For these reasons, I have made tax reform my highest legislative priority for this Congress.

The ONLY way for Congress to effectively assert its role in these negotiations is through TPA.

Congress needs to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in short order.

We will have new data to share with Committee members later this year about the meaningful distributions paid out to employee owners for retirement.

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me, and I rise in support of H.R. 161. We are tens of thousands of miles of pipeline capacity short of the necessary pipelines to carry natural gas to consumers who need it and businesses who demand it…

Tomorrow hundreds of young people from across Kansas will join thousands of Americans, young and old, on The National Mall for the March for Life. They are here to remind us all that, in the midst of all the important issues we talk about…

I cite Senator Roberts' Kansas, which now has a Supreme Court decision, of course, indicating that the State's funding of its schools is unconstitutional by Kansas' own constitutional requirement.

I just don't think Washington has any business dictating to States and school districts what is best for the students that they serve.

It is difficult for us to be able to provide services to all those who really require it or need it.

I thank the chairman for yielding, wish the chair happy birthday, and I would like to honor the Congressman from Indiana, Congressman Young, for his leadership on this important issue. This effort to change the employer mandate definition…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Rural Health Care

Mr. Clay Hunt is a marine veteran who committed suicide in March of 2011 at the age of 28. Clay enlisted in the Marine Corps in May of 2005 and deployed to the Al Anbar Province near Fallujah in January of 2007. He was shot in the wrist by…

I want to give a shout-out to Dave Pomerantz, Lesley Turner, Will Smith, Jim Kulikowski, Rick Healy, Shalanda Young, and of all the people who made this a good bill on both sides of the aisle. This is why our government functions: because…

I have visited hospitals many times in our State. In fact, there are 128 community hospitals in Kansas, and I have visited each and every one of them once and, in many instances, two or three times. In fact, last weekend while I was home…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Clay Hunt SAV Act

For roughly 200 years, this government has functioned on behalf of the American people. It has functioned through the art of compromise. Conservatives, liberals, Democrats, and Republicans have gotten together and decided what was in the…

In a December 11, 2014 meeting with Senate Moran, in response to the Senator's request for cost analysis...

I would like to thank the gentleman for yielding, and I would like to thank him for his leadership on this issue and so many others during his esteemed career here in the people's House. He will be greatly missed as he retires at the end…