That policy was disrespectful and counterproductive, in my view.

I hope you will be willing to stop the funding of the train and equip program in Iraq and funding the Iranian militias that are willing to kill Americans and Jews and everybody across the Crescent that disagrees with them.

We must not let Iran reap the benefits of those sacrifices that were made at such a high cost.

Congress over the years has been pretty responsible in a bipartisan manner to make sure that we are protecting as much as possible the endangered animals.

the cuts that were talked about in the Trump administration budget never happened.

I thank Chairman Roe and Ranking Member Walz for their leadership. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5044, the Service- Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act. This bill ensures that the surviving spouses of…

I want to thank John Conyers for his support over the years, Zoe Lofgren, Steve Cohen, and others.

For the foregoing reasons, I support reintroduction of the NOPEC Act.

I want to thank the witnesses, who will be testifying when we ever stop talking.

This will be the fourth time that I have introduced this legislation since 2000.

I send to the desk a privileged resolution, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 899 =========================== NOTE =========================== May 16, 2018, on page…

To close. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman for her leadership on this issue. I would also like to thank the staffs on both sides of the aisle, and I would also like to thank the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Rodney…

I thank Mr. Bacon for introducing this good government legislation. It is a protransparency bill, and it addresses an often overlooked problem facing small Federal construction contractors. He has been a leader on this issue, and we…

I have no further speakers on the bill at this time, so I reserve the balance of my time.

Before I yield to the principal sponsor of this legislation, Mr. Bacon, I would like to thank my colleague Steve Knight from California for working on this as well; and also Al Lawson from Florida, and also Stephanie Murphy from Florida…

To close, and I will be brief. Mr. Speaker, America's small business development centers must have the best possible cybersecurity training so that they can better assist small businesses to detect and combat cyber attacks. In our…

In closing, this legislation provides a level of certainty for small businesses who contract with the Federal Government. It is a commonsense, bipartisan bill that benefits small firms and ought to improve efficiency within the Federal…

Before I turn it over to the gentleman, the principal sponsor of the bill, I want to thank our colleague Mr. Lawson for his work on this bill as well. Again, we have been bipartisan, Republican and Democrat, working together to advance, in…

Israel is one of our most important allies, without a doubt, and shares our values in a part of the world that so often sees authoritarian governments trample on the most basic of human rights.

We want to encourage people to work, to find meaning in that work and to pay taxes so let's remove the disincentives to work.

And this hearing is about the most inspirational hearing that we have had since the one we had about two years ago.

Chip's daughter Ann has been an inspiration to me and all the rest of Cincinnati over the years as we have watched her grow up and is now, you know, a wonderful young woman who is working.

We love our President. We love his agenda. We love this country.

I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri for yielding. It is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, and the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Wagner) has been a leader in speaking out on this critical issue for many years now, and we…

The border should be secured.