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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· Jun 2, 2015

I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for his superb work in this area. We are in great debt to you for all that you have done. And I am 100 percent confident you will continue to do that. I don't know the new leadership over there. I…

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Gary Palmer
@garypalmer· Republican · AL· Jun 2, 2015

If we really want to review compliance with FOIA, if we really want to review it and straighten it out and make it right and have the FOIA laws do what they are supposed to do and if we really want to be most effective and efficient, we…

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Gary Palmer
@garypalmer· Republican · AL· Jun 2, 2015

To conclude, there is a major--a major--bipartisan step we can take to improve FOIA now.

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Gary Palmer
@garypalmer· Republican · AL· Jun 2, 2015

How can we trust the government's redactions when we have examples of such unnecessary and, in many cases, inappropriate redactions?

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· Jun 2, 2015

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 33, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $250,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

I remain disappointed with the Bank's lack of progress toward these goals.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

I have long been concerned with the Bank's financial risk to the American taxpayers, who ultimately stand behind the Bank.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

Taxpayers, I believe, should not be compelled to once again stand behind the Bank if the problems are impossible to fix.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

In determining whether reauthorization is justified, I believe Congress must take another hard look at Eximbank.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

Congress cannot leave unaddressed Eximbank's failures to properly manage its risk.

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Gary Palmer
@garypalmer· Republican · AL· Jun 1, 2015

I think--what I'm saying here, Mr. Chairman, if I may, is that you have a former EPA employee who, in testimony, sworn testimony, just in March, talked about what I consider a conspiratorial effort to avoid complying with Federal records.

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Mike Rogers
@mikerogers· Republican · AL· May 31, 2015

The Department is still in the very early stages of harnessing the power of our Nation's cyber enterprise.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· May 20, 2015

We've gotten a spasm of extremism that witnesses have told us may be going on for 50 years.

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· May 20, 2015

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 274 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 274 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· May 20, 2015

H. Res. 274 provides a structured rule for consideration of the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. The rule makes in order eight amendments, five of which are from Democratic sponsors…

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· May 20, 2015

I appreciate the gentleman's comments. It is very important that we try to find ways to try to work together when the form of this bill that we worked on in the committee last year, which is almost identical to the one that we adopted this…

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· May 20, 2015

I was listening to the gentleman from Colorado speak. We heard about immigration, minimum wage, LGBT, renewable energy, highways, the Ex-Im Bank, and a little bit about fish. This is a bill about fish. It is not about all of that stuff. We…

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