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Is there stuff Congress can do to eliminate limitations on your abilities to grant them?

This is a very good piece of legislation. For those who have served well, to subject them to another application fee is just ridiculous. If there was ever an example of a good idea, a no-brainer piece of legislation, this is it. Mr…

I want to add my support to this particular bill. We are talking about 2,400 miles going from Chicago to Santa Monica. It was, at one time, called the Main Street of America. It is unique in American history. I was just talking to the…

This is a fairly significant but straightforward bill. It simply is asking for a study on the potential of including James Weldon Johnson's birthplace as part of our national park system. Mr. Johnson was a leader in the civil rights…

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to have been able to work on a bill that makes the assumption that someone actually does want to walk to Vermont. If indeed you can find that individual, we will provide an opportunity for it to…

Which is of concern to many of us here and ought to be more so than it is within Congress.

To avoid clarity, I think that is a good description, to avoid clarity in a place where morality, decency, and justice would seem to demand clarity and where the Constitution provides clarity.

I think they have responsibility to acknowledge and to warn that individual, if there were people who tried to make contact with me, I would hope the FBI would come to me and say, hey, let's talk about this person here, let us tell you a…

I look forward to talking to Trey, he's a good friend of mine and he's someone that I really do trust.

I still have real concerns and I still think we want to pursue this and have a broader look at the documents.

We applaud you for your commitment to examining ways to offer rural Americans better care in their communities.

Rural communities deserve access to health care.

I encourage all members to review MedPAC's statement and ask that it be made part of the official hearing record.

The MMA finally put rural providers on a level playing field with their neighbors in larger communities.

In the Senate, rural health-care policy boasts a long history of collaboration and cooperation on both sides of the aisle.

I have long considered it a special mission to create the same rural payment opportunities that many of our Nation's urban counterparts enjoy.

Ensuring Access to Emergency Services for Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Communities.

I was stunned that on May 23rd, the Department of Commerce initiated another investigation under section 232, this time into the national security threat from automobile and auto parts imports.