Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk, as the designee of the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz). The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1, strike line 10 and all that…

Mr. Chairman, the manager's amendment that I am offering on behalf of Chairman Chaffetz makes technical and conforming changes to the bill. Applying FOIA to Fannie and Freddie while the entities remain in conservatorship will better ensure…

Mr. Chairman, FOIA does not require that all records be released to requesters. The FOIA statute allows agencies to withhold information under nine exemptions, which were designed to protect truly sensitive information that would be…

Mr. Chairman, it is imperative that Fannie's and Freddie's conservator--the Federal Housing Finance Agency, or FHFA--scrutinize new purchasing strategies to ensure that the enterprises' dealings are in line with their charters to stimulate…

Mr. Speaker, a labor union's purpose is simple: to represent its members and to bargain on their behalf. But for millions of Americans who are currently paying union dues, their money is sometimes being used for political advocacy that…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be removed as cosponsor of H.J. Res. 50. 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 ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 1694. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

That information--and I have gone way over, but that information is critically important because it is instructive to the extent that the federal government gets involved in funding or promoting any programs that you are going to be--you…

Accreditors must also embrace the commitment to high quality and improved outcomes.

We continue our work to strengthen higher education by taking a closer look at another one of the key principles guiding our efforts--providing strong accountability for students and taxpayers.

We can improve the accreditation system, ensuring a balance between flexibility for institutions and accountability for students and taxpayers.

If we are going to roll back rigid Federal requirements, it is up to accrediting agencies to take the flexibility we are working to provide and do something meaningful with it.

We applaud Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for introducing H.R. 50, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act.

Like some of you, I served as an elected official in State and local government, and can testify to the difficulty of balancing a State budget when there are dozens of complicated unfunded Federal mandates that must be taken into account.

I have always admired the purpose and spirit of UMRA, but weaknesses in the law have been exploited in the intervening decades, and they need to be addressed.

UMRA was designed to force the Federal Government to estimate and report how much its mandates would cost local and State governments, which was previously not the case.

Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, GE will hold its 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareowners in Asheville, North Carolina. The company will also be celebrating its 125th anniversary. GE likes to hold its shareowners meeting in a different city each year to…

Yet, there is a provision of this bill that I must express my concerns about, and that is the provision that would repeal debit reform.