I do want to say that I plan to vote for this bill. I support the improvements it makes to savings and retirement, which have gained bipartisan approval, both in the Senate and here in the House. In particular, I appreciate hearing from…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess until noon today. There being no objection, the Senate, at 10:57 a.m., recessed until 12 noon and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mrs. Fischer)…

I would like to turn my attention to an opportunity I had this morning before the Natural Resources Committee to actually talk about another Nebraskan who lived long ago, a Nebraskan who will soon adorn the Halls here. His statue will be…

As we Nebraskans continue to recover as a State from the massive flooding, so many communities hit so hard, so many examples of neighbor helping neighbor, leadership capacity and qualities coming forward, people pulling together around the…

In honor of National Foster Care Month, I would like to address a vital issue in today's foster care system: the need for more foster care parents. I would also like to recognize a few foster care organizations in Nebraska's Second…

I thank Mr. Rutherford, a great friend and colleague, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize a bipartisan issue that threatens the safety of our law enforcement officers and our communities in which they serve, and we have a…

And the person can operate within a certain band of liberties. I saw it. People can move around. People can visit things. But it is a certain band of liberties that, if you violate that, step beyond it, you contradict the nature of the…

The United States gives away about $25 billion a year, and that is in non-security assistance alone: trying to help the poor, to feed the poor, trying to create a space for food security, sustainable agriculture, conservation, medical care…

That is an impact on us, but it is one we are going to have to live with because we have done it to ourselves. There are a couple of lessons here: fair trade, mutual respect, smart trade, both people benefit. Secondly, America's businesses…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the gentleman for conducting this Special Order. I appreciate the gentleman inviting me to come down here. Just a few observations, if you will. As I have watched the speeches tonight, there has…

To elaborate on a concept that I talked about earlier is this idea of human dignity, and where does culture, ideals, learning, and the pursuit of truth come from? It comes from this sacred space, if you will. And when that is subsumed to…

``That is why we won't deal with them.'' That is a sad reality, because we ought to be able to deal, using a fair set of rules, with people who may be doing something better than we are and we do something better than they do, and we can…

There is a small manufacturing facility in my district. They make a fairly generic, standardized product. I was a little surprised that they didn't have a relationship with the Chinese, and they said: ``Oh, no. That R&D is rip-off and…

Well, could it be that there are a lot of big-time transactions going on in our system itself that benefit a few big multinationals that have taken their manufacturing and planted it over there? They make the stuff, and we buy the stuff…

So we run up the debt, and they hold the debt. And what is debt? Well, none of us around here really wants to face it--on our side of the aisle either, Republicans. It is a form of taxation.

It is just hidden from everyone. And the manifestation of it is a wealth shift of our country's assets into the hands of other people. So we are talking about the military buildup. We are talking about the exploitation of resources…

They are acting, again, with their superpower status around the world, basically convicting leaders in tougher places around the world that are desperate for the right types of build-out and infrastructure to attack structural poverty and…

It has been hidden, but the consequences have been real. It is now on the surface. The day of reckoning is here.