I thank my chairman for his support on this and many other issues that we see in our Small Business Committee. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 6330, the Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018. This bill is simple. It…

I would like to begin by thanking Chairman Roskam for his work on this amendment. I do speak in favor of amendment No. 14 which strengthens Federal laws against animal fighting and has garnered bipartisan support many times over the past…

I thank the chairman for his leadership. I thank Mr. Lawson and Ranking Member Velazquez for their leadership in this very, very important measure. Mr. Speaker, I do rise today in support of the Women's Business Centers Improvements Act of…

This is a fiscally responsible bill, and was drafted to ensure taxpayer resources are wisely and efficiently used to meet public objectives for safety and economic growth and a better way to move around the country. I urge my colleagues to…

I thank the gentlewoman for the opportunity to speak about the impacts of the recently enacted tax law. The reduction in the corporate tax rate enables U.S. companies to compete on a level playing field with foreign businesses without…

I have no further speakers. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I think Members can hear that we have got passion here, and Ms. Johnson, Ms. Esty, and I believe that talk is cheap, and this is actually going to do something. If we are going to talk about STEM continually, and we are going to try and…

If you want to demonize or scare people, you come down and yell and scream and raise your hand and you say things that they haven't looked into. What I did was talk to people in my district and looked at their rates and said: Let's look at…

Yesterday, I, along with my good friend, Marcy Kaptur, reestablished the NASA Caucus. Last week, I spoke about the 50th anniversary of my father's absolute airspeed record flight that happened on October 3, 1967. Two weeks ago was the 70th…

I want to thank the chairman for his hard work and for his leadership, and I want to thank my partner in this, Congresswoman Murphy, for her cosponsoring of this bill and for her work on this important piece of legislation. A 21st century…

On Tuesday, October 10, I missed two votes to attend to constituent business in my district. Had I been present for the day's vote series, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 558, the passage of H.R. 1858, to designate the facility…