Mr. Speaker, as someone with a background in law enforcement and someone who lives with the damaging effects of what guns can cause every day, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks…

The House-passed version of the NDAA includes a provision I offered with my friend Joe Wilson to expand talent-exchange authorities.

I believe we need to see more efforts like these incorporated into Department-wide reform initiatives.

When Goldwater-Nichols was first enacted, the international security environment was already demanding.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I think it is clear to the American people the extraordinary irony of this argument by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in that they are deeply focused on national security…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 20 minutes, although I don't think I will use it all. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

Mr. President, I am here for the 143rd time now to urge Congress to wake up to the damage that carbon pollution is inflicting on our atmosphere and oceans and to make a record for when people look back at this time and at this place and…

Mr. President, investigative books, journalists' reporting, and academic studies repeatedly compare the climate denial effort to the fraud scheme that was run by the tobacco industry to disguise the harms of smoking. When I was a U.S…

That letter is the voice of fact, of scientific analysis, and of reason. Up against it is the apparatus. The apparatus has the money. The apparatus has the slick messaging. The apparatus has the political clout. It has that parallel…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding I come to the floor again to ask my Republican colleagues to bring to the floor two commonsense proposals that will significantly reduce gun violence in this country. We…

Universal background checks will require that all gun sales be subjected to that important safeguard. This is about our solemn responsibility to keep our constituents safe. We can't pass a bill that is going to eliminate every single…

Mr. Speaker, I, too, rise in strong opposition to the rule, but I would like to speak to the two pieces of legislation that we are imploring our colleagues to bring to the floor: the no fly, no buy and universal background checks. Since…

Mr. Speaker, a little over a week and a half ago, my colleagues and I came to the House floor. We came to the floor to protest the inaction of this Republican Congress, the tyranny of the majority, to act on gun violence prevention…

Mr. Speaker, the time has long passed for Congress to act to enact responsible gun safety legislation. Mr. Speaker, bring these two bills to the floor for a vote. ____________________

Mr. President, I was delighted to let Senator Graham celebrate an achievement by his home State university. I was pleased to yield him the time. Climate Change Mr. President, I am here, as the Presiding Officer knows, for the 142nd time to…

I just don't think they're the only ones.

The principle of this is that there can be a process of alignment where the municipality, the Federal Government agrees that it will step out and let innovation happen...

I think we have to do it. We can--I think we--with a productive dialogue with everyone--and you're--have been particularly productive.