Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on H.R. 3627, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Mr. Speaker, just in closing, again, it is good to be with my friend down here. Also, the bill that Mr. Pittenger is bringing forward is also commonsense legislation I think that strengthens their home, strengthens their family, and…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3627) To require the Attorney General to report on State law penalties for certain child abusers, and for other purposes. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The bill under consideration today, the Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act of 2013, is named after a young girl from North Carolina who was brutally beaten by her stepfather last…

Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Pittenger), the author of this legislation, the gentleman who has a great passion for this issue.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Conyers-Watt substitute amendment. I must say that this has been a very spirited debate here today, but I would be remiss not to come back to speak on the issue of an inventor such as Danny Ross, a…

Madam Chairman, I think it is time this morning to reveal a little bit of truth. We have had reports of trolls just running through the marketplace of America. Trolls--you know those, the ones that hang out under bridges and scare you when…

So prior to 1934, there was something called the ``conformity principle,'' which held that Federal Court procedures should be in accordance with the States wherein those Federal Courts sat; but that proved to be unworkable, so the rules…

I thank the gentleman. There were choices made, and there were plenty of choices you made, and even one to this day that we are talking about, health care legislation. One of those choices, from your point of view, sadly, was not taken…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong support of the rule and the underlying legislation, particularly H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I have seen firsthand the…

It seems to me that you have some safeguards in there.

This hearing is pure political theater. It is a farce plain and simple.

I appreciate the gentleman. Again, it is a matter of now. This has been going on for a while. This has not built up over the last couple of weeks that we discovered this problem. This has been a problem with Iran for, you know, going on…

I agree, and I appreciate the gentleman so much. I believe that it is certain in our foreign policy, as much as anything, America needs to speak from a position of strength that we have; that we should not deny our position of strength and…

I appreciate my colleague. You know, you brought up a great point there, and I want to continue to go into the history here because I don't want individuals who may be watching tonight or watching this later to simply look at this in a…

I think this is a progression of executives that both Republicans and Democrats have used really in some ways, pushed that boundary, stretched that boundary, and I think in the case of this, the President now has outright stepped over…

Congress has to matter again, and that means that we have to take seriously our role of budgeting. We have to take seriously our role of legislating, but also holding accountable when we are being bypassed.

Mr. Speaker, I think there has been a lot of things going on in the world in the last few weeks and a lot here domestically, things that have not been going well on the administration's agenda. Those have been well documented and are not…