The Administration should not be granting some media outlets access to briefings while selectively excluding others based on the Administration's preferences.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the DiFebo family, constituents of mine from Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, who run Harvest Home Farms. They were recently honored with Pennsylvania's first-ever Leopold Conservation…

I would urge to do that and maybe we will work together.

Your decision to pursue this course of action in the Federal courts puts at risk not only critical consumer protections, such as those protecting individuals suffering from preexisting conditions, but also other important provisions of…

If you are successful in this lawsuit that you are supporting and the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down, millions of Americans who currently receive health insurance coverage under the law are at risk of…

your decision as our new Attorney General to throw the weight of the United States Department of Justice behind an effort to get the Federal courts entirely to invalidate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional…

should the law be struck down, millions of people who get their coverage through the ACA marketplace would lose their coverage, and tens of millions more would see their premiums skyrocket.

Mr. Speaker, this week, our Nation celebrates Public Schools Week. It is a time when we acknowledge the diversity and success of our public schools and the sound education that they provide. Strengthening America's public schools is the…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak about the essential role community health centers play in neighborhoods throughout the Nation. America's health centers serve 28 million patients who have the greatest difficulty accessing healthcare…

If you prevail--well, you are devoting scarce resources of your department toward that effort; are you not, Attorney General?

Can you talk a little bit about what you are doing to really concentrate on those rural areas where there is no Internet technology?

Now, this proposed 18 percent cut to NOAA's budget decreases funding for weather research and modeling, surface ocean and upper air observations, and regional climate labs.

Of course. Do you also agree with the NCA finding that without substantial and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, the continued warming is expected to cause substantial net damage to the United States economy…

Well, do you think it is responsible leadership on the part of the Administration knowingly to ignore the advice of its foremost scientists, like you, Dr.

As stated in the fourth National Climate Assessment, which NOAA helped produce, the impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country.

Do you agree with the NCA finding that we are already seeing the impacts of climate change, and that in the future, we will likely experience increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events?

Mr. Jacobs, have you communicated your views on the soundness of the NCA to the White House, who believe that climate change is a hoax?

So why is the administration ignoring the advice of its expert scientists on the importance of improving forecasts to secure lives and property and protect the American economy?