We should all redouble our efforts to address instead the underlying causes of our long-term fiscal challenges.

We are now in a very different situation. Since the 1990s, we have had trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue.

By not paying attention to the budget, by not paying attention to appropriations, by not paying attention to oversight, we are transferring immense political power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

I would argue that the primary generator of economic uncertainty in the last decade in the United States has been the United States Congress.

Are we now in a new norm of 2-year budgets?

The more certainty the better.

Mr. Speaker, in 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a rule that would significantly broaden the Federal Government's power to regulate waters and adjacent lands under the Clean Water…

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 238 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced…

Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment No. 32 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The…

Mr. Chairman, with all due respect to my distinguished friends and colleagues, this should have been offered in committee where Members are more conversant with these issues. This is not the right way to get back at Putin and Russia, for…

Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Tennessee has 1 minute remaining.

Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I would call this amendment by my friend from Colorado the boomerang amendment because it does not hit the intended target. Instead, it comes back and hits us. How does it do this? His amendment, as…

But we spent some 18 hours in committee. We considered hundreds of amendments. But the gentleman did not offer our committee, the Armed Services Committee, the opportunity to discuss this amendment.

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I stand second to no one in my dislike of Vladimir Putin. I think most everyone in this body hates Vladimir Putin. We despise his territorial aggression vis-a-vis…

Mr. President, I am introducing the Route to Opportunity and Development Act of 2015, which would amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, ISTEA, of 1991 to begin the process toward eventually making the Raleigh to…

I thank my colleague from Minnesota and rise today in cautious support of this legislation. Our nuclear negotiators, with the cooperation of a fragile coalition of longstanding allies and new partners, have made historic progress toward…

Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman for his kind words and for his leadership because we would not be here today without the great work of the chairman; the ranking member, Mr. Eliot Engel; and my good friend from Florida, Ted Deutch, who…

Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from South Dakota (Mrs. Noem).