At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from southern Florida (Mr. Jolly).

I speak today regarding section 131 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015. This section is a very important provision that requires the Treasury to report to Congress each month on the number of…

I am particularly pleased to see section 401 in this bill, which requires the Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission--currently Allison Macfarlane--to notify the other members of the Commission and the House and Senate Appropriations…

I appreciate all of that. Mr. Chairman, by the way, I would disagree with the last speaker on whether or not there would be no environmental oversight. The State Department has over 10,000 pages of environmental studies that were done…

Today marks the 2,104th day since the original Keystone XL pipeline application was filed at the U.S. State Department, as required by law. For 5 years, this administration has either just been completely incompetent or has, for political…

I want to thank Chairman Shuster and his staff for their hard work and steadfast leadership that got something accomplished that took over 7 years to get to this point. Great job. This is the way the Constitution was meant for Congress to…

Will the gentleman yield now? Because that is absolutely wrong, and you know it.

This bill is absolutely necessary when we look at the facts as we know them currently and we look at the information that we are uncertain about. Number one is we have lost four people in an attack that we now know is a terrorist attack…

Thank you, Mr. Fortenberry. I think the language is innovative and absolutely necessary, and I compliment you on your perseverance on this issue as well and on the insertion of this language into the bill. Mr. Chairman, the lend-lease or…

Now, the purpose of this inquiry was to discuss some health care alternatives for the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. Our hospital for 170,000 area veterans is in serious disrepair--boilers, HVAC, emergency generators. The…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 54, after line 12, insert the following: Sec. 224. None of the funds made available in this Act for ``Department of Veterans…

I first want to thank my colleagues on the VA-MilCon Subcommittee--in particular, Mr. Fortenberry and Mr. Culberson and their staff--for their excellent work on this legislation in helping me facilitate this amendment and discussion. I…