This is an opportunity for us to get it right. And to take our friend, Mr. Cole's, word, we can move this forward. I see this as a beginning, and we can build on it, but rein in this administration. Send a strong signal. Approve this…

I want to thank Mr. Shimkus for yielding to me. He has really poured his heart and soul into this issue and has worked very hard on it, is so knowledgeable about it. And he is spot on. Tragically, there is no science here. The EPA was not…

I appreciate my friend from Massachusetts setting the record straight. The war powers activity, the authorization of military force has been an issue that a number of us have been concerned with, Republican and Democrat, going back to the…

Mr. President, I want to take a few moments to recognize an individual, Lauren Oppenheimer, who, after nearly 5 years as an invaluable member of my team, has recently moved on to begin the next chapter of her career. We all on Team Merkley…

President Trump has demonstrated the limitation of his reality show, go-it-alone, incoherent approach, which helped him eke out an electoral college victory while losing the popular vote by 3 million votes, but is spectacularly…

I appreciate the gentleman's hard work on this. This is the largest transfer of wealth in American history with the tax bill of the Republicans. They kept the tax break for corporations and they are hitting middle class families in my…

I thank Chairman Neal for his extraordinary efforts. Twenty-five years ago, NAFTA passed over strong opposition, with serious flaws. At the beginning of this Congress, we were given a bill by the administration that didn't address those…

By denying the full SALT deduction, you are making it more expensive to buy homes, you are having a lower resale value, it is a loss of net worth, plus there is about a 1 percent hit because of the higher interest rates that are going to…

That is correct. All gasoline includes butane and, as far as I am aware, always has. Adding butane during the gasoline refining process is simply how gasoline is produced. The idea that Congress intended oil companies to benefit from a…

Thank you for that background, Mr. Chairman. I agree with you that it is clear that the benefit some in the oil and gas industry are seeking from this provision is illegitimate. However, given the significant amount of taxpayer dollars at…

Thanks to the hard work of our committees and the leadership of the Speaker, we found overwhelming evidence Trump invited foreign interests to interfere in our elections for his personal gain, and then he took unprecedented efforts to…

I take seriously my oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and I do not take today's proceedings lightly. The Founding Fathers included the impeachment process in the Constitution to uphold our values and to maintain the checks and…

I oppose this resolution on impeachment, and I include my statement in the Record. Madam Speaker, President Donald Trump is unique in the history of the American presidency. No one has led as he has. His success and his style have…

Madam President, I wish to state for the record that although an important engagement in Oregon kept me from being present in the Capitol to participate in the cloture vote on this year's National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, I would…

Again, I appreciate the gentleman's hard work on this issue. I know we share a common goal of getting drug prices down and meeting unmet needs of cures. But, tragically, the Democrat bill, H.R. 3, is a very partisan bill. We are told by…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Craig). This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 230, nays 192, not voting 8, as follows…

That is true on the bipartisan, but every provision in the bill has Democratic support as individual bills in other sectors. We brought only bipartisan bills into this alternative. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 18 minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Michigan has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining.