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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…

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

I think the doctor wants to comment on that.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…