This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. My amendment provides $750 million to passenger railroads to…

There are only 5 legislative days until the highway trust fund expires. Once again, this House is governing by crisis and needlessly endangering 660,000 good-paying jobs. This needs to stop. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives…

I trust all of us, and believe all of us are attempting to do the right thing and proceed forward in fairness for native peoples and all Americans in this.

We, as a Congress, have a responsibility to conduct a thorough and fair oversight so we can fully understand those implications.

I have very serious concerns about the rules as proposed, as we have seen--understanding we have not seen what was sent over yesterday.

I have heard from folks in the town of Kent, that is in my district, that allowing a previously denied tribe... would be tremendously disruptive.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Ruiz for calling this important hearing, and allowing me to join you and participate, as it is very important to my state and to my district.

How can we be sure that the process will be fair for tribes seeking Federal recognition in the future, if the recognition process is now allowed to be opened up to tribes that have been denied in the past?

I want to commend you for your long-range planning. And thank you for emphasizing the importance to this committee of Congress doing its job to provide long-term, sustainable funding for the Governors, the mayors, and all of our planners…

I would like to note, as the Governor is departing, the importance of these long-term plans.

I think that we do agree with you. We need to readjust our planning.

I am pleased to hear about that systems-wide approach, sort of an ecosystem of utilities, as well as transportation, critical infrastructure

In 3 days, the Department of Homeland Security will needlessly run out of funding--yes, 3 days. Shutting down the Department of Homeland Security will jeopardize local disaster relief grants. It will stall critical safety training for…

I have been doing an enormous amount of work in my district on ensuring that every child, particularly that young women and children of color have an opportunity to get excellent STEM skills in each and every one of our schools and can see…

I want to begin by thanking my friend, Chairman Smith, for his leadership on the Science Committee, particularly on STEM education. For the second Congress in a row, we are considering the STEM Education Act on the House floor. I am…

Thank you to the Committee for holding this hearing on privacy and security concerns on HealthCare.Gov...

Maintaining American leadership in science and innovation is the key to our nation's future economic prosperity and security.

I look forward to hearing from NSF and NEON representatives about what went wrong and, even more, about what steps, including new legislation and new regulations, must be taken to ensure these problems never happen again.

We want to be strong advocates for science, but the situation we will discuss today makes it more difficult to build and maintain support for science funding.

Unmanned aircraft systems have already significantly impacted, as we have discussed today, particularly in the field of agriculture...

George Washington, President and deputy from Virginia. Delaware: George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. Maryland: James McHenry, Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. Virginia: John Blair…

We need to find a way to get this done.

If we get NextGen right, we are helping with safety, we won't lose planes.

This past Saturday, I held my Congress on Your Corner at the Litchfield Public Library, and there, I had conversations with folks young and old, and we talked about what matters to them and to their families, and I heard about their…

I can say in Connecticut where I am working very hard to bring manufacturing back