America's role in the world requires engagement.

We are taking on a very specific set of countries.

There is nothing that is more fulfilling and rewarding in the work that we do as Members of the United States Congress than to see the kind of benefit that we have been able to put into place here.

Madam Speaker, these cuts are economic folly. They have the potential to damage this fragile recovery and to compromise critical national investments. Republicans may be willing to risk a governmental shutdown to appease extremist…

Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this continuing resolution. All of us know we are having this debate at a challenging and tense time. We are facing an entirely unnecessary government shutdown, a shutdown that has already been…

Mr. Chair. I rise in opposition to H.R. 910. While cynically called the Energy Tax Prevention Act by its sponsors, the bill could more aptly be named the ``Dirty Air Act''. This legislation would overturn EPA's scientific finding that…

I thank my friend and colleague Mr. Dreier, the chairman of the House Democracy Partnership, which I had the privilege to chair for the past four years. Dan Mulhollan and the Congressional Research Service have indeed been critical…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the distinguished career of a man who has been an institution within an institution: Daniel P. Mulhollan, the director of our Congressional Research Service, who will retire next month after more than 17…

I would be happy to yield to my friend from California, who I know has made a special effort, given his leadership duties, to join us on the floor.

And from Lebanon. That's right. There are four groups of parliamentarians here this week, and the CRS, as usual, is a full partner in putting on workshops for these members, workshops that will help them strengthen their operations back…

We have delegations from four parliaments in town this week for workshops on committee operations. They're from Pakistan, Indonesia, some members from Iraq----