You will see a lot of handwringing about the lack of heroes in government, but especially those Members who are holding down tough seats and voted to rescue the economy, knowing what it would cost them.

America should and can afford to provide a proper safety net to our elderly, our sick, and our poor.

It is only once or twice in your career when you are about to take a vote and your Chief of Staff comes in and says, 'You know, Bill, I know how you are going to vote on this and I am proud of how you are going to do it, but it is my job…

I think that is a great step in helping Americans earn a living wage.

obviously, we think there's something that is being withheld or covered up, but until we actually see it, till you release it, till a court orders it, we are not going to know; it is going to be all supposition on our part.

we have had a hearing. We have now had a markup. We passed the bill out of this committee, 45 to 11, I think, or 45 to 15, 34 Democrats, 11 Republicans.

I thank the gentleman, and Mr. Woodall, whose words prompted me to want to come speak, because I served on the Rules Committee when we were in the majority a number of years ago. Louise was our leader, and she ran that thing with an iron…

When Vice President Pence says we're in a space race... there's an element of national security that is attached to that somewhat.

I was disappointed in the report that came back on the pathway to Mars because they basically said... we don't think we can get there for a long time.

I think it accelerates the effort to get to Mars, which I think is the underlying driving force here for inspiration.

I thank the gentleman from California, and I thank the gentleman from Georgia. I have not heard you two be so agreeable. Disagreeable is what usually you are, but so agreeable, and the reason there is agreement here is, we all want to see…

Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome to our panel. Good to see you all, and a couple of you have seen me hold up the bumper sticker before.

The Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 131, providing for the consideration of the conference report to accompany H.J. Res. 31, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019. The rule provides for consideration of the…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 131 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 131 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

the Cole Memo was suspended, and it is and has been creating a lot of confusion.

we are here in support of some sort of safe harbor for banks engaged in this industry, which we strongly support.

For years, we have been trying to address this in one form or another here in the Congress...

And is this a perfect solution? No...

we supported the SAFE Banking Act, which was originally introduced in 2017 by Congressman Perlmutter.

But the American voters have spoken and continue to speak, and the fact is you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

I thank my friend from Maine. This subject is so serious and so infuriating because it is absurd. We have shut down our government--we are the only country in the world that does something like this--inflictin harm on our employees, on…

Here we are in the fifth week of this shutdown. I want to talk about two stories. One is Tyler. He is a resident of Golden, Colorado. I have known his family a long time. He has two small children. He says: Two weeks ago, I received a…

I want to talk about Tom, who is a 32- year Federal employee and works as an agricultural statistician. He calculates how many cattle are in the western United States and how many acres of hay and crop that we have. This is his fourth…

I thank Mr. McGovern for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the rule and the four underlying bills to help fully reopen the United States of America. Here we are, 19 days into the Trump shutdown, and all we see is…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 418.