Conservation is this Subcommittee's bread and butter too.

I want to thank my friend also for giving us this opportunity to discuss the issue of clean water, the impact on agriculture and conservation and our rural communities.

Did you anticipate there would be this type of, I guess, concern and level of concern? Did it surprise you when you heard this or were you prepared for that?

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to thank my colleague and friend from Colorado for his kind words and his work on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I am proud to serve with him. I rise today in support of H.R…

I know my colleague gave a kind introduction and associated you and I together as friends, but I think Harry Truman was right.

I represent the Mayo Clinic and they tell me, the Vista system in the VA is the best medical record in the world.

Democracy isn't just elections--it's freedom of the press, which can get at corruption, which is a key issue for China.

It takes 40 years of rapid economic development, not 40 weeks or 40 months.

I have to tell you, I taught American high school and college students. They don't know this story.

I think many of them, once they knew, would stand proudly with those fighters of human rights.

My belief was this was one of those.