Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to instruct conferees at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Langevin moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the…

Mr. Speaker, I certainly have great respect for the chairman and his leadership of the Armed Services Committee. No one questions his commitment to defending the Nation in support of our military, but we don't need to support earmarks to a…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from California for her comments and support of the motion to instruct. I also want to commend her and thank her for her leadership on the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Ranking Member Smith for speaking on behalf of this motion to instruct. I deeply appreciate his leadership on the Armed Services Committee and his years…

Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time I have left. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Weber of Texas). The gentleman from Rhode Island has 11\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, again, the bill before us, overall, is a fine mark. I was proud to support it in committee, overall, because it provides for our national defense. It supports key…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, Congress intended for the CMP to become self-sufficient after it was privatized in 1996. It was never meant to be the recipient of another multimillion-dollar government…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate all his time and effort he is putting into bringing attention to this vital issue. It is an honor to join him this evening as we highlight the imminent need to pass a…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding and for his leadership in organizing this Special Order hour. There is no more sacred responsibility that we have than to ensure that the children in this country have access to…

Mr. Speaker, this week, the fourth round of NAFTA renegotiations will begin. President Trump will have an opportunity to deliver on his promise last year to get a better deal for American workers. I hope he does. Our current trade deals…

I would offer that if you, sir, and the Obama administration was that serious about combatting Iranian aggression, we should not have been providing $150 billion of sanctions relief to the Iranians to be able to conduct all of their bad…

I would say that it was the wrong answer for us to be propping up the wrong regime with a jackpot of sanctions relief, and that we should be doing our part as Congress and as the United States, as the leaders of the free world, leading and…

For my colleagues who opposed the deal very strongly, and are now indicating that we should uphold it because it is not perfect. I was here witnessing all of the statements, the testimony about why my colleagues on the other side of the…

I believe that American policy and American strategy could yield access to Iran's military sites under this deal.

And so I think the point you made earlier is an important one.

I would like to know what you think Congress could do unilaterally to an international agreement that would fix the deal?

Mr. Speaker, 58 innocent people were murdered in Las Vegas. Their killer used 12 bump stocks to convert his semiautomatic weapons into the equivalent of a machine gun. No one should possess one of these devices, let alone 12 of them, and…

I would like to focus very specifically on the sanctions and what specific actions the administration is considering in terms of removing or revising any of the existing waivers on sanctions on Burma.