A more accurate message is that untreated mental illness is much more of a threat to career progression and mission accomplishment than receiving effective mental health treatment.

Our responsibility to provide that care extends to those who are deployed and to those at home.

I think it is important that DOD is working in support of the President's Global Health Security Agenda.

Today, I stand in support of H.R. 360, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2015. This legislation reaffirms the United States trust responsibility to American Indian and Alaska Native…

I would say that that is a priority.

Importantly, there appears to be no speed limit for recreational drones, and no prohibition on flying over people.

There would be no prohibition on flying a 54 pound drone 10 feet above a ball field as fast as you want.

It is obvious that if a landowner is to have full enjoyment of the land, he must have exclusive control of the immediate reaches of the enveloping atmosphere.

I am rising in strong support of H.R. 360 today. Since 1996, this legislation has been authorized twice, both times with broad bipartisan support in both Chambers of Congress. Since its enactment, this legislation has strengthened…

I represent a state that is 90 percent dependent on shipping and the Jones Act does provide us with that reliable service.

Without the contribution that the Jones Act brings to the support of our industry there is a direct threat to national defense.

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Takai moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1030 to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with instructions to report…

I would like to keep it that way, coming from Hawaii as I do.

Jungle Warfare training is an important capability which the United States has not had since the closure of the Jungle Training School in Panama.

If the fiscal year 2015 NDAA is executed and the transfer of AH-64 Apaches from the Army National Guard (ARNG) to the Active Component (AC) is not delayed or hindered in any way, AH-64 Apaches will arrive in Hawaii in May 2016.

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill would immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, this amendment is simple. It would prohibit the…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. This is a 5-minute…

I would hate to think of an Iranian ship that has LNG that's sitting in the middle of St. Louis' port.