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Chris Van Hollen is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2017. Throughout his career, Van Hollen has focused on issues such as economic policy, healthcare, and education reform.
It seems to me expanding access to affordable health care for 22 million Americans who didn't have it is being on the right side of history. I am now pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette), a distinguished…
This is a sad and shameful way to begin the new year 2016 here in the United States Congress. This bill is entitled Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, the freedom of health insurance companies to once again deny…
This week, world leaders are meeting in Paris to address the serious threat of climate change. Across the globe and here at home, there is broad recognition of the need to act decisively to curb the climate crisis that threatens our…
I thank the gentlewoman. I understand that we are going to continue to have these closed rules apparently that are not going to make this an open process here, but for goodness' sake, Mr. Speaker, let's at least allow the American people…
I thank the gentlewoman. So after the Citizens United decision, that terrible decision, what happened? Special interests were able to spend millions and millions of dollars at a time. They weren't constrained by any limits on what kind of…
I thank the ranking member of the Rules Committee, who began the discussion here by pointing out that here we go again. We say there is new leadership in town on the Republican side, but it is the same old closed process: closed rule…
On the evening of November 3, 2015, I was unavoidably detained and missed rollcall vote 586. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' (By unanimous consent, Mr. McCarthy was allowed to speak out of order.) Legislative Program Mr…
I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Brendan F. Boyle), a terrific new Member of Congress.
I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison), a distinguished member of the Financial Services Committee.
I agree with the gentleman that the investments in military readiness are important. I also believe the investments to help our economy grow and invest in education and scientific research are important. What the President said to the…
I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Ways and Means. (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
I thank the gentleman. I yield myself the balance of my time. I have been listening to the debate, and I am sorry to report that as I come here to close the debate, not much has changed from when we started this debate this morning. This…
In that case, in the interest of time, would the gentleman be interested, since we have 9 minutes and 12\1/2\ minutes left and no other speakers, in agreeing that we will each take 5 minutes to close?
We have more speakers, but they are not with us on the floor at the moment. I am not sure exactly how many there are either. I reserve the balance of my time. Does the chairman have additional speakers?
I am waiting for one additional speaker as well. I reserve the balance of my time.
With all respect to Mr. Woodall, we don't celebrate legislation that takes away affordable health care to 15 million Americans, including 3 million American children. That is not our definition of bipartisanship. I urge all my colleagues…
I want to thank the ranking member for bringing those troubling revelations to the attention of the House. It shows what a sham process this has been from the beginning. Mr. Speaker, we have got a lot of work to do in this Congress. We…
This legislation is the latest attempt to take essential healthcare services away from women. Our Republican colleagues know that none of the Planned Parenthood Federal funds are used for abortion, per the Hyde amendment. They know there…
For years, the Congress, the President, our European partners, and the international community have imposed a series of tough economic sanctions on Iran with the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Those sanctions…
They purchase a small foreign company, and then they move their mailing address overseas to that small company. They then say to the American taxpayer: Guess what. We don't have to pay any more taxes in the United States. We don't have to…
I do just want to take a break from the GMO debate to talk about a huge problem confronting our country, and that is the infrastructure that is in disrepair, from roads to bridges to transit ways around this country. The American people…
We have a very sad state of affairs here. We know we have an urgent problem with respect to infrastructure around America. Our roads, our bridges, our transitways are in disrepair at a time when we should actually be investing more to…
I thank Ms. McCollum for her work on this bill and to Bobby Scott and Don Beyer for joining me in this effort. I rise in opposition to this amendment. Just yesterday, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld EPA authority to set Chesapeake…
Today's vote on the trade package that includes trade adjustment assistance and trade promotion authority, also known as fast track, represents a flawed and hurried process to expedite the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that…
Just yesterday, I signed a letter with five other Ranking Members on this side of the aisle in opposition to this poorly conceived Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Reauthorization bill--which is also opposed by the Obama…
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