One of the most frustrating and disappointing lessons I have learned about Congress since I arrived here about a year ago is the simple truth that Washington does not know how to count.

Do you find it hypocritical for the President who claimed that he would get rid of the national debt, and I quote, 'over a period of 8 years,' to send this budget to Congress?

Mr. Speaker, 26: that is how many people were gunned down in a Texas church. Fifty-nine: that is how many were murdered at a concert in Las Vegas. And 489: that is how many law-abiding Americans were injured in that same attack. Mr…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on the National Defense Authorization Act. I must say that I am so proud to be a member of a committee so known for its bipartisanship. I am particularly…

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today as a member of the Budget Committee to express my strong opposition to this budget resolution, which, if passed, would leave countless working families…

How do we know that now that ISIS is about defeated there won't be an ISIS 2.0, just as ISIS in many ways is Al Qaeda in Iraq 2.0?

I hope you will feel that responsibility, as well.

We heard from the expert panel that preceded you how important it is that Iraqi politics be the primary effort.

I can't tell you how painful it is as an Iraq war veteran now sitting on this committee to see us fighting and refighting so many of the same battles that we fought, that our friends gave their lives for.

I cannot tell you how painful it is as an Iraq war veteran to see us fighting and refighting the same battles.

That is what I am most worried about, is that by giving a blank check, we could enable exactly the kinds of dysfunction that created 2014 in the first place.