Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for this opportunity. I would like to conclude by reflecting on some of the outstanding pastors who have led this convention and led the congregations that comprise this convention. I hesitate to name any…

Encourage the IRS to automate the 4506T process for a third party to obtain a tax transcript.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Adams), a former Bennett College professor.

Mr. Speaker, how much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina has 9 minutes remaining.

Very well said, Congresswoman Adams. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price) for any concluding remarks.

Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to recognize the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The story of this great Baptist convention is a testament to its founders, Reverends William…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 33 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, October 26, 2017, at 9 a.m…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Price very much for those words, I thank him for his leadership and his relationship with Shaw University, and I especially thank him for mentioning Estey Hall. For many of us, who have grown up in North…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Adams for those enlightening remarks and for her extraordinary leadership not only here in Congress, but for 40 years that she spent in the classroom at Bennett College. She has been a trailblazer for…

Mr. Speaker, as I was listening to Congressman Price a moment ago recite the names of those great men who have led the General Baptist State Convention, I could not help but to think that I, too, remember all of them. And then I glanced…

Mr. Speaker, Forbes magazine recently discovered something many of us have known for a long time, which is that Sparta, North Carolina, is a wonderful place to live and work. Sparta, located in Alleghany County, is a wonderful community…

Madam President, I fully associate myself with the comments just made by the Senator from the great State of Alaska. We have to get to work here.

Since 2008 we have seen a recovery from the housing market and we made changes, but yet what we have done in regard to the GSEs is essentially put a veneer over a chasm that exists that is going to probably implode again if we don't do…

Key structural reforms must be implemented by Congress before a decision is made regarding the GSEs and capital retention and that Congress should decide the final resolution of the conservatorship.

Notwithstanding the many questions that obstruct our path forward on housing finance reform, one thing is absolutely certain: the status quo is unsustainable.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of Representative Barr's bill, the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act. Mr. Speaker, how is it that a tiny, isolated country like North Korea has the ability to fund and develop a nuclear…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas…

some of the things that I am still seeing happening within the IRS does not pass the smell test.