Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Palmer).

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).

Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith), my good friend.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina has 3 minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), my good friend.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to encourage my colleagues to stay in the fight to make sure that we help this President deliver on a promise that he made years ago. I am sad that tonight we are here, and we are on a backdrop of a potential…

Mr. Speaker, I couldn't agree with the gentleman more. It is time that we deliver on behalf of the American people and fulfill the promises that the President made many months ago. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from New Mexico…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my support for H.R. 2410, the Sickle Cell Disease Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2017, that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 26, 2018. Today, the House of…

Mr. Speaker, our country has been and continues to be the greatest force for good known to mankind. The men and women of our military have played a central role in this virtuous effort. There was no greater time of difficulty and challenge…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Mr. Charlie Odell Lovette of Wilkes County in North Carolina's Fifth District. Recently, Mr. Lovette was posthumously inducted into the Wilkes County Agriculture Hall of Fame and 3 miles of Highway NC-16 North…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Krisann Pearce, who will leave the Education and the Workforce Committee at the end of this Congress after many years of outstanding service. Krisann began her career as a teacher. She brought those lessons…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Hensarling, and after those kind words, maybe we all should just yield back. But I am going to hang on for a few minutes and talk about some of the great things that we have done on Chairman Hensarling's…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman and the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Duffy, for his efforts, too, in trying to provide significant reforms. I support their efforts in opposing this additional reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to yet another short-term extension of the National Flood Insurance Program, or the NFIP. This is our eighth one--our eighth one since fiscal…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado, Doug Lamborn, for yielding. He is one of the buckles of the Bible Belt in Colorado and in our country, and I thank him for this time. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the 77th…

I will agree with my colleague from California, Mr. Garamendi, that we need to be putting more money into it.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor this year's National Christmas Tree Contest winner who hails from my home county of Avery in North Carolina's Fifth District, Mr. Larry Smith. This year, Mr. Smith won the national tree contest hosted by the…