Every year around this time, the President submits a budget, the House and Senate debate their own budgets and, well, nothing happens. Congress has not adopted a budget in over 1,000 days, and it's been 15 years since Congress passed all…

The gentleman has given me so much to work with here on community colleges, and then I will transition into transportation, as the gentleman would like to do. I visited, just yesterday, the Community College of Allegheny County, outside of…

I wanted to transition into talking about the trade deficit that we're facing in this country. But before I did that, I wanted to close the loop with what Mr. Tonko and Mr. Garamendi have been talking about for my colleagues. {time} 2040 I…

I thank the gentleman from California and my friend from New York (Mr. Tonko). We have a discussion going now about manufacturing in America. And our colleagues understand the relationship that exists between manufacturing and R&D…

Earlier, our colleague, Mr. Tonko, was talking about the Erie Canal and the foresight and the commitment that went in and just the unbelievable feat that it was to accomplish that. And I was thinking, as the gentleman was speaking, about…

Right. You have to find a way to pay for it because it's only going to get worse if you ignore the problem. Now, you might say as a family, you know what, we can't take the kids out for that steak dinner. We can't go out to see the movies…

I thank the gentleman. And I would just say briefly, I am an original cosponsor of that bill. I don't know that my colleagues are. I presume they're cosponsors. But it's very simple, actually. All it says is we're going to do this…

A $4 billion bridge project. And the American taxpayer is funding the Chinese to give the steel to California to rebuild this bridge. And the infrastructure improvements that are being made, certainly we'll see some benefit, but those are…

I thank the gentleman from California for leading the hour and for yielding some time. I come from a region of the country in western Pennsylvania--the Pittsburgh area and surrounding region--that knows a little bit about manufacturing…

The two key takeaways from the debate today are, number one, there is nobody in this Chamber--nobody, Republican, Democrat--nobody in the Senate on the other side--Republican, Democrat, Independent--nobody believes that a 2-month fix is…

I thank the gentleman, my friend from Tennessee, and I especially thank the gentleman from Texas for his kind words. There are other things that are more important than this--our friends in the American Legion would be the first to…

Today the House considers the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act. I'm a proud cosponsor of this bill because it will protect Americans' Second Amendment rights by allowing citizens who have a valid permit to carry a firearm in any…