Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time in opposition?

Mr. President, I rise to offer a motion to instruct conferees that would insist that the final conference report on the budget include a provision to address student loans. This very simple motion to instruct tracks the amendment…

Backlog and reports is not employee satisfaction, guy.

Let me put it a different way for all three of you. Here is what I am asking you to provide to this committee, is a score, a quantitative number, in terms of where we are today and where you would like to be a year from now.

80 percent of 40 people or 34, depending on which you want to look at, is a significant number, and that's very troubling to me.

I would be remiss in not saying, even though my opening statement was negative about DHS, that the Secretary of DHS just came by and had a meeting with Mr. Connolly and I and has laid out a number of steps on where he is wanting to address…

Let me tell you why you're here today is because the employees that work for you have given you an F consistently.

I have great hope that today Mr. Connolly and I will be able to embark and other members of this subcommittee will be able to embark on an effort that is not a hearing for TV or anything else, that it is a real hearing about a message that…

the second one, Mr. Chairman, addressed to Mr. Pompeo and me and dated April 16, 2015, is from 29 biotechnology industry stakeholders.

Madam Speaker, I rise to congratulate Duke University and its Division I men's basketball team on winning the 2015 national championship. Duke's win against the University of Wisconsin at Madison marks their fifth national championship…

I thank the chairman for his leadership on this particular issue. Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to talk about what this bill is and what it is not. When we talk about tax compliance, it becomes very easy to focus on those hardship…

I continue to get emails from agents who are willing to give their life for the President and, yet, they are afraid to engage with supervisors in terms of making decisions.

Mr. Speaker, it is an honor and a privilege to introduce our guest chaplain, Reverend Kenneth ``Kenny'' Gooden, today. Reverend Gooden is a vital part of the religious community in northwest North Carolina, and he has faithfully shepherded…

Mr. Speaker, today Americans across the country face the annual deadline to file their tax returns. Taxpayers shudder at the mere mention of the IRS, and that image hasn't been helped since the Federal Government's most feared agency…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 199 Resolved, That the following named…

Look, playing such a dangerous game is bad for American businesses, American exports, and, most importantly, American jobs.

Mr. Speaker, it is important we regularly meet with constituents in order to have a variety of viewpoints and experience to draw upon as we work towards the betterment of our country. This past district work period, we held advisory…

I had a question that had more to do with law enforcement.