there was a dozen House Republicans who voted no.

the timing given the fact that it's six months since passage of the Trump tax cuts is appropriate to begin the process of trying to understand better the impact.

this shoe is going to start dropping with the next tax filing in 2018.

We have still not seen the true effect yet of the SALT provision in the Trump bill which is going to really again start landing hard on middle class families in 2019 and years beyond.

We have never in the history of the United States had this massive de-investment in K through 12.

Last Thursday, June 7, the Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, announced that: ``After careful consideration and with the approval of the President of the United States,'' his lawyers joined the State of Texas in Federal…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I thank Dave Sienicki, Bruce Johnson, Phil MacNaughton, and Megan Handal. None of this is possible without the countless hours they put in and the invaluable expertise they provide us. Mr…

First of all, I want to thank Congressman Perlmutter and Congressman Huffman who have been, again, diligent in terms of coming to the floor on a regular basis to push back against what is clearly a pretty coordinated, concerted effort to…

Real briefly, again, as I mentioned earlier and the two gentlemen have alluded to, we are talking about an effort to discredit the Mueller investigation that I think, really, as all Americans, we really should be concerned about the…

This is like having a member of Congress saying that they willfully refuse to accept a decision by the ethics office.

This morning, at the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary James Mattis applauded the bipartisan collaboration and demonstrated political courage for lifting the spending caps of sequestration so that the military readiness of this…

Well, it looks like you guys made a little news already today by moving the needle from 2050s to 2030s.

The good news is, is that the Navy itself has made clear in the new shipbuilding plan that there is room to grow our investments in ships and submarines above and beyond the plan laid out in the 2019 budget.

Today, April 11, 2018, is a special day in southeastern Connecticut. It marks the 150th anniversary of when the State of Connecticut and the city of New London conveyed a deed of gift to the U.S. Navy that today still stands as the Naval…

we in Congress want to help you by maximizing tools to boost shipbuilding.

Thank you to the witnesses and to Admiral Jabaley and Mr. Geurts for joining us on Saturday for a very cold commissioning of the USS Colorado.

Thank God we did it, because when we talk about, again, the force level and, you know, how we are still inevitably going to go into a dip, if we had not done that 10 years ago, frankly, we would be in an even worse place today.

This subcommittee, again, passed the incremental authority, which, you know, at least sent a signal for the negotiators when Block IV was being done to go bigger than what the Obama budget had come over for only nine subs there.

the letter that was submitted from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that made a forceful argument for retaining regaining state authority over the operation of MEWAs and these association health plans was actually a very…

I know, you know, we sort of had a--there was a bit of a gap, you know, back in the late 1990s, early 2000, particularly in terms of the SSBN program where there was absolutely no design work happening at all.

these plans have been plagued by insolvencies.

the track record of U.S. DOL in terms of enforcing pension problems... is very, very spotty.

Last year's NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] we included some language that allowed wounded Ukrainian soldiers to be treated in U.S. medical facilities in accordance with DOD [Department of Defense] rules.

Thank you, General, for your testimony yesterday and today.

We are obviously here today on the projection part of our portfolio.