Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 332. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Russell).

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 32, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $14,364,000) (increased by…

Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Massachusetts will be postponed. Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Crawford…

Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of this bipartisan amendment, which supports the Pentagon's FY19 budget request for research and development conducted by the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental, also known as DIUx. I am…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for yielding and for all his work on this issue and continuing to underscore the need to actually fund access to healthcare so that we can curb this horrible epidemic in a meaningful way. One of the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5102, the Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Act. As families at home know too well, our country is in the midst of a devastating…

80 percent of Americans with opioid addiction do not receive treatment

So the bill that has been introduced by Congresswoman Clark and Congressman Rogers and is being cosponsored in this committee by Mr. Guthrie and myself, we create a pretty creative loan repayment program for substance use disorder…

Participants in this program could receive up to $250,000 in loan forgiveness if they agree to work as a substance use disorder treatment professional in an area that is most in need of their services.