And that just lack of basic political courage to just simply tell the truth is a real problem if you're trying to actually make a deal to fund the government.

The Republicans have to be willing to compromise. That's what's happened in the past and it is not happening today.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in honor of my friend, the six-term Congressman from Utah, Chris Stewart, who retires from Congress this week. Of all the things we have worked on together, I am most proud of passing the bill that created the…

I can tell you that it is a lot more than zero.

I don't like the idea of very intricate mapping data of our roads, video of our American people being transmitted back to Beijing.

I have some obvious concerns about people who are dying on the road because of this technology perhaps being deployed too soon.

So, the idea is that we are safe traveling on automated planes and yet, therefore, we should assume we are safe traveling on highways with automated vehicles is just plain wrong by the facts.

We want to see American companies develop this technology and set the standards for the world.

Mr. Chairman, let me just start by associating my remarks with the remarks of my friend, Mr. Joe Wilson, from South Carolina. It is not often that we get to do that on the floor of this House. Joe and I come from different places but we…

That's what this bill says. And that's why, sadly, so many of us are going to vote against it.

This bill does not support our troops. One out of five service members in the United States is a woman. About 40 percent of those don't have full access to the health care that they need.