My constituents, the people in Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, and other areas which have suffered in the past from devastating hurricanes and will unfortunately continue to do so want our government to take into account climate change…

We are now the only country that has announced that we will not be part of these discussions.

I want to make sure that we have people in the Administration who understand the importance of the U.S. global engagement.

Mr. Speaker, at this time I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative 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…

Mr. Speaker, the subject of my Special Order, as we have seen, is the very dangerous tax bill that this House passed and that the Senate is now considering. In fact, of course, the Senate bill is worse than the House bill, if one can…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Connecticut for his comments and particularly highlighting how the majority party, in considering this legislation, cut out the public entirely. Speaker Ryan, when he took the speakership, talked…

Mr. Speaker, furthermore, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan group, Speaker Ryan was flat wrong, flat out wrong, to say that their plan would ensure that ``the average family at every income level gets a tax cut.''…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Larson), one of the senior members of the Ways and Means Committee, who has been very focused on sound tax policy, on policy to save Social Security for generations yet to come…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his kind comments and for the information he gave. As a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee he is, I think, as knowledgeable about the history of these tax cuts as anyone can be, so I thank…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to talk about a bill that poses a great danger to our country and a great danger to our people, particularly our people who are struggling, who are living from paycheck to paycheck, because this bill, contrary to the…

I want to ask you, sir, if my mother was a heroin addict, would I have done the same thing?

I want to salute you for the passionate intensity of your leadership of this Commission.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Governor Christie, again welcome to Maryland.

I want to echo Congressman Cummings' concern about making sure that naloxone is available in a way that it should be.

There is no analysis out there, no credible analysis that suggests that when you have a massive tax cut primarily going to major corporations that the result is actually going to be a growth that actually makes up for the lost revenue in…

If we want to avoid making the debt even worse and you are going to add $1.5 trillion to debt, the only way to deal with that is to then cut things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

We need your expertise and your advocacy, especially when it comes to this President.

You have the expertise, you are an advocate, you have committed. But if you don't have the money, it is not going to work.