My amendment encourages manufacturing innovation in the United States by requiring Federal agencies to give a high priority to the SBIR and STTR programs to small businesses engaged in manufacturing R&D.

I thank my very good friend, Chris Smith, for doing this. Madam Speaker, it is such a privilege to serve in this amazing place. Some of us have the opportunity--really, the blessing--to be able to meet our heroes. Some of us have the…

My hope, my prayer, my commitment is to do everything that I can to make sure that we have that kind of accountability and that we are holding other nations accountable; that we are doing all that we can to say that every person deserves…

More than a year ago, Congress passed and the President signed into law an overhaul of veterans' health care. The Veterans Choice Program nominally gave our Nation's veterans more health provider and service options. However, despite…

A central principle in our Nation's history has been a clear rejection of government forcing someone to take an action that violates their religious or moral convictions. Americans rejected being forced to return runaway slaves. We…

It seems like the goal again of what you've stated of, you know, reducing carbon emission, exactly the opposite is going to be happening with potential closure of these Illinois plants plus certainly the loss of a significant number of…

Again, both sides of the aisle have grave concern of negative impacts, exactly the opposite of what you're trying to accomplish.

This isn't a Republican issue, it's not a Democratic issue. It was split exactly 50/50, Members from Illinois on both sides of the aisle concerned about that.

Such a result would be bad for the State of Illinois and devastating for the communities in which they operate.

Lives are at stake and we need to do everything that we can to speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves.

We must never forget what happened 27 years ago on June 4, and continue to do everything we possibly can for every person and for every life to have the value that it deserves.

In 2014, our community leaders, families, and victims alike came together to fight the growing epidemic of heroin and opioid abuse in northern Illinois. Together we launched a district-wide action plan. Today we can celebrate many…

Today I am proud to be able to speak in support of the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups, or HALOS, Act. I would also like to thank Chairman Chabot, Congressman Hurt, and Congresswoman Sinema for putting forward this important bipartisan…

That statement on the delegation's part was just ludicrous. It did not pass the laugh test, not even close.

Thank you for telling your story. It is so important and I appreciate your courage and coming before us so that we can find ways that we can help.

Statements like this from the Chinese Government suggest that they are not participating in international human rights mechanisms in good faith.

I am not pleased, and my consumers are not pleased, my banks are not pleased, because they have seen breach after breach after breach by the Federal Government.

I suspect that what you are doing is extending the Supreme Court's holding in the Inclusive Communities case

I thank Chairman Hensarling for his great work on the Financial Services Committee, and I specifically want to thank him for his help on this bill coming to the floor today. Mr. Chair, today I am very proud to speak in support of the…

I thank the chairman. I rise today as an original cosponsor of the SCRUB Act that relieves the burdensome impact of unnecessary Federal regulation on Americans. This legislation establishes a systematic process to reduce regulatory costs…

This is such an important subject for us to be discussing, to figure out ways that we as Members of Congress can highlight, really, the tragedy, the loss that has happened there, and the need for change of policy--real change in policy…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the chairman for his response and for his leadership on the committee, and I look forward to working with him on this important issue. {time} 1515 Mr. DeFAZIO. I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, first, I would like to acknowledge the difficult and challenging job Chairman Shuster and the committee have had in crafting this bill. I commend his leadership and hard work on this critically important…

I thank the chairman. Today, I rise in support of legislation that will protect hard- working Americans' access to retirement advice. The Labor Department is aggressively pushing a flawed rule which might be a political win for the Obama…

On rollcall No. 490, I was unavoidably detained (delayed flight--weather). Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''