I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this legislation. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

As Chairman Hastings has said, S. 1044 directs the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque or an inscription in the area of the World War II Memorial with the 500-word prayer that President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed to the…

At the request of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, H.R. 4002 simply revokes a corporate charter issued to it by the Federal Government. Under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act and the Indian Reorganization Act, many tribes were issued corporate…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Massachusetts will be postponed. Announcement by the Chair The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of…

I thank my colleague for his remarks, but I respectfully disagree. As we know, yet again to reiterate, the Antiquities Act has served our country well for over 100 years, has been used by Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, to…

The underlying bill presented before us today is problematic for many reasons, as my Democratic colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee have very clearly outlined on the floor this afternoon. The Antiquities Act has served our…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following new section: SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY. The amendments made by this Act…

Congress has come together every year for half a century to pass the NDAA and support our servicemembers. This NDAA includes the BE SAFE Act, which it was my honor to work on with Representative Mike Turner. It takes significant steps…

Yesterday I had a heart-wrenching conversation with a nurse employed at a military installation in my district. She has been furloughed because of the Republican government shutdown. As a Federal contract employee, she is terrified that…

On Tuesday, despite the GOP's best efforts, health care exchanges across this country opened. In the first 24 hours, healthcare.gov was visited by 4.7 million visitors. In Massachusetts, where we've had an exchange for years, thousands…

The Federal Government is shut down today for one reason: we in the House have been denied any chance of voting on the clean funding bill passed by the Senate. Four times now, House leaders have demanded that we dismantle a democratically…

Since assuming control of the House of Representatives, Republicans have brought 10 bills to the floor to limit a woman's constitutionally protected right to make choices regarding her own health. In January, we were told that the…