I think tying economic security and national security together just makes it easier for us to take the kind of steps that we are going to need to take to be competitive and secure.

I want to thank the ranking member, Senator Merkley. I am grateful, once again, for our continued bipartisanship on a range of issues.

Predatory economic practices by China and others... have undermined that foundation for years.

So I do not even think the Chinese strategy is a good strategy for the Chinese people.

On May 7, 2018 I was in my district for my primary election and missed rollcall votes 167 and 168. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall 167 and ``yea'' on rollcall 168. ____________________

This is the beginning of keeping our promise to the American people, that we're going to build a wall.

This is the beginning of the southern border wall. This was from -- fiscal '17 budget. This is a replacement project, but if you will, look at the border wall, this new wall is roughly two or three times taller than the wall that was here…

As President Trump said on Saturday night, this situation is a direct result of our weak immigration laws and our poorest border. This caravan like those who've gone before is also rightly understood as a deliberate attempt to undermine…

Thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, we are protecting the American people by securing our southern border. And we are building a wall on the southern border of the United States of America. And let me make you a promise…

I was unavoidably detained and missed rollcall votes 155 to 160. Had I been present, I would have cast the following votes: Rollcall 155, on H.R. 4, DeFazio Amendment, vote ``yea.'' Rollcall 156, on H.R. 4, Rohrabacher/Bass Amendment, vote…

I want to thank Chairman Shuster and my colleagues for their work on this underlying legislation. My amendment is simple. It would designate the hangar at Smith Airfield in Ft. Wayne, in my district, as the National Airmail Museum…

it is a challenge that is pretty well documented across my district in northern Indiana.

Thanks to all of you for being here to talk about the jobs gap.

So, given the fact that these are young people coming right out of high school and they really don't have these skills that you are trying to teach them, soft skills, show up, it is important.

Instead of cutting back RFS, we should be pushing to expand market opportunities for biofuels.

This is a dagger to the heart of every family that it affects and to every community, and your assistance is critically important.

If you said if you do conservation, your crop insurance at risk, that makes no sense at all.

I ask unanimous consent to be able to complete my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________