Mr. Speaker, 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with autism, and 3.45 million Americans are living with it. April is National Autism Awareness Month, a time to direct attention to and appreciate the special gifts of these Americans. In…

This recommendation would seem somewhat arbitrary, again according to Chief Tidwell, excludes his ability to market his wood.

Mr. President, this amendment pertains to the sale from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It merely gives the government the authority to time that sale. We can buy oil high or buy oil low, but we should sell it higher. All this amendment…

Mr. Denham's bill, H.R. 4582, eliminates an outdated and conflicting fish-doubling requirement imposed by another 1992 law.

H.R. 2993, introduced by our colleague, Doris Matsui, makes this situation even worse by giving the Interior Secretary discretion to create these so-called Title XVI projects.

This bill provides wholesale electric customers a mechanism to better understand what they are paying for.

I can tell you from Louisiana there were four major chemical manufacturing projects under active consideration for Baton Rouge.

After EPA first proposed lowering the ozone standard in December 2014, those were canceled.

I think it is very clear to all of us that there were multiple failures of government at multiple levels with regard to this issue.

Mr. Commissioner, the IRS must do better. Americans rightly expect the IRS to stand up for them and protect their Social Security numbers.

What I find absolutely outrageous is your suggesting that when it comes to illegal immigrants, the IRS could not really be bothered...

I thank Chairman Walden, and I want to thank my colleague, Congressman Kinzinger, for his leadership on bringing this bill to the floor. Mr. Chair, what we are trying to do here is to continue to allow the great innovation that we have…

Mr. Speaker, Louisiana is known as the Sportsmen's Paradise. We don't have snow skiing, we don't have rock climbing, and we don't have white-water kayaking in Louisiana, but we do have our bayous, we have our alligators, and we have our…

Mr. Speaker, in 2014, 28,000 Americans died from an overdose of opioid drugs, an annual total that has quadrupled since 1999. In Erie County, 11 people die per week from suspected opioid overdoses. Yet one in nine Americans with substance…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor of the 65th Infantry Regiment, a segregated Puerto Rican unit known as the Borinqueneers. The regiment was created in 1917, and it remained segregated throughout World Wars I and II and most of the Korean war…

Mr. President, I rise in support of designating the Shreveport Federal Building as the ``Tom Stagg Federal Building and United States Courthouse.'' The Honorable Thomas or ``Tom'' Eaton Stagg, Jr., of Shreveport passed away last June. He…

A Clean Air Act that continues to drive down pollution without causing undue damage to jobs and the economy is an environmental legacy we should be striving for.

The Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016 goes a long way toward bringing some clarity and sanity to the EPA rulemaking process related to ambient air quality standards.