
Mr. Speaker, somehow I am not surprised that the Obama administration supports the administration's National Labor Relations Board's actions. At this time, I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg)…
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Mr. Speaker, somehow I am not surprised that the Obama administration supports the administration's National Labor Relations Board's actions. At this time, I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg)…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the distinguished majority leader. Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I always find it to be of interest listening to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from my neighboring State of Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman), another new member of the committee. We have got an almost embarrassment of riches of hardworking new Members.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson), a member of the committee.

Mr. Speaker, I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Russell), a new member of the committee and someone who has been actively engaged in the major debates since he has walked into this body.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen), another new member of the committee and someone who has also been engaged since the day he walked in.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 152, I call up the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 8) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board…

Mr. President, I come to the floor again today to talk about the importance of getting the bill passed, and we have seen today for the first time--I talked I think 3 hours yesterday--the need to change the tone and try to work across the…

Mr. President, I wanted to clarify something I said when I spoke about the work the Senate did on comprehensive immigration reform in relation to the Loretta Lynch nomination. I mentioned the Gang of 8, and I think I got seven of them…

For the first time, some of our smaller rural electric companies raised cybersecurity with me.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I think we all know this is an issue whose time has come, and we also need to spur the private sector to increase the securities and protections.

I believe it is in their own best interest to establish robust policies.

Even larger companies with policies from several different insurance providers cannot find policies to cover their cybersecurity needs.

Mr. President, I am reading the book ``Half the Sky,'' by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. I think it is a beautiful book. It is on sex trafficking around the world and what has been happening around the world. A part of this is that…

Mr. President, I am here today for two reasons. One is to manage the bill at hand for the next few hours, and the other is to talk a little bit about Loretta Lynch, and how I hope we can resolve both these issues. I believe when it comes…

Mr. President, I was here for nearly 3 hours this morning when there was some spare time on the floor to get us refocused on the issue at hand, which is the issue of the victims of sex trafficking. As I noted this morning, this is now the…

So, folks, this is absolutely crazy for Congress to force the Army to waste $500 million to maintain empty or unused facilities.

It is amazing to me that this administration apparently puts Congress and the U.N. on the same level in terms of who they are going to deal with.