a $300 million cut really is not defensible or acceptable.

But I will also remind you that, as one of my colleagues referred, these are treaty obligations. They are not generous grants.

I do not think we have given you anywhere near the resources to do the job at hand.

this budget reflects that it does not care very much about Indian healthcare.

If it was a good deal, they would have put it in front of the United States Senate.

Circumstances have arisen, which caused me to return home to Oklahoma early; however, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 267 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 268. personal explanation

Circumstances have arisen which caused me to return home to Oklahoma early. However, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 263, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 264, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 265, and ``yea'' on rollcall No…

when you, the members of Congress, swear allegiance to the Constitution, you are swearing an allegiance to Indian sovereignty whether you know it or not.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 305 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 305 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

Before I go to my next speaker, I want to take a moment to respond to my friends. Mr. Speaker, I actually came here to debate the appropriations bill, which is a great bipartisan compromise, but I am always happy to engage in the…

I want to thank my good friend. It is always a pleasure, honestly, to engage in debate with him because it is going to be spirited, but it is going to be civil. So I thank my friend for that. And, frankly, when my friend points out that he…

To respond to a few of my friend's points, Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by agreeing with my friend, actually. As he knows, I agree with his point that this should have been done many months ago, and could have been done, in my view, many…

Yesterday the Rules Committee met and reported a rule for consideration of two very important measures. First, the resolution provides for consideration of Senate amendments to H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017. The…

I thank the chairman, my good friend, for yielding me the time and for those incredibly gracious and generous remarks. Mr. Speaker, I certainly rise to support the rule and the underlying legislation. By the very nature of Rules debates…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 225. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes…

The budget makes hard choices, and they are hard, but they are responsible choices that have to be made.

This is simply a case where Congress said we were pretty late getting our omnibus done.

I was, therefore, especially disappointed to see a proposed budget cut to the National Institutes of Health this year.

Investment in NIH has been the key driver in making the United States the world leader in biomedical research.

I listened very carefully to the response you gave Representative Clark and appreciate it.

I am very proud that Congress increased NIH funding by $2,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 2017 omnibus spending bill.

But, again it is Congress that puts the budget together. We have the Article I responsibility for funding the Federal government, and the President's budget is a recommendation only.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for his remarkable leadership in this important debate. Seven years ago, I was on this floor and I heard that, if you liked your plan, you could keep it. I heard, if you liked your doctor, you could keep…

I don't favor cutting NIH or Centers for Disease Control. You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack, and so that's part of the defense of the country as well.

I don't favor cutting NIH or Centers for Disease Control. You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack, and so that's part of the defense of the country as well.