the rule must be fixed to foster MEP sponsorship and participation.

I stand to express opposition to the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. As we look at these weighty issues, I think it is important that we look at both the liability and the accountability in this factor. When you look at the…

The DOL rule that is being reproposed seeks to mitigate these conflicts of interest so that the best advisers in companies get clients and compensation based on the best interest and the outcomes for their clients. I think that this is a…

I thank you so much, Madam Ranking Member. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise to support this bipartisan initiative to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The Export-Import Bank is about three things in this country that we…

I thank you so much, Madam Ranking Member. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1090. I must say to Representative Wagner she is correct when she says that there were 30 Democrats--I am one of them--who supported similar legislation…

Many of my colleagues have already talked about, in great detail, the potentially disastrous effect of the new Stream Protection Rule.

Estimates on how many jobs this will cost vary widely.

None of the participating states feel the same way, and none of the participating states share the Office of Surface Mining's assessment of its own actions.

78 percent of Planned Parenthood's patients are at or below 150 percent of the poverty level, 41 percent of low- income women consider OB/GYN their primary source of health care, which Planned Parenthood provides, and in my own State…

Since we are considering this reconciliation bill, I looked up the word ``reconciliation'' because I thought maybe I don't know what the word means. They say that reconciliation is a process of making consistent or compatible. Mr. Speaker…

we are apparently pressing another deadline with regard to the statutory debt limit. I am reminded of the old paradoxical proverb: ``The more things change, the more they stay the same.'' We have dealt with the debt limit here in Congress…

They once asked the famous spitball pitcher Gaylord Perry if he put a foreign substance on the ball, and he calmly answered: No. Vaseline is 100 percent American product. We used to only have to import a handful of rare earth minerals in…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I am pleased to support this rule because of the underlying bill that is there. Normally, the 10th Amendment says that education is delegated to the States. So I would be opposing anything this body…

I want to make sure that we have safeguards in there for commercial, charter fisheries.

As I understand it, the bill's premise is that the states can do a better job than the Federal Government in managing our fishery resources, which is, admittedly, a low bar.

I am just brainstorming here. I am not advocating that position, but it is an option that should be on the table.

On rollcall No. 557, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita).