A lot of my constituents are baffled why, at a moment when the U.S. Government is separating thousands of children and parents at the border in a way that threatens to make us an international pariah, the Judiciary Committee and the…

Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. Griffith for his succinct and excellent summary of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Griffith-Raskin-Jackson Lee amendment. I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his excellent work on this…

Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

Mr. Speaker, normally at this time the majority leader and I do a colloquy. We do a colloquy to discuss the schedule for the week to come. My suspicion is they don't know what the schedule is for the week to come because they were going to…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous material that they would bring on the subject of this Special Order…

Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to take this hour with several of my distinguished colleagues to talk about a matter of moral, social, political, and economic urgency to the American people, which is the vast group of Americans who are living…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Moore for that powerful testimony. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), my colleague.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Jayapal for her eloquent statement and thank her for her leadership here in Congress. One of the shocking findings of the Poor People's Campaign is that there are nearly 140 million Americans, more than 43 percent…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Khanna so much for his very moving statement that he made. I yield now to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), my colleague, who has been a terrific champion for economic equity and social justice in our…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Jackson Lee for her eloquent words. There is a distinction between misfortune and injustice. I know this because I am somebody who is a cancer survivor. If you wake up one day and a doctor tells you that…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Jayapal for participating in the Special Order. What does climate change have to do with poverty? Well, today we face accelerating extreme weather events, such as intensifying hurricanes that displaced and…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5788. Mr. Speaker, there are many facets of opioid abuse and overdoses. We are going to need many pieces of legislation to deal with all of them. This is a particularly important piece of…

Mr. President, I rise today to express my support for the amendment the senior Senator from Arkansas has offered to the H.R. 5515, the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA. Senator Boozman's amendment is a thoughtful…

Mr. President, I rise to recognize an excellent member of my staff, Melissa Bonine, who is moving on to a new challenge. For the past year, Melissa has coordinated daily operations in my office, helping to create order out of the chaos of…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, Senator Cotton from Arkansas and I were just on the floor these past 15 minutes explaining why this bipartisan provision is in the managers' amendment to the bill. It is because of the threats…

Mr. President, I want to start by thanking my colleague, the Senator from Arkansas, for his longtime leadership on a range of important national security issues, including his attention and focus on the threat posed by Huawei and ZTE…

Mr. President, if I may, I just want to emphasize that final point made by the Senator from Arkansas, which is that it is going to be very important that we keep this provision in the Defense authorization bill as it winds its way through…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I oppose this rule. This week the House is considering dozens of bills to combat the opioid epidemic. These are small bipartisan bills that we all support, but they…