What I have asked for in our budget request is 12 additional economists, because what we really need to do is go beyond anecdotal concern and get to--and to take our data and bring it down to really hard analysis so that will drive our…

Congress has said that we should use position limits as appropriate to address the issue of excessive speculation.

I think that is a good thing.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize my friend, Rabbi Hershel Lutch, and to thank him for reading the opening prayer here on the House floor today. Rabbi Lutch has devoted his life to working for the Jewish community in the United States and…

The President's budget is frankly anti-innovation. It does the exact opposite of what the American Energy Innovation Council recommends.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise today to talk about the Republican effort happening in total secrecy behind closed doors under the direction of Leader McConnell to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid in order to give huge tax…

I think that's going to be helpful as we work to get more funding either in a major infrastructure package or in some of the ways that you just discussed.

Mr. President, I rise today to join my colleagues, to speak out, and to ask for a normal process here and to ask for hearings, to ask for debate, and to ask for amendments because the healthcare repeal bill is a major step backward…

Mobility Fund 2 should encourage carriers to preserve upgrade and expand mobile broadband and not degrade it.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today on how we can do better to deliver for Americans who aren't connected and have been left behind.

All of us on this committee should get behind the idea of including Federal funding to jumpstart deployment of broadband services.

Senator Thune and I have worked to reform outdated Universal Service Fund rules.

We have worked very hard to expand broadband. We have our Senate Broadband Caucus.

Madam President, one of the things that I would most like to work on is the cost of prescription drugs. I think we should be making sensible changes to the Affordable Care Act, but the bill that came over from the House does not really do…

I am so concerned about budget cuts proposed by the Administration to USDA.

I appreciate it. On the record I will ask a question about research initiatives to expand the use of ag commodities in non-food markets.

the capital improvement and maintenance spending at the Forest Service--the President's budget cuts it by 73 percent.

The President has talked a lot about infrastructure, but his budget actually cuts investment in our nation's infrastructure.