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Mr. Speaker, last week was an historic week in many respects. My Republican colleagues have indicated, for 6 years, they wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They introduced a bill which really did not accomplish that objective, but…
Madam Speaker, with my colleague Pramila Jayapal, from the State of Washington, on behalf of the Progressive Caucus, we are taking this Special Order hour to focus on the question of the Russian connection. This is a matter of utmost…
Madam Speaker, I want to thank Ms. Waters for her zealous work on behalf of her constituents and all Americans. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), our distinguished colleague, who is a leading member of the…
Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Jayapal for her fantastic leadership for the people of Washington in the city of Washington and her zealous advocacy for all of the American people. Mr. Speaker, let me try to recap some of the themes…
That just strikes me as really antithetical to the constitutional design.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to my colleague from Washington State (Ms. Jayapal), who is the co-convener of the Progressive Caucus Special Order along with me.
Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the subject of my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…
Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 6 o'clock and 15 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, March 30, 2017, at 9 a.m…
There is a 2014 study out there that estimates that for every $1 that the fossil fuel industry invested in campaign contributions and lobbying, it got $59 back.
What's striking to me, though, is that those people who have gone through it or have had an immediate family member go through it, look at something like a proposed $6 billion cut in NIH medical research budget and are horrified by it.
One of our great American aphorisms--I think it's attributed to Ben Franklin--is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We need to start talking about how Congress can free itself of dependence on oil industry campaign contributions.
Last election cycle the oil and gas industry alone pumped over a hundred million dollars into Washington.
The huge sums of money that pour into our campaign system from special interest have probably more of a distorting impact on making good public policy than just about anything else.
Mr. Speaker, nobody takes the speech and debate clause more seriously in this body than Mr. Garamendi. He speaks in debate pretty much every day, and that is what the Founders wanted us to do, not to just come here in a kind of naked…
Mr. Speaker, every American who loves freedom, democracy, and public integrity this week is expressing solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of anticorruption protesters in Russia who took to the streets on Sunday. That huge throng of…
And I just really wanted this Committee to be aware.