Madam President, I rise today to celebrate the successful climate negotiations that were just wrapped up in Paris. This past Saturday, 196 countries came together to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, taking a very important step in…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Anderson Trucking Service for their impressive 60 years of business. The founder of Anderson Trucking, Harold Anderson, grew up in the transportation industry and began hauling granite with his…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Preferred Credit, Inc., of St. Cloud, Minnesota, for winning a Torch Award for Ethics from the Minnesota Better Business Bureau. Preferred Credit was established in St. Cloud in 1982 and quickly…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss overregulation. Chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, recently said that small community banks really are suffering from regulatory overload. I absolutely agree. Community banks and credit unions…

Mr. President, we have been living under No Child Left Behind, or NCLB, for 13 years, and during that time we have learned what about NCLB works and a lot more about what doesn't work. Students, teachers, and parents across the country…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 74th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and to honor all Minnesotans and all Americans who served in World War II. I would like to recognize the service of one Minnesota family in particular. In 1885…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my education fellow, Cristina Veresan, be given floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I appreciate the hearing. It is another example that the Chairman of the full Committee, Mr. Conaway, is here, another example this is a bipartisan Committee that actually is interested in moving things forward.

I have to tell you, my veterans have no faith that it is going to work, they don't believe this.

That hearing last week was the best hearing we have had in this Committee in two years.

I would close, Mr. Wright, by thanking you for that quote from William Jennings Bryan.

Thank you all for your testimony. It is really helpful.

This is about education. This is the way that Congress is supposed to work.

The Chairman has mentioned it, not a lot of cotton in southern Minnesota, but as a kid who grew up chocking cockleburs in cornfields, there is probably not a lot of difference between chocking pigweed and cotton.

The Chairman on this Committee did that in a--what I considered an assault towards one of the basic safety net features in crop insurance, and did a masterful job of making sure we keep that important program intact.

Mr. President, when I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: Convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true. We must make our world safer by rooting out evil in our midst, while still…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 7 minutes. I understand that wasn't in the original request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.