Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of H.R. 3381, the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act. Nearly 16,000 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States…

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the Childhood Cancer STAR Act. I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of S. 2873, the ECHO Act, that I co-led with my colleague Representative Burgess in the House and Senators Hatch and Schatz in the Senate. The…

Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the noes appeared to have it.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 180, nays 235, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 607] YEAS--180 Adams Aguilar Ashford Bass…

Mr. Speaker, I was too far away to return for the vote in time. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay' on rollcall No. 607. Parliamentary Inquiry

Mr. President, I wish to support the 21st Century Cures Act, which would make vital investments in research to develop new treatments for deadly diseases, including cancer. The bill would also dedicate desperately needed funding to address…

Madam Speaker, I was absent on Monday, December 5, 2016. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 601--H.R. 5015--Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016, as amended, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 602--H.R…

My concern with how this issue is resolved is that we don't want to decrease that philanthropy.

I was happy to learn that there were several hundred sponsors in my district for Compassion's work.

If you have one ministry, if you have someone in the MHA setting policy, that potentially becomes disruptive to many other NGOs, that is just a bad precedent.

I am the only Indian-American Member of Congress currently, and I am thrilled that I will be joined in the House of Representatives by three additional members in the 115th Congress and our first Indian-American Senator.

I understand that the FCRA was established to keep foreign money out of politics, but it seems like you are saying it was far more than that.

The context was in 1976, during what in India we refer to as the Emergency period.

I have fought these efforts by multinational U.S. corporations to change the patent law for the last 25 years.

a test of a democracy is how it treats its poorest, its most vulnerable, its smallest minorities, not whether or not it is pandering to the desires of the majority.

However, I do think that it is time, Mr. Chairman, for us also to put into perspective as we see nationalism rising around the world what NGOs are supposed to be about and what some NGOs--I mean, if we are talking about a country that has…

Let me again echo what my colleague just said in that whatever action this chairman would like to take on this to help you and your efforts to keep this charitable activity going in India, you will have our support and my support.