Dan Kildee: “I recently started an initiative in Congress titled, 'The Future of America's Cities and Towns.'”

Let's pull that bill off the shelf. Let's all force a vote on it.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217, nays 192, not voting 22, as follows: [Roll No. 417]…

I will be uncharacteristically brief. This is tough. We all come here to do the hard work of representing our districts. I don't think a lot of folks understand that one of the things that makes this often difficult job tolerable in some…

It makes a difference where the investment comes from and where the relationships are built, and if we defer to our adversaries, we have no ability, really, to have a meaningful impact on the continent.