I hear from teachers and principals in my home State of Washington about how important Federal funding is to supporting their work.

I've been frustrated to hear from many stakeholders that they don't feel like they have a seat at the table as their States work on implementation.

I will continue to closely monitor several issues to make sure our law lives up to its intent to provide all students with a high-quality education.

the carveout for the National Labs was an outrageous thing to do.

You have asked a very, very important question, and I would just say, when we wrote FITARA, we decided to make it less prescriptive and more expansive.

We are not going to stand for it. We will revisit this issue.

We can make a big difference on something that may seem deceptively uninteresting.

Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the chairman from Texas for adding my amendment to this en bloc. Mr. Chairman, my amendment today would require the Defense Department and FAA to study the impact of military helicopter noise in the…

Mr. Chair, I rise to express my concern with certain aspects of the Calvert amendment that is included in part of the en bloc amendments to the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act that we will pass by voice vote. My…

There is a serious lack of accountability or transparency at EPA when a manager is the problem.

We were going to stick with this, and we were going to provide oversight.

I felt listening to him like I was watching RT, Russian Television.

setting metrics in advance, to me, is really important.

This past weekend, the students of Longfellow Middle School in my district participated in the Aerospace Industry Association 2016 Team America Rocketry Challenge.

This time, there will be a fight. And I think it will be bipartisan.

Mr. Chair, H.L. Mencken once said that for every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. I have a lot of sympathy for Mr. Thornberry's amendment and for what is behind it. He talks about micromanagement…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Con. Res. 88, reaffirming the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as the cornerstone of U.S.-Taiwan relations. As a co-Chair of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus, I want to thank my…

I just want to be here today to speak and strongly defend our National Ocean Policy.