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I thank my friend from North Carolina. This is a great opportunity today for all of us ladies to be down here on the floor together, having a little conversation about what we recognize and can see matters to the majority of Americans, and…
I appreciate the gentlewoman and just her shared concern here that we have for our men and women in uniform, for Army aviators, and for their families as well. If the sequester goes into full effect not only when we are cutting from 12…
Do you have any idea how many serious breaches DOI has suffered in 2014?
So far for this year, how many breaches have you suffered?
Public-private partnerships are going to be a creative avenue where we accomplish a lot of the goals.
Today, I rise in support of H.R. 1047, the Housing Assistance Efficiency Act. This bill would remove non-essential administrative boundaries in order to better serve our nation's homeless population. Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless…
if we set this up so that inmates who are eligible for parole, nonviolent offenders, do not have a high school degree or have a high school degree, if they earn their high school degree, they earned a vocational degree or a 2-year degree…
What I would like to focus on right now is how we help these prisoners once they leave prison.
It is a distinct pleasure to introduce the Governor of the great State of Alabama, Dr. Robert Bentley.
Thank you for your work on this critical legislation. The Resilient Federal Forest Act is key if the Forest Service is to have the flexibility it needs to actively manage our Nation's Federal timberland. Now, I come from a State where…
On rollcall No. 426 I missed the vote, but would have voted ``yea'' had I made it to the floor before was closed. Stated against:
The EPA regulations will increase Hispanic poverty by more than 26 percent and black poverty by more than 23 percent.
I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will be postponed.
What bothers me about this more than anything else is the reluctance of the EPA to hand over the scientific research for peer review.
What the EPA is doing is going to have a disproportionate impact on black and Hispanic families.
Then why in the world are we talking about a new standard which the EPA, based on a past hearing here, admitted the technology doesn't exist to meet this new standard?