I hope we get to that point and beyond, as you said, this sort of binary debate, diplomacy or war.

It is a commonsense bill, Mr. Speaker, such that if a bank teller speaks to one of his or her customers they have known for maybe decades, and the senior says, ``I would like to close my account and wire the proceeds overseas,'' this bank…

I mean, it has been very straightforward about military force. Yes, we are going to talk about diplomacy.

The flaw in deterrence, it seems to me, in this particular situation, is the proliferation danger.

I thank Mr. Tipton for managing the floor today on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, Mr. Hensarling, for moving this very important bill, H.R. 2255, through the committee and on to…

I asked them three questions. Number one, is Kim Jong-un rational? The uniform response was yes, that he is not crazy and he is capable of rational analysis.

You go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which there is no exact analogy, but there are some similarities...

I now understand why generations of United States Presidents have sought your counsel. That was brilliant and I appreciate it.

The issue in my mind is, is it possible to have such a competition by political means with the backing of the military force that may be needed?

Thank you to my colleagues for being so gracious.

By median age, Maine is the oldest state in the Nation and is aging the most rapidly.

For the next 12 years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 each day.

I think your online services are excellent, but they do not reach everybody.

Mainers age 65 or older accounted for 19.4 percent of the population of the state in 2016.

One of the problems I see here is that gas is the cheapest capital cost, and yet you are taking the price risk.

It is not a natural gas price problem, it is a delivery problem.

The problem with the infrastructure is, does anybody want to build a $2 or $3 billion pipeline to deal with this if it is not going to be necessary the rest of the year.

What changed in my mind was we got a firm commitment on the floor before the entire country from the majority leader to bring a DACA bill to the floor in a neutral format.