Jim Baird

The totality of this process is just another reminder that my colleagues across the aisle are more focused on politics than policy. The American people deserve better. Our Republic deserves better. The brave men and women of our military…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the 60,000 direct and indirect jobs that the medical device industry brings to my home State. The last 4 years, Congress has worked together to continually…

I thank the gentleman for the opportunity to express my thoughts about the rising trend in socialism. We have seen the effects of socialism, and you need not look very far to see the disastrous results that socialism has brought to…

Americans today are more vulnerable than ever to severe weather events.

I want to thank both of you for holding this joint hearing today.

We spend billions of dollars each year on recovery efforts, and these are only expected to grow.

That's why we need cost-effective measures to reduce the impact of windstorms on lives, buildings, and infrastructure.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 622.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleague in remembering the 36th anniversary of the appalling terrorist attack on American troops stationed in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983. This horrific…

Employers hate to have to pay Unemployment Insurance (UI) into that trust fund.

Do we have any research that tells us what online courses, and how to make those effective?

I would like to thank my colleague from Kansas for allowing me to have the opportunity to speak on this important issue. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to lend my voice in support of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, better known as…

With more than 50 percent of our veterans suffering from chronic pain, and half of those receiving at least one prescription for opioids, it is imperative that we give our veterans easy, anonymous, and continually available way to dispose…

It is especially fitting to discuss this critical topic here today during Suicide Prevention Month.

They put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms and safety, and in return it is our duty to do everything we can to ensure they get the proper attention and care they deserve.

This hearing introduces or continues our Subcommittee's focus on new innovations and technologies that will drive the American economy into the future.

Thank you, Chairwoman Stevens, for holding today's hearing on innovations in sustainable chemistry.

I look forward to hearing what appropriate role the federal government can play, whether it is investing in basic research to address knowledge gaps or helping industry develop voluntary standards or metrics.

I also look forward to hearing what appropriate role the Federal Government might play, whether it's investing in the basic research to address any knowledge gaps that we might have or helping the industry develop voluntary standards or…

Today I rise to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the triumph of the human spirit. On July 16, 1969, three Americans boarded a rocket at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. When they lifted off a few hours later…

I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3153, the Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act, also known as the EFFORT Act. The opioid crisis has, tragically, destroyed…

The public will support science only if it can trust the scientists and the institutions that conduct the research.

Science is science, but politics, as all of us on this side of the aisle know, is more complicated.

In science, carrying out our work with integrity is a bedrock principle.

There is nothing inherently dishonest about that. In politics we have disagreements. We discuss, we debate, we negotiate, we vote, and in the end, the voters decide whose policies they want to support at the ballot box.