It has been nearly 2 months since the Senate acted to extend unemployment compensation to millions of Americans. It is a bill that was passed in a bipartisan fashion, the way folks back home want us to do things; a bill that was paid for…

My amendment would ensure that the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center under the International Trade Administration's budget is funded at this President's requested level of $15 million by moving $10 million from NASA's $4.2 billion…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $8,000,000)''. Page 63, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert…

This week, I and many others were in Lafayette Park joining the family of Amir Hekmati, my constituent, to commemorate a very sad anniversary. For 1,000 days, Amir Hekmati, a young man born in the United States, grew up in my hometown of…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Chairman, I would like to address two amendments that I offered that are included in the en bloc amendment, one that deals with expanding financial resources and tools for servicemembers and one…

It is just wrong. It is wrong that we have 2.8 million hardworking Americans who have lost their jobs and are looking every day for their next job. They stand to lose everything that they have worked for, and this Congress has within its…

the CFPB protects consumers in the financial markets and its charge is to ensure that they are treated fairly.

this Congress has failed to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to address gender pay disparity in the private sector and ensure that women earn what they rightfully deserve.

it is unequivocal to many of us that nationwide, it is clear that we have a big problem here--and this was referenced in some of your comments--when women make 77 cents on the dollar as compared to men in the workplace.

I thank my friend from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so that we can immediately bring up H.R. 4415, which would restore unemployment benefits to 2.8 million Americans, people…

It has been 1 month since the Senate acted in a bipartisan fashion to pass emergency unemployment extension. Just hours after the Senate acted, I introduced a bill, H.R. 4415, the same language passed by the Senate. It is fully paid for…

Today there are 2 million Americans that stand to lose everything they have worked for, through no fault of their own--2 million Americans that are working Americans that get up every day and work hard to find their next job. They are…