later today, we are going to vote on whether to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 2740, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development…

Thank you all for what you do for our country and for our veterans.

One of the committee's longstanding priorities has been addressing recruitment and retention across the Department of Veterans Affairs.

So if we could get that, Mr. Chairman. I know you are interested in that----

throughout my years in the Senate, I have met with people from around the world who have been persecuted by their own governments, but the stories I have heard from survivors and family members of the victims of China's efforts to silence…

I thank the chairwoman, Representative Maloney, for all her dedication, and I thank her for naming me to share a few remarks. I am a new Representative from Pennsylvania, neighbor to New Jersey, but I spend an awful lot of time in New…

It goes without saying that we must and will defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country.

I never believed what Cheney and Bush said about Iraq... I voted against the war in Iraq and helped lead the opposition.

I believe that the United States should not be the only major country on earth not to provide paid family and medical leave.

We are not going to bomb our way to a solution in Afghanistan.

I think that what we have got to do is bring this world together -- bring it together on climate change, bring it together in fighting against terrorism.

We're going to make public colleges and universities and HBCUs debt-free.

We should not be in a position where teachers have to work two or three jobs to support themselves.

I just want to register my outrage at that because so much of the people we represent need that coverage and don't want to be second-class citizens.

It really is not acceptable.

last week, the administration announced it was going to raid $3.6 billion from military construction projects to pay for President Trump's ineffective and controversial border wall. That is the wall they gave their solemn word that Mexico…

I ask unanimous consent to proceed as in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Some of the boldest and best ideas for solving the issues facing our Nation and our Heroes come from outside the beltway.