Well, great. I thank you for that. I think we have some exciting technology.

I would ask the committee to consider what actually Congress has established in the Clean Water Act rather than this agency.

Truly, what an advocate you are for rural development. We appreciate it so much.

I believe it is imperative that we focus on the causes of rural poverty and work to provide opportunities for folks to overcome obstacles.

We need to make sure that we are protecting our servicemembers as well as our civilians serving overseas.

I do not think terrorists distinguish between who is a combatant and who is a non-combatant in situations like that.

Mr. President, this body was last in session during Sunshine Week, but the principle of government transparency is one that does not expire. So I would like to take a few moments now to reiterate my support for that timeless principle…

Mr. President, as the Senate is prepared to vote on the Defend Trade Secrets Act, I rise today to enter into a colloquy with my longtime friend and colleague from Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch. Does the Senator agree that the ex parte seizure…

I thank Senator Hatch. The Defend Trade Secrets Act is the product of bipartisan consensus, and as he will recall, before the bill was approved in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a modification added language that ex parte seizures would…

I thank Senator Hatch for his helpful insights. Mr. President, today the Senate is poised to pass the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, a bill that offers practical and necessary solutions to a growing problem. I have recently had the…

Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall it pass? The…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. I am asserting that the House needs to do all it can to keep our oath to support and defend the Constitution, and we are doing this today with this endorsement of the Speaker's amicus brief so that the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman from Texas for yielding and for leading on this issue. As I sit and listen to this debate, a number of things come to mind, and they start with this: I am hearing a lot of policy discussion over on the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas. So we addressed the Morton Memos in this House and voted to defund them in 2012. That was the first opportunity. The next opportunity was 2013. We addressed the Morton Memos in DACA and…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Wyoming for yielding to me on this important topic. I am privileged to be here on the floor listening to this discussion that we have today. I think of the many, many hours that roll back as far…

Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and to continue the deliberation here that makes this the most deliberative body anywhere in the world. I…

I think at some point it needs to come back to this body for a second look.

We are now stymied by an embargo that has certainly outlived its purpose.