Well, I really appreciate it. I would like to thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. DeSantis), who has been such a great leader on constitutional issues in this body. And I'd like to say that, here you have a gentleman who went to Yale…

I just wanted to ask you a quick question, which is, when you consider the fact that the media reporting is very different from what I have perceived in this body as a Member of Congress, I am more astonished every day at how the media…

I appreciate that, and it is perfectly appropriate that we have the gentleman from Arizona here as well. The gentleman from Arizona, and when you serve in this body, you get to meet a lot of very interesting people that have done amazing…

I just wanted to take a moment because there's a lot of information out there, Madam Speaker, about what's going on in our country right now--and a lot of misinformation. I thought it would be appropriate just to set the record straight. A…

The only thing--and I have thought about this a lot--the only thing I can possibly think of why they would not want to fund the veterans is that they want to hold the veterans hostage for something else, namely ObamaCare. That is the only…

I thank the gentleman from Texas. Thank you for your leadership here in the House of Representatives, and also thank you to my friend from California. I would just like to maybe have a brief dialogue with the gentleman from Texas if that's…

When you think about what we did last night, we talk about common ground a lot in the House of Representatives. It is a couple of words I hear all the time: common ground, common ground, common ground. Here we had an opportunity last night…

I would like to thank my colleague, Congressman Kelly from Pennsylvania, for yielding me the time. I would also like to thank my good friend, the senior Senator from Oklahoma, Jim Inhofe, who has been the upper Chamber's fiercest opponent…

It is interesting that the minority whip would like Republicans to help in fixing this bill, considering that they weren't interested at all in Republican input when they passed it in the middle of the night with a pure party-line vote. I…

Thank you, Dr. Fleming, for your leadership on this. Mr. Chairman, this is a very important amendment. I support this amendment to prohibit the appointment of atheist chaplains. My constituents back in Oklahoma are shaking their heads. The…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

the court's decision was a disappointment and that he would continue to fight for traditional marriage.

The President decided to raise energy prices on all Americans, which adversely affects the poor the most--and he didn't ask Congress. The President decided to unilaterally reduce our strategic nuclear deterrent when more countries than…

To implement these much needed reforms, I have recently introduced the Weather Forecasting Improvement Act of 2013.

As every Oklahoman knows, tornadoes are an unavoidable challenge faced by millions of Americans.

Let me be clear about the goal of this bill: It makes the protection of lives and property through improved forecasting the top priority for NOAA.

My legislation aims to accomplish this not by requesting or spending any new funds at NOAA, but rather by shifting their priorities and resources away from lower priority climate and ocean research and towards weather forecasting research…

I believe we have a moral obligation to advance legislation to the full House that forces NOAA to place its highest priority on what is undoubtedly its most important duty: enhancing public safety through timely and accurate forecasts of…

This legislation would establish within NOAA a Tornado Warning Extension Program aimed at improving the average time for a tornado warning from a few minutes to an hour or more.

But we know equally well that every minute we can add to our tornado detection and alert system has a direct effect on the number of lives that can be saved.

I appreciate that. It is an honor to be here, and thank you for inviting me to participate in this. I have been certainly accused of maybe being critical of the President from time to time, as many of us Republicans are sometimes, but I'd…

I'd like to thank my friend from Kansas (Mr. Huelskamp) for offering amendment No. 236. He is a champion for religious freedom. As a Navy pilot with Iraq and Afghanistan combat tours, I am concerned that senior Air Force officials have…

I would just like to make a couple of points. Number one, these troops are not for NATO. These troops are for the European Command. These troops are for the United States of America. I'm a Navy pilot myself. I've been a part of units that…

Global temperatures stopped rising 10 years ago. Global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with Sun output and ocean cycles. During the Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1300 A.D.--long before cars, power plants, or the…

The President's Justice Department sold weapons to narcoterrorists south of our border who killed one of our finest. The President's State Department lied about Benghazi with false information provided by the White House. The President's…