Hal Rogers

The abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid pain pills, is our Nation's fastest-growing drug threat.

Today marks a critical turning point in our country's battle against prescription drug abuse--what CDC has called a national epidemic. It takes more American lives than car crashes. Unless the Food and Drug Administration takes action…

Am I correct that it has been four years almost--27 months--I am sorry--since we have had any significant activity?

Well, I understand, but I am really puzzled on how you would want to come to us and request that we cut 40 percent of Coast Guard acquisitions and an $87 million cut to CBP Air and Marine when we have got this terrible drug problem not…

I wanted to congratulate Senator Mikulski and her counterparts in the Senate along with my counterpart here, Nita Lowey, for working together to bring out a good bill.

Prescription drug abuse is killing more people in this country than car wrecks. It's hard to believe, but it sneaked up on us. In my district 10 years ago, we started an organization called UNITE, Unlawful Narcotics Investigations…

This budget submission would add layers of bureaucracy to the already tangled web of agencies under your purview at headquarters.

We have a personnel shortage there.

The department has produced a proposal to, I think, decimate the coast guard and ICE that supports the men and women who bravely defend our homeland on the front lines.

We should be spending this time talking about positive things rather than going over old rehashed, rejected proposals.

Reducing personnel, CBP personnel at an airport like Miami... is going to cause some really economic difficulties for the country.

I would rather you take the personnel in Abu Dhabi and put them in Miami.

We present now the bill to fund the Federal Government for the remainder of the fiscal year. This legislation provides funding for essential Federal programs and services, helps maintain our national security, and takes a potential…

While we're waiting for the Senate to send us a bill relieving us of sequestration, while we're waiting for the President to send us something to relieve us of sequestration, we have no choice but to pass a continuing resolution to keep…

OMB did not propose any change to the provisions in current law regarding 6-day mail delivery.

The gentleman is correct. OMB did submit a list of proposed anomalies on February 18.

I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the consideration of H.R. 933 and that I may include tabular material on the same. The…

If the gentlelady will yield, last year we voted twice in this body to replace sequestration, and it died because the Senate wouldn't take it up.

Would the gentlelady be so kind as to talk to the majority leader in the Senate about sending us over a bill to relieve us of sequestration? And, two, would the gentlelady talk to her President to see if he would do that? We're ready to…

The budgetary problems we face are unprecedented, and the American public demands that we address them. This continuing resolution is the first step in that process. The measure before us does four important things: one, it takes threat of…

Might I inquire how many speakers remain on the gentlelady's side. I have one remaining speaker.

May I inquire of the time? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 9\1/2\ minutes, and the gentlewoman from New York has 8\1/4\ minutes.

I now yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Culberson), the chairman of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on appropriations.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and would confirm that the gentleman is correct. The prohibition in the NDAA is law, and nothing in this bill or report overrides or changes that fact. The language in our report was conferenced last year…

Whether or not the denial of the applications of conservative groups was the product of a few rogue employees in Cincinnati, or whether or not it was directed from on high, is a matter of great importance.