When are you all going to quite spending so much money, when are you going to balance your budget.

What would have us do politically to encourage a ceasefire and really to move toward removal of Bashar al Assad, which is our position right now?

Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from Colorado is prepared to close, I am prepared to close as well. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 725 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 725 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on House Resolution 725, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to bring this rule forward on behalf of the Rules Committee. The rule provides for consideration of S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), our only pharmacist in Congress, who, I think, has a very good insight into this.

Mr. Speaker, some of the things also we have talked about today are education and prevention. It is also looking at things that we can be a part of and do. As I have said earlier today, the things that have stuck out to me are some of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, just the other day I had an opportunity to speak to a longtime friend, and there was a general discussion about what was going on up here and the steps that were being taken…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, as I went through in my opening statement, I mentioned a good many of the bills that were part of the House package this week. I want to go back through just a few more that we went…

Mr. Speaker, I inquire of the Chair how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Colorado has 10 minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his long-time support of these types of issues, both as a member of the Georgia State legislature and as a Member of this august body. Representative Collins has consistently and very…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his support of what I consider to be a very important amendment. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment to H.R. 5046 because Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and their…

Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the life of Mr. Henry ``Hank'' Levy and all of his accomplishments in improving the Savannah community. Born in 1927, in Savannah, to Morton and Sadie Kaufman, Mr. Levy began drawing on boards in his…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 5046, the Comprehensive Opioid Reduction Act of 2016, because we need to ensure that every State has the tools they need to fight the opioid abuse epidemic…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Lynch amendment. It expands the list of eligible grant uses for the grant program created by H.R. 5046 to include programs that ensure the security of opioids in…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman. I rise in support of her amendment. I also rise to state my unyielding support for the underlying legislation introduced by my friend, Jim Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin, literally an institution of…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment would expand the list of eligible grant uses for the new program under H.R. 5046 to include efforts to develop, implement, or expand a program to prevent and address opiate abuse by veterans. This amendment…