Thank you, Representative Brooks. You had mentioned something that we really haven't injected into this particular conversation, and that is the renewables. I am proud that our local power district has 30 percent of their energy produced…

Thank you, Mr. Bucshon. You mentioned manufacturing and how important it is to your State. The reality is also that manufacturing is reliant on affordable and reliable energy. I am the chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade…

And I am grateful you stayed long enough to speak tonight. You did a great job, and I really appreciate all of the work and effort you do to secure America's future. In conclusion, Madam Speaker, energy, again, is the cornerstone of our…

Today the House passed a commonsense approach to make our energy more reliable and more affordable. Our vote today would create jobs and secures our energy future by making us dependent on North American resources, not OPEC, Venezuela, or…

Doc Hastings, I really appreciate your leadership on energy issues and natural resources issues. It has just been incredibly important to our Congress. I want to thank my colleagues for allowing me to bring this package here today because…

today I introduced the Helping Innovation and Revitalizing Innovation Act. It is a Federal Communications Commission, FCC, process reform idea called the HIRE Act. This measure seeks to make the FCC more efficient and accountable in…

I want to thank Mr. Coffman for bringing this bill. I think it is extremely important, and it directly affects the Omaha VA in-patient facility, as well as veterans all around the Midwest area. The cost overruns of the Denver, or the…

I thank the chairman for his hard work on this very difficult subject. Mr. Speaker, several months ago, our best CIA analyst could not have predicted that large swaths of Iraq and Syria would be overrun, conquered, by a group called ISIL…

ISIL is a very clear threat to the United States of America, to our people.

The last government in Iraq, over the last 5 years, have actually exacerbated the effort and intentionally destroyed the capability of a unity government.

Over time if ISIL is not stopped, and with the economic power that it has now, then what I would foresee happening, not only an immediate threat to United States citizens and our people, our interests.

I can assure you, Senator, that any commitments we made, in contracting or anything else, we will follow the law clearly and consult with Congress.

I believe the President has the statutory and constitutional authority to take the action that he is doing to protect this country.

No is the first basic answer.

ISIL is a threat to America, our allies, our interests around the world.

The statutory authority is the AUMF of 2001, and if you wanted to add something to that, it would probably be the AUMF of 2002.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being here today.

Thank you. I appreciate the support. I also thank the gentlewoman from California for her support all the way from the beginning of this bill to today's passage. It means a lot to me and to the people of Omaha and Boys Town. This bill will…