Achieving these objectives will help give the Federal Government the metrics to improve our environment while allowing California's farmers to provide food and fiber to our Nation and the world.

the trend lines in all these areas are very disturbing, in my mind, as a physician who has been around health care for quite a long time.

we are seeing the costs going up. And of course what the President is proposing is higher taxpayer liability.

I think that is a pretty tacit admission that the market is failing.

less choice, less information, less control. This is disastrous for health care.

what the Federal Government gives, it can certainly take away; and Federal agencies are once again contradicting each other, a recurring theme under this and prior administrations.

the so-called most transparent administration in history is anything but.

Today's hearing is about fostering government accountability and restoring balance to a region devastated by natural and man-made drought.

I'm very fearful that there will be bloodshed on the streets and that people will start to take it into their own hands.

Thank you for holding this hearing to examine how the Department conducts vulnerability assessments for our Nation's critical infrastructure.

Black Lives Matter is not a hashtag; it is an imperative.

We have held, of course, zero hearings on gun violence.

Rome is burning, there's blood on the streets of many American cities, and we are beating this email horse to death.

I implored this Committee to do something, to have a hearing, to respond to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

I would just ask, formally ask--and I can do it in writing also--that we initiate a pattern and practice investigation on the Baton Rouge Police Department.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation to honor the memory of Keiwuan Murray, a victim of gun violence who never received a moment of silence on this House floor…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation, to honor the memory of Jadarrion Spinks, a victim of gun violence who never received a moment of silence on the House floor…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation, to honor the memory of Betty Mungin; her daughter, Alexis Mungin; her daughter, 8-year-old Armani Mungin, victims of gun…