Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Florida? There was no objection.

Today, I rise to say congratulations to the student inventors at Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida. They were recently recognized for designing and creating a bicycle that serves as an emergency water sanitation system. After…

much of the aid that we have given... has just been very wasteful.

Thank you very much, Mr. Schneider. Tonight, we have had a very good, I think, discussion here because in Israel, as we speak, Israelis dressed in blue and white flood the streets for ceremonies and parties to celebrate all that Israel has…

Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Now I have the privilege of introducing the distinguished ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, from the great State of New York.

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Schakowsky. We're also joined here today by a newcomer to Congress, but very much a rising star, my neighbor and friend in the Palm Beach County delegation and the distinguished colleague who is on the…

Thank you very much, Congressman Engel, and thank you for your great leadership to us in Congress. Now I am very pleased to yield to another new Member of Congress, a colleague of mine in the class of 2013 and a colleague of mine on the…

Tonight's Special Order is meant to honor Israel's 65th Independence Day. But first, today's horrible tragedy of Boston demands our attention. Security officials continue to investigate the details of the incident. I know that all…

I'm here because of Angel. Angel was just an ordinary teenager. She loved basketball. She liked to hang out. In fact, that's all she was doing on a balmy night in West Palm Beach, just hanging out, when she was violently killed by a man…

Today, Tuesday, April 9, is Equal Pay Day because it symbolizes how far in 2013 women must work in order to make what their male counterparts earned in 2012. This means that it took more than 3 months in 2013 for women's wages to finally…

4 years ago, Erin DiMeglio was a freshman at South Plantation High School. She was a manager, a water girl, and a trainer's assistant for the varsity football team. Last spring, Erin was invited off season to work out and earned a spot on…

Thank you, Congressman. In listening to your talk, I've been inspired to share this personal story of my mom. I told this story a few minutes ago, but it's worth repeating. About 20 years ago, my mom had just reached Medicare age. She was…