
Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor Franklin Hobson for 60 years of service in the Fall Creek Volunteer Fire Department in Yadkin County. Franklin was a young man of 21 when he became a charter member of the fire department in 1957. Since…
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Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor Franklin Hobson for 60 years of service in the Fall Creek Volunteer Fire Department in Yadkin County. Franklin was a young man of 21 when he became a charter member of the fire department in 1957. Since…

We are very early in this investigation.

I think that is critically important. The therapeutic value of that alone means that we have to maintain that full circle of care and visibility, and I think most of the Members here get it.

I want to make absolutely certain we were talking about that with the veterans treatment court that we are doing it in a way that pays for itself, not at the expense of something else that you all have fundamentally supported.

I think the key here is so that when we move forward on things that I happen to agree with as a matter of policy, that we provide sustainable, predictable funding, so that a crisis does not emerge, which causes us to make some sort of…

Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 342. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Miss Greater Sampson County, Victoria Huggins, who won the 80th Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant this past weekend and will go on to represent our great State in the Miss America pageant this fall…

I feel like we have to hold jurisdiction... some of the communities that are asking for more and more affordable housing are the worst offenders of putting in road blocks.

They will by definition not be affordable, although the original intent was to produce an affordable product.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 329. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be removed as a cosponsor for H.R. 60. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gallagher). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from North Carolina? There was no objection…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of my good friend Congressman Jim Clyburn's bill to reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program. I have…

Thank you so much for enduring almost 3 hours of questioning in such an eloquent way.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Sergeant Dillon Baldridge, who was killed in action on June 10, 2017, from wounds sustained in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. He was posthumously awarded…

We're quite a bit ahead of where the Special Counsel's investigation is, we're quite to have a bit ahead of (INAUDIBLE) of the investigations.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 2 p.m., Tuesday, June 27; further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…