Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the Senate amendment to the bill, H.R. 6513. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Madam Speaker, there are several things that we ought to be commenting on here. Earlier this week, the House passed the Senate companion to my legislation, the Congressional Budget Office Data Access Act. This important piece of…

Madam Speaker, I would like to discuss a few of the issues that the press should be covering in the next 6 weeks leading up to the election but probably will not. The first one, one more time, is the border. We are waiting right now for…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand before you today in support of my bill, H.R. 8205, the Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act. This bill defines the posting of cash bail by a…

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1486, I call up the bill (H.R. 8205) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that Byrne grant funds may be used for public safety report systems, and for other…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to close. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle mentioned that many of these bail funds operate locally and, therefore, do not affect interstate commerce. I think…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and to insert extraneous material on H.R. 8205. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration, for his work on this important legislation, as well as the staffs of both the minority and…

Mr. President, I rise today in support of Byron Conway's nomination to serve as a judge for the district court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Senator Johnson and I have worked to set up the bipartisan Wisconsin Federal Nominating…

Government often takes a top-down approach to these sorts of issues.

Madam President, today I rise to recognize the Milwaukee NAACP on its 100th anniversary. It gives me great pleasure to honor this remarkable organization and to commemorate this historic milestone. The Milwaukee NAACP branch was…

Madam Speaker, I rise to honor Staff Sergeant Ralph H. Bode, from Racine, Wisconsin. On September 27, 1944, Staff Sergeant Bode's aircraft was shot down over the skies of Kassel, Germany. After the crash, three crewmembers were taken…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Senate amendment to H.R. 6513, the Confirmation of Congressional Observer Access Act, or COCOA Act. Ensuring the fairness and…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 6513) to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to confirm the requirement that States allow access to designated congressional election…

Mr. Speaker, I am honored to speak today on behalf of my legislation, H.R. 7323, the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserves Tuition Fairness Act. The bill holds special meaning to me because the issue was brought to my attention by one of my…

Government often takes a top-down approach to these sorts of issues.

So certainly a solution is not more deficit spending. That would exacerbate the problem.

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment to the title of H.R. 8205 at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to amend title 18…