Mr. President, I want to get a chance to address an ongoing conversation that is happening in Washington, DC, right now and will be over in the next 36 hours. As unusual as this may sound, with all of the drama that is happening here, just…

Mr. President, I would like to ask Senator Sasse to join us for this colloquy as well.

Mr. President, the House passed both the pain-capable and the infant protection born-alive bills in prior months. The Senate has yet to take that up, and it is our hope in the Senate to be able to bring that up for real dialogue in…

Mr. President, there has just been a dialogue--a colloquy--here on the floor. I thank Senator Daines from Montana, Senator Blunt from Missouri, Senator Ernst from Iowa, and Senator Sasse from Nebraska for joining in a dialogue of this…

Mr. President, this is a difficult issue for so many people because it is intensely personal for so many people. We understand full well the grief some families have when this topic comes up because there are millions of men and women who…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a press release from--my friends may have missed this--the Children's Hospital Association. [Press Release, Jan. 18, 2018] Children's Hospitals to…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Rules Committee met and ordered a rule for consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 195, the Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act of 2018. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate, equally divided and…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 696 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 696 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I want to, as always, thank my good friend. We disagree on this, but there is nobody that I enjoy serving with on the Rules Committee more than my good friend, the ranking…

Mr. Speaker, the Children's Hospital Association has actually urged that this bill be adopted. They have urged that we, for 6 years, ensure the funding. They would like my friends--who I know believe in the program--to actually vote for…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Just to be clear with my good friend from Texas, Democrats didn't pass a budget. They proposed a budget. That is fair enough, but they never passed a budget in this House. There was a…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, let's be crystal clear on something. The House of Representatives never held up CHIP. It actually passed it in October. We are still waiting for Democrats in the Senate…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, my good friend refers to the drama of the moment. Frankly, there wouldn't be any drama if Democrats would simply vote to keep the government open while good faith…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to support Mr. Emmer's bill, H.R. 2954. Dodd-Frank added unprecedented new regulations on industry. As has been said already by my colleagues, institutions now have to collect 25 additional fields of data. This is…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 58 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. President, a few days ago, our Nation stopped and remembered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is entirely appropriate for us to do so. It is a holiday set aside to be able not only to remember but to reflect and try to figure out: Where…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, all postcloture time on the House message to accompany S. 139 expire at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, January 18. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without…

The existence of this black market for buprenorphine has more to do with the fact that we are not making that treatment available to the people who need it.