Does the gentlewoman from Connecticut remember when Gary Hufbauer said we would have trade surpluses? In other words, this is upside down. It should actually be like this. We would have surpluses then. Well, it is exactly the opposite he…

What the gentlewoman from Connecticut is saying is very important because certain States hung in the balance in this past election. Ohio was one of them. Michigan, Pennsylvania, obviously Indiana next door was constant. If you look at each…

I wanted to mention that hundreds and hundreds of steel workers in my district are getting laid off right now, as the gentlewoman from Connecticut speaks. We are facing complete closure of two plants. One has already been idled, Republic…

I thank Congressman Boyle. He has raised so many important issues tonight on jobs and trade and how we fix this problem for the people of our country and, frankly, the world. One of the issues is which banks are actually financing this…

Congressman Rush is always calling the Nation to its higher principles. I thank him so very much for sharing our Special Order this evening. Congressman David Cicilline of Rhode Island is here on the floor. I also want to thank Congressman…

It is Equal Pay Day, and I am privileged to rise in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act today. This legislation would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by ensuring that women can hold employers accountable for what they earn and…

If we look at this chart, just for those who are listening to us this evening, if you go back to the mid-1970s, as Congressman Cicilline pointed out, you will see the United States was pretty buoyant. We were actually exporting more than…

I thank Congressman Cicilline. He hit it right on the head. We ought to be exporting goods, not importing this many more than we export, and we ought to be creating jobs right here. I am sure he has seen companies from his community, from…

Today The Washington Post reported that the United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder and major Trump contributor Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin. The meeting was an…

Recently while announcing his manufacturing jobs initiative, President Trump said: ``Everything is going to be based on bringing our jobs back. The good jobs, the real jobs. They have to come back.'' Well, this month, more than 700 idled…

Over the weekend, courageous Russians took to the streets to protest the repressive Russian Government led by Vladimir Putin. All of our major newspapers report the stories of these brave souls. Their protests were met by brutal tactics of…

The Affordable Care Act needs to be repaired, not repealed. In 2010, Democrats passed health care reform in an effort to move toward health insurance for all Americans. Though we have made progress and more work to do, we cannot move…

I want to ask why the Democratic microphone is turned off. This happened to me the other day when the Republican microphone was on over there. The last two speakers we have not been able to hear as well as we heard Ms. Cheney, and I want…

Years from now, history books could well describe entrapment of a United States President by a foreign adversary. Allow me to update my colleagues on the Trump administration's foreign policy. Recently, the State Department avoided…

Congressman Garamendi, may I just inject, and I won't take up much time. But, you know, in this job, you meet everybody. I come from a working class family. We had to work for everything we ever had. I thank the people of my district for…

I thank the gentleman so very much for taking the time, after formal votes have occurred today, to help us enlighten the American people on what is really at stake here. I have to say, President Trump carried the State of Ohio by about…

The Commerce Department just announced that America's trade deficit for January 2017 was $48.5 billion, the largest monthly deficit since March 2012. That translates into more lost jobs in our country. In the campaign, President Trump…

I thank Ranking Member Visclosky very much. Mr. Speaker, every year, our top responsibility as appropriators is to finish the 12 spending bills that keep our government running by October 1 of the year before that fiscal year is supposed…

President Trump is a master at diverting attention, even the media's. His diversions are a perfect foil from the constitutional questions that his and his family's behavior have raised since he took the oath of office. With hotels and…

I am hoping that in any new infrastructure bill that is proposed that the cleanup issues will be also considered for inclusion.

I do want to make a comment about it. And I don't want us to be a country that is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

We do not have a flexible system to target. We do not have any program really that deals with this kind of economic transformation.

And I really believe that the sort of current solution, which is let these sick fish fall on the States, isn't working.

I was very impressed, Ms. Collins, with some numbers you provided for the region. Appalachia, I mean, just think about this, since 2000 has lost, counting manufacturing jobs and coal jobs, over 655,000 jobs.

I urge you to work together and invite the President of the United States to your Reservations and to make sure that the infrastructure bill that they are considering over there... that they see you.