Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Mr. Gohmert, my classmate, for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow night the President will come before this Chamber to address Americans and the wider world. While some in this Chamber and those…

Mr. President, I am here to talk about a vote we will be considering later this afternoon on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I thank Senator Graham and my fellow cosponsors on the bill. I think it is a very important bill. I…

I appreciate you offering to work with us and partner with us and do--on a bipartisan basis, come up with good outcomes.

The key here is we need lean regulations everywhere.

We feel like that there is a lot that works in DOPMA and that we do not want to break something that is not broken.

I would be very proud if any one of my daughters--and we have three--would want to go. But I realize I am kind of sending her into the lion's den in a sense.

The issue of sexual assault in the military bothers me. It is 10 times higher than it is in the civilian sector.

I do think going forward it would be interesting to see--I can see where that provides I think better visibility into the resources available from the perspective of optimizing who ultimately gets the assignment and having the command…

I am concerned that the outcomes DOPMA was designed to achieve are growing increasingly irrelevant for some threats facing today's military.

Senator Warren, you were going right after the questions I was going to ask.

I do not think we really do a good job of explaining at the atomic level, the consumer level, the price that they are paying for regulations.

To me, it is a good working example of why we need to right-size regulations and remove some of these impediments that simply do not make any sense.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 710 Resolved, That the following named…

Mr. Speaker, during times of strife and stagnation, the most powerful tool we have at our disposal is the power of prayer. It is with that in mind that I offer my most heartfelt prayers for the men and women serving in uniform who are…

Having a program authorized by Congress will provide a clear signal to the private sector that the U.S. Government is committed to preparing against pandemic threats in the future.

In 24 years, I have done a lot of hearings. I found it almost impossible to have an agency witness at the table who testified and the private panel comes up second, and get an agency person to stay in the room to listen to the private…

I think it is safe to say that countermeasures are difficult things to develop.

But I think I can say on behalf of the Chairman, who is an appropriator, that this Committee has always said that we ought to appropriate at reauthorization levels.