I think you can sense up here the bipartisan nature of our concern, as it relates to China.

I hope to give you as much time as we can to answer.

We all--I think you can sense up here the bipartisan nature of our concern, as it relates to China.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And let me start by commending the excellent witnesses that we have.

this is the start of a new Congress and a commitment to have public hearings and to have them often and to go to regular order.

What a great thing. A colleague of ours here, Brian Higgins, has come up with an idea, and I want to quickly ask you this.

Should it be a right? Can I see a show of hands? Should it be a right, yes? You all believe that it should be a right, as Mr. Lewis has pointed out.

What we are going to need here on this Committee is the kind of format that Mr. Neal has indicated this Committee is going to be dedicated to, and that is to have public hearings as we did during the Affordable Care Act.

Mr. Greenstein says: ``We estimate that the legislation would cost roughly $2.9 trillion over 2026 to 2035, the first full decade it would be in effect. ``The revenue loss would come at a time when the baby boom generation will be retiring…

I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Larson of Connecticut moves to recommit the bill H.R. 6760 to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions…

I want to say straightforwardly to my colleagues on the other side, this is as straightforward and it is as simple as it can be: Nothing in this bill can take effect unless and until the chief actuaries have certified that this bill will…

Let me associate myself with the remarks of Mr. Neal and talk about what a fraud this whole process has become. I have great respect for the gentleman from Louisiana, but can you imagine never having a hearing on this. Let me tell you who…

I would also like to thank Secretary Mnuchin again for his outstanding work, his understanding and empathy, and the prompt manner in which they have taken up what, as you can imagine for these homeowners, is just catastrophic in nature. We…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 148, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $100,000) (increased by $100,000)''. The…

What we would like to ask of you is that if you could submit to us in writing--because it was very valuable to get your input.

We need to come together in a bipartisan way to strengthen privacy protections and safeguard financial security.

On Friday, April 27, 2018, I missed rollcall vote 166, a Motion to Table H. Res. 856, a Privileged Resolution offered by Mr. Crowley of New York to create Select Committee to investigate the motivations and reasoning behind the forced…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. What a profiles in lack of courage this is today exhibited in the House of Representatives. But it does give us an opportunity, however limited the time is, to expose a lot of the myths, like this notion…

No one less than Richard Trumka has said what we need is a massive rewrite of the rules as they relate to global policy.

So I am to assume from that, with respect to making decisions on all exemptions, by the time tariffs go into effect on Friday that would not be the case, you are shooting for April?

I will submit that to you in writing, and, if you can respond on that, I would appreciate it, that specific concern.

I represent a district that hails many manufacturers--including Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Standard, Sikorsky, Command, General Dynamics.

Social Security takes great pride in saying that its loss ratio is like 99 percent, which makes it one of the most--and the envy of the private sector insurance world would love to have that kind of loss ratio, and yet we see these glaring…

If this hearing goes for about 2 hours, two people will die during the course of the hearing waiting for an appeals decision.

The human hardship caused by these delays is enormous.