Broadband access is a basic necessity for full participation in modern life.

I commend Chairman Blackburn for expanding on our work from last Congress with a focus on improving mapping data.

The most uncommon of the senses is common sense.

I think we should start at home.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of H.R. 1029, the Pesticide Registration Enhancement Act of 2017. Once again, Madam Speaker, I stand before you to urge the passage of H.R. 1029. As we know, the…

It resonates with me personally. When my dad lost his job when I was a freshman in college, I could put together the money for the tuition, but I could not for room and board.

I cannot think of many things that for the long-term health of this country is more important than figuring this out.

Representative Eshoo's 'Dig Once' initiative, would mandate the inclusion of broadband conduit during the construction of certain highway projects that receive federal funding.

That is just not acceptable. Rural America, and in terms of tribes, it is shameful.

I think that this hearing today is maybe not equal to importance as the nomination hearing for the Supreme Court, but I think it comes in as a close second because the subject matter is an essential for our country.

Without access to a high-speed Internet connection our businesses and constituents are inherently at a disadvantage in the 21st century.

We have areas in our country that have no access.

I am committed to fighting as hard as I can for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and I consider that one of the most important fights of my career.

Dodd-Frank is extremely important and valuable to this country. But the centerpiece of it is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

And I just want to continue my advocacy and my disappointment with those who have shown less care and concern for consumers.

Get ready for impeachment.

Either we are going to do this and we are going to get rid of that regime and work with the people of North Korea to free themselves, or we are not.

The people of North Korea are victims. They are people who--perhaps many of them who don't even know they are victims.