I appreciate your sensitivity to the Historically Black Colleges, unlike your soon-to-be colleague in the Cabinet who said that they were about choice or something when it came to black colleges.

It is pretty amazing to me that a bunch of us in this body who get government-supported insurance, whose taxpayers subsidize our health insurance, that people in this body and the other house want to take away insurance for a whole lot of…

I am hopeful that the standard will be high. We should send the message that American businesses--we should not be sending the message American businesses can be so successful partnering with corrupt entities.

It is one of the great accomplishments of government and communities and the Federal Government especially to clean this up, and we cannot backslide.

one thing has become clear in this country: Hard work just doesn't pay off like it used to. Over the last 40 years, GDP has gone up, corporate profits have gone up, and executive salaries have gone up all because of the productivity of…

Congratulations, Mr. Clayton, on your nomination to be the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

I just ask if something happens and that insurance is taken away, as it would be with the House bill, for all those people that have opioid addictions and are getting treatment, I would ask you if you would go back to OMB and the White…

The President has proposed to cut it by 100 percent, which is just ludicrous.

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

the five Great Lakes are as vital to our industrial heartlands as the Rockies are to the West or the Atlantic coastline is to New England. Eighty-four percent of America's freshwater is in the Great Lakes--84 percent. Around the globe…

Russia's interference in our election, confirmed unanimously by the U.S. intelligence community in a declassified report, poses a problem that goes far beyond foreign policy and strikes at the core of our democracy.

VA employees, acting as whistleblowers, raised concerns and demanded change for our veterans.

We should focus now on what the Committee might do to strengthen our response to Russia for the actions I mentioned and for its continuing efforts to destabilize states in Europe.

Any reduction to the level of sanctions in the absence of a corresponding shift in Russian behavior will be interpreted as a change in U.S. policy on Russia's involvement in Ukraine.

Russia must be held accountable for its actions, and if sanctions are to be a part of that strategy, they must be targeted and staged appropriately according to a set of realistic conditions.

He understands the kind of trade policy we need, not only to help our steel companies, but all American manufacturers and their workers.

Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster facing our constituents today.

Steel over-capacity must be a top priority for the USTR.

With a growing population and a changing climate, our entire Nation will continue to grapple with this issue in the years ahead.

The most common and costly natural disaster facing our constituents is flooding, yet it is hard to insure against that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your having this hearing today.

I look forward to continuing to work with Chairman Crapo and the Members of this Committee to strengthen the NFIP.

These miners cannot afford to wait. We must act sooner rather than later.

I believe that it is critical that WTO panels and the Appellate Body apply WTO rules as written and not 'add to or diminish the rights and obligations' of the United States or other WTO Members.

NFIP seeks to combat the effects of flooding through four interrelated components: flood insurance, floodplain management, floodplain mapping, and mitigation.