Mike Collins

It is a joy today that I rise to congratulate North Hall High School on winning the State baseball championship in Georgia in their class. This is especially happy for me because I am a Trojan. I graduated from North Hall High School in…

As I rise today, it is a good day on the floor of the House. It is a good day for those of us who have went before the voters on occasions and said that one of the issues that we have to take up in Washington, D.C., is removing the…

I am pleased to bring this rule forward on behalf of the Committee on Rules today. The rule provides for the consideration of H.R. 1039, the Probation Officer Protection Act. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided between…

I think what is interesting here is I can't really, frankly, understand sort of the shade, I guess, or the dismissiveness that is being thrown on probation officers and their lack of training, which is 6 weeks plus 40 hours additional…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 324 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 324 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I would just like to remind everyone, as we have discussed here and we hear impassioned arguments for amendments that were not germane, find proper places to put amendments, and find bills that you want to write. That is all fair. That is…

Again, I appreciate my colleague pointing out certain things. Again, I think pointing out the complete story there would also be helpful, and that is that the amendments spoken of that were not made in order, following the rules of the…

This is a special time as a trooper's kid. When I think about that and I think about this wall and I think about the heroes that I am looking at standing here, I am thinking about my own father who I just talked to a few moments ago--31…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Welch).

What we have seen for the last few minutes, I would probably get up and cheer, too. Because now you look at it this way. What they want to claim as a disaster or recognize as a disaster, they didn't recognize 7 years ago. They chose to…

I will tell Mr. McGovern, it is his time to manage. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time, and given the fact there were no hearings or anything else, it would have been nice to have a little bit more time. Mr…

I am still waiting on a couple more speakers, but I am ready to close whenever the gentleman is. Mr. McGOVERN. Well, I am not really prepared to close because my side has a ton more to say, but I am out of time.

7 years ago, our friends across the aisle put partisan interests above the health of the American people, and we are seeing the results of that today. In fact, a small- business owner from Missouri says: I recall the days before the ACA…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. As a wonderful manager of time, he will be able to parse the time as best he may see fit. I have other speakers who probably will be coming by, so I will just encourage the manager to manage his time…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin).

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter from the American Public Health Association in strong opposition to the Republican bill. American Public Health Association, May 4, 2017. House…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter from the National Education Association in strong opposition to this bill. May 3, 2017. Hon. James P. McGovern, House of Representatives, House…

I think it is interesting today since we would not be here today if there was not the problems that you, Mr. Speaker, and I have seen. One-third of this country has one insurer, premiums with double-digit increases, people who can…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter from the American College of Physicians in opposition to the bill. American College of Physicians, April 24, 2017. Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker, House…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro).

I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 0930 Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am not sure if my colleagues are aware of this since we are moving so quickly here, but I want to flag for everyone an important op-ed in The Hill by the executive…

I appreciate it, but it is amazing the concern for rural health care now under ObamaCare when much of rural America has been down to one provider. That is not a choice. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Pennsylvania…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Yarmuth), the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on the Budget.

I am pleased today to bring forward this rule on behalf of the Rules Committee. Over the past few weeks, the Rules Committee has had the opportunity to hear from numerous stakeholders, from the chairs and ranking members of committees of…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 308 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 308 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…