Which is one of the reasons we need to make sure every area in America has the Internet, because this is something I hear when I go to rural Minnesota.

I think this is why if we expand and enhance mental health services in our schools, we will serve ourselves well.

I really do believe prevention is important. That's why I authored and helped advance the Mental Health in Schools Act, which will increase access to mental health services in school settings.

Thank you, Mr. President. I thank the senior Senator from Minnesota for her remarks about Wilhelmina Wright. I join her in rising not just in strong support but enthusiastic support for Justice Wilhelmina Wright's nomination to serve on…

Mr. Speaker, I stand today in defense of innocent life. My wife Jacquie and I are blessed with seven wonderful children, each with their own unique gifts that they bring to the world. I am and always have been pro-life. I am also opposed…

Madam President, I rise today to call on the Senate and all of my colleagues to allow us to move forward on the nomination of Sam Heins of Minnesota to be the U.S. Ambassador to Norway. The U.S. Ambassador for Sweden has also been held up…

But we cannot decouple economic growth from human rights growth, and, as a Nation, we need to hold those ideas up.

Yes, I think so.

I think as a Nation, that we can't decouple our economic interests from our human rights and our values.

in the spirit of trying to find a balance between compassion, smart economic policy, and being good stewards of taxpayer dollars, that is our responsibility

Please don't ever stop speaking about it. Please tell our story. Please tell what is going on. It is critically important.

I think with the first couple of Presidents there was some movement, some movement, but I believe that under this current regime they have taken some big steps backward.

I said, 'That is not so surprising. What is more troubling to me is that students here might not know what happened.'

This Congress has no more passionate, committed human rights champion than Chris Smith.

At this braggadocious action about how much heroin he sends around the world including the United States is maddening. We see in heroin epidemic opioid, addiction epidemic in this country. So, we're going to stay on top of this with our…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Deputy Jessica Slavik from the Anoka County Sheriff's Department who has recently been named the 2015 Deputy of the Year by the Minnesota Sheriffs' Association. Jessica has worked for the Anoka County…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate Oliver Kelley, who was born on this day in 1826. Kelley, a native Bostonian, realized that Minnesota was a land of great opportunity and moved there in 1849. Although he had no experience farming…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Price for yielding. I rise today in strong, strong support of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. We have all heard the stories and the statistics, seen the charts. ObamaCare is…