The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act remains a good first step toward real choices for veterans--provided VA is held accountable to deliver real choice.

If the financial burden to the Senate burns the money that we appropriate out sooner than later, that is a good problem to have because we are getting our veterans the care they deserve.

If we apply common sense to these problems, we could solve them all.

I find that inexcusable, sir.

That facility has the world's greatest bank of pecan plants anywhere in the world, and it is a shame for it not to be maximized.

Very quickly, I notice that the fiscal year 2016 budget proposes a decrease of $2.8 million for two research projects that are currently being performed in Athens.

Unfortunately, the Byron facility has really seen better days and it is now just sort of limping along.

As you know, we have another ARS facility in Georgia, which just happens to be in my district in Byron, Georgia.

the President's budget for fiscal year 2016 included an investment of $113.7 million for the new Agricultural Research Service Poultry Laboratory in Athens, Georgia.

In the State of Georgia, we have created almost 300,000 jobs since 2006. I am proud to say we have got the finest workers in America, and I want those workers to have the freedom to make their decisions and not the NLRB.

Mr. Speaker, I am always interested when we are talking about workers and I hear that people want to talk about what is best for workers. I will tell you that I am a new Member of Congress, and I have had the privilege the past 30 years of…

Mr. Speaker, it seems now, more than any time in recent history, Christians around the world are being singled out and persecuted. Most recently and unfortunately were occurrences in Pakistan, where two churches were targeted by suicide…

The bottom line of what we are dealing with, obviously, is the question as to why ICE is releasing convicted criminals who are non-citizens back into the public square.

Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 123 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute. The amendment was agreed to. The CHAIR. Under the rule…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. While this bill would not fix the overreach of this administration in their regulation, it will bring transparency--that the American people have a right to know that when their rights and their liberties are being…

I thank the chairman for the opportunity to speak on this very important bill. Mr. Chair, as I stand in the Chamber here, this historic Chamber, all around the top of the wall here are engraved images of great lawgivers who have influenced…

This program is critical to the cultivating of STEM talent necessary to meet our growing technological needs.

I urge the committee to do so again this year as the fiscal year 2016 DOD budget comes up for debate before the committee and to fully fund the HBCU/MI Program at $40 million.