Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 3, after ``children,'' insert ``including step-parents and their…

Mr. Chair, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, my amendment clarifies that the exceptions for gifts and loans of firearms between parents and their children applies to stepparents and stepchildren. The reason I offer…

Mr. Chair, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, I want to thank the body for its support of my amendment, and I urge a ``yes'' vote on the Van Drew amendment. This is a good amendment, and I believe it will be helpful…

You are well aware of it and you are working on it and working through it?

I am going to try to do a good job here, because there haven't been too many of us.

The farmers aren't always ones to say, 'Oh, I need help,' or whatever, but at times they do.

It is wonderful to see you here. Just on the slightly humorous side, I wanted to be on the Agriculture Committee, and some people were surprised because I am from New Jersey.

Actually, it is the third biggest industry in the State of New Jersey.

Please excuse my absence for today's Water, Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittee hearing on 'The State of Water Supply Reliability in the 21st Century' due to a family emergency.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my disappointment at New Jersey Transit. New Jersey Transit promised the public that the Atlantic City project will be finished by early 2019, but recently, it announced that the Atlantic City Rail Line…

The problem now is that, for example, China is burning coal.