This committee will be requesting to take a look at and receive copies of what the guarantee was, or the cost analysis that was used prior to approving the tapered match.

I would--I hate to assume anything in politics, but it seems to me that if a State or a project came back to the Federal Government and said, 'Hey, trust us, let me give you some information and show you how great we are, we would like to…

We normally in this subcommittee, with the help of Mr. Capuano, we are usually very, very quick and very, very efficient.

The fact that you have taken the time to come out there in your early months, not only to visit our parks but to meet and talk with other folks, I think is a significant good step, first step forward.

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding me time. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to commend my colleagues for this commonsense legislation. As a result of drought and the bark beetle, there are an estimated over 107…

We had such a broad-based bipartisan support.

I look forward to working with you, and this will be part of a longer conversation that we will continue to have.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2866, and I want to congratulate my good friends, Representatives Sewell, Kelly, and Smucker for this legislation to reduce barriers for relative caregivers. Ironically, in the 1990s, when the crack…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of my legislation, in conjunction with Representative Faso, to support the education and advancement of foster youth. I want to thank the Representative for his leadership on this issue. I also want to thank…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2742, the Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act. Children who cannot be safely returned home deserve to be placed in the best setting possible for them, regardless of the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2834, the Partnership Grants to Strengthen Families Affected by Parental Substance Abuse Act. This piece of legislation is responsive to countless pleas of youth and families seeking necessary…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2857, to support foster care maintenance payments for children with parents in a licensed residential facility. Last month, when the National Foster Youth Institute sponsored Foster Youth Shadow…

I commend Chairman Lamar Smith for his leadership on this bill, as well as the bill's original sponsor, Vice Chairman Frank Lucas.

Access to broadband internet service is critical to the more than 20 million veterans across our Nation.

Last Congress, I introduced bipartisan legislation that would put us on a path to helping more veterans get access to internet service.

Our use of NGOs in these countries, Tunisia, and particularly Egypt, has been problematic on the political side.

People come in and make all these wild statements and they don't have anything to back them up.

all of us on this side of the aisle were appalled that the Congress, like a bolt of lightning, eliminated all privacy protections on the internet.