Chaka Fattah: “I just wanted to indicate that on behalf of the minority, we support your amendment and are prepared to agree to it.”

We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world producing college-educated adults.

I visited Chicago a few years back for the coastal zone conference to talk about how important it was that this administration has finally put forward, and we support, an ocean policy. There have been since 2012 over 15 different…

I think that we are at a point where it is difficult to reconcile what we are trying to do here--that is, in an appropriations bill--with these policy riders. Now, I have heard my chairman claim that the President of the United States has…

I thank the gentlewoman, and I thank Chairman Rogers and the work of the staff. Mr. Speaker, I think we have a bill here that the House can fully embrace. The point that I want to make is that we have in this bill major spending programs…