I hope we can work on these together. I invite you to come visit and see how these programs are making a difference.

EDA is a critical lifeline for many of my constituents in my district, a very rural district.

Top-down policies that force hardship on Americans never works when the costs outweigh the benefits in their everyday lives.

Data is gold to make good decisions.

I am worried that the CCC... will focus and bring volunteers from rural areas.

I want to pile on Chairman Cartwright's comments about the U.S. Marshals Service.

I wanted to thank Congresswoman Joyce, someone I have such great respect for, the work that we do together on the Great Lakes.

On mental healthcare, last year, I visited a State prison in my district that houses over 1,300 inmates.

I would just obviously appreciate your partnership; ... whether a roadmap can be provided to these communities that desperately need the Federal Government to step up to its obligations in a way that it hasn't so far.

We are not even getting done what we said we were going to do.

I know with Congressman Joyce in position as the ranking member, working together, we can figure this out.

I would love to hear a little more about what your plan is around antitrust enforcement within the USDA.

Our Republican legislature, either ineptly or insufficiently, didn't deal with this, and it was going to cost us money.

A major immigration reform would have an important effect on the economy.

Threats against Members must be an enforcement priority for the Department of Justice as well as State and local and county jurisdictions.

This has to stop. It is a huge, number one priority of mine.

I am calling it CAVES. If this takes off, it would allow the Members to know who is coming into the Capitol.

Mr. Levin, I, too, rise today to honor the life and legacy of Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes. The magnitude of his loss can be felt throughout Maryland and the country. Senator Sarbanes spent his entire career fighting for the issues that…

One in seven people will experience addiction in their lifetime. Last year, over 70,000 people died from a drug overdose. Over the last 3 years, it is over 200,000 people. Addiction is a national crisis for which we will not find a…

Of course we want to reopen the schools if it can be done safely.

Healthcare is a human right. The Affordable Care Act helped us live up to that value by giving over 20 million American people healthcare coverage, including millions with preexisting conditions. But still, too many Americans don't have…

If African Americans or Hispanics are incarcerated the same rate as Whites, we would have 40 percent less people in jail.

We owe it to the American people.

We need your support in giving them everything they need to be successful.

We have got 2 months to make some decisions and provide the assistance.