don't eat the fruit of this tree is the only regulation that was ever initiated before people started abusing freedom.

I do expect it to be a higher priority than conservative thought.

Don't you think that ubiquitous platforms like Google and Facebook and many others should have the same responsibility to privacy as an internet service provider?

As we observe Women's History Month and continue celebrating the historic Olympic Gold Medal won by the U.S. women's hockey team, I rise to recognize two remarkable sisters from Grand Forks. Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux grew up in one of…

Let me, at the outset, as Chairman Shimkus did, express how special it was to watch a chairman and a staff director work, I think I daresay, as peers, as a team. That is very unusual in a place where titles seem to matter more than they…

I think state policy does matter. And while I agree that communities ought to have some competitiveness about how they-- and some control over their own regulation, there should be a minimum standard that makes sure that the country is…

John Andrist, a North Dakota State senator from Crosby for 22 years, died last week on Wednesday. He was a patriotic American who loved his Lord, loved his country, loved his State, and loved his community. John was a strong conservative…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Children's Health Insurance Program provides health coverage to low-income children and pregnant women who have an annual income above the Medicaid eligibility levels but have no health…

No U.S. Air Force unit has ever won more than 19 Outstanding Unit Awards. This last Saturday, I was honored to be in Fargo as the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Wing was awarded their 19th. The 119th Wing, known as the Happy…

I share all of your concerns with what's going on with regard to NAFTA.

Thank you for your candor, for being here, and for your strong leadership.

Thank you for going to places like Oklahoma and to North Dakota.

You see states as stakeholders and partners not as subordinates.

What I would love to do is be able to maybe have a meeting with my attorney general and you and me.

What for the last 8 years has simply been a dictatorship by the EPA.

I appreciate your commitment to process and rule of law.

It was the Department of Justice attorneys that argued so effectively against the State of North Dakota.

We know that the economic and job creation benefits are key components of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, making the U.S. globally competitive again, giving much-needed tax cuts to American business, and much-needed wage increases to American…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is no secret that a reliable supply of electricity is important to us on many levels, from human health, and, of course, to commercial productivity. As a former public service commissioner, I can tell…

I worry about the early shutdown, the forced shutdown, frankly, of base load generation, especially with plants that have useful life left in them.

So my message this morning, on the heels of these disasters, is let's do more working together, everyone in the utility industry, the scientists we have out there, and take this on. This is a real call to action.

I thank Mr. Davis and my colleague, Mr. Peterson, from across the Red River in Minnesota for their support for this renaming of the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center. For all of the reasons that Representative Peterson talked…

The larger concern is just what seems to be a lack of communication discipline coming out of the White House. And I think some of that is driven by the desire to have an immediate response to everything.

Can we find ways or even substantiate that interagency collaboration and cooperation can accomplish two goals.

I appreciate what Mr. McNerney said earlier about, you know, we will never solve this if one side imposes its will on the other.