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Mr. President, as the 115th Congress winds down, I would like to reflect on the enactment of the historic tax legislation, which passed last year, and what is ahead for us in the new year. In December of 2017, Congress passed, and the…
I think maybe most of us would agree that, for the better part, our interests are maybe not the same as their interests.
Djibouti serves as a first example of the Chinese military stepping out of the Chinese territory.
I would not at all be surprised if the Chinese are working to restrict what we can do with drones in Djibouti.
The rise of China as a strategic competitor to the United States presents an array of challenges to our national security interests around the globe.
This is an unfortunate growing trend in Africa.
That has already warned, for example, the Burmese Government to reduce the size of the deep-sea port that China has proposed to build in their country.
Mr. President, during this season of Advent, millions of Americans join Christians around the world to celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ. A central tenet of Christianity is born in the belief that Jesus is the Light of the World. On…
Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Oklahoma. H.R. 2 Mr. President, I want to thank Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Roberts and Ranking Member Stabenow for their hard work in putting together the 2018 farm bill. It was a long…
Mr. President, today I raise an important issue for my colleagues that impacts many families in Iowa but also throughout the country. You hear it everywhere. It is about high prescription drug costs. I am not going to address that issue…
Mr. President, millions of Americans woke up this morning and started the day with their doses of prescription medications. Their daily regimens are prescribed by their healthcare providers to treat illnesses and to improve the quality of…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Colorado for recognizing me to speak here on this Special Order to honor National Bible Week. It starts off, for me, this way, Mr. Speaker. I will go to Psalm 139:13: ``For you created my inmost…
You cannot possibly know what is going on, and with my experience with whistleblowers, I have found that almost all of them, obviously not every one of them, because some do have an ax to grind, but they just want to government to do what…
I do have an act that is called the SWAMP Act, which would move all of our headquarters of Federal agencies outside of the immediate Washington, DC, area.
Mr. President, I am here to give thanks. Just a few days ago our country celebrated a national day of Thanksgiving. We celebrated food, fellowship, and freedom with family and friends. By any measure we are a people endowed with an…
Mr. President, today I wish to highlight the excellent work being done by the Justice Department under this administration in ensuring an accountable asbestos bankruptcy trust system. In 1994, in response to widespread asbestos litigation…
Mr. President, the people who have called themselves Latvians have been in existence for centuries and centuries, but the nation state that we call Latvia has only existed for 100 years. So I come to the floor to express the fact that on…