Jon L. Christensen: “I rise in support of item No. 5, the sunshine rule for committees... It's time to open the doors, throw open the…”

in 1790, the Non-Intercourse Act was enacted reserving the right to acquire land, or an interest in land, owned by an Indian tribe in the United States. It was intended to prevent third parties from taking advantage of Indians by…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5680, introduced by our colleague, Mr. Grijalva, contains multiple proposals to address the needs of several Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. I would like to commend Mr. Grijalva for his hard work on this…

I rise today for 11 million reasons--the 7 million children whose insurance will continue and the more than 4 million other children who will be insured for the first time--many of whom are children of color--with the passage of H.R. 2. I…

what we're hearing about the SCHIP negotiations sounds like this Congress is getting ready to literally throw the baby out with the bathwater. We started with a less than perfect bill that would have covered close to 6 million children who…