It places a huge challenge on your ability to fulfill your mandate.

I simply won't accept that we can't protect Americans' constitutional rights and at the same time protect America.

I strongly believe that we must identify a solution that first protects American privacy, but also allows for lawful searches under valid court orders.

We're at the start of the debate, even though we have had the conversations for some time privately.

I think we need to continue to restate that so that we focus on the root problem.

I think in Minnesota and Iowa, we are talking 1.6 billion in economic impact over the past year.

Mr. President, I am introducing the Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act, which would exclude payments from State eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining eligibility for, or the amount of…

Mr. Chairman, today, I rise in support of H.R. 2822, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2016. It is no secret that the EPA is out of control. I think everybody across this great land…

Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to recognize a truly inspirational individual from my district. Caroline Robertson is a 12-year-old girl from Potters Hill, North Carolina. We met last October at an event in Beulaville. She was…

People are working hard every day, two and three jobs. Working hard is not enough if you don't make enough.

I am a real proponent of going ahead and just doing what we need to, what I believe many people think that we need to do, to just move forward.

Mr. President, there is a lot of talk about the imminent decision of the Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell. I will get to that a little bit later in my speech, but I wish to start by talking about how we got here. I would like to…

The safety potential of V2V communication is very significant.

All in all, we need more African American donations and collections, and they will provide better matches to African American patients.

I just wanted to reach across the aisle and say to my colleagues that the law is working and let us make it work and let us get healthcare to all Americans because they deserve it.

the 6-3 decision that for the second time affirms the Affordable Care Act, which was the historic law that we debated in this committee some years ago, and I was part of that debate, and our committee passed it, it passed the Congress, and…

As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, I know that many of the conditions which can be treated using cells from cord blood like sickle cell anemia disproportionately impact African Americans.

It is in everyone's best interest to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries, and it is my belief that eventually this technology can be helpful to that end.