Dan Kildee

Well, there are only 3 days left until the Department of Homeland Security shuts down, forcing thousands of TSA, Customs, Border Patrol, and Secret Service agents to put their lives on the line to protect American citizens without being…

Well, there are only 4 days left until the Department of Homeland Security shuts down, so I urge all my GOP colleagues to please take up a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security and take away the threat of another…

I guess it is pretty clear that politics continues. Rather than bringing to the floor of the House a bipartisan Homeland Security bill, what the House brought to the floor back in January was a highly political, highly partisan…

As you have heard, there are only 17 days until the GOP recklessly shuts down the Department of Homeland Security--and only 6 legislative days before that happens. We have a bipartisan bill that we have already agreed to. Bring it to the…

There are only 18 days left until the Department of Homeland Security runs out of money and shuts down on February 28. The Republican leadership, unfortunately, is still wasting time in this body in their appealing to the extremists within…

Instead of taking action for bigger paychecks for Americans or rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure, House Republicans yesterday introduced legislation to repeal and undermine the Affordable Care Act. This legislation would…

I thank my friend for yielding. I want to echo the comments of Ranking Member Waters. As a member of the Committee on Financial Services, I am particularly concerned with the direction that this bill takes us at a time when, on one hand…

It is week five of this new Congress, and the American people are still waiting for action to create jobs. Instead of doing that, Republicans seem focused on appeasing and pandering to the most extreme voices in their party. Even some…

It is week five for the new Congress--and it happens to be Groundhog Day--and my Republican colleagues, unfortunately, I think, are still stuck in the shadow of their extreme agenda. Instead of taking up a jobs bill or an infrastructure…

It is now week 4 in the new Republican Congress. There is still no jobs bill anywhere in sight. Instead of taking up an infrastructure bill or a minimum wage bill to give working families bigger paychecks, we are seeing a dangerous…

It is a really important point. And I hope that as we move forward on whatever process we engage in, we make sure to consider those factors.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Let me first say something about the process that we are engaged in. We have heard just in the last few weeks--and even as we opened this Congress--the Speaker and others in the majority talk about how we…

I thank my friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, I feel compelled to point out, after listening to the debate and the hyperbole, the passionate thoughts of what a high priority this is for the Republican leadership to bring this bill to the…

Just the night before last the President addressed this body and laid out an agenda that we all might not agree with certain elements, but there are elements that we could certainly act upon. We could take up an infrastructure bill. We…

First of all, thank you to my colleague, Mr. Pocan, for his leadership on this and for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a really important subject for the American people. It is a really important subject for the people that I represent in…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, here we are on the second day of the 114th Congress. It has not yet been 24 hours since Members of this Congress were sworn in. What we have before us is a package of 11 complex bills with…

I thank the gentlewoman. Madam Speaker, I share the concern expressed by my friend, Mr. Cole, that if we don't act today, government will be shut down, so I agree that we need to act. The question that we have to ask ourselves in this body…

I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, as a freshman, I have learned to be brief, and I will be brief. Coming from Michigan and growing up in a political family and actually succeeding my own uncle, Dale Kildee, in this seat, one would…

I thank the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) for her great work on this legislation and her kind words, as well as Ranking Member Waters, and to Mr. Pearce who has pursued this legislation relentlessly, Mr. Young, and others, I think…

Here we are just a few days short of the end of the 113th Congress, and this Congress has yet to take up the big questions facing the American people. We are 10 days away from a budget deadline, and there is still talk among some on the…

So there are just 3 legislative days left before we go on recess, and the most pressing issue that the House Republican leadership has decided that we need to devote our legislative time to is a resolution to sue the President of the…

Creating opportunity for hardworking American families and reigniting the American Dream should be the top priority of this Congress, but instead, we are about to embark on a 1- month legislative recess as the House Republican leadership…

We will see community banks continue to decline. We simply cannot afford the high cost of Federal regulation.

While this bill may be good for Wall Street, I would suggest to you that it is having a much harder impact on folks in the rural communities.

It's a sad situation as far as the plight of community banking goes.