Army Sergeant Mracek was killed on January 27, 2004, while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He died of wounds sustained during yet another roadside bomb attack in Iraq. He was only 26 years old, and he had been in Iraq for just 8 days…

When all speakers have said all that needs to be said and there is only one speaker left, he can't say anything original, so I will simply thank the Congressmen and the Senators for recognizing one of the first Republicans and one of the…

I urge strong support for this bipartisan bill and yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

Once again, I urge support for the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa) that the House suspend the rules and concur in the…

In closing, I just want to hit two points that I think are noteworthy. Historically, agencies kept their records for 30 years, the presumption they would keep them for 30 years before turning them over to the National Archives. With the…

I thank the chairman and Ranking Member Cummings. Mr. Speaker, the most important function that the Oversight Committee does is, in fact, to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal bureaucracy. To that end, FOIA and whistleblowers…

Thank you. Then I will close. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Register Modernization Act does exactly what the title suggests--it modernizes the Federal Register Act. When you look at a well-intended bill that hasn't been addressed since the…

Thank you, Chairman. Again, thank you, Ranking Member Cummings. Mr. Speaker, we are the board of directors for the Government of the United States. Our committee oversees the equivalent of an IRA or a 401(k) in the private sector, known as…

I have no further requests for time, and subject to close, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

At this time, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlelady from California (Mrs. Capps), my colleague and the author of the bill.

As many of us know, on May 23, 2014, a mass shooting took place in Isla Vista, California, a community adjacent to the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. The people of the United States will continue to mourn the loss of six…

The mentally ill have for too long been able to get guns. Individuals who have been seen and exposed as being violent or incarcerated for their mental illnesses have too often become their own victims because we haven't paid enough…