I thank Ranking Member Engel, and I thank Chairman McCaul for their work on this measure.

I want to thank Mr. Smith for his work on this important bill.

It is particularly surprising that we would be having this hearing about Asia while Mexico and Canada and our trade with them and so much is at stake.

Yesterday, President Trump said that NAFTA--and I quote, NAFTA will have to be terminated if we are going to make it good.

This is absolutely headed for a disaster. This is an absolute crisis.

Democrats believe that our constituents deserve a better deal, a better deal for all Americans, a plan to bring better jobs, better wages, and a better future to everyone, and a vision to give every American the opportunity to prosper and…

I thank the gentleman, my friend and colleague from Kentucky, for yielding. Mr. Chairman, the Republican budget proposal is just cruel. It isn't just cruel; it will set our country backwards. It is worse than cruel. It puts more than $5…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I look at the pictures of Houston, Galveston, and parts of Texas, and Louisiana, and elsewhere, and I harken back to the same images I saw in New Jersey, New York, throughout New…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding me this time, and I want to thank, as well, the cosponsor--actually, the lead sponsor--Mr. Roskam, for his work here today. Today is a good day for the American taxpayers as, hopefully…

On July 24 and 25, 2017, I was absent for recorded votes 407 through 413 because I was attending my son's induction into the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Rhode Island. Had I been present, I would have voted: On rollcall 407 I would…

I would hate to see these ACA provisions and the program integrity efforts initiated by the Obama administration be reversed.

Regardless, I think, of party line, we can all agree that fraud is a serious crime.