If America is not standing up for democracy and pushing back, you know, the rest of the world is watching.

Mr. Speaker, 4 years ago, I stood on this same floor and condemned the online bullying of U.S. Marine Corps servicewomen on a public Facebook page. Today I stand before you again, incredulous, angry, and sad, to say that absolutely nothing…

President Trump plans to propose devastating cuts to the EPA's funding and staff levels.

I look forward to working together to improve the work of the Army Corps, to protect the Clean Water Act.

I formally urged Loretta Lynch to appoint one. She said no.

This is an issue for the core of America's democracy.

I respectfully request that you retain the bipartisan language provision, known as GIPSA rule, that was included in the Committee-passed fiscal year 2017 ag appropriations bill.

It is insulting that the agency continues to attempt to accomplish this by rulemaking in what proponents of this rule have failed to do legislatively.

We do need tough sanctions to respond to what Russia has done.

We need more than one hearing on this subject.

Nothing in that dossier has been disproved. Parts of it have been proved to be true.

The Russians acted like bullies and they were going to get their way with a cyberattack.

I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching out to Russia.

And let us note, that in order to get Russia, what we are now doing is destabilizing our own democratic system here with that kind of nonsense.

But please do not say that Russia is the only country that commits these kind of crimes.

I worked not only with President Reagan but my entire life was dedicated to defeating communism.

The first one is the Army has got four divisions of Gray Eagles.

We can't just tell the interagency you have authority to do this and leave it up to them to decide.