I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), my good friend and fellow member of the Rules Committee, to discuss her bill and this previous…

I thank my good friend from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter) for yielding, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, we are here today to pass an appropriations package that should complete our work and fully fund the…

And I want to thank my good friend, Chairman McGovern, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Normally, Madam Speaker, I would be agreeing with my good friend, Mr. McGovern, on the issue of congressional war powers, and, frankly, I want…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5- minute votes on: Adoption of House…

My friends talked a great deal about human rights, and I just want to make the point that I don't believe--I surely don't believe they think that the Houthi rebels in Yemen are great defenders of human rights or that the Iranian forces who…

And then I will turn to my friend from Texas. Madam Speaker, I want to thank my friend for his comments. And we do; we just disagree. I do not see this as appropriate for the War Powers Resolution, because we don't have troops in common…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 228, nays 193, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No…

I just wanted to do that. Because the budget looks pretty good to me, broadly speaking.

we need to use all the techniques at our disposal. Land management is certainly one of them.

Let's get that deal first before we worry about the next one.

Things are better because they had a budget, they could plan.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 225, nays 193, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 69]…

I want to again thank all of the witnesses here.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

It seems to me what are the sorts of things we can do--because we know it is risky--that would discourage that?

I support that view. Our Founders knew that true freedom from despotism requires ordinary citizens to have the means to defend themselves.

I want to commend the gentlelady for her interest in oversight on the loan servicing program.

I want us to be able to find areas that we agree.

I want to go back to this issue of the joint employer...

We put a lot more money again into these three particular countries.

I am going to give all of you a rare privilege. I am going to let you--I had the good fortune to sit where my friend, the chair, sits now

I look forward to working with you in your leadership.

I think it is an important subject, and I think you are to be commended for bringing it up.

I want to sincerely thank the chair for this hearing. It has been, I think, a very, very good hearing.

Madam Chair, I want to thank you, too, obviously again for the IG briefing that we had 2 weeks ago and for assembling this panel and focusing interest on this.