I would like to enter into the Record a letter from 144 environmental organizations, community-based organizations around the country that oppose H. Res. 935. Beyond Pesticides, Beyond Toxics, CATA--The Farmworker Support Committee, Center…

Again, I think it is important for us to deal in facts and not in mythology. And a couple of the facts are these: In 2008, States reported to the EPA--that is, State reporting agencies--that 16,819 miles of rivers and streams, 1,766 square…

Just when we think the level of dysfunction by the Republican majority in this House can't get any worse, no, they surprise us and find a way to prove us wrong. They are going to cap off 7 months, Mr. Speaker, of the worst do-nothing…

I just want to clear up a couple of points here. For the record, 45 States actually manage their own pesticide programs. So it is not the responsibility of the Federal Government or the EPA. In fact, contrary to what we have heard here…

It also provides for detection and avoidance of counterfeit electronic parts, information technology governance, and increased transparency in Space Act Agreements. In closing, Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that our committee has worked hard…

I want to thank Chairman Shuster, Ranking Member Rahall, and our subcommittee chairman, Mr. Gibbs, and ranking member, Mr. Bishop, and congratulate them and all of our staff on the work on this conference report. I rise in support of this…

This will complement those histories and tell the story of women at the Goddard Space Flight Center, women who are in science, technology, engineering, and math; women who are engineers, explorers and innovators. So, I want to thank the…

I want to thank the gentlewomen from New York, from Tennessee, and from Wyoming for your leadership and for doing what women do in this Congress, which is work together toward a common good. So I thank you very much for your leadership…

I thank the gentleman for his remarks. Madam Speaker, I want to rise this evening to discuss our annual budget. Congress has a number of responsibilities, but a big one is that Congress is tasked annually with developing a budget that lays…

I thank the gentlewoman from Nevada for pointing out the many ways in which the Ryan budget impacts the women of Nevada and impacts the women of this country. The gentlewoman mentioned something that I think, again, bears repeating. The…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I want to join my colleagues in opposition to H.R. 1459, the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act. It sounds good, but it should be known as the…

Rather than rolling back the President's ability to preserve both our national history and our natural heritage, we should be encouraging this and future administrations to continue to work for the common good--for the public good--that…

Due to attending a previously scheduled event with President Obama in the 4th Congressional District of Maryland, which I have the honor of representing in the House of Representatives, I was absent from votes in the House this morhing…

Thank you to the gentleman from Maryland, my friend and my colleague, for all of your work in getting us to this point. Thank you to my friend also, Chairman Ryan, for getting us to this point, and to all of the conferees. Mr. Speaker, I…

I thank the gentleman for pointing that out. Because what we can see is that with that decades-long disinvestment in our infrastructure, not only do we have new needs, but we have the old ones, the old repairs stacking up. I am glad that…

As the gentleman was speaking, I thought to myself: What could the American people do if they learned that on December 28 unemployment benefits will end for 1.3 million of their fellow Americans? Is there something they could do? Well, I…

I want to thank the gentleman from California because every week you are here talking about what we can do and what we should be doing to create jobs in this country. Now, I have heard it said by some that there is nothing that the…

I probably will not use all of the 5 minutes, but I wanted to be here today, Mr. Speaker, to support H.R. 3547, the Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act, of which I am an original cosponsor. I want to thank both our…

I thank the gentleman. I know that you join with your colleague, Mr. Poe of Texas, in hosting this hour so that we can have an opportunity to remember why it is that we identify and commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and to…

I thank the gentleman from Nevada for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to echo what my colleagues have said: it is time for us to bring a clean funding resolution to the floor of the House that would get a majority of Democratic support, and…

I thank my colleague. I rise in support of H.R. 3223, and I speak in support of Tracy in Laurel who lives in my district who works at HHS. She helps her mom out every month with her Federal salary; and Christopher and his wife, both of…

We are in day five of the Republican shutdown, without an end in sight. Let's be clear that this is a manufactured crisis designed to promote ideology at the expense of needs of our constituents, the American people. Today, I rise in…

We are in day four of the Republican shutdown, an irresponsible and manufactured crisis designed to promote ideology at the expense of the American people. Let's be clear about why House Republicans have so knowingly, carelessly, and…

I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, it's really hard to know what to say anymore. It's impossible for us to rationalize what has become completely irrational, but I'm just going to say what it is. From the other side, this bill is mean…

Climate change is not a science debate; it never was. As we know, science is never universally agreed upon. It's a constant reexamining of what is deemed the squats quo. Nonetheless, the science surrounding climate change is near universal…