Tim Walberg

I thank my colleague from Missouri for taking this on this evening, to make a point that we are not just talking politics here, but we are talking lives. We are talking freedom. We are talking opportunity. We are talking security. We must…

I thank my colleague, Representative Lamborn, and I appreciate his intentionality in bringing us together each year to talk about this, having had that opportunity, now into my fifth term, each year to remind ourselves of the impact of the…

Well, that is so important, and I appreciate that in talking with the private sector and their challenges in the energy industry with cyber.

I thank Representative Thompson for this Special Order but, even more importantly, for sponsoring this legislation and giving many of us the opportunity to join with him because, indeed, this is not simply a piece of legislation that…

I would like to ask, Mr. Chairman, unanimous consent to submit for the record letters from the National Association of Attorneys Generals, Families USA, and Partnership for Medicaid Home Based Care, and express support for H.R. 3891.

I guess the only complaint I would have thus far is that your staff didn't prepare well enough to go through 535 members of Congress to see if there were any biases and have those figures for us today that you could answer.

I don't want to be like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that want to regulate. This is the amazing social media opportunity we have.

I commend the work of these State Fraud Control Units and the attorneys general for protecting the most vulnerable of our population from harm as well as ensuring taxpayer resources are being used appropriately.

You have no specific timeline or strong policy in place to notify me, for instance, that there's a reason why you have taken me down, blocked or whatever, for the time being so I can at least respond to that and can make a change so that I…

As I travel Michigan's Seventh District, from neighborhood stores to the factory floor, there is a renewed sense of optimism. Folks I hear from feel safer and more secure about the future. The economy is thriving thanks to progrowth…

I have had the privilege of traveling to North, West, and East Africa on numerous times now.

It is clear to see that this situation is worsening and that we want to make sure that Cameroon is not the site of a civil war or doesn't become a humanitarian crisis.

To hear the story of how he and his family fled during the genocide has perked up my ears to concerns that go on anyplace in the world, but especially Africa.

The atrocities grew greater because of inaction.

I am grateful for your leadership and for the work my colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee are doing to tackle the opioid crisis. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act…

The big challenge that I see for your committee... is how do we get more people into the workforce?

I completely share what Ms. Wilson was saying. We need to raise wages.

I thank the gentlelady.

We haven't yet seen the wage growth and that is the big challenge.

We do a real disservice when we have policies that discourage young people from working.

Congresswoman Wilson is exactly right. We just have seen stagnation in middle income for at least the last 10 years.

That helps communities as well, doesn't it?

That is going to produce investments in more employees.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5041, the Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act is a bipartisan, commonsense bill that simply allows trained hospice personnel to dispose of unused medications in a patient's home once…

I thank the chairman for yielding, and I thank Congresswoman Debbie Dingell for working with me on this bipartisan legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 5009, Jessie's Law. Everywhere I go in Michigan, I hear about the opioid…