I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle G of title XII, on page 842, after line 14, insert the following section: SEC. 1268…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle H of title X, insert the following: SEC. 10__. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE 2001…

First, I thank our Rules Committee chair, Mr. McGovern, as well as all the members of the committee for making this amendment in order. And I also thank our chairman, Mr. Smith, for working with us to bring this amendment forward. I am…

I thank our chairman of the Rules Committee, Mr. McGovern, and I thank the chair of the Armed Services Committee, Chairman Smith, for working with me and all of our members on this amendment and for making this amendment in order. Madam…

I am pleased to offer this amendment with Representatives Khanna, DeFazio, Omar, and Pressley. What this amendment would do is freeze fiscal year 2020 defense spending in the NDAA to 2019 levels by reducing the overseas contingency…

It is up to Congress to prevent another costly war in the Middle East. For too long, Congress has ceded its responsibilities as a coequal branch of government when it comes to matters of war and peace. As The New York Times recently put…

This is a modest approach that would ensure that Congress doesn't reward the Pentagon with even more money after it failed its first agency-wide audit last year. Recent polling shows that a majority of the public does not want defense…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mr. Amash The CHAIR. It is now in order…

First, let me thank Chairman Quigley for his leadership and for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the fiscal year 2020 Financial Services and General Governmen Appropriations bill. This includes $1.4 billion in funding…

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in support of the Jackson Lee amendment to Rules Committee Print 116-20 which makes appropriations for fiscal year 2020, H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations…

I rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), and I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 15, line 24, after the dollar…

I thank Madam Chair for her leadership and for yielding time. I rise in strong opposition to this amendment, which would strike the provision in the bill that increases funding for international family planning and reproductive health…