I thank the gentlewoman. Included as well are antiheroin and antimeth task forces that bring law enforcement agents from multiple jurisdictions together to end this scourge. Finally, the bill allocates $30 million within the Economic…

Unfortunately, there is little or no transparency in how the prior authorizations are judged, nor the guidelines by which the reviewers look at the clinical information provided.

From the dermatology perspective, I can tell you that in many circumstances the cost to the patient is grossly higher.

One of the things that comes to me that could definitely improve the situation from a transparency standpoint and also from a consistency standpoint would be to have, instead of pharmacy benefit managers deciding on how best to administer…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of his amendment. The Paris Agreement is an unworkable, unrealistic policy solution to climate change. If implemented, as the gentleman has said, the Paris accord could cost as many as…

We have no objection to this amendment. The amendment deals with issues under the jurisdiction of the United States International Boundary and Water Commission, which is one of several such commissions funded under this act. The IBWC's…

I thank the gentleman for yielding the time. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this amendment. This amendment would double the amount withheld from assistance to Pakistan until Dr. Shakil Afridi has been released from prison and cleared of…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not opposed. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

The funding directed in this amendment is a significant increase above current levels. It could result in funds being cut from important partners in Europe facing Russian aggression. For this reason, I urge my colleagues to oppose this…

This amendment would ensure that veteran- and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses are able to effectively compete for State Department contracts and grants. We have a moral obligation to help our veterans, and especially our…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, as Members may recall, during the climate negotiations leading up to the Paris conference, participants called for a Green Climate Fund that would collect $100 billion a year by 2020. Although…

I thank the distinguished Republican ranking member on the committee for this time but also, more importantly, for her wise leadership of this committee. Mr. Chair, I rise in reluctant opposition to H.R. 2740, the first appropriations…

May is National Drug Court Month, and I rise to recognize these remarkable facilities on their 30th anniversary. Since 1989, drug courts have provided countless addicted Americans referral to treatment and a lifesaving alternative to…

I thank Ranking Member Bishop for yielding me this time and mainly for his support of the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument Act, which is included in this great package before us today. And he did it the right way, Mr. Speaker…

I thank my esteemed colleagues, full committee Chairwoman Lowey, and Ranking Member Granger. This six-bill appropriations package represents a lot of hard work for many of us on the Appropriations Committee. Broadly speaking, this package…

I simply want to add my appreciation and thanks to the chairman and ranking members that you have just heard from for this momentous agreement before us today. And I would like to especially commend our big chairman, Frelinghuysen, for the…

Congressman Hal Rogers, who has been working on this issue for more than a decade.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5979, the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument Act, legislation that I introduced that directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish…

All of us are painfully aware of the devastating toll taken by opioid addiction and abuse in every corner of this great country. While this epidemic is truly national in its scope today, it actually began in the small communities in…

I thank Chairman Walden for those words. This is a fight that is critical to the country, and I want to thank the chairman of the committee, Mr. Walden, and Mr. Pallone and the other members of the Energy and Commerce Committee for…

I wish you and the administration all the good luck in the world in trying to bring that balance that is necessary into more of an even nature.

I am heartened to see the department making use of these new powers by issuing sanctions against North Korean shipping companies, Russian oligarchs, and Iranian individuals who stole intellectual property for the benefit of the Islamic…

We are saying now, you have got to show us proof that you are actually reducing the cocaine and heroin coming out of Colombia.

foreign investment, including Chinese investment in the United States has proven beneficial to our economy and usually poses no threat to national security.

I calculated it. All the money in this bill amounts to 4 percent of total federal discretionary spending, 4 cents on the dollar.