Mr. President, I am here for the 134th time to urge the Senate to wake up to the growing threat of global climate change. I am afraid my chart here is getting a little bit beat up after all of these speeches. I hope we can begin to make…

I think it is a tragedy that we are losing some of our nuclear facilities to an economic problem, that there is no payment for their carbon free power.

I have been to China and heard the reports on the facilities that were designed in the United States but are being constructed over there.

The approval process at NRC is an obstacle course that is designed for a particular type of technology but is not well suited to technologies that are not that technology.

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding and for taking the leadership in putting this Special Order together to discuss poverty in America. Before I get into some of the substance, I want to talk about this from a personal…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today, and it is my pleasure and privilege to host the Very Reverend John A. DeSocio, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Elmira, New York, for today's opening prayer over the House of Representatives. Father DeSocio has…

Mr. Speaker, this Friday, April 22, is Earth Day, a time to remember our responsibility to be good stewards of this planet and our urgent responsibility to respond to global climate change. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree…

Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the Department of Defense kicked off the first bug bounty program in the history of the Federal Government. Like similar programs used in industry, Hack the Pentagon is based on a coordinated vulnerability…

Madam Speaker, I would like to spend a few minutes this morning discussing the recent report of the Commission to End Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities. Chartered by Congress under the Protect our Kids Act of 2013, the Commission's goal…

Mr. President, today I am introducing two bills pertaining to healthy housing, the Healthy Housing Council Act and the Title X Amendments Act. These bills seek to improve federal coordination of healthy housing efforts and better integrate…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding and for his leadership on this Special Order hour. Madam Speaker, 5 weeks ago President Obama fulfilled his constitutional responsibility and nominated Judge Merrick Garland…

I strongly support the goals of this legislation to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.

It is incredibly important that we are careful not to seem to be elevating abuses against one particular group above others.

Religious minorities around the world face discrimination, harassment, persecution, and worse.

The real scandal here is the waste of taxpayer money in the majority's continued pursuit of this nonscandal.

The poor handling of tax-exempt applications at the IRS was a direct result of the Supreme Court's obliterating our campaign finance system in Citizens United.

It's clear that section 111(d) of the Act gives the EPA broad authority to address not just pollutants that were known at the time of the Act's passage, but also new problems as they arose.

Denigrating the poor as undeserving is a way to score points, I suppose, with some conservative voters.