Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the second set of letters which I referred to earlier. National Association of Home Builders, Washington, DC, March 8, 2017. Hon. Lamar Smith, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, again, I reiterate to my colleagues, this is a situation where the goal really is not to empower one perspective or one faction over another. The goal, ultimately, of this…

I claim the time in opposition to the motion, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. Speaker, I look at this language--and I am a farmer by trade; I am not an attorney; I will confess that--but the phrase ``or other entity'' seems to be a very broad concept. How will that affect people who work for research foundations…

I'm confident that APT28, the hacking group, is in fact sponsored by the government, the Russian government.

Mr. President, there has been a long conversation about a Supreme Court Justice. Quite frankly, there should be a long conversation. It is an incredibly important role of the Senate for advice and consent. We are talking about a Supreme…

I would attribute the Russian government to the breaches.

So other than this one, but give me an example of what it means to have a cyber attack that we can communicate to the American people, this is not just a nuisance hacker stealing information, this is an attack from a foreign government on…

All these things are fictional, illusory, provocations, lies, used for domestic American political agendas.

Watch my lips. No.

So this started in 2008, 2009 time period, as you've cited before with your previous timeline.

We have to avoid the constant fear of a government shutdown.

It has been one of the areas that I try to push a lot of people that I talk to, to say it is the creeping element in the budget that no one can pay attention to because you assume it is never going to get that high, but it is coming.

What happens if you get to the end, and then you tip over, and you have a government shutdown? He laughed. He said, 'We have a new election the next week, because all of us are out.'

Congress only acts when it has a deadline.

I have proposed several areas to be able to get on top of this.

I have a bill called the Government Shutdown Prevention Act.

I believe Congress will always expand the debt ceiling.