If just 5 percent of that were on American-built ships, we are talking some seven ships.

The more active and the more aggressive you are in investigating, quantifying, and reporting on these cargo opportunities and missed opportunities, the more likely it is that we will develop the cargo.

Reclaiming my time, it is probably not really appropriate that we get into a rage about the way in which this tax bill purposefully harms contributor States and forces the taxpayers in those States to pay Federal taxes on the taxes that…

Reclaiming my time, I thank Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Cicilline, and Mrs. Bustos for developing the Better Deal program for our caucus. Mr. Speaker, I am going to end where I started. So, for the American people, I want them to know where we are…

However, a corporation that decides to close that plant, that facility, that laid off that individual, and open a factory in China can deduct the cost of doing that?

Reclaiming my time, did I hear the gentleman correctly that an individual who lost their job, for whatever reason, and moves to another State can no longer deduct the moving expense? Is that correct?

I was reading the tax bill yesterday, which is not a good read, and I found a provision that was of particular interest to me. Back in the 1990s, I was Deputy Secretary for the Department of the Interior, and we were trying to deal with…

I thank Mr. Jeffries very much for his remarks. If he can stick around, maybe we can have a colloquy here and discuss this a little better. Mr. Jeffries and his two colleagues, the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline) and the…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman for laying out the essential agenda of the better deal proposal that the Democrats are putting forth. There are many, many elements to this. He mentioned education. Infrastructure is a piece of it…

I thank the Chair for the opportunity to talk about a couple of issues here on the floor of the House. I really have two things I want to talk about today. One is the incredible tax bill that was passed by the Congress and signed by the…

I thank the ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for making a very clear case on how we might better spend our money. I yield to the gentleman from the great State of California (Mr. McNerney), my colleague and…

Did I hear Mr. Cicilline correctly that the action taken here on the floor is not dispositive, but has to be modified in the Senate and brought back because they screwed up? Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island.