Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong opposition to this amendment and urge my colleagues to reject it. Some Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are engaged in a steadily escalating campaign to tear down the Congressional…

Mr. Speaker, 11 years ago, I set off on a long-shot campaign run by a talented and passionate but also overworked and inexperienced staff, many of whom were learning on the job. Yet everything went pretty smoothly--smoothly enough…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, my neighbor from just down I-64, for organizing this Special Order honoring the life of Senator Bunning this evening. This is the first time in my 11 years serving in Congress that I have spoken from this…

we were running a $1.4 trillion annual deficit. We had lost the month he took office 800,000 jobs, that was the trend at that point.

The evidence is there that Congress is not particularly capable right now of taking on very many difficult tasks.

Americans deserve more than faith-based economics.

Rescinding regulations without a very thorough understanding...would be irresponsible.

Would not comprehensive immigration reform also have a positive impact on our programs like Social Security and Medicare?

Massive tax cuts are not the answer, even though we are likely to hear that claim a lot today.

I would like to just make a couple of comments regarding Chairman Black's opening, because I know it is nice to forget about the condition that the economy was in when President Obama took office.

there are now 6 million jobs available in the United States.