Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, tonight we are going to spend the next hour paying tribute to a special man who has served here in this Congress since 1997, our dear friend, Congressman John…

With that warm tribute, Madam Speaker, clearly, we work well together. We have a comity with each other. You have to keep your sanity around here by keeping things lighthearted in the middle of a lot of heated battles sometimes. But in the…

As you can see, Madam Speaker, these are tough jobs, these are tough times, but when you come up to Congress, you don't just come up here to fight for the things you believe in. That is clearly why you run. We all have a deep love for this…

I would hate to accumulate keynote years of experience that this panel has, you and the full members of the panel, all of us have seen a lot our live. We're totally ill equipped to comment on something like this because there's nothing in…

Mr. Speaker, we will still push the majority to put that bill on the suspension calendar. We have no doubt it would pass overwhelmingly. We will continue to fight for those small businesses. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, normally, we would do the colloquy with the majority leader. He and I will not be doing that this week, but I know we do still have real concerns about those families and businesses that are struggling today through these…

Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Oregon for yielding. Madam Speaker, first of all, I respond to comments earlier from my friend from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), who noted that the Congressional Budget Office's score on this bill was zero…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Mr. Speaker, let's look at this process. Here we have a bill that was a bipartisan bill, H.R. 4447, that passed out of the committee on a bipartisan vote, and it was eight…

I share your frustration with the Corps' rigidity, especially as that dogmatic approach results in negative impacts to ecosystems.

When religious freedom is taken from a people, their political freedom soon follows, explaining the urgency and the importance of protecting that first freedom.

I am really just kind of stunned at the opening statement by the chairman.

I really appreciate you highlighting today the protection of religious liberty being a point of emphasis for the Civil Rights Division or the Trump administration.

To say that the attorney general chickened out is just outrageous.

if we could get a majority of members together to make actual change we probably could prevent a lot of the things that everyone is complaining about

What is dystopian here is the way this committee has been run for the last two years.

when religious freedom is taken from a people, their political freedom soon follows.

We are managing through finally getting our economy back open, seeing economic growth, helping families get back on their feet.

Madam President, I thank the Presiding Officer, Senator Hyde-Smith, and Senator Lee for organizing this colloquy and participating in it in support of the Support and Value Expectant Moms and Babies Act. I love that title: Support and…