Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. I think this has been a good discussion, and I think that the hearing that we had today was even an opening as well at looking at this issue. I think no matter what side of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Danny K. Davis).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. We are actually talking about two of these joint resolutions, both H.J. Res. 57 and H.J. Res. 58, and are looking at accountability measures. Sometimes I think people forget…

Mr. Speaker, I just want to comment because I was a little confused by what the gentleman said. I believe that we want to be sure that teachers who get TEACH grants are doing that at schools that have shown the capacity and the ability to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to ask my colleagues to join me in the legislation that I have submitted today, which is the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act. For too long, Washington's decisionmakers have pursued the same policies over a…

Mr. Speaker, I will speak after the gentleman completes, but I would also just like to note that I agree with everything that he has been talking about for the last 20 minutes. I hope the American people start paying attention. The fact…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 24 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Thursday, February 9, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. ____________________

I think it's important that we remember that history correctly, because it wasn't just that we imposed sanctions.

We all pray for the overthrow of this regime, but no regime has been overthrown to my knowledge in maybe the last 50 years where they had a core of fighting men who were willing to machine gun thousands of their own citizens, if necessary.

The present policy has utterly failed to get Beijing to either limit what it does in the South China Sea, or to really pull the strings on Pyongyang.

The policy that's easiest for us psychologically and politically is to pound the table and say we'll accept nothing less than either a democratic government or a human rights supporting government, or at least one without any nuclear…

I've been urging the Chinese to prohibit nonstop flights between Tehran and Pyongyang, and I think that it would--that the United States has to make it clear that we would hold China responsible for allowing that flight.

The big gaping wound is our American drug demand for those drugs; our American dollars being spent on those drugs.

What is it going to take for us to coordinate with our friends in the south to make sure we can keep track of these bad hombres so they won't continue to do harm south of the border or north of the border?

We are looking at public policies today of taxing commerce with Mexico. You finally have a growing economy south of the border.

The way this immigration Executive Order was presented, I believe, just backfired.

Let's give them green cards.

One of the ways that you reduce risk off of anything, you buy down risk, is by having knowledge.