Would it be better for us to focus more on targeted working lands conservation programs instead of land retirement programs like CRP?

Mr. President, on June 20, 2017, I notified the majority leader of my intent to object to any unanimous consent request relating to the nomination of Steven A. Engel, of the District of Columbia, to be the Assistant Attorney General for…

The provisions that are necessary that I would point out to the body, Mr. Speaker, are this: The number one most important is this: We only have 5,000 ICE agents for 50 States and territories. They are spread so thin they can't possibly…

We are having hearing next Wednesday so obviously we want to hear right away so we get the subpoena. I hope they accept the subpoena voluntarily. If they don't, then you have to have a marshal give it and that takes a little more time.

The attorney general can't be a wing man for a president. He's got to be very independent. And work for -- be wing man for the people of the country.

Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to be recognized by the gentlewoman from Wyoming, and I rise in support of this combined rule that we have here. I thought it was important that I speak to some of the provisions that are in the underlying bill…

I want my brothers to do that work and I want you to pay me my allowance anyway.

Thank you, and congratulations on your nomination.

I think we should look at the deductibility of interest.

I think as part of tax reform--if we are going to do it right, Senator--each individual tax provision needs to be viewed in the context of a comprehensive Internal Revenue Code.

I think as part of tax reform, Senator, everything should be on the table.

The working group on international reform... reached a similar conclusion about the need for a lower rate to attract income from innovation.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. And I have no better friend in this city either--or this country, for that matter. Mr. Speaker, I am just called to come to this floor to add a few words to the topic that the…

Someone with ties to Russian intelligence. Someone alleged to have conducted political disinformation campaigns as part of a pro-Russia lobbying effort.

Reclaiming my time, I am always happy to yield to the gentleman from Tennessee, and I appreciate his contribution to the United States Congress while I have served here, and each year that he has been here as well. Mr. Speaker, I would…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 18 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, July 14, 2017, at 9 a.m. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege and honor to address you here from the floor of the House of Representatives in this great deliberative body that has been deliberating all day long in the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act…

the President's budget proposal zeroed out both of these programs