So my role as General Counsel, if confirmed, would be to ensure that the statute is followed to the letter.

I appreciate very much both Admiral Buzby and Mr. Batory coming in and trying to educate me a little bit on an area.

I enjoyed our meeting very much, and I complimented the railroad industry for the crossings successes that we've had in Oklahoma.

Forty percent of the banks in Oklahoma no longer make mortgage loans any more, 40 percent and rising because of the QM rules that have been put on them.

That is a significant cost and a loss to the taxpayer.

We cannot just ignore that and continue to be able to pile on debt and assume there is no consequence.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 40 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at 10 a.m. for…

All this would do is allow the land grant universities to have the same opportunities for a match that other universities have.

You know, I never realized there was such an issue or there was a problem until Senator Sullivan was elected.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I look at countries like France, and the percentage of their total energy provided from nuclear, and I can't see, looking into the future, how we are going to be able to do it without becoming more aggressive than we have been, more…

I am concerned about that as a national security issue.

Nobody questions that climate has always changed; all evidence, all scriptural evidence, all archaeological evidence. We all understand that.

if we are dependent upon fossil fuel and nuclear for 89 percent of the power it takes to run this machine called America and you do away with both of those, how do you run the machine? And the answer is you can't.

We don't very often around here have anyone ahead of schedule.

Mr. President, some really big things are happening right now that are happening under the radar; people are not aware of them. One of them is the fact that the Obama war on fossil fuels is officially over now and good things are…

Mr. Chairman, I'm still waiting for the song.

This independent authority is not going to come back to Congress and ask for additional funds, ever.