I thank my friend from the great State of New York and the great city of New York for inviting me to speak on the need for comprehensive immigration reform for our Nation as a whole and, specifically, about how the broken immigration…

I thank my colleague very much for her comments. Madam Speaker, I just realized that today, this Special Order, we had four speakers, three of whom are immigrants: the gentleman from New York, the gentleman from Illinois, and this…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 44, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $16,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

My second amendment to this Supplemental Appropriations Act increases emergency food assistance for the Marianas. As I explained earlier, our islands were struck by not one, but two typhoons last year, one right after another--Typhoon…

I have no further statements to make. I ask for support of my amendment and the underlying bill, H.R. 268, and I yield back the balance of my time The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 13, insert ``(increased by $15,000,000)'' after the dollar amount. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

I want to thank the conferees on H.R. 6157 for rejecting a proposal by the Trump administration to use this appropriation measure to impose a new $700 fee for businesses in the Northern Mariana Islands that employ foreign workers under the…

May I inquire how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from the Northern Mariana Islands has 15 minutes remaining.

Again, I encourage support for this bill, and having no further speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

I ask for support of this legislation. I just want to say if it is really 4,600 miles, then that is the equivalent of a round trip between San Francisco and Honolulu, a distance which I frequently fly and don't actually enjoy sitting down…

Republicans have relentlessly tried to undermine the pillars of Americans' retirement security. The Trump budget alone calls for $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, almost $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and $72 billion in cuts to Social…

I have no further speakers. I ask my friends and my colleagues to please support this lifesaving amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.