Would it not be appropriate to get this put into law sooner than the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program at the end of September?

Which is why we call it insurance, because it is risk management and not relief, which is what I think a lot of people expect when they pay subsidized policies, is relief instead of insurance.

I, therefore, request that the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the MCC, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the USAID, are given full funding in fiscal year 2018.

U.S. foreign aid helps the U.S. as much as it helps the nation it serves.

U.S. foreign aid is not merely philanthropic. It is smart strategy.

I urge you fully to fund the Green Climate Fund, which supports the efforts of developing countries in curbing their emissions.

This is not the time to cut international aid.

It is our moral imperative and it is representative of our American values to help our neighbors.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to recognize Theresa Bryant, who is West Forsyth High School's 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year. This first-generation college graduate, Kiwanis member, and Key Club adviser has worked at West Forsyth in Clemmons…

Mr. President, I rise today to support Senator Dan Coats, our former colleague and a friend, as the President's nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence. Dan Coats has been asked to lead our Nation's intelligence community…

I think it is an absurd notion to think that this Administration would act unilaterally to ease sanctions on Russia knowing what this President knows now.

As a member of the Veterans Committee, if there is something that we could do to disallow their benefits for bad behavior after they are discharged, those are the sorts of things that we have to do.

I believe that we need to work on that, but we also need to make it a very frightening proposition for people going forward to be captured into this sort of activity.

I am hoping the Committee will indulge us on some of the suggestions that we have made for the program changes.

I think we need it to be more agile.

I am from North Carolina and proud to have been, as part of the State legislature, on the forefront of getting funding to advance mapping in the State.

In North Carolina, we had the Matthew event not long ago and other water events that have really demonstrated the challenges that we have around trying to mitigate the future risk of flooding in the urban areas and rural areas across the…

the administration seems to be saying that Democratic oversight has no legitimacy, that oversight is only the prerogative of the majority party.