Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Louisiana for yielding and for his leadership on holding the IRS accountable. Mr. Speaker, we should not stand by and let the IRS target American citizens based on their political beliefs, and yet…

Mr. President, if I might, let me congratulate my colleague from West Virginia on his remarks and in closing make three observations. Despite the economic hardships of the region, the economy of Puerto Rico is the strongest of any of the…

I rise today to speak about a recently introduced bill regarding the future of Puerto Rico's political status. Known as the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act, this legislation would call for an up-or-down referendum on Puerto Rican…

I think, respectfully, speaking for myself, I disagree with that statement.

In your testimony I wanted to ask you a question. You mentioned that whether additional costs would be passed on to project users would be up to the Bureau of Reclamation.

I'm very concerned that the Interior Department and its leadership has been less than forthcoming about the depth and scope of this problem.

The infrastructure we have today in my home State and across the Nation is aging.

I want to work together with my colleagues to get the answers we need and to find the solutions that we need to improve the aging water delivery systems.

Water is the most fundamental issue in my home State of Wyoming.

I've also been trying to get a simple spreadsheet as to how your agency sees, says you have a maintenance backlog of anywhere from 2.5 billion to 3 billion.

Could you elaborate a little bit on the figures that the Bureau has provided Congress in the past related to its needed infrastructure upgrades?

This act builds on common sense legislation that I'm proud to have worked with Senator, I'm sorry, Representative Scott Tipton in spurring private investment in clean hydroelectric power generation.

If these documents exist then I'm just requesting you provide them to my office by tomorrow morning.

I come to the floor also to talk about a letter I got from Wyoming from a constituent, Traci, who lives in Rock Springs, WY. She is very concerned about the health care law. It is interesting because she writes after hearing on the news…

I thank the distinguished gentleman from Colorado. Mr. Speaker, the people whom I represent at home in Brooklyn and in Queens have been hit hard by the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, and many of these working families are still…

How does the Air Force save money by moving a squadron from Keesler?

The Russian position, no one in the world believes it, is that these are not Russian troops which have occupied Crimea.

I believe the Air Force must make force structure decisions based on long-term global force requirements, as well as concrete and defensible data.