I thank Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky for providing $212 million for suicide prevention outreach programs, $20 million above the President's request. I am offering this amendment with my colleagues, Representatives…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,500,000) (increased by $5,500,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 33, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $25,000,000)''. Page 36, line 1, after the dollar amount…

I thank the ranking member and my brother in the Law Enforcement Caucus, David Reichert, from Washington. I want to thank my colleagues who have joined in a strong show of bipartisan support for the COPS program, Ms. Herrera Beutler and…

I thank the ranking member and the chairman. I am not going to vote for this piece of legislation--not even close. Everyone talks about how we must maintain the roads. If you listened over the last 45 minutes, all of these infrastructure…

Neither party has the wherewithal to deal with the problem. I believe our model must receive serious consideration as the clock counts down on the trust fund's expiration. Our legislation has the support of both business and labor. I am…

My amendment would direct the Department of Defense to conduct a study on blast injury mechanics covering a wide range of primary blast injury conditions, including traumatic brain injury, in order to accelerate solution development in…

I thank both Chairman Ryan and Ranking Member Levin of the Ways and Means Committee for allowing the bill coming to the floor today, and I thank my good friends Representatives Paulsen and Reichert, my co- chair, for presenting this bill…

I want to thank Mr. Reichert for all the work he has done on this legislation to bring it to the floor this evening. We are talking about H.R. 2146. Law enforcement officers face physically demanding work day in and day out. Current law…

I thank the gentlewoman. Anyone who listened to the gentleman from Washington State, Congressman Reichert, if they have any doubt as to the significance, not only of this piece of legislation and the other three pieces of legislation that…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, currently the IRS has not ruled on the tax treatment of State payments, instead allowing any dispute, as Mr. Paulsen just pointed out, to be resolved via what they call a private…

To me, when we get the taxes, this budget assumes that revenues remained unchanged from our current law. Someone needs to have a conversation with the chairman of Ways and Means, because he seems to be unaware. In fact, he stated…