Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. __. NO WAKE ZONES FOR VESSELS. (a) In…

So I want you to think about that culture. Because what is so sad to me is that pitch of culture doesn't conform with my experience with my constituents in North Carolina.

Here is the situation. There is not a no-wake zone there because the Army Corps and the Coast Guard do not recognize it. The State passed a law requiring that there be a no-wake zone, but there is not one because Federal law, obviously…

Will the gentleman yield? Mr. DeFAZIO. I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina.

Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I appreciate the comments of the ranking member. And to be quite candid, I don't understand why they won't follow it either, which is why I am here. I greatly appreciate the ranking member and his support…

You broke the law. We make the law in Congress.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chair Yellen, thank you very much for being here.

The MetLife decision I think exposed something that we have been concerned about for quite some time.

Mr. Chairman, we have an opportunity to do a great service for the country by passing H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016, otherwise known as WRDA. By building off reforms made in the 2014 bill, WRDA 2016 reasserts…

Let's talk about those guidelines because I know they were brought up earlier, and they are statutorily put in there.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring attention to the FDA's inappropriate efforts to decimate the vaping industry. Dozens of my constituents have written to me about the dramatic positive impact vaping has had on their lives. Each of these…

Jim brought to the DNI an incredible amount of experience throughout the community--a very difficult thing for us to replicate when Jim leaves.

Mr. Speaker, I want to again urge all of my colleagues in this Chamber to support this bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr…

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Rouzer) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 845, as amended…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Mrs. Lummis).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of H.R. 845, the National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act. In 2013, the Government Accountability Office released a report that recognized the importance of…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass bill (H.R. 845) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish in the Federal Register a strategy to significantly increase the role of volunteers and partners in National Forest System…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of H.R. 5883, the Clarification of Treatment of Electronic Sales of Livestock Act of 2016. The bill before us today makes simple, targeted reforms to an outdated…