The assertions against the Dear Colleague letter are wrong.

I think they're essential for college campuses to provide victims more help than they would provide otherwise.

I think this has been affected, certainly, by sequester and the reasons that we've discussed.

I don't care about the lawsuit. People died. The only thing that we can do, sadly, is try to learn everything we can from what caused them to die so that we can reduce the chance that that happens to anybody else.

I was personally opposed to discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Is the scope of that initial training... going to be part of the investigation that's being done?

If you expanded deficits now with an unfinanced tax cut or only partly financed tax cut, you have the traditional problem that the money has to come from somewhere.

the challenge we have, as well as the aggregate amount of debt that has been created is, even if this was starting with a clean balance sheet, it would be problematic.

Mr. President. Far too many students leave our Country's classrooms ill-equipped to keep up with the demands of the 21st century job market. Many enter high school and postsecondary education uninformed of the range of careers available to…

Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of…

Madam Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. I offer this amendment to recommit to reveal the…

Madam Speaker, I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Beyer moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3697 to the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Idaho and the chair of our subcommittee for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 3697, the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act. Transnational criminal gangs have declared…

So to add to the controversy, the House Democrats supported an amendment which passed by voice vote to add human smuggling to the list of predicate acts under the Federal money laundering statute. {time} 1000 The Department of Justice and…

When Senator Murray decides that we're going to get a result, we usually do.

I'm convinced that we can limit the increase in premiums in the year 2018 and put in place some improved flexibility for States.

We try to remember that the institution is more important than our own opinion.

State innovation is a part of our solution, and I look forward to working with Senator Murray.