Steve Stivers

I would like to thank the chairman for yielding me this time. I appreciate his work on this very important bill, as well as the work of the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Neugebauer, for this 6-year reauthorization of the terrorism risk…

Even our unidentified soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, and even their fragments and remains deserve a place of honor.

I really do appreciate the way you treated our veterans and the way you treated this committee and worked with both sides to come to common ground.

I really appreciate that you take your mission seriously and honor our heroes, regardless of where they happen to have their final resting place.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Missouri for yielding me time. I also would like to thank the gentlelady from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) for all her work on this bill. She has been dedicated and engaged and hardworking and willing to…

I was first made aware of the practice of rehoming earlier this year when it was discovered that a girl who had been adopted from Haiti was transferred back and forth from an abusive environment in central Iowa, where I live, to Idaho via…

I urge that all Members support H.R. 4651. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Collins of New York). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stivers) that the House suspend the…

I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of…

Having no further requests for time, I urge all Members to join me in support of this bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stivers) that…

I have no further requests for time, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stivers) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R…

Chairman Crenshaw, I rise today to address a proposed amendment I was going to offer related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative, or the MCDC. This is a program that was…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for his help and the gentleman from Vermont for his support of H.R. 1391. It is a bill that will rename the post office in London, Ohio, the London Fallen Veterans Memorial Post Office. This has…

2 weeks ago, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was gunned down and killed in front of his two-year-old son and his wife in Pakistan. He was from Pickerington, Ohio, and was a cardiologist and humanitarian who was volunteering his time to care for folks…

I would thank the gentlelady from West Virginia for her support. I rise in support of H.R. 3584, the Capital Access for Small Community Financial Institutions Act. This bill simply makes a statutory change that would allow nonfederally…

I hope you will go back to the FSOC and share my concern and the concern of many of us about that designate first and ask questions later mentality.

The measure before the committee today will make it easier to provide headstones or markers for veterans who currently do not have a headstone and lay in an unmarked grave.

That regulatory barrier of obtaining approval for next of kin creates an especially high barrier on veterans from much older conflicts.

Those who served in our military deserve our full support, especially those who gave their last full measure of devotion for this great Nation.

President Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, called for the country to care for those who shall have borne the battle and for the widow and orphan.

Those who served in the military deserve our full-support, especially those who gave the final measure of devotion to our great nation.

This legislation provides a way for the American people to honor our veterans as we move past more than a decade of war.

This week marks the 71st anniversary of a dramatic sacrifice made by four U.S. Army chaplains during World War II on February 3, 1943. On that day, the USS Dorchester was torpedoed by a German submarine, and it sunk. Out of that tragedy…

I think that is really the heart of where I think we need to go, because several of you made this point very, very well about how overlapping and conflicting regulation could really hurt our competitiveness.

I would like to thank the gentleman for yielding, and I would like to thank him for his strong leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, I am a proud cosponsor of H.R. 3685. The health care law could cause many communities to lose fire…

I would like to thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding time. The Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act is an important bill that I believe will allow more capital to go and flow to small business so they can create…