time.

I will take my guidance from Chairman Smith.

The Chinese Communist regime is responsible for Liu Xiaobo's death.

The U.S. can and should do more to help Liu Xiaobo and his family.

May Liu Xiaobo life and legacy continue to inspire all who strive for justice and democracy.

America must honor its moral duty to speak out in defense of the many journalists, human rights lawyers, democracy advocates, and religious freedom advocates unjustly and unfairly lost in jail simply for aspiring to a more free and hopeful…

The denial of medical care led to Liu Xiaobo's advanced liver cancer and at its core was a disguised death sentence.

One of the things I think the U.S. needs to do more directly, and I think the Congress could play a key role in a legislative context, is to focus our foreign policy on the world's prisoners of conscience.

Number two, Liu Xiaobo Plaza, renaming the street in front of the Chinese Embassy for Liu Xiaobo, I think, is a way that the United States and governments all over the world--I am sure, we will be campaigning for this--for all countries in…