Madam President, I come to the floor with a heavy heart because 10 years ago today, Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, was detained in Iran on the tourist island of Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. Bob is a very respected, long-time FBI…

Mr. Speaker, on roll call votes 138 and 139, I was not present because I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Nay'' on both votes. ____________________

I get an answer often from the Corps of Engineers when I talk about timelines for getting things done that there is simply not enough manpower, not enough qualified crews to go out there and get some of the projects done, specifically in…

Personally, it is regularly plagued by massively harmful discharges coming out of Lake Okeechobee, and going out towards the east coast and west coast of Florida.

Listen, I believe Putin is about Putin. Putin isn't trying to help Mr. Trump because he likes Mr. Trump.

Mr. Speaker, today is International Women's Day, a day without women. I am going to join millions of women in recognizing the important economic power of women in the United States and around the globe. In a few minutes, I will exit this…

The Russian interference with our election to me is the scariest of recent activities that I have learned about.

Ukraine is not only engaged in a physical battle, they are engaged in a battle of ideas as well.

I think we need to get to solving these problems in a bipartisan fashion.

One of the best ways to ensure that water is utilized in a beneficial way, instead of being wastefully discharged, is for the Corps of Engineers... to marry their flood control efforts and that mission with their ecological restoration…

But they are not cleaned up by the Federal Government, and that is one of the worst things that I can say about them.

Madam Speaker, I rise today because there have now recently been at least 100 threats made against more than 75 Jewish community centers across the country. These threats and the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries are despicable. I can…

I have been very concerned, a lot of us have been very concerned with the Palestinian authority. Frankly, they fund terrorists.

I just question whether somebody is wondering what the effect of that is going to be, and when is the breaking point going to be when--you know, when people like me from my district say, you know what, just can't fund it anymore.

I am hoping that those are folks that hopefully you will be looking at.

Chairman Rogers has been a steadfast supporter and leader on the issue of Colombia.

Chairman Rogers has been very, strong about making sure that funds, U.S. taxpayer funds, don't go to, for example, members of a terrorist organization, the FARC.

I fear that we are, you know, to quote, this is almost like deja vu all over again with the North Korea nuclear plan.