This success, which was enabled by coalition airpower, gave a significant confidence boost to the Iraqi Security Forces, and I hope this momentum will continue.

My hope is that no impediments for those who honestly seek the legitimate use of firearms with the right to do so and reasonable constraints on those people who have illicit motives.

One of the victories that we have achieved has been to bring mental health out of the shadows and de-stigmatize it.

I’ve got a feeling that some of the protections we've put in place back when this was heavily stigmatized to keep all this information private is actually keeping it from getting into electronic health records.

Our victory in the stigma area has now created a problem in the infrastructure area, in my opinion.

Along with a bipartisan group of senators including Senators Portman, Klobuchar, and Ayotte, I introduced a bill earlier this year called the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524).

There's an enormous amount of mental health response that's delivered in the emergency room.

I want to commend my former delegation member, Representative Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, on the work that he did on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

This is not, as I say, an arbitrary decision. It is a reflection of the courts' view on the Second Amendment rights of the individual Americans.

Happy new year. Nothing says ``Happy new year'' like the ``Time to Wake Up'' speech, so I will kick off 2016 with my year- opener ``Time to Wake Up'' speech recapping some of last year's climate change milestones. They say you only get one…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman McSally for yielding. I want to thank her for bringing our attention to this important issue this evening. I am proud to serve with her on the House Armed Services Committee. I know she is very proud to…

The situation on the so-called 'Mara Line' in northwest Syria has been problematic for some time.

choosing not to take refugees plays into an Islamic State recruiting effort.

I hope it's very clear that you've hit a wall with respect to the way this was negotiated.

We are attempting to 'play the long game' in Iraq and Syria, but we need a 'more rapid and disruptive strategy' instead.

the bigger challenge that we see is going to be defeating ISIL on the political front.

Mr. Speaker, securing our networks from cyber attack is a challenging task. One of the most effective techniques is penetration testing, or turning hacking tools on one's own network to find weaknesses before bad actors have a chance to…

I am opposed to the bill in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Cicilline moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1155, to the Committee on the Judiciary, with…