The sanctions drove them into what we here, if it had done that much damage to our economy, it was on the line of the Great Depression here.

I think that this committee needs to be heard from on this subject.

I think it is vital that this committee speak out and that the Congress be heard.

I was pleased, recently, to be the coauthor of the letter reaffirming that as the basis for U.S.-Middle East negotiations.

There is simply no question in the Bentek study of Colorado and Texas done about 5 or so years ago...

The Ivanpah plant was supposed to produce roughly a million megawatt hours a year starting with its operation about 2 years ago...

the war on coal was over and that saved thousands of jobs that would be direct and indirect

When the Obama administration sailed off, it left in its wake a systematically dismantled immigration enforcement infrastructure.

Mr. President, today I am introducing a bipartisan, noncontroversial, technical provision pertaining to two proposed hydroelectric projects at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Virginia. This bill would give the Federal Energy…

Mr. President, today I am introducing a bipartisan, noncontroversial, technical provision pertaining to two proposed hydroelectric projects at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Virginia. This bill would give the Federal Energy…

When I am in the region, one of the things that I often hear is a concern by others in countries all around the region of being kind of trampled in a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

I think we might have less success, we might have more losses.

Where does that lead us as far as risk? And when I talk about risk, it is survivability of pilots in those high-stress and high-end conflict scenarios.

The young men and women that are on our flight decks, in our squadrons flying those missions are the best that I have ever seen.

I thank the gentleman for his good work on the budget. Mr. Speaker, the budget is about choices, and those choices involve arithmetic. Apparently, the Republican strategy on the budget does not recognize arithmetic. When you start with a…

Last year, 325,000 Americans serving through AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps invested 155 million hours of service to their communities.

No good deed goes unpunished in this city, you know?

It is rather unfortunate that instead of providing agencies with additional tools to strengthen their management of IT acquisitions, we have a hiring freeze now that would make I think it more difficult for agencies to improve in this area.