We have to be vigilant, we have to be ever watchful of how important this basic freedom is.

According to your own data, aggregate emissions for the six common pollutants have decreased 68 percent since your Agency's implementation of the Clean Air Act while we consume 44 percent more energy and travel 168 percent more miles.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this…

I thank my colleague from Illinois, and I would also urge my colleagues to support this passage and to make sure that we continue to have the safest air traffic control towers in the world. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Meehan

On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by Chinese troops while peacefully advocating for government accountability and political and economic reforms. In the aftermath, the Chinese Government arrested large numbers of…

Did we stand on the side of tank man or on the side of the tank?

if human rights freedom in China cannot be improved, then America's foundation on human rights and freedom would be also impacted.

I am a Jew who has worked on Christian persecution. I am in such awe of these Christian groups in China and the leadership and the courage they exercise, and the fact that they are the spear points for freedom for everybody.

Falun Gong practitioners are the most severely persecuted in the past two decades, so we cannot forget them and we should continue to advocate for the imprisoned religious people in China.

Advancing human rights and democracy in China is in America's interests.

Internet firewall circumvention is the most cost-effective peaceful means of advancing American national interests.

I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor of this bill, Majority Leader McCarthy, for his great work. This is very important. I also want to thank our great chairman, Lamar Smith, who has had an unprecedented week in the House of…

Before I get started, we also have several letters of support on this that I would submit for the Record. One is from the Bipartisan Policy Center on behalf of the American Energy Innovation Council; another is from Third Way. They support…

I want to thank the distinguished chairman, Mr. Smith, as well as the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter) for helping bring this legislation to the floor again this Congress. H.R. 1158, the Department of Energy Laboratory…

I also would like to thank my good friend and distinguished chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Chairman Smith from Texas, as well as my good friend, Congressman Lipinski from Illinois, as well as my other good…

Even saving one life or one child or one young woman is all worth it, so that is my commitment.

The message, as I interpret it, is you cannot organize to do anything, we are the ones who are controlling everything.

I have come to strongly believe that Dodd-Frank is damaging our economy and is slowing our Nation's economic recovery.

Our Nation's job creators will spend $60 million labor hours and employ 30,000 workers to navigate this bureaucratic minefield.

Policymakers from across the political spectrum should be able to work constructively together to refine at least some parts of Dodd-Frank.

I am concerned that these changes will pose a significant burden on mortgage lenders, including community banks and credit unions.

I thoroughly support the original goal of the legislation preventing discriminatory lending practices.

The concern has been bipartisan, of really the weight on, especially community banks, smaller banks, credit unions.

In the past few weeks, the Islamic State has targeted religious minorities throughout the Middle East, including the Yazidis in Iraq and the 21 Coptic Christians executed in Libya. This week, ISIS has abducted more than 200 Assyrian…