I represent an area in South Carolina of eight counties. I live in Myrtle Beach, which is a very tourist-oriented area.

These threats only reinforce the need for an effective deterrent strategy.

I believe this provides a clear path for the U.S. to modernize, reform, and build partner capacity through an emphasis on peace through strength.

And the deterrence is so absolutely critical.

To reaffirm the chairman's statistics, our concerns are bipartisan. Close to 80 percent of Yemen's population of nearly 30 million people are currently in need of some form of assistance.

Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, after line 23, insert the following: SEC. _. REQUIREMENT THAT THE NICS SYSTEM SEARCH…

Madam Chair, Dylann Roof is a monster. Dylann Roof should never have been able to buy a gun. Dylann Roof walked into a church in my hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, my birthplace of Charleston, South Carolina, and he slaughtered…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman so much for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, let me just take this 1 minute to welcome to this Capitol Ms. Jennifer, Ms. Malana, and Ms. Eliana Pinckney, the widow and two surviving daughters of…

Madam Chair, I thank my friend for yielding me the time. Madam Chair, let me begin my remarks, first of all, by welcoming to our Capitol today Miss Jennifer Pinckney and her two daughters. They are the wife and children of Reverend…

Let me just take this minute to go back to what I had prepared to say here today. In troubling times, many of us find solace in the Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the…

Madam Speaker, how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Michigan has 1 minute remaining.

Mr. Speaker, the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is celebrating 30 years of success. I am grateful to recognize the achievement of MEP in South Carolina. Senator…

I have worked with IRI, International Republican Institute, and just as Congresswoman Bass, I have had the opportunity to be an election observer and how meaningful these programs are.

Mr. Speaker, last week I was grateful to join Senator Lindsey Graham on a delegation for the Munich Security Conference. A highlight was Vice President Mike Pence reaffirming America's commitment to the Transatlantic Alliance. I then…

Mr. President, I was necessarily absent from yesterday evening's vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 311, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. On vote No. 27, had I been present, I would have been a yea vote on the…

What can businesses like yours do to partner with early education centers to start to introduce these kinds of programs at the grade school level?

I believe that our middle class--that American workers--can compete with anybody in the world on a level playing field.

And it also seems to me that, you know, community colleges and other institutions in the area I think need to do a better job talking to employers...