May I inquire from the Chair how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 35 minutes remaining.

I join my colleague and my friend, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, in advocating for and in asking our colleagues to vote today for the Steve Gleason Act. Steve's name is on it, but it is a lot bigger than Steve. If you know Steve and what he…

First I would like to thank Congressman DeSaulnier for bringing this important issue up and highlighting, one, the contribution made by the sailors; two, the challenges they faced during this ordeal; and, three, the remarkable sense of…

If we are serious about this, it may require finding new resources.

I think there is a process that we could do this.

We shouldn't just shuffle the cards on the deck to pull resources from one to go to the other.

We can find common ground. We can make the American people safer, and we have a mark-up scheduled right afterwards.

I will really just make a statement and hope that it's something we can all agree on.

Good afternoon Mr. Chairman, and Chairwoman McSally, and I want to welcome my fellow Ranking Member, Mr. Payne to this joint subcommittee hearing.

I want to make it clear that we are very grateful to all of our dedicated men and women in the field who protect us from weapons of mass destruction on a daily basis.

the best defense is a good offense.

what about the Trojan horse approach, that we embed in all of our information something that, if you ever take all of our information, we just activate it, which wipes your computer out?

Well, Congressman, I would tell you, except that, you know, I won't go into any incident that I have had with law enforcement. Let's just stipulate and agree that there have been many, and each one has made me a better person, some of…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for hosting our hour tonight, Congressman Donald Payne, who, like the old adage, is ``a chip off the old block.'' His father was an outstanding Congressman from the district who did a lot for Africa…

I am glad you brought up the monetary aspect of it because, look, Morehouse College, accounting major, I get numbers, and I get the concern that we have about the budget, the deficit and the national debt. The other thing that I know from…

I would like to know what the point of order is. I am just shifting money from one thing that is already in the budget to something that is already in the budget. Point of Order

I would just say I started coaching Little League at 16, and I continue to do that today, and I continue also to mentor. I would just say that as we look at the budget and we try to do things to bring the budget back into balance, we keep…

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. __. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act…

I was going to close and use the remaining time and then withdraw the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is currently pending.

If the gentleman does not assert the point of order now, then what I will do is just wrap up and ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment.

I only have one amendment, and it is the amendment to move $155 million from the Bureau of Prisons over to the Juvenile Justice program. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will continue to read the amendment. The Clerk continued to read.

My home state of Louisiana is third among all states in natural gas production.

By streamlining the natural gas pipeline siting and permitting process, we can connect our increasingly abundant supply with constantly increasing demand.

Letter in support of H.R. 2295

People in tough neighborhoods want the same thing that anybody wants. They want to be safe in their homes and they want to be safe in their neighborhoods.