Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate Communities In Schools of Wilkes County, which has been awarded a $500,000 grant from AT&T to increase its assistance to underserved youths in Wilkes and Alexander Counties. The funds will be used…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Chabot for organizing this Special Order tonight so that we could pay tribute to our colleague, Steve LaTourette. And Jennifer, I hope that you and the children are being comforted by the words that you…

Mr. Speaker, we are here tonight to pay tribute to a truly remarkable man. I was privileged to attend the memorial service in Falls Church. Mr. Tiberi delivered an awesome eulogy on that day. The synagogue was full. What was perhaps most…

Well, you've got people behind you that are disagreeing with you right now.

Let me begin, Mr. Speaker, by thanking the gentlewoman so very much for yielding time tonight. I thank the gentlewoman for her friendship. Most of all, I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership here in the Congress. I have…

They're not a population. They're people. They're families.

I do very much appreciate that. And I didn't mean to convey necessarily population versus people.

So what have you changed? I've only got 5 minutes.

I think basically there's----

It is critical that we handle this problem because you're going to continue to have retention problems.

A lot of the people who believe so desperately that we need to put Donald Trump in the White House, they question the loyalty of the Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. President. I thank my colleague and friend from the great State of Georgia for taking a leadership position to really cleanse the dysfunction and the problems that are going on. Mr. President, Senator Perdue is only a 2-year…

I thank my colleague from Georgia for his leadership on this rule. Mr. Speaker, all too often, the executive branch enacts policies that sound wonderful but impose unintended consequences and burdens that make the lives of hardworking…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, my colleague from Ohio and I have worked on a number of different measures on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and I hope to continue to work with him. I wish to talk a little bit about the…

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the military service of CAPT R. Andrew Murray on the occasion of his retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard. I commend Captain Murray's Coast Guard career and offer my thanks for his 35 years of…

I yield to the gentleman from Oregon. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I am puzzled because, again, I have been on segments of the Intracoastal Waterway, which I guess he is saying are all declared to be Federal waters where there are no-wake…

Mr. Chairman, I think the problem specifically is that it is Federal water. I would add, again to paint a mental picture here, you have State and local officials that want to have a no-wake zone; and the only reason why there is not a…

Mr. Chairman, I have come here to the floor this afternoon because there is a specific and, I would argue, unique public safety concern that I have in my district right along the Intracoastal Waterway. Specifically, it is right there at…