Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the achievements of Mr. Jim Hinkle, who was inducted into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame last year by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Born and raised in Mountain View, Arkansas, Jim…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of National Cancer Prevention Month and to highlight the long-term, exceptional work of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. The Rockefeller…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize my friend, Bill Holmes, who passed away peacefully late last year. He left an indelible impact on the Arkansas business community. Bill dedicated over four decades of his life to financial services…

I would argue that if the institutions are so incredibly important that people around this dais would nominate their best and brightest young men and women to go there that they deserve to not be neglected from a recapitalization…

the 2-year budget, has been--was proven effective, was it not, to create certainty?

I think because we have--all of us have vetting processes of some type to send our best and brightest young men and women to these academies, a very prestigious honor, that it deserves to have the superintendents of these institutions down…

So as a former Guard guy, I can tell you, Mr. Chairman, the Combat Training Center rotation is the pinnacle.

I hope the Congress is paying attention.

I will get off my high horse on it and beg and plead with my colleagues to look for solutions to this problem.

I have strong concerns about how the approach by the Department of Defense in this arena seems to be geared toward, you know, producing a desired outcome with a specific vendor.

Active management plus using wood materials, overall, is a bigger carbon synch, better for the environment than just a hands-off approach to management.

I don't think we need to manage on Yellowstone, we can let nature manage Yellowstone.

I think southerners should be given more minutes. I think we are being discriminated against because of our slow cadence in speaking.

Well, all I will say, and I will leave the subject, is that it is clear that multivendor cloud environments are widely used, widely used by large organizations, for a simple reason: They increase competition, they improve security and…

I expect that maybe this year we are going to go right back into that pattern of waiting until the last minute to do something.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from North Carolina and appreciate his distinguished service on behalf of the citizens of North Carolina, his leadership of our Republican Study Committee in the last Congress, and his leadership as our…

The discretionary caps imposed since 2011 have had value. They still have value today, and should be extended and increased gradually.

While we disagree on some policy-related issues, we both recognize the need that has been expressed... the need for us to work together.