Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry of the Chair. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Duncan of Tennessee). The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. President, along with the Presiding Officer, I have the distinct honor of serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and am the ranking Democrat on that committee. There are many areas of challenge for our national security. We…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Durbin, Senator Menendez, and Senator Coons for joining on the floor today to talk about the threat that Russia poses. Senator Durbin is absolutely correct, and I thank him for his leadership on this. The…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 314, nays 98, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 137] YEAS--314 Abraham Adams Aderholt Amodei…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to adjourn offered by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin). The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that…

Well, I didn't think it was hypothetical. I move that the House do now adjourn. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the gentleman first yield back the time he was yielded for debate?

Mr. Speaker, is it consistent with the rules of the House of Representatives for the Committee on Ways and Means and the Energy and Commerce Committee to be considering the American Health Care Act without a CBO score that would permit us…

Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Everything that has been done up to this point has not worked in deterring Kim Jong-un, so all of the military capabilities that we have, all of our alliances, and all of that, have not deterred Kim Jong-un's desires to achieve a nuclear…

If we do not maintain credible combat power to confront Kim Jong-un's testing and his development goals, then we are going to be in a position to be blackmailed by KJU.

We share democratic values with India. We are the world's two largest democracies.

I believe it represents a tremendous opportunity for the United States at large and for PACOM in particular in the mil-to-mil space.

I probably have a tenth of my requirements are fulfilled.

I think the modernizing of our nuclear deterrent is absolutely critical to our Nation for our survival.

It is clearly a matter of when.

Congress has failed to show leadership when it comes to funding the Pentagon, and I agree with you on that comment.

As dangerous as we are and when every single Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine talks about sequestration, and, yet, we have not repealed this at these very, very dangerous times.

And my question was going to be, and you have already repeated it: Do you agree with what I said that we need to repeal sequestration?