As someone who has long advocated for greater Federal investment in skills training and workforce development as part of my Make It in America agenda, I am eager to hear her perspective.

It would be wonderful if in the future annual budgets would include additional funding to be able to invest in future projects because we are just at the beginning of this, of needing to reestablish this industrial base here in the United…

When the Congress passes a bill and appropriates money, it does, in fact, authorize that expenditure by the Federal Government.

The equivalency that has been made here is absolutely without merit, and you go down a terrible road. I do not agree with the statements that were made. I oppose them. I said on this floor that I opposed them. But by golly, there are a…

I lament that the 2 minutes are no longer magic. Mr. Speaker, these rules are largely the rules that we have had for some period of time over the years, but they have important changes. Unfortunately, I view those changes as not…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and adopt all the remarks he made in his opening statement. This debate about IRS lends itself to being the most dishonest and demagogic rhetoric that I have seen in the Congress at any point in time. I…

We are here today to fulfill one of Congress' most basic responsibilities: to fund our government and keep it working for the people. We are not doing that very well. It is the 23rd of December, the day before Christmas Eve. The weather is…

As the Members know, the Senate has now passed the omnibus which will fund government. As the Members also know, the government will be shut down at midnight tomorrow if we do not pass additional legislation here. I have been over in the…

As majority leader, there has been no benefit of this job that I have appreciated, very frankly, more than my magic 1 minute. I intend to take it now. My friends on both sides of the aisle may be glad to know that this is the last time…

I have been working on this issue almost all of my career in the Congress of the United States. The previous gentleman said: Let's do it right. This does it right. This does it after years and years and years and years and years of…

To my colleagues, based upon the present information on the Senate timeline for passing the omnibus, the earliest the House is expected to meet is Wednesday with votes at 6:30 p.m.--that is the earliest--with the votes of the week…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank the ranking member, Mr. Davis, for his support of this legislation. Mr. Speaker, the Capitol Building is the wellspring of American democracy, freedom, and equality. We don't always live…