I thank Representative Moore for that. Your poetry is always much appreciated not only on this floor, but also in our State of Wisconsin. Thank you for sharing today. Before I get to fracking, I want to talk about one part of global…

Thank you, Mr. Ellison, for all your leadership and your cochairing the Progressive Caucus. One other thing that is in that budget, in addition to growing us out of the economic problems we have had in this country that we have slowly been…

Thank you very much, Mr. Ellison. I share your concern. I came to Congress as a new Member, thinking that we are going to get some important work done for the country. I remember, in history class, I believe it was the Congress of 1948…

Thank you, Mr. Ellison. It is not just members of the Progressive Caucus, Democrats, or concerned citizens who live near these wells who are talking about this. There actually was a recent investigation that was done by The Weather…

Whether it be the fact that we have discharge petitions now on rasing the minimum wage, so that people can be lifted out of poverty who are working hard every single day, playing by the rules, and just trying to get by; by extending…

Again, thank you, Representative Ellison, for all of the work you do with the Progressive Caucus. This was a Special Order hour tonight to talk about why we need to have safer practices around hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in this…

We worked to cut out the middle man in our student loans.

I have been working for some time on student borrowers' bill of rights legislation.

Where do we draw the line on that?

I think you have hit the nail on the head, on what this problem is.

A bill to clarify the qualifications of hearing aid specialists within VHA.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify on behalf of H.R. 3508, legislation I introduced to help address the long wait times and lack of access our Veterans are facing in regard to hearing health.

Thank you, Chairman Benishek and Ranking Member Brownley for holding this hearing today.

There are some crimes that I think are better prosecuted at the State level and using State resources, and we don't need to send the FBI out on everything that really can be better handled by local police and local prosecutors.

I think if we try to cut back on some of the Federal crimes, people who have persuaded Congress or the bureaucrats to put something on the statutes are going to be screaming quite loudly.

I hope the committee will consider our bipartisan proposal and I think it goes a long way to making sure we are doing justice by way of the men and women who have so honorably served our country.

He cannot hear. This is unacceptable.

This is unacceptable.