Hal Rogers

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

This support for the AML pilot program allows us to clean up abandoned mines and repurpose them to create jobs. Finally, I am proud that this agreement includes legislation that I helped introduce, the STOP School Violence Act, which aims…

I thank the chairman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, despite his laudable efforts to complete all fiscal year 2018 House bills on time, the perpetual stalemate on unrelated matters left us with this undesirable choice of several…

The war on coal was real, and this President promised to end that war and I think he has, but in the meantime we have got a lot of wounded soldiers on the battlefield who are desperately in need of some help from this President who…

I have 12,000 laid-off coal miners in my district alone, who are able people, mechanically talented people, who are now trying to find a job at McDonald's, unsuccessfully, I might add.

I thank the chairman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the STOP School Violence Act. I want to congratulate Sheriff Rutherford, the original sponsor of the bill, for his dedicated work on this…

I would hope that we would put more weight on the EDI, particularly in the Ukraine, Georgia, and that world between Western Europe and Russia.

Old soldiers never die.

FDA was asleep at the switch, and the opioid epidemic has flared like a wildfire.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this fiscal year 2018 DOD Appropriations bill. Although I am proud to support this critical legislation, I will say that I am disappointed to be here, yet…

a vision without funding is a hallucination.

You can't arrest your way out of the problem. You can't treat your way out of the problem alone. And you can't educate your way out of it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of the second fiscal year 2018 continuing resolution this year, which will fund the Federal Government through December 22 of this year. This bill is a…

We need prevention and treatment, absolutely. We also need the right kind of interdiction.

I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to take this time briefly to address the concerns the gentleman from Florida has raised with regard to these organizations, many of which I share. That is why the base bill includes some pretty…

This amendment would cut funding for the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Affairs account by $209 million. That is a 16 percent reduction in the fight against narcotics. There is already money in the bill for TB, $241…

Would the Chair advise whether or not amendment No. 103 is included in the en bloc? The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the Clerk will redesignate amendments en bloc No. 4. There was no objection. The Clerk redesignated amendments en bloc…

The gentleman has offered, I think, a reasonably good amendment, and we would like to see it adopted, so I urge an ``aye'' vote.

I urge the adoption of amendments en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers). The en bloc amendments were agreed to…

I want to thank the gentleman from Florida for raising this important issue. The plight of religious and ethnic minorities persecuted by ISIS has been, and remains, a priority for this committee, including the need for psychosocial support…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for bringing this issue to our attention. The committee takes seriously reports of Americans abroad being treated unfairly, denied due process, or being used as political pawns. {time} 1630 Colombia is a…

I really appreciate the gentleman's concern, but not enough to support his amendment. As he knows, the administration proposed to close the United States African Development Foundation. Given the significant reduction in our subcommittee's…

As I mentioned in my statement, Mr. Chairman, the bill before us today contains $3.1 billion in a Foreign Military Financing program funded for Israel, which fully funds the last year of the current memorandum of understanding with Israel…

The overseas scholarship programs are popular among our Members because most of these programs support American educational institutions abroad. Students that participate and receive an education based on American values help shape their…