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What a great event. It was a great opportunity for us to get together, get to know each other better, and spend some time in the outdoors. I invite all Members to join the caucus. Come and be a part of this next year. Republicans retain…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today as chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus--the largest bipartisan caucus within the Halls of Congress--to talk about the recent May 16 congressional shoot-out, a competition of sporting clays, skeet, and…
Mr. Speaker, President Donald Trump last week courageously announced the withdrawal of the United States from the unconstitutional Paris accords, an unconstitutional treaty comprised of burdensome regulations destroying jobs. I am grateful…
Obamacare is a disaster, delivering high costs, few options, and broken promises.
If you think about the lack of access to financial institutions to borrow money for a home or to start a new business, we might ask ourselves how do we expect for those rural areas that are on the wrong side of an uneven economic recovery…
I would love to hear, Ms. Savarese, what you think the major factors are driving the consolidation that is happening as well as the lack of new financial institutions.
It is without doubt very important that we continue to see more credit unions and more small banks populate throughout our Nation.
Do we really want to add to that consolidation trend if there is a way that we can support those communities banks in serving the unique needs of their communities?
Unfortunately, that is not the trend, and that leads to a very important point that in South Carolina, about 9 percent of our population is totally unbanked; another 23.5 percent or so are underbanked.
If we are not in Afghanistan, you are going to pay a heavy price because that place will fall apart.
the last thing you want to do is go back into sequestration.
According to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, more than 11 million renter households are 'severely burdened' by housing costs.
That is why sequestration is a disaster. That is why we need to build up our military, but you cannot do it by cutting everything else.
I do support increasing our troop presence in Afghanistan as an insurance policy against another 9/11.
The only thing more expensive than deterrence is actually fighting a war, and the only thing more expensive than fighting a war is fighting one and losing it.
the cuts that Senator Durbin described are real and they will affect the ability to defend the Nation too.
if you cut the State Department's budget, you better buy me more ammo because soft power is basically important to the overall cause.