
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Senate Amendment to the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 (H.R. 3766). I want to thank my friend, Judge Ted Poe of Texas, for working with me to introduce and advance this…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Senate Amendment to the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 (H.R. 3766). I want to thank my friend, Judge Ted Poe of Texas, for working with me to introduce and advance this…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the NRA- authored H.R. 4237, the so-called Protect America Act. Mr. Speaker, how does this legislation protect America from gun violence? This bill would do nothing to close the terror gap that…

We would remain at platoon-level readiness funding under the CR, as well as putting further constraints on our modernization programs.

I just think it is important for members to understand this point.

To me, that is a very, very deeply concerning issue.

I share some of Senator Johnson's critique and disagree with him on some points. But the main disagreement is that we are not moving fast enough.

I support the efforts that are underway. I would like to see it happen in a much more expeditious manner.

Mr. President, I wish to compliment my colleagues and others for their leadership on this issue. I just want to point out something about the institution and what we are about to do. Monday night we had competing proposals from both…

I do not really think we have got a clearly articulated cyber doctrine in this country in terms of what is deterrence.

This summit is supposed to have NATO designating cyber as a fifth domain of warfare.

I think we have a system that is really institution-centered, not person-centered.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 338. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The veto message and the joint resolution are referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce…

I look forward to dialogue with both Secretary King and the panel of expert witnesses concerning the Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide states and school districts with the clarity and guidance necessary to ensure…

I am proud of our collective efforts to craft a strong bipartisan law that was worthy of the President's signature.

If a locality is chronically underfunding certain schools, is there not an obligation to come up with some appropriate equitable funding outside of the ESSA?