Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman and Ranking Member McHenry, for working together to ensure that we guard innocent people against abusive and unfair debt-collection practices.

Mr. Speaker, today I join millions of my fellow Americans in recognizing National Estuaries Week, which extends from September 14 to September 21. We know that estuaries are those places where freshwaters or rivers meet the seas. Estuaries…

the allegations included that a patient died while experiencing a delay in obtaining approval for aortic valve surgery outside VA.

As a career law enforcement officer with over 39 years of public service, I applaud the A.G. Sessions' position to disband those who seek to weaken the criminal justice system with the creation of the National Commission on Forensic…

Madam Speaker, on Monday, September 9, 2019, my return flight to Washington, DC, was delayed due to mechanical difficulties. As such, I was unfortunately unable to be present for the legislative session. Had I been present, I would have…

Let me assure absolutely, positively, unequivocally, beyond any shadow of doubt it did not.

Another driver is the Space Resource Utilization Act, which I introduced with Representative Kilmer in 2015, which is now law.

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to be here today to speak about the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. I can remember sitting in class with the teacher discussing President John F. Kennedy's speech about going to the Moon at Rice University in…

Funding is a big problem. We used 4 percent of GDP back in the days of Apollo.

Great countries do things, he said, not because they're easy but because they're hard.

I commend you for reaching the current point that we're at now, an unprecedented level of energy independence.