I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, let me first say, if the gentleman wants to pursue bipartisanship--I know that they all want to use the word ``socialist,'' which was egregiously misidentified in an ad that I wrote to Mr…

I thank the gentleman for his question. I don't have a timetable, but I share his view that we want to move this along. As I told him, and the Speaker was on the floor, we were trying to get to ``yes'' on this. Again, we appreciate…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I know that Mr. Clyburn and the Clyburn family very much appreciate his condolences and his remarks. Jim Clyburn and I have known each other for over half a century. His wife, Emily, he met…

I thank my friend for yielding. On Tuesday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning-hour debate, and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. I remind Members that is Tuesday, not Monday. We will not be in…

First of all, I want to start by congratulating Chairwoman Lowey and Ranking Member Granger on working together. I want to congratulate the members of the Appropriations Committee. I know there wasn't always agreement. I am hopeful, as we…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to thank Mr. McHenry for his leadership as ranking member of the committee, and for his bringing this to the floor. I want to thank my very good friend, not my Republican friend, my very good…

Madam President, in February of this year, the House of Representatives passed what is known as the universal background check in regard to gun sales. Since that time, the Senate has had no action whatsoever on gun safety issues. Leader…

Have our colleagues across the aisle forgotten that the right to a jury trial was as essential a cause of the American Revolution as was representative democracy and the denial of voting rights itself? John Adams said: ``Representative…

Mr. President, I thank my friend and colleague from Pennsylvania for his leadership on this issue and his very clear remarks and call to action. I am also very pleased to be here on the floor with my friend the Senator from Connecticut…

Mr. President, I start by thanking my friend and colleague the Senator from Illinois, Ms. Duckworth, for her service to our country many years ago in the military, for her serving in Iraq, and now for her serving our country in a different…

Mr. President, let me thank Senator Schatz for his comments. I hope every Senator will follow the points he is making because I think they are critically important. First and foremost, we are talking about the appropriate power of the…

Mr. President, I rise today with my colleagues Senators Collins, King, Brown, Markey, Murphy, Menendez, Klobuchar, Blumenthal, Hassan, Jones, Van Hollen, Casey, Baldwin, Harris, Murray, Rosen, and Kaine to recognize the week beginning…

We have said all along that we want to get to yes on the USMCA. Frankly, we think it is an improvement over NAFTA, which needs improving. As the gentleman may know, the Speaker and I were here when we voted on NAFTA. We both voted for it…

The chairman of the committee spoke about their process. Their process has been a fact-finding process. That is our responsibility as a Congress. That is his responsibility and the committee's responsibility as a committee. The majority…

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise) for yielding. We can discuss all sorts of bills, but we discussed the appropriations process. And the gentleman expressed how they were able to pass 70 percent of funding of the government…

The defense bill passed this House with almost every Republican voting against it. It was a bill that provided $733 billion, a figure that the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested publicly. It was a figure that I know personally was a figure…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I understand the gentleman said a lot of things about reaching bipartisan agreements and all of this sort of stuff, and the Senate needed 60 votes. They didn't introduce a bill. Not a single…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning- hour debate, and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday of next week, the…