I'm not an expert on engine technologies, but I do know Brazil, even though they have 2/3 the population of the United States, uses I believe about a tenth of the fuel that we use.

In the narrow topic of today's hearing of SCC, we could and have talked about many other peripheral issues related to the social cost of carbon.

Thank you all for attending today.

Over the past four decades, the growth of upward mobility in America has stagnated despite the numerous programs and trillions of dollars spent on our efforts to reduce poverty. In the wake of a stalemated war on poverty, we need to move…

I thank the manager, my friend from Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1408, the Mortgage Servicing Asset Capital Requirements Act. Mortgage servicing is a very valued product for our community banks. I am proud to…

I thank Chairman Luetkemeyer. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 432, the SBIC Advisers Relief Act. This commonsense bill eliminates costly, confusing, and duplicative regulations by State and Federal governments on Small…

I want to return to a topic that Senator Corker touched upon: affordable housing.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the definition of tyranny.

I thank the manager of this legislation for the time. I would like to also thank Chairman Hensarling and the entire Financial Services Committee for, yet again, ensuring that this bill, the Holding Company Registration Threshold…

I have to object. Again, this is not so much about a particular nominee but the fact that the Court of Federal Claims is operating with 11 active judges, and when you include the senior judges ready, able, and willing to hear cases, they…

reserving the right to object, and I will object. The reason we should not confirm new judges to the Court of Federal Claims has little to do with these nominees and more to do with the court itself. It doesn't need new judges. We should…

They say that great things come in small packages, and that could not be more true of the Reagan sisters of Rogers, Arkansas. I rise today in gratitude to them. Agnes Lytton, Mary Sue, and Betty Lynn Reagan were born and raised in…

there are certain policies that should not be controversial. It should not be controversial to expect that the laws of this Nation be enforced--equally, fairly, and fully. It should not be controversial to expect local city governments to…

Early this year, I had the opportunity to meet with Ambassador David Saperstein, the U.S. Ambassador At Large for International Religious Freedom. He is tasked with leading America's fight against religious persecution throughout the…

On rollcall No. 391, I was in the chamber and my vote did not register. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' Personal Explanation

today, on July 7, we have seen yet another extension of the nuclear negotiations with Iran--a terrorist- sponsoring, anti-American, outlaw regime with the blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands, from Lebanon, to Iraq, to Afghanistan…

Does the Executive Branch yet have legislative proposals that they are prepared for this Congress to take under advisement?

And the question is, does the President have the unilateral authority to do that? And that is really kind of where we are.