This is a very important position. Unfortunately, we have a lot of IG positions that have been going unfilled for too long.

I rise to urge my colleagues to support the bipartisan legislation I introduced with my colleague Senator Lankford, the Federal Vehicle Repair Cost Savings Act. I am pleased the Senate is considering the first bill I introduced as a…

We have to move forward with the utmost haste to get this job done.

I would certainly hope that we need to have another hearing after the NTSB has come back with their findings.

Every day we delay, we increase the odds of another tragic accident.

So a minor correction on this track could have prevented this accident and saved these lives?

But this system could have slowed this train down had it been identified?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

No American should be fired, denied a job or a place to live for being who they are or because of whom they love. Every American deserves to be treated equally and with dignity. My amendment would make a simple change to the text of the…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute vote on passage of the bill, if…

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Peters moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1335 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report the same back…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will proceed immediately to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, preserving our beaches and bays and our coastal…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise as a cosponsor of this amendment, and I am glad to be working with Congresswoman Bonamici and my colleague on the Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member Adam Smith. Our amendment…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, our country, as Mr. Kilmer pointed out, is facing an ever-increasing global competition for scientific research. We can't afford to cede the leading edge we have built up in innovation to…

first off, I agree with Senator Brown and Senator Hatch on how important this debate before us is. In fact, because it is so important, I certainly hope we have an opportunity to debate fully its ramifications, especially with issues such…

Perhaps that is what our focus needs to be, to do our job, making sure the FAA has the resources necessary to continue to go forward.

I rise today with a heavy heart and with great sadness to commemorate the life of Rachel Jacobs. Rachel was tragically killed in last week's Amtrak train crash. This morning, my wife Colleen and I joined hundreds of mourners who attended…

It seems to me ultimately it falls back on Congress, that we are not doing our job here in providing the resources necessary to implement NextGen and other types of reforms.

The government must maintain a role in governance of the system since the FAA is ultimately the guarantor of the public interest.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, diversifying our military's fuel supply is a national security imperative given the serious new threats we face as a country. More than 3,000 men and women in uniform have been killed or…

It is an organic process.

I think it is important to remember when we are talking about folks who are engaged in these activities with extremism, it is just a tiny sliver of the Muslim community here in the United States.

In fact, there are regular protests against the activities of ISIS as a perversion of Islam and not reflective of the broader Muslim community.