I want to salute Mr. Collins and Mr. Jeffries and all of the members of the committee.

We have the power under the Constitution to promote the progress of science and useful arts, and we should exercise that power, because, today, our regime stifles musical creativity.

I love the idea of combining the Music Modernization Act and the CLASSICS Act and the Fair Play Fair Pay Act into a comprehensive statutory bill of rights for musical artists and songwriters and other people in the music industry.

I represent 88,000 Federal workers in the Eighth Congressional District of Maryland who want to do their jobs for the American people. They are DREAMers, too, and they are doers. They work at NIH, NOAA, the National Cancer Institute, the…

A century ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called ``The Second Coming,'' in which he said: ``Things fall apart; the centre will not hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.'' But in America, that is not our destiny. We can make…

I thank Mr. Ted Lieu for his excellent presentation. I would ask one question, and I hope that the law professor in me isn't showing too much, but I wanted to ask Mr. Ted Lieu about one thing he said at the beginning. Mr. Ted Lieu made the…

Mrs. Demings focused our attention on the rule of law and the startling disdain for the rule of law that is being shown in Washington right now, and the President's basic confusion about the proper role for the Department of Justice. One…

I am delighted to be organizing this special hour on behalf of the minority. We are going to be talking tonight about the growing smear campaign against Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating contacts between Russians…

It is a critical point because, up until all of this started, basically the President respected the independence of the Department of Justice and we didn't go around searching in people's garbage cans trying to find out whether their wife…

I thank the gentleman for that excellent and indispensable discussion about what is really at stake here, which is democracy itself. If we can't rely on the integrity of our elections and the authenticity of the results, then democracy is…

I thank Mrs. Demings for her passion and her leadership. I am delighted to learn today that she will be joining the House Judiciary Committee as a new colleague next week, and I am thrilled about that.

I thank Mr. Lieu for all of his excellent work and leadership both in the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Schneider), another distinguished colleague on the…

I am delighted to join this evening. I thank the gentleman for putting together a discussion, a Special Order on this critical piece of legislation, which is now hurdling through Congress today. I was reflecting, Mr. Speaker, that I had…

Or raising wages. They could do it right now. All that we are doing is bestowing more of a bonus on them so they can give more money away to the CEOs. In the stock dividends and in the stock buybacks, it is cash gains within the…

I thank the gentleman, once again, for this opportunity and for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman makes a superb point. We are at a point of record corporate profits. The corporations are swimming in profits and in cash, and if…

I was shocked to read so many prominent elected officials and political operatives on the GOP side saying that the whole reason for doing this is that their donors were effectively going on a strike and the donors were saying: If you don't…

The whole point is to cement into place an oligarchy, a plutocracy. One of the reasons that the Founders of America were so opposed to the intergenerational transmission of wealth is because they said that is going to increase idleness…

This is an important start, but mandating annual sexual harassment training is not sufficient.

As the representatives of the people, we have a unique obligation to lead by establishing a culture of zero tolerance for this egregious form of discrimination.

It can never be interpreted as a license to harass or discriminate against our employees.

I thank the gentleman for his leadership. I thank him for invoking the critical Watergate analogy, the Saturday Night Massacre with the firing of Archibald Cox and other Department of Justice officials who refused to cover up for the…

I am here to discuss a very serious issue, which are the mounting threats and criticism of Robert Mueller's investigation into criminality taking place in the course of the Presidential election with interference by the Russians and…

I thank the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) very much for his kind words and for his patriotism. I thank him for also pointing out the critical importance of civic equality to this discussion because civic equality implies that none of…

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the First Amendment protects every citizen's right to free exercise of religion, and we, in Congress, must be zealous and vigilant partners with the…

I include in the Record a letter from the American Jewish Committee and a letter from the Anti-Defamation League. AJC, Global Jewish Advocacy, Washington, DC, November 1, 2017. Hon. Robert Goodlatte, Chairman. Hon. John Conyers, Ranking…