I thank the esteemed chairman for the time. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the U.S.-Panama free trade agreement. In my home district of Miami-Dade, Panama is among its top 25 trading partners. In Florida as a whole, it ranks…

I thank my good friend from Michigan for yielding. Madam Speaker, at a time when millions of American families are struggling and when so many people are looking for work, passage of this U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement should be a…

We continue to travel down the same path; ever since this shameful failure by the Miami VA Health care System came to light.

As the Senator from Arizona is in the back of the Chamber, I just want to say this Senator appreciates his long public service and his dedication to this country. Mr. President, as one of the Senators from a State that borders the Gulf of…

More than once, VA has come before us and said problems at its facilities are fixed and 'all is well.'

If policies made by Central Office can easily be circumvented, then policy makers at VA must be held accountable.

However, as of the latest report I have read, dated August 2011, there is still a widespread failure within the Miami facility in its handling of RME's, or Reusable Medical Equipment.

It seems that each time I come to one of these hearings, I find myself saying the same thing: we continue to travel down the same path;

If employees are circumventing patient safety policies, they must be held accountable.

It is beyond unacceptable for that to occur before this Congressional oversight Committee.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the University of Miami for being named as the country's 38th best university in U.S. News and World Report's recent rankings. The University of Miami is the highest ranked school in the great…

I thank the esteemed chairman of the Rules Committee for highlighting what a transformation Colombia has made in recent years, thanks to the strong leadership from the top down to the cop on the beat. If the American people are listening…

I thank my good friend, the chairman of the committee, for yielding. I am just astounded, but I am very pleased to hear my good friends from the other side speak so eloquently about support for human rights and support for labor leaders…

the bipartisan infrastructure bank that Senator Kerry and Senator Hutchison have introduced maintains ownership of the corporation by the Federal Government.

Congresswoman DeLauro's bill would do, so it is not able to leverage or gear its own capitalization by issuing debt.

it is the policy of this administration to reduce the miles traveled per person.

I have been a strong proponent of creative and innovative financing methods, especially in a time when we have limited Federal resources.

A guy named @BobBeckel on FOX, their resident liberal, was not born with much of a brain.