I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 4, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $801,000) (increased by $801,000)''. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

Mr. President, this is an important issue that is being discussed on the floor. I join Senator Blumenthal certainly in my commitment to do whatever we can to extend more choice to veterans. I believe there are less than a handful of issues…

Mr. President, I want to talk about the amendment I have offered with Senator Murray and Senator Mikulski and Senator Cochran. The chairman and the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee have joined in that amendment, as have…

Mr. President, the administration's nuclear agreement has left the region nervous, has left the world less stable, and has left our colleagues in the Senate who voted for it unwilling to vote on anything else about Iran. I think we are…

Mr. President, today I want to talk about the Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran and the many ways the agreement has failed to rein in Iranian hostile behavior over the course of the last year. Over the last week, I thought…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nuclear Agreement With Iran

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Nurturing and Supporting Healthy Babies Act, which will improve care for babies who are so sadly suffering from exposure to opioids while in their mother's…

Mr. President, what I came to talk about today is a bill we did pass a couple of weeks ago. As we get ready for police week early in May--I think the week of the 9th of May--there are people we want to recognize and do recognize and do…

Mr. President, I came to the floor today to talk about another issue, and I will talk about the issue I had scheduled to talk about earlier this week. But in regard to the issue of Zika, it does need to be dealt with. It is being dealt…

Mr. President, as I conclude, one other thing I want to mention is Silver Star Service Banner Day. I thank my colleagues for unanimously passing a resolution I submitted with Senator McCaskill last week to designate May 1 as Silver Star…

I thank the chairman for his leadership and for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of a resolution to stop the Department of Labor from attacking Americans' savings. Mr. Speaker, investing in the future and saving…

I thank Representative Chabot of Ohio for introducing this bipartisan piece of legislation as well as my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee, Congressman Hurt of Virginia and Congresswoman Sinema of Arizona, for sponsoring the…

Mr. President, today I wish to honor a man who has served faithfully for 27 years in the U.S. Air Force, with the vast majority of that service in the Missouri Air National Guard. It is a big loss, but Col. Michael Francis is scheduled to…

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the bill that is on the floor. The very fact that we have this bill on the floor deserves some attention. We have an appropriations bill on the energy and water responsibilities of the Federal…

The law of the land is Article I of the Constitution. Congress has the power of the purse to appropriate funds, and Congress appropriated the funds in 2016, but the IRS is not following that appropriately. This is wrong.

The IRS OWES Act is about protecting the American taxpayer, those who elected us to represent them, from an IRS proven incapable of best serving their interests. President Thomas Jefferson said: ``When the people fear the government, there…

What I am talking about is that Congress appropriated the necessary resources. The gentleman is talking about there being over $11 billion to the IRS, and they cannot appropriate the funds correctly.

The question that we have before us is: Did we appropriate adequate funding for taxpayer services?