The rule represented an unprecedented intrusion into the states' control over their energy policy.

I agree with your proposed rule related to making sure that we have those facilities available that have fuel on site, coal and nuclear.

Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate the gentleman organizing this hour of Special Order remarks, and your leadership on these three important issues. Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss the importance of bolstering enforcement of existing…

Reports of religious persecution and intolerance in Russia are not at all surprising, considering the impunity with which the Russian Government continues to conduct itself on the world stage.

I am very happy that the name of Frank Wolf was resurrected in today's hearing.

I strongly believe that the State Department should accept the Commission's recommendation and add Russia to the designation list.

The advanced technologies being developed and pioneering research being conducted at NIST makes security of its facilities and technologies critically important.

I do appreciate it very much. And with that, I will yield to Ms. DeGette for 5 minutes.

We must ensure there is accountability and transparency in the program.

The 340B drug pricing program is vital to many covered entities and, by extension, to the patients that those entities serve.

I guess what I want to ask you first is you should set a bold and audacious goal that is at the very edge of human ability to reach but reachable and not one that is laughable.

To me, that's the value of being addiction free by 2030, is preventing people from getting addicted in the first place.

When 800,000 people of a particular ethnic background are living in a neighboring country because they have been forcibly removed from their villages, I would call that ethnic cleansing, you know, pretty clear and simple.

Sometimes we have to be careful, but when we are looking at the kind of tragedy we are looking at here, it seems to me speaking with clarity actually is an important tool of diplomacy, not fuzzifying it with other kinds of descriptions…

Mr. Chairman, the caribou are a food source for Alaskan indigenous groups who have lived off the land for thousands of years. All of this devastation will likely do very little in the short run to reduce the deficit. The oil prices are so…

I met with the head of the military as well as Aung San Suu Kyi.

I consider it an embarrassment that the United States is closing ours.

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to address the House on this issue. I hear so much from my friends on the other side that I agree with, and I very much would like to work closely with them. I point out to the chairman of the…