Mr. Speaker, every March, we come together to honor trailblazing women who have come before us, who have made a difference throughout the history of our country and throughout the world, and those who continue to pave the way for the next…

Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We helped create NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not only to protect our European allies, but to protect our…

Mr. Speaker, soon, the Portuguese Caucus will be reintroducing legislation that is important for not only the United States, but for our ally Portugal. We will be introducing bipartisan legislation that will allow citizens of Portugal to…

Mr. Speaker, as a third-generation farmer from California's San Joaquin Valley, I wish everyone a happy National Agriculture Day, something that we do throughout our country. I am proud, obviously, to represent the heart of California's…

Finally, on an upbeat note, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the University of California at Merced in my district being named one of the country's universities of the year by Education Dive, which honors education's top innovators…

Mr. Speaker, last month we commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is important that we always take note because, sadly, genocide and anti-Semitism continues to exist in the 21st century. As the philosopher George Santayana once…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to raise awareness of a plague affecting our Nation and our world. It is called human trafficking. There are more than 40 million victims worldwide, and it happens in our backyards right here in congressional…

I heard it not once, not twice, but more times than I care to remember. Clearly, Mexico is not going to pay for the wall. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Garamendi and I know that there is bipartisan willingness to improve border security. The gentleman…

Mr. Speaker, Congressman Garamendi has demonstrated leadership both here in our Nation's capital and when we worked together in Sacramento, and I commend his efforts and thank him for yielding to me. The government shutdown is simply…

To our national parks. Mr. Speaker, let me close by underlining one comment that Mr. Garamendi made earlier. I know, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, the gentleman is one of our leaders as it relates to our Nation's security…

Mr. Speaker, I think until the end of February, which would allow us to debate appropriate border security in a committee process in the House and in the Senate, working together with this administration and the President. There would be…

Mr. Speaker, I was in Puerto Rico last weekend, and the recovery funding is a serious matter, as it is in Paradise. It is simply wrong. It is wrong and immoral for us to do this.