I spoke in favor of repealing the 3 percent withholding provision when it passed the House just last month, and I am pleased the Senate has not only passed it but has added important provisions to help our brave men and women in uniform…

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota. I can't think of anybody in the Congress who has done more for medical innovation, his leadership on the medical device tax, on FDA reform issues, than Mr. Paulsen. It's an honor for me to be here…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, we should do this more often, have a bipartisan discussion on the floor. We have debates. We have bipartisan interaction, but we don't have this type of situation occur very often where…

On Wednesday, October 12, tragedy struck my home town of Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania. That night, Police Officer Derek Kotecki was shot during an armed confrontation with a wanted criminal. He is believed to be the first Lower Burrell…

Recently I had the honor of being reappointed to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, a committee on which I served during my first two terms in Congress. Consequently, caucus rules require me to, in turn, step down from the…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act. The cement industry is in its weakest economic condition since the 1930s. Domestic demand for cement has dropped by more than 35 percent in…

With the clock tick, tick, ticking away towards a default on our financial obligations for the first time in American history, we need to come together to find bipartisan solutions. It's time to stop holding America's credit rating…

In the midst of one of the most contentious congressional debates in recent times, I knew just who to bring to Washington to help bring people together. It is my great honor to welcome Reverend Miroslaus Stelmaszczyk, who today serves as…

In reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman's comments. I'm going to go ahead and read my last paragraph if the gentleman doesn't mind, but I do appreciate that. The Library of Congress, the repository of our national knowledge, does…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 22, line 16, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''. The CHAIR…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana. I rise in support of the Gosar-Gibbs-Altmire amendment to protect the Second Amendment rights of our Nation's sportsmen. The Army Corps of Engineers owns or manages more than 11 million acres of Federal…

I continue to hear my colleagues promote the fantasy that government has banned the incandescent light bulb. They think if they say it over and over again that it will be true. But it's not true. The incandescent light bulb is not banned…