I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for yielding. I too rise in support of H.R. 4268. In Mississippi, U.S. Highway 78 cuts diagonally through the foothills of the Appalachians to Memphis. This is the highway that our most famous native…

I want to thank Chairman Ryan for yielding, but, more importantly, thank him for his work and leadership in this area. Tonight around America, families will sit down at the kitchen table to talk about their family finances. And there…

In my opinion, we are standing on the shoulders today of the people who came before us that made the decision to invest in research and those who actually conducted that research.

I want to thank my friend from Oklahoma for his leadership in bringing focus to this important issue. The foundation for our country rests on the shoulders of ``we the people.'' Under our constitutional form of government, we the people…

Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of my birth and my hometown, is known for a lot of things: the birthplace of Elvis Presley; we are the headquarters of the Natchez Trace Parkway. One of the things we are also very proud of is we are the very…

I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for yielding. Today, I rise in support of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which will make policies like the Hyde amendment permanent and government-wide, and remove funding for…

On December 23, in my hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, two of our police officers, Sergeant Gale Stauffer and Patrol Officer Joseph Maher, were shot while attempting to apprehend a bank robber. Thankfully, Officer Maher survived very…

The Legislative Fellowship program is a selective mideducation program where the Air Force places the very best and brightest officers and civilians in congressional offices so that they may learn the legislative process. For this past…

On rollcall No. 632, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Stated against:

I would like to welcome to the House of Representatives this morning Dr. John Adams, Jr., who offered the prayer earlier. Dr. Adams is a native of Mississippi, and he is currently the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Mantachie…

Thank you, Mrs. Hartzler, and I appreciate your leadership in this area. You know, when the Framers of our Constitution put together this government and submitted it to the people, the American people looked at it and said, You did a good…

They said implementing ObamaCare is going to be a train wreck, and that train wreck went right through the Etta community in Union County, Mississippi, and ran right over Reverend Bobby Irvin. Reverend Irvin tells me: I had health…

I thank the chairman for yielding, for his leadership. To what lengths will the Democrats go in order to protect ObamaCare? They've already denied pay to National Guardsmen and -women and Reservists, ceased lifesaving medical research…

I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding time, but I also thank him for his leadership on behalf of veterans. Mr. Speaker, the House and the Senate have already passed a measure that would pay for our troops in the middle of…

The real debt ceiling that any family, that any business or any government faces is when we get to the point when we can no longer find people to lend us money at a rate we can afford to repay.

I want to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding, but also for his leadership on this important issue. I rise in strong opposition to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. The Obama administration has a disturbing tendency to favor…

What keeps me awake at night is to see that our debt is growing, not to pay the cost of defending freedom, but to pay for benefits for ourself.

I want to thank the chairman for yielding, but more importantly for his leadership. The people sent me to Congress to help preserve liberty for future generations by limiting government and growing the economy. There's not a single law…

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Mississippi is recognized for 5 minutes.

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding. America has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources. Because of private-sector innovations, we've seen a boom in energy development both on private lands and on State…

Our friends on the other side have called for what they label a balanced approach, but let's look at the record. Is their quench for new taxes insatiable? At the start of this year, they got $600 billion in new taxes due to the fiscal…

So to wrap it up, is it accurate to say that in the 1980s, they got the geology and science right; they just did not contemplate the politics?

I do want to thank Mr. Ryan for his leadership on this budget. Mr. Chairman, we've talked a lot about the big picture. I want to make it personal. In the early 1990s, I lost my job in a corporate merger. For about 48 hours, I moped around…

We can't continue to spend this kind of money, we can't continue to grow this.