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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remember the September 11 attacks, and especially those who lost their lives on that day, including people from my own home State in Rhode Island. I was 8 months into my first term in Congress when our Nation's…
Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: SEC. 5. STUDYING THE IMPACTS OF OFFSHORE DRILLING ON COASTAL…
Mr. Chairman, the Atlantic Coast has never been a site of significant offshore drilling, and for good reason. In my home State of Rhode Island and all along the coast, we know the importance of these waters to tourism and to the fisheries…
Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for his comments and his insights. I see that this amendment gets exactly the right information that we need. I am certainly not opposed to the gentleman's suggestion, and if at a later date he is going…
Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1941, the Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act. Mr. Chair, the administration's proposed 5-year plan for expanded oil and gas leasing would pose significant danger to our Nation's coastal…
I think there is a clash of civilizations, and it's between rule of law civilization and kleptocracy, autocracy, and criminality.
It's not just our allowing their use of the rule of law to protect their ill-gotten gains.
Mr. President, as the Presiding Officer knows, I have often spoken about how climate change is affecting Rhode Island. Rising sea levels will remake my State's map. Warming seas are shifting our traditional fisheries away from Rhode…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 25 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. President, I am pleased to be introducing the Investment in Tomorrow's Pediatric Workforce Act with Senator Cassidy. This critical legislation would provide funding for the Title VII pediatric subspecialty loan repayment program. The…
I am particularly thankful to my good friend Congressman Lynch from Massachusetts, my neighbor in New England.
we will do that again, I am confident, in 2020.
Defending the United States assets in this global telecommunications network requires a whole-of-government approach.
I thank the Presiding Officer. I appreciate that courtesy. Blocking action on climate has been the central focus of the Chamber's campaign spending. It ran this ad in Pennsylvania in 2016. Two moms watch their children on a playground. One…
Madam President, I thank the distinguished Senator from West Virginia for her work on the highway bill that we voted out of the Environment and Public Works Committee today and on our industrial emissions bill and on carbon capture. It has…
I ask unanimous consent to speak for an additional 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.
Madam Speaker, tomorrow we celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a groundbreaking civil rights law that has improved the lives of millions across the Nation, including my own. However, the fight for…