I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,400,000)''. Page 14, line 10, after the first…

We have a problem when we can't even agree on prioritizing $1.5 million additional money to maintain national parks. Washington, D.C., on the Mall alone, has $1 billion in maintenance backlog. And Arizona, for instance, has one-half…

The reality is that there is no reliable and affordable alternative to fossil-fuel-generated power at this time.

Like it or not, power generated by fossil fuels is and will continue to be America's core source of base load electricity.

thank you very much today for the opportunity to discuss the importance of paid parental leave and how it might be provided on an affordable basis via the Social Security program.

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding time to me. You know, an old Arizona farmer told me that when you put up a fence, the cow almost always goes over and leans on the fence to see how strong that fence is, because the…

Simply slapping a 'nonattainment' designation on areas where ozone emissions are not even originating is both unfair and devastating to business in the state.

We cannot continue to punish states for emissions it cannot control.

I sincerely hope this Committee will fulfill its duty to conduct congressional oversight of the EPA's science programs.

The tragic result is that the Clean Air Act ends up burdening the very Americans it seeks to help--more often than not, hard-working people living in rural areas.

So we hear about the impacts of ozone on health, but we just talked about you could actually eliminate all industrial outputs and still fail to meet the NAAQS requirement levels.

The solution to this problem is simple: the EPA should take local geographic factors into account when determining ozone standards.

First of all, I commend Chairman Hensarling and the gentleman from Kentucky for their thoughtful efforts on this bill to put together a pilot program that is designed to help people who suffer this opioid addiction. I am grateful to them…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, strike ``, that includes'' in line 6 and all that follows through ``such assistance'' in line 10…

If you analyze it, that is a twofer, right? We are all concerned about the rehabilitation and reentry of people who have been in prison back into society. This is one way to do it. Give them an opportunity to get that skill and get…

I agree with the gentleman. We want to keep it going. We follow this idea of a business cycle, but there are ways to smooth out and flatten out that business cycle. I also agree with what the gentleman said where we start talking about…

He did a good job tonight. He talked about his Starbucks experience. He talked about the young man, and I have met him, who is reentering from the prison.

The gentleman is right. That is how you communicate the story, because the story, Madam Speaker and Representative Schweikert, is that we can have a vital economy. It wasn't too many years ago when we were told 1.8 percent GDP growth would…

I think he is. He may be, yes. We have talked about 8 to 10 stories, brief stories, that I brought up tonight of individuals, and, if I can humbly suggest, those are the things that, Madam Speaker, Congressman Schweikert, myself, and every…

Let me tell you, Maricopa County is the fastest growing county in the country; again, by a long shot. That is reflected because of the economy that is going on there. In the town that I live in, the town of Gilbert, they just announced…

I used to be the Senate president in the State of Arizona for 4 years and had an opportunity to work there.

Let's think about this for a second. When Arizona entered the recession era of 2008, the State tax revenue declined by about 40 percent in an 8-month period. Imagine trying to deal with that. What is happening now is the converse. We had…

Yes. Madam Speaker and Congressman Schweikert, that is what I am talking about. When I go into the machine shops, they are doing very technical, very high-quality machining. They are bringing kids out of high school, and they are training…

We have blown it off the rails. When people are economically free and they have growth. They feel freer. They feel happier. Why is that? Because the wolf is not always at the door. They have moved beyond kind of that bare subsistence. That…

Last September, America's national debt topped $20 trillion for the first time in history. Almost 3 months ago, the debt exceeded $21 trillion, and we have an annual structural deficit in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Mr. Speaker…