Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Republican Conference, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 517 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are…

Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk a privileged concurrent resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 600, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Denham The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment…

Mr. Speaker, today we mourn the loss of Howard Coble, a dedicated public servant and a champion for his constituents in North Carolina's Sixth District for 30 years. He never backed down from a challenge to do what was right for North…

Mr. President, I hate to sound like a broken record, but unfortunately that is the scenario the Obama administration and the minority leader have led me to today. When I sought this position as a Senator from North Carolina, I promised the…

Mr. Speaker, it was a little less than a year ago that a number of us gathered on the House floor to bid farewell to our colleague, Howard Coble, as he retired from 3 decades of service to the people of North Carolina. The series of…

Wendy Sherman, who I have a great deal of respect for, admire, weighed in on 11 countries; is that correct?

Are you willing to have us review that when we are not in a public forum with just members of both the minority and the majority looking at those split memos?

So if your recommendation was only followed and not overruled, that is the way that I view it, being overruled, by people up the line, only out of 17 times you were overruled 14 times, would you say that that is indicative of people up the…

I am troubled by what I see is a manipulation for political purposes of the TIP Report.

I was troubled to learn--I am one of those that was born a little bit earlier than what the chairman of the full committee had recommended, but I was real concerned to hear that we are still supporting COBOL and Fortran.

I can tell you that the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Connolly, and I have had a number of conversations as it relates to FITARA.

Obviously, in February, the GAO added the Federal IT management to the list of high-risk categories.

I am troubled by the trend that I see.

We want you to succeed. But the other thing that Mr. Connolly and I and Mr. Hurd and Ms. Kelly, we don't want egg on our face.

Let me first thank you, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, for yielding time to me tonight. Thank you for your willingness to stay on the floor tonight, even though this suspension bill was placed in front of us tonight. We certainly understand…

Mr. Speaker, next week this Nation will celebrate Veterans Day, where we rightly pay tribute to the members of our military, past and present, and honor them with the respect and gratitude they deserve. Liberty is bought and paid for by…

Mr. Speaker, this country is blessed with incredibly talented and God-fearing families and individuals. One great example is Danny Kornegay, a constituent and friend who was recently named the 2015 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern…