Mr. President, today I wish to celebrate Black History Month, a time to honor and reflect on the many achievements and sacrifices of African Americans throughout our Nation's history. This February, we highlight the titans of…

Mr. President, today I wish to shine a spotlight on the dire security and humanitarian situation in northeastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad basin, precipitated by Boko Haram, and to urge the new administration to organize quickly to address…

Mr. President, I rise today, humbled to offer my first official speech as the junior U.S. Senator from the great State of California. I rise with a deep sense of reverence for this institution, for its history, and for its unique role as…

Mr. Speaker, we live in a dangerous world, and the President needs a National Security Adviser who isn't under a cloud of suspicion. But this resignation isn't the end. Americans now deserve to know if General Flynn was operating under…

Mr. President, I come to the floor to convey my wholehearted opposition to the nomination of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA. The EPA, at its core, is an Agency established to protect the…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all the Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, we should be joined momentarily by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. I want to close out, though, my own thoughts by responding to something I have been hearing over the last week here in the Halls of Congress. Now that it is…

Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to be with you this afternoon. I have a series of other speakers who will be joining me later in the hour from the Progressive Caucus, as we discuss some of the key events of the week from our perspective…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn), my good friend, the Assistant Democratic Leader. Honoring Voorhees College and Denmark Technical College

Mr. Speaker, I love magic, and I bet a lot of people out there watching today love magic, too. Ever since I was a kid, I loved the cup tricks, the card tricks, and the rabbit coming out of the hat. When I was in college, I even used to…

Mr. President, I know Mick Mulvaney. We served together for 6 years in the House of Representatives. I have always found him to be a straight shooter. And he was a champion of budget transparency. I also respect him for taking on some…

Madam President, I wish to start where the Senator from Maine left off, and that is with respect to the approximately 3,000 emails that Scott Pruitt, the nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, has been hiding from public…

We are not going to improve our health-care system by telling people of means that they cannot spend money on health care.

So yes, the expansion of third-party coverage is critically important, but the quality of third-party coverage is also critically important.

If you move to block-grant the Medicaid program, the odds are it is going to fill a budget number, not fill a policy-driven objective.

Resources are important. And I wish every policy decision we make in this committee and we make in Congress and make at the White House was driven by what is the right policy results.

Mr. President, guns kill 36,000 Americans every year. That's nearly 100 Americans every day. To help address this scourge of violent death, Congress enacted the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993. The Brady Act required the…

And of course, that is what we are seeing under the expansion of Medicaid in the State of Maryland with many more people insured.