Mr. Chairman, I just want to ask the gentleman a question. You made reference to the decision of--I forget the word you used to describe bureaucrats.

Mr. President, I am pleased to urge all of my colleagues to give a strong bipartisan voice vote in support of the amendment by the Senator from Georgia. The current budget process does not produce a meaningful budget, does not control the…

The cyber threat facing our Nation does not respect organizational or jurisdictional boundaries in the Government.

The chairman has raised the issue of Russian involvement in our last election.

Are they prepared to engage and defeat an attack on our critical infrastructure in the United States?

Mr. President, I rise in strong opposition to the budget resolution for fiscal year 2018. Let me say that consideration of this budget resolution seems surreal, not only because of the timing--coming, as it does, 3 weeks into the fiscal…

I think many American consumers would actually be surprised to know how many people, how many businesses get access to their credit reports without their knowledge.

We've seen circumstances recently in which a drug manufacturer has an effected monopoly with respect to one or more of their products.

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Shouldn't there be some place in government where it is clear that once a monopoly exists, and there's no doubt about that, and it's clear that monopoly rent extraction is being done, nothing related to market pricing.

Let me ask the panel to focus on a very specific issue, which is the question of monopoly.

Extracting monopoly rents isn't viewed by any economist as being legitimate economic behavior, is it?

It's outrageous.

But with respect to regulatory agencies, the impression that I have from the discussion is that it is all sort of retrospective, after the fact, that they can go in and make a judgment.

Consumers should have the legal right to withhold or divulge their credit score.

Mr. President, let me echo the remarks of the senior Senator from Ohio. Like Ohio, Rhode Island has a very significant opioid problem, and we came together in this Chamber to support the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. I had the…

Mr. Speaker, I would just mention many wonderful organizations around the country that would love to have earmarks, but we don't do earmarks anymore. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Rosen).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the Army has a surplus of pistols. The M-1911 A-1, a .45-caliber pistol--the Armed Forces standard issue sidearm for more than 50 years--was replaced in the 1980s by a…