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This legislation would require Federal law enforcement agencies to fully report to Congress on their payments to confidential informants as well as the amounts they have received through their work or cooperation with informants.
But if a guy has been arrested in 43 States, he should not be eligible as a confidential informant, especially one highly paid. Zero credibility. That's disgraceful.
When the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, Congress set price stability as the Fed's principal objective.
The last election, I believe, was a testament to the frustration that the American people had about their economic circumstances, but I think that frustration is more properly directed at Congress instead of the Fed.
I think the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it pretty clear, they're not going to vote on this until after the election.
No, I don't think it's a witch hunt. I'd like -- it's very mysterious to me, though, why all of a sudden General Flynn is suddenly out there saying he wants immunity. That -- A, I don't think Congress should give him immunity. If there's…
I think what the President's budget proposal was is an embarrassment, and it's not something I could support.
There needs to be increases, not decreases.
How can we not be focussing on this? How can this not be the number one priority when we talk about budgets?
I think this is one area where clearly the money that we are putting in has the potential to really do a huge amount of good for people's lives.
To have the Huntsman Cancer Institute in our own backyard there in the Innermountain West, we're very, very grateful and thankful that Dr. Beckerle is dedicating her life and her talents to this very worthy cause.
This should be the national imperative that drives us all to fund it properly and to truly, truly make a difference.
I cannot accept that the United States Government can't do anything. I cannot accept that.
I write to direct your attention to the now months-long imprisonment of Mr. Joshua Anthony Holt, a resident of Riverton, Utah, who has been held without trial in a Venezuelan jail since June 2016, and request that you take action and…
That is a priority that I expect the full Natural Resources Committee, under Chairman Bishop's leadership, to explore later this Congress.
I think everyone here agrees that mining companies and industrial producers need to be liable, need to be responsible for any disasters they create for superfund sites they create, that, of course, have to be cleaned up.