Billy Long

I am discouraged by the administration's deficient funding request for the Port Security Grant Program.

The H-2B program sustain American jobs. In fact the H-2B visas issued support 4.6 American jobs on average.

Relief for these seasonal businesses is urgently needed and cannot wait, and I am here today to ask for your support to include key H-2B visa program provisions in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations fiscal year 2019…

FEMA can't stop sea level rise; that would be the equivalent of us saying we are going to stop plate tectonics.

Unfortunately, the program's annual 66,000 visa cap... is not adequate to meet the demands of the growing economy.

I believe that State and local governments need to have skin in the game.

You are the guy to fix this. We are not. You need to save your ship.

Congress is good at two things: doing nothing and overreacting.

What is unsafe about two black women supporting President Donald J. Trump?

I say this is a nonpartisan issue, and I would like to point out that the organization, National Association of SARA Title III Program Officials, back in 2012, in an earlier version of a similar amendment, had opposed this. Back on May 28…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

My amendment is very straightforward. It would make clear that two laws enacted several decades ago to manage the aftereffects of industrial toxic waste spills would not apply to everyday emissions that are simply a way of life on family…

Today I have the honor of introducing my friend Reverend Dr. Andrew Chaney. Reverend Chaney is a third-generation minister. He serves as the senior minister at the historic First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, a…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, insert the following: SEC. __. TABLE ROCK LAKE, ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI. (a) In…

Table Rock Lake, near Branson, Missouri, is one of the premier destinations in the Ozarks, especially for my constituents in the Seventh Congressional District. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently undertaking a revision of the lake's…

I was thinking last night if I could ask you to do one thing for me as congressman that one thing would be to get rid of Obamacare.

I appreciate that and I just want to say for the record how we do ourselves a honor or privilege, I guess, or do ourselves right when we work on legislation like this in a bipartisan fashion that can do so much good for so many people.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, you don't need a Ph.D. from MIT to understand what is going on here. Despite President Obama and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Wheeler's past promises not to regulate the retail…

I see the FCC has decided to use the merger process to circumvent a recently passed law.

What an accomplishment it is to have this historic legislation on the House floor. I want to congratulate the chairman and my Energy and Commerce Committee colleagues for their hard work. We are much closer to moving American medical…

How can we realistically expect the EPA to manage several new rounds of state plan revisions that will be needed with the new ozone standard at the same time that they are reviewing plans for the clean power plan?

the time is now.

Over the last few decades, the Federal Government has regulated activities of the American people in increasingly minute detail. It was the Founders' desire to protect our individual liberty by having a government which was energetic in…

I think I made a difference. I think that we got some answers to questions in the future to prevent--I don't want to be here again.

I thank my colleague from Texas for yielding to me. Every day, Federal agencies spend money advertising various programs without mentioning where the funding for these programs or their ads are coming from. Supreme Court Justice Louis…