Steve Lynch

I am just getting wound up. They referred to America after the Second World War as the arsenal of democracy because we did save the world. Today, when the world looks at us after we have exported millions of manufacturing jobs and…

I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to begin this discussion by saying I have the utmost respect for the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions). I have worked with him on other issues where we have agreed. That is not the…

That is pretty basic, though. That is pretty basic, encrypting Social Security numbers.

I wish that you were as strenuous and hard working at keeping information out of the hands of hackers as you are keeping information out of the hands of Congress and Federal employees.

What is that? No, no, no. The job I lost--you were talking to people--the job I lost, 2,700 workers lost at the GM plant, those plants were reopened in Mexico.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, prior to coming to Congress, I worked for a while as an ironworker at the Quincy shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. I was a welder. Unfortunately, because of bad trade policy, that…

I want to thank the chairman, and I want to thank the ranking member for the courtesy, not only to me, but to my constituents as well. I yield back the balance of my time, and I ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment. The Acting…

What I am trying to do in this amendment is to really address a wider problem in my congressional district. My district surrounds the Logan International Airport in Boston. What this amendment would do is remove $25 million from the FAA…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 12, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $25,000,000)''. Page 13, line 10, after the dollar amount…

I want to thank the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Guinta). He and I were of a similar mind in terms of this amendment, and I am delighted that the chairman has accepted the amendment. We understand the good that drug courts do in our…

Up until about an hour ago when the USA Freedom Act passed, the government in getting information about the general public was unfettered, warrantless gathering of information of the public.

I thank the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee for including the Lynch-Boustany Amendment in this en bloc amendment. This amendment would add the text of the bill, H.R. 995, the ``Veterans Day Moment of Silence…

Massachusetts happens to have a very robust consumer protection privacy framework that I think will be harmed.

One of the problems I have is that this introduces a Federal standard and it takes out the States.

This would be a complete obliteration. This would be--just total preemption so you will have one standard.

I actually think if we are going to look at new legislation, and I think we need to, we look at the authorizing statute for Inspectors General because the side deal between the FBI and the EPA to shut out the Inspector General is…

Maybe it is coming to a point where we just stop all the funding going over there, and that is the way we solve this.

With the amount of money we are spending over there, it is a disgrace that we don't have an accountable system.

Thank you for holding this hearing to examine the recent audit reports issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.

I want to thank Mr. Cummings for his leadership on this issue.

I just want to say that it probably reflects the new leadership, the new chairman, the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Chaffetz, that we are finally addressing this problem.

I want to just thank Chairman Hensarling and Ranking Member Waters really for the insight.

Detecting and disrupting the flow of funding to terrorist groups is a crucial part of our fight against terrorism.

We have some real trust issues there, and I am glad you spoke to that issue.

The way ISIL, or Da'ish, is configured is qualitatively different than what we have been dealing with in the past with al Qaeda and Hezbollah.