I rise to talk about Senator Harkin. As the soon-to-be Chairman of the HELP Committee, Senator Alexander is right about the HELP Committee, it is an important committee. Sometimes I say it is not that important unless you care about your…

I want to echo what everyone has said. I had the honor of traveling on a codel with Chairman Levin to Pakistan, Afghanistan, when I had been here just a few weeks. So I was traveling with the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. The…

Mr. President, we are going to continue with the Minnesota theme, and I think Senator Harkin knows that our two States, Minnesota and Iowa, share more than just a border. We share a lot of people with relatives on either side of the…

Mr. President, we have heard a lot of people honoring our wonderful colleague Senator Begich today. We are all going to miss him dearly. We are especially going to miss him in Minnesota. I have heard many positive statements about Alaska…

Mr. President, you can see that Mary Landrieu has a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle, and that is because Mary has stood up and been a mentor to so many of us. She taught us how to fight for our own States because that is what she…

Mr. President, I was a part of that class. I was a little late getting here, my colleagues will recall. But I was part of that class and campaigned with the class, and I remember being with Mark Udall and Tom Udall and Mark Begich at a…

Oh, Richmond, you just kept saying Richmond. I don't know anybody named ``Richmond.''

So he was a lieutenant governor too--OK. So he is the most qualified. This is what it is like when we are together. Being a Senator, a lot of people ask: Is being a Senator as much fun as working on ``Saturday Night Live?'' The answer of…

Mr. Speaker, I am very, very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee, Dr. Roe, chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Brooks), another member of the committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. In closing, again, I want to thank the staff and Republicans and Democrats for working on this. We have talked a lot about what this does for employees, for retirees. It also does an…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 83, the omnibus appropriations bill for 2015. I want to commend the members of the House Appropriations Committee, all of them…

These incidents aren't limited to Texas; they are a national problem. It is important that we get this right and protect workers.

When I think now people from Maine, I think of Mr. Michaud, no nonsense, practical, hearty, dependable, consistent, all those things.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas, and a special thank you to my friend, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Latta). This is a commonsense piece of legislation, but I think it is important to note, for many of us, and my colleague…

Mr. Speaker, I want to extend my thanks to Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Michaud. I think an American public which, many times, thinks all politics is is bickering and fighting and pettiness needs to see the two examples that these…

Amtrak has played an important role in my state. It is critical to moving passengers.

I want to make sure that the CFTC also takes into account how these commercial end users use hedges and derivatives in their day-to-day business.