I would like to begin by congratulating my good friend and colleague, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, for advancing the Housing Financial Literacy Act, H.R. 2162. It is an effort she has championed for years. As co-chair of the Financial…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We have a crisis on our southern border, and H.R. 3401 with the Senate amendments gets resources to give humanitarian assistance to those seeking asylum. It also adds judges and judge teams to hear the…

I want to express my strong support for H.R. 1037, the Banking Transparency for Sanctioned Persons Act. The bill includes important provisions to strengthen our national security, and it passed unanimously last year in the full House. I am…

I urge adoption of this bipartisan bill that passed unanimously in committee and in the House last year. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I would close by saying that the gentleman from Georgia and the gentleman from California have worked very hard on a bill that passed our committee unanimously and that helps nonprofits accomplish their mission of building capacity in…

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding. I rise today to commemorate one of America's heroes, United States Army Sergeant Joseph P. Collette of Lancaster, Ohio. Sergeant Collette gave his life in the service of our Nation on March…

I want to thank the gentleman from Illinois for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support H.R. 6311, and more specifically, I rise to support bipartisan language to make flexible spending accounts flexible. While 44 percent of…

I want to thank Bishop Irinej, from the Serbian Orthodox Church, for offering today's prayer. We are at the 100-year anniversary of when President Woodrow Wilson raised the Serbian flag in a show of support for the Serbian people. That…

I want to thank my colleague from Indiana, the Chair of the House Ethics Committee, for putting together this Special Order so we can talk about what is going on with tax reform. Mr. Speaker, the numbers don't lie. Tax reform is growing…

I would like to thank the chairman for all of his work to help with this bill. I speak today on behalf of myself and my colleague Mr. Engel in support of our evidence-based treatment for opioid addiction bill, H.R. 5272. The opioid…

As co-chairman of the House Civility and Respect Caucus, I want to talk about something that people aren't talking about today. There is a movement called the walk up movement, where a lot of kids around this country are taking action…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for everything he is doing to lead this bill on the floor today. I would like to also thank the ranking member from Minnesota for his good-faith effort and his work. We worked in a collaborative way to…