I was pleased to read in your advance policy questions about your strong support of their mission and your eagerness to further strengthen our cooperation with our partner nations.

The fact that the administration did not give General Alexander the kind of support they should is really pretty disturbing on my part.

Do you think that firms will participate in the sharing of information if they are not granted pretty much blanket liability protection?

It's truly unfortunate that General Alexander was put out there on a limb by himself by the administration to seek to explain these programs.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the TRA. The TRA forms the basis of U.S. policy towards Taiwan and affirms the U.S. commitment to maintain Taiwan's self-defense capability.

Madam Speaker, today I rise in honor of 5- year-old Morgan Steward, who, despite suffering from spinal muscular atrophy that affects his muscle movement and leaves him in a wheelchair, has been an inspiration to us all. Some may question…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Congressman Heck asked a lot of my questions.

Madam President, I just had a conversation with the distinguished Senator from Louisiana with regard to the flood control bill. I am the Republican sponsor of that bill and am very adamantly in support of that bill passing. Senator…

The Senator is correct. In fact, to be precise, there were seven concerns about the legislation when the first UC was propounded on our side, five of which involve potential amendments that need to be made to the bill or in their opinion…

Chairman Rogers, thank you for the time and thank you, more importantly, for the leadership that you and Ranking Member Lowey have shown in completing this process and giving us a fiscal year 2014 appropriation bill. I rise in support of…

I believe you are being disingenuous here, 'to throw a deep chill,' when you can go three steps and get it for free?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind us that it has been 4 years since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, killing more than 300,000 people and displacing more than 2 million Haitians. Today, according to the International…

Mr. Speaker, I urge my Republican colleagues to recognize the devastating consequences of air pollution, which is causing, or at least contributing to greatly, the drastic changes in the Earth's climate. Last year we experienced severe…

Mr. Speaker, it is a new year. We come down and begin this week, and I have made a commitment, as I think many of us do, as resolutions on what are we going to do for the new year and you always try to learn something new, and today has…

Mr. President, before I make my remarks, I commend the Senator from South Dakota and underscore what the Senator said regarding the SKILLS Act passed by the House of Representatives. I am the ranking member of the labor subcommittee on…

Mr. Speaker, on this day in 1964, President Johnson's called on our nation to launch an `unconditional war on poverty'. Exactly 50 years later, we can state with confidence two truths. The programs resulting from Johnson's War on Poverty…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues in marking the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's declaration of a war on poverty. This war was being won for 16 years, but since President Reagan's election 34 years ago, the…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to recognize a business in my district that celebrated its 60th anniversary this week. Riverside Pharmacy is an example of a small business that has survived the economic downturn, changing health care landscape…