Thank you, Mr. President. President Ronald Reagan used to say that people are policy. Attacking a new President's policies, therefore, often includes undermining his or her ability to appoint men and women to lead his or her…

Well, I am glad you asked that question, because there are a couple of things that have happened. They ran into so much trouble in the Senate from those Senators who were concerned about them block- granting the Medicaid program, killing…

Will the gentlewoman from Florida explain kind of the budget reconciliation, where they are going to get these tax cuts?

I would be stunned to think that any party or any President would do that. Infrastructure has been the bread and butter, and it has been one of the most bipartisan things that we have. When you talk about the need to expand our economy…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just want to tell you how grateful I am that my colleagues want to have this dialogue, this colloquy with me. I have been so disturbed by the false information that is being given to Americans about…

That is right, because the narrative is that Medicaid only covers these ne'er-do-well, able-bodied people who the Medicaid expansion dealt with. But the reason why the Senate, to answer your question, couldn't live with the bill that was…

ESA does not work. We have to find a way to reform it so it actually solves problems, not just continues on the process.

This commonsense, bipartisan legislation would reinstate the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) order to remove the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming from the federal Endangered Species List.

This is an important piece of legislation we need to move.

It is imperative we establish a management program to control the escalating wolf population in our state.

Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan we are over-run with wolves and our Department of Natural Resources can't do anything about it.

This legislation would prevent further judicial review of the 2011 final rule.

We urge your support of this important legislation.

The SAVES Act by our colleague, Mr. Gohmert, will remove duplicative permitting requirements for non-native endangered species.

As Texas has demonstrated, states are well positioned to effectively keep species stable and off the endangered and threatened list.

The Endangered Species Act was passed 40 years ago to try to recover and restore imperiled species.

the ESA has veered away from this mission. All too often, the Act has been misused to control land, block a host of economic activities important for jobs.

We need to have a longer-term solution to that.