I thank my chairman, the gentleman from Oregon. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my colleague, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Fleischmann), who has actually been a pretty big leader in this issue because of Oak Ridge and the area that he…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I can't beat the chairman's long years of friendship and devotion and service with Ray. But we are down here to make sure that we remind the American people that most of us know that we are…

It is a great day. I came down here, also, with Congresswoman Eshoo. We chair the bipartisan NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus. Fifty years is a great anniversary. The caucus has been around 50 years. It is one of those true bipartisan developments…

Let me follow up on a comment you made about a concern about possible state actors undercutting our production in the future.

So my question goes on the bartering process which kind of undercuts this process and I believe really hurts the chain, the fuel chain development, and threatens it at the most.

The question is are you moving it, are you asking to move it to an appropriations process away from a bartering process?

Representative Shimkus is focusing on how do we modernize our Federal regulation to expedite deployment of things like this and other new infrastructure.

I always talk about the need on the Universal Service Fund to get that right and start parlaying that toward a broadband deployment.

I do believe regulatory burdens slow the process up, and especially for these smaller companies, whether privately or public.

It is a tough issue we have wrestled with for a long time.

We applaud Administrator Pruitt for making Superfund cleanup a priority because he correctly noted that cleanups take too long to start and too long to complete.

I congratulate General Ben Hodges on his 37 years of active military service and his retiring on December 15. Ben and I entered West Point together in 1976, and both graduated as Goats in 1980. We both branched infantry and attended ranger…

It's just not right to offer a service, pay the cost and then for someone else later on to say, oh, you got to give us money back.

Can someone tell me why? Can someone defend that practice? Do you really want to try?

The good news is that Administrator Pruitt found this process to be completely unacceptable and has reopened the midterm evaluation.

I always get frustrated when we bring people before us who are doing everything we ask, and they seem like they're on trial and that they're under attack.

We need to make sure that the future targets under this program maintain vehicle choice and affordability.

One of the costs of this energy and environmental regulation from the Obama administration is the one we will address today that targets fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions for cars and light trucks.

The average price of a new vehicle has risen to $35,000 in 2017.

It is time to review these rules to see if they are a good deal for consumers and whether they can be improved upon.

I will say to you that as we have engaged in our Superfund focus I have had career employees come up to me and say thank you for awakening areas that have been dormant for a little while.

I am just going to sum up, too, with thanking my ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Pallone; obviously, my ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr. Tonko; the associated staffs on both that had been mentioned numerous times. They did…

I am happy to yield the time to the gentleman. They tell me what to do sometimes, also, even on that side of the aisle; so, happy to yield. I just want to thank them. Mr. Speaker, everybody has examples of brownfields in their district…

The bill we are voting on today makes several important changes to the brownfields law that will result in more contaminated sites being cleaned up. The changes we are making also bring more parties into the process by clarifying their…

I thank the chairman and my good friend, Mr. McGovern, for the kind words. What we did here was simple. It is not always simple to get through the legislative process, but what we attempted to do was reauthorize a bill that hadn't been…