I saw for myself the devastation caused by the flooding along the Missouri.

Thank you for holding this important hearing to examine the impacts of this Missouri flood.

I thank the gentleman from Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have long supported a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and I don't take the issue lightly of amending our Constitution, which has endured through strife and dramatic historical…

Madam Speaker, the Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed a rule that would require all health plans to cover in full and, consequently, every American to subsidize procedures and drugs that are unrelated to medical…

Statement, dated November 2, 2011, of Hon. Jeff Fortenberry, a Representative in Congress from the State of Nebraska, submitted by Mr. Pitts.

It is very hard to understand.

Please continue to support us.

the reason for pressing the issue is clearly that the United States cannot solve all problems for all people

It's important in light of that. We need to make sure that our efforts in the region are not discordant.

Madam Speaker, health care is a necessary element to a good and orderly and compassionate society. We all support health, but abortion is not health care. {time} 1330 The vast majority of Americans do not support using their dollars in…

I stand in strong support of this trade agreement that will open up U.S. production to over 40 million consumers close to our shores. While the national economic and strategic impact of the Colombia agreement is very important, obviously…

Children should not be forced to become soldiers.

I simply want to concur with what you said.

We know that these waivers must be rare and temporary and meaningfully intended to help stop this pernicious practice.

We would not sit idly by and passively underwrite this pernicious form of human trafficking known as child conscription.

Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be here, and certainly I appreciate my colleague from California talking about agriculture. And it certainly speaks to the diversity of American agriculture when he listed so many products, and I…

How can we sit by idly and not look at this in the face and not got our minds around this horror and not act?

We can't even imagine that this could happen in this country. It is inconceivable.