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Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and celebrate the life of a west Texas giant, a proud Texas Tech Red Raider, a loving husband and father, and my dear friend, John Billingsley. From humble beginnings in O'Donnell, Texas, John's…
Yes, they were left up there for political reasons, which is not good.
The problem is, if it passes here, then the House is gone and we get a shutdown on Friday.
Mr. Speaker, today Republicans offer a truly remarkable answer to unemployment insurance fraud, and that is to make a big cut in those who are already fighting unemployment insurance fraud and abuse. Likely gone will be the resources for…
I don’t believe there’s going to be an amendment vote on the short term CR, I could be wrong.
So I don’t believe there’s going to be an amendment vote on the short term CR.
Mr. President, it is another week in Washington and I think maybe the 52nd day since President Trump was inaugurated, and we are seeing the compliant mainstream media continue to spread falsehoods about the work of the Department of…
We will make mistakes, we won't be perfect, but when we make mistake, we'll fix it very quickly. so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola -- Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola…
Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to honor the life of Jonathan Nicholas Williams, beloved husband, father, true west Texan, and dear friend of mine. When I first met Jon at a Farm Bureau meeting in Terry County, he was…
Mr. Speaker, brokers who sell stocks and mutual funds have long been required to file a report in January of each year on Form 1099. They send it to their customers. They send it to the Internal Revenue Service. Many honest taxpayers out…
It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.
The DNA of the Freedom Caucus is to say, ‘Why am I going to vote to continue to fund the things I don’t want to fund?’
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the sudden religion my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have found on spending restraint and the need to cut spending. I look forward to all the proposals that my colleagues will put forward on reducing…
Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding. My, my, how times have changed. How many times have we been sitting on the floor of the House listening to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying that a CR is the…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. So here we are again. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle, who constantly always talk about the need to support a CR to ``keep the lights on'' now find themselves in the curious…
Mr. Speaker, and still I rise, to oppose a Continuing Resolution that will allow a chainsaw to, among other things: minimize Medicaid with underfunded block grants to states, marginalize Medicare's ``Dual Eligibles'' long-term Medicaid…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), my good friend and co-chair. I really appreciate him having tonight's very important Special Order. The truth is simple. The Biden administration threw open the floodgates…