Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to strongly support the passage of S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act. This bipartisan, bicameral bill is an important step in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Women in Aerospace Education Act. I want to thank my friend and colleague, Congressman Knight, for working with me to address critical workforce needs and bridge the gender gap in the aerospace…

Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, December 14, marks the 5-year anniversary of the horrific school shooting in the home community of Sandy Hook Elementary School. That day shocked the Nation. Twenty schoolchildren and six educators--20 6-year-olds…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on the subject of tonight's Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson), my friend and the leader in our effort, who is an expert in guns. He has experienced more than his share of gun violence as a decorated servicemember fighting our…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations of the House Judiciary Committee and vice chair of the Gun Violence…

Mr. Speaker, as we have heard so eloquently from my colleagues, everyone agrees that we should keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. But, in fact, this House and this administration have been moving in the opposite direction…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Connecticut for her stirring words. Abbey Clements is an extraordinary woman, and her daughter, Sarah, is now a college student here in Washington and is helping take up that charge of being one…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Kelly for yielding. Ms. Kelly has been such a stalwart voice for all who are all too often forgotten in what we are seeing happen in this country, a voice for those who are not lost, because sometimes we say ``lost…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the so-called Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. It is outrageous that today, of all days, 1 week before the 5-year anniversary of the horrific murder of 20 schoolchildren and 6 educators in my…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017. I want to thank my colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee, Congressman McKinley and Congressman Pallone, for…

Mr. Speaker, for weeks we have heard that the partisan tax plan crafted behind closed doors might include the elimination of the deduction for families' State and local income taxes. Today the rumors became reality. The tax plan announced…