Could I ask, on the emerald ash borer and the loss of ash trees, do you know, sir, how many we have lost already?

Does that mean you will not be able to complete work, and you probably cannot answer this, to complete the cleanup of the area of concern at Lorraine, Ohio on the Black River, because I am quite concerned if the Administration is going to…

Lake Erie has the least number of trees surrounding it of any of the Great Lakes.

America really cannot afford to shortchange our environment and human health.

I just wanted to say that I would very much appreciate your review of my bill on a Civilian Conservation Corps.

I want to ask your help in a very specific situation that is why we want you to come to Ohio.

I would urge you to revisit that part of your budget, and, believe me, I am going to try to help you.

We are not doing our job, and we have got to figure out a way to do it.

I want to thank Congresswoman Pingree very much for that.

Thank you. We were guaranteed that that would happen, so that really scared us.

I thank Congressman Boyle and Congressman Veasey for their leadership and the new energy and the innovative ideas that they bring here from their constituency on behalf of our country. It is a privilege to join you tonight and talk about…

Let me raise several questions for President Donald Trump. The American people and Members of Congress would like to know the answers. I am deeply concerned the President is compromising the national security of our Nation. Why would a…

TrumpCare is another false promise. Actually, it is musical chairs. Millions of Americans will be left out and priced out, especially the sick, the old, the pregnant, and the mentally ill. Health insurance means life or death. In this…

As co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, I rise to commemorate the precious life of Joseph Stone of Tucson, Arizona. The 36-year-old American was serving his part of an official international peace team monitoring the border…

I want to thank my dear colleague, Mrs. Lowey, the ranking member of the committee, for yielding, and thank Chairmen Frelinghuysen, Rogers, and Ranking Member Lowey again for the hard work they did to push this bill across the finish line…

President Trump claims to have brought profound change in his first 100 days in office, but thus far, on jobs, our trade deficit continues to rise. Rather than fulfill his promise to directly renegotiate NAFTA, the President signed another…

I just have to say how important I believe an infrastructure bill is to this country.

I think we need a bridge financing package.

As the senior woman in the U.S. House, I wanted to say thank you to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the senior Republican woman in the House, and to say with poignance I received her decision recently to retire from our beloved House…

Today is Arbor Day, and I rise to reintroduce my bill, the 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Act. In drafting this bill, I was inspired by the CCC Act first established by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 as part of his New…

We are quickly approaching President Trump's first 100 days in office, and the swamp he pledged to drain now has been stocked with Wall Street's finest. President Trump made a big jobs promise to working people across this country in his…

I thank Congressman Clay for organizing this Special Order, and the people of Ohio in my district stand with him and with the young artist I will discuss in a moment. The United States of America and this Capitol stand as a symbol of…

The American flag on our Nation's Capitol is flying at half-mast to honor the life of American hero, Ohio Senator and Colonel John Herschel Glenn, being laid to rest today at Arlington National Cemetery. What a human being, what a patriot…

I thank the gentlewoman from Connecticut for coming down this evening. As we complete our work here this evening, I wanted to reissue our invitation to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to travel to Ohio to come to U.S. Steel in Lorain to…

I want to thank Congresswoman DeLauro for her stellar leadership on the trade task force and the work that it has done. The hours and hours of effort on defeating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the great assemblage that she gathered and…