It's troubling to me when I see--not to vilify CEOs of publicly traded companies, but, for instance, publicly traded fast-food restaurants have gone up in compensation by almost 1,000 percent since the 1970s, while workers wages have…

Letter dated February 14, 2017, from Business for a Fair Minimum Wage

Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to defeat a Congressional Review Act resolution that would weaken the FBI's gun background check system and make it easier for individuals with severe mental illness to buy guns. Gun…

We are going to call it the salad bar of the world.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak against restricting the family planning services that are provided by title X. Just prior to signing title X into law, back in 1970, President Richard Nixon recognized how essential family planning was to…

So if we were to have this discussion about things that are nutritional and we have items on the list that maybe are now eligible for SNAP but determined somehow to not be nutritional, is it really that much tougher to differentiate…

So today we are talking about the SNAP program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Supplemental meaning in addition to what might be someone's personal income, or other forms of aid a family might be receiving.

I don't think that we have a role here in being the food police.

I actually agree with him on some of these issues that maybe we ought to look at incentives.

What do you think the USDA's incentive is to deny these possible studies and the learning we can get from that at state level or New York City level?

It is great cost to the people that are the assistance part of this program, and it is also of great cost to the people, for lack of maybe knowledge or the idea that the government is incentivizing it, sending them home with candy bars and…

Strong investment in water infrastructure is vital to our health and safety.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call for a nonpartisan, independent commission to immediately and thoroughly examine the influence in the 2016 election and at the Trump White House of the Russian Government. This House should have begun this…

Mr. Speaker, at the onset of the Great Recession, our unemployment insurance system was completely inadequate. Democrats took the lead, against increasing Republican opposition, to improve the system and to provide unemployment benefits to…

Isn't it true that we have been less than responsive at helping them build their energy requirements?

In other words, we're giving less than the care that they were promised because we either--either they can't come to a clinic that has the facility or we're crying poor and rationing care.

And as a result, what could have improved life for Native Americans didn't happen. And that's why they're on the endangered--or the high risk list.

So if I can summarize what you said, you're saying the last several years they've been inept at allowing Native Americans to utilize the resources. And as a result, it has hurt their ability to help themselves?