It will also deprive our Nation of an operational reserve for these aircraft, which is essential to the retention and management of talented aircrews.

This represents a fundamental shift in the nature and role of the National Guard.

Your experiences are important because they are illustrative of the problems that come about when you have a one-size-fits-all, Washington-knows-best approach to regulating community banking.

Given what the new development bank is doing, why does the Administration continue to pursue its misguided anti-coal policies?

Last week, the Notre Dame family lost two larger-than-life figures. One, a Holy Cross priest, Father Ted Hesburgh, served as Notre Dame's president for 35 years and oversaw remarkable growth of the university named for Our Lady. Father…

From time to time in our history, people have stepped forward to call this Nation to something greater. Today as we continue to celebrate Black History Month, I want to recognize three inspirational women from my district in Pennsylvania…

On rollcall No. 91 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

70 years ago yesterday, American Armed Forces fought their way to the summit of Mount Suribachi and raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. Sergeant Michael Strank, from Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania, was one of six men in this iconic photo…

I thank my colleague from Georgia for organizing this very important discussion that we are having here today. Three weeks ago, this House passed a bill to fund the lawful operations of the Department of Homeland Security. Our bill…

I have sat here today listening both to the rule debate and the debate we are having right now, to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who ridicule our relief efforts and joke about the number of votes that we have taken to repeal…

As hundreds of thousands march today on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, I urge my colleagues to join me in committing to defend the sanctity of life and vote ``yes'' on this bill. Ms. DeGETTE. Madam Speaker, I am now pleased…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey. What a privilege it is to be here with the gentleman from New Jersey, who has been fighting this fight for a very long time. I remember back to my college days in the 1980s seeing you standing for…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chair, this important legislation fulfills our promise to the American people to responsibly fund our Homeland Security Department while also stopping President Obama's unconstitutional actions. This is the clear…

The Obama administration released 300 new rules and regulations in the first 7 days of 2015. This is on top of over 3,500 new rules and regulations the administration created last year. We have got a problem in our country. Unelected…

``. . . but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. ``The President shall have power to fill up all…

President Obama is expected to sign executive orders soon regarding illegal immigration. In July 2011, he said, ``I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own, but that's not how our system works. That's not…

Are there leverage points that Treasury--or anywhere in the Administration that we could use to encourage, whether it is Kuwait, Qatar, or Turkey or other countries in the region, to follow through?

Everyone remembers the promise the President made while promoting his health care law: ``If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.'' He broke his promise. We just learned that one of the law's chief architects, Professor Jon…

We rise today to pay special tribute to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, also known as the VFW, on the 100th anniversary of its organization in September 1914. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was also organized in 1914…

This border crisis is one of the President's making. We are here on a Friday night in August because the President has not done his job. His failure to enforce the law and failure to secure the border have encouraged tens of thousands of…

It isn't my way or the highway, but if you have one part of this Congress--the Senate--not even acting, what is the communication there? It is no way. We invite the Senate to act. We invite the Senate to come and start to talk about the…

You raise a good point because the way the process is supposed to work, one side of our Capitol--the House--will pass the bill or maybe the Senate will pass a bill, and then there might be a slightly different bill passed out of the other…

Absolutely, Mr. Speaker. The gentleman from Georgia notes that western Pennsylvania has a growing energy industry. We are seeing a tremendous number of jobs coming in, family sustaining jobs. Bear in mind, Mr. Speaker, when somebody gets a…

Sixty of those bills, Mr. Speaker--you look at the stack of paper that the gentleman from Georgia has with him here today--Mr. Speaker, 60 of those bills were introduced by Democrats, and yet they gather dust in the Democrat-controlled…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for organizing this very informative Special Order tonight. You are right: I came here to make a difference. I came here to be part of a team that wants to relight America, relight the job market, relight…