Last, Mr. Schiff, you referred to this, so I direct this to either Ms. Gallaway or Mr. Parrish or Ms. Wilkinson, that the WOTUS rule has been stayed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. President, I wish to speak to the issue that was just brought up dealing with veterans funding and specifically the Choice Program. Three years ago, Congress put into place a response to what was happening in VA centers all over the…

Mr. President, I have listened attentively to the debate over the last 15 minutes about Zika, and it has been very entertaining to me. But it has also been interesting just to hear the numbers being thrown around. There is a series of…

Mr. President, there is one clarification I would like to be able to make. This amendment I have proposed--and would still stand by--allows us to be able to continue what is going on with mosquito eradication right now. That doesn't stop…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule for consideration of both H.R. 5243, the Zika Response Appropriations Act of 2016, and H.R. 4974, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 736 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 736 Resolved, That (a) at any time after adoption of this…

Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding me the time I need. I want to begin my remarks by complimenting our chairman. Quite frankly, I don't know anybody that has spent more time on this issue and devoted more thought…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to always recognize my good friend from Texas, who is really one of my good friends in this body. But I am not surprised that the Senate bill is twice as much money because it…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to begin by agreeing with my friend in terms of the appropriations process itself. He is right to celebrate the appearance of one of the bills down here under an open rule…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me begin by thanking my good friend for her wonderful work on that committee. She has had the opportunity to serve on her subcommittee when she was a subcommittee chairman and now…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by actually agreeing with my friends and, certainly, my good friend from Texas. He is right about the danger that we are dealing with. My friend from…

Mr. Speaker, in closing, I want to thank, as always, my good friend from Florida. He is truly a delight to work with, one of the really great Members in this body. Not surprisingly, he knows I disagree with him on his characterization of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My good friend, Mr. Gene Green--and he is my good friend--as I recall, those Texas legislators were called the Killer Bees. And if you want to compare them to mosquitos, I will leave…

Mr. Chair, I rise to express my concern with only certain aspects of the Calvert amendment that is included in part of the second en bloc of amendments to the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. I respect my colleague from…

I just want to respond to Senator Sullivan. We are going to be sitting down with them, all collectively, to make sure we get something done on this.

we are the committee that does things.

Is there a motion to report S. 2816, S. 1479, S. 921, S. 2754, as amended, and H.R. 3114, the GSA resolutions and the nomination of Jane Nishida, en bloc?