Joe Morelle

Research institutions play a critical role in attracting and developing the brightest minds who then dedicate their careers to solving our most challenging problems through innovative solutions--these great minds keep the U.S. on the…

What more can we do to engage with small businesses and harness their talents and capabilities?

Today I rise to recognize Military Appreciation Month. Serving in America's Armed Forces is one of the most courageous and selfless decisions citizens of this country can make. It is a decision we should never cease to honor and celebrate…

Simply put, medicines are of no use if those that need them can't afford them.

It's time for price gouging of America's consumers at the pharmacy counter to end.

This whole-of-government, whole-of-America approach helps ensure that the United States considers a broad range of equities as it advances our objectives.

I couldn't even get Members of the House of Representatives to defend the Constitution this past November against a suggestion that an election was stolen with no evidence that that is the case.

Predictably, for example, even though Congress directed the Defense Department to cut $10 billion through administrative efficiencies between 2015 and 2019, the Pentagon failed to substantiate that it had achieved those savings.

Sometimes poverty is big business for some people. And they are good. 'We are like good where we are.'

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, first of all, not only for convening this hearing today, which is so important at this point in our Nation's history, but your long history of working on this.

I actually was going to ask something about hunger, but I have been inspired by the chairman's call to talk about this in a bigger way.

I just want to offer my experience and expertise in whatever legislation you both are working on.

Kids love to learn with their hands, and they love to work with their hands, and they love to learn by doing things.

I've been fighting in New York to you know expand access to CTE programs for a number of years.

Certainly, No. 1 for me would be to enforce the Mental Health Parity Act, particularly for the Medicaid-eligible patient population.

I think there's no question that all of us I think recognize the importance of having children physically back in school when we can, and I think that's what we're all working very hard to do, recognizing however, that we want to do it…

So Pearl Harbor happened. The Japanese attacked the United States. We are effectively in war even without a declaration by Congress, aren't we?

There needs to be regular reporting of meaningful information, including access to threat information.

I think our last declaration of war was 1942. Is that right? That is the Congress-led... Against the Axis Powers.

I think there were instances, too, of Jefferson, where the United States Navy commandeered ships, basically took supplies off and then released them because there was no declaration of war at the time and he was much more of a limited view…

The need to ensure that the Framers' intent, as I understand it, to vest this power in the people, because we were directly elected and we would be the closest to the people.

I do fundamentally agree with the chair, with Mr. Cole, and my colleagues relative to the balance here between Article I and Article II.

The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act is a bipartisan legislative fix that would restore the pre-2009 standard in age discrimination claims.

Nearly $400 million in federal aid coming to Rochester-area schools.

I appreciate my colleague from Illinois, and I may not agree with him very much on this subject. But I really disagree if he thinks the Committee on Rules today was fun. He must be a heck of a cheap date. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to…