Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), my friend, for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to revise…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the majority leader for that information. Mr. Speaker, throughout the last year, we have continually run up against deadlines on how we were going to keep the government of the United States operating properly. The…

I was the first governor in America to declare a real state of emergency on this issue because we decided that we needed to treat this crisis just like we would treat any other natural or manmade disaster.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Perlmutter very much for yielding for just a moment. I was very moved by his comments. We know that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and I want to salute him for his vigilance and his zealousness in…

Mr. Speaker, we are so grateful for Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal from Washington, for her powerful leadership and her lucid discussion today of the gun violence problem. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for placing emphasis on the…

Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I want to thank the distinguished Congresswoman from New York for her comments about Francis Bellamy, the great Christian abolitionist and socialist who authored America's Pledge of Allegiance. He was a great…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on the subject of my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of…

Mr. Speaker, one of the great things about our job is we have all these wonderful young people come to us from all over the world. And in school, they read about the social contract. They read John Locke. They read Thomas Hobbes. They read…

I think most of the children that we are dealing with, that are going into foster care now, have some relation to the parents being involved in substance abuse of some kind; much of that are opioids.

I think limiting the doses is important, but many of the states are already taking those actions.

I passed the biggest criminal justice reform bill in Maryland in a generation.

It is very effective.

Getting them the help they need while they are in prison makes a big difference.

I am a states' rights guy, and I believe that much of the innovation is happening out in the states.

I think at the Federal level, we have to focus on mental health and substance abuse issues together because, in many cases, they are overlapping.

The frustrating part is just imagine if we had not taken all the steps we have taken, how many deaths we would have had.

We are hitting that from a number of different directions.

This is not just a health issue. Or just an education issue or just a crime prevention issue; it is across almost everything you are funding.