Then there is the Trump administration and Republican efforts to slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and other Federal agencies that have a mission to keep our water and air clean and…

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Republicans are also attempting to roll back efforts to curb carbon pollution, exit the Paris Agreement, privatize public lands, and allow coal production and oil and gas drilling in national parks.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on passage of the bill will be followed by a 5-minute vote on the Speaker's…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on H.R. 1695. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Woodall). Is there objection to the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Intellectual property is a critical and growing part of our Nation's economy, and the Register of Copyrights has a crucial role in the numerous copyright policy issues that impact…

Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. I thank Ranking Member Conyers and many other Members across the aisle, as well as the subcommittee chair and the subcommittee vice chair of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee…

Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, but I do not oppose the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in support of the amendment offered by Mr. Deutch. Mr. Deutch has been a strong supporter of intellectual property as well as the modernization of the Copyright Office during the House Judiciary Committee's…

Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Judy Chu of…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment offered by Ms. Judy Chu. She has been a strong advocate for the protection of intellectual property as well as the modernization of the Copyright Office during the House Judiciary…

Mr. Chairman, I have no speakers remaining, and I am prepared to close when Ranking Member Conyers concludes. I reserve the balance of my time.

A lot of us talk loosely, especially those of us who have no experience in local government, about 'let's just block-grant everything, send it to the State, and their tender mercies will see to it that localities do well.'

That's a pretty expensive mandate to try to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

And, in fact, recently, this administration, help-on-the-way administration, actually withheld Department of Transportation funding for lots of other unrelated transit projects throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia because of an…

Maybe that's a welcome message in Kentucky. It's not a welcome message in Virginia.

Thank you for having a hearing. And maybe there's a slightly different point of view about the issue while acknowledging there are problems with the act and with its implementation.

I don't want to see fellow citizens hurt. I want to see tax cheats brought in.