We passed dozens of energy-related bills designed to increase production, reduce prices, add family sustaining jobs, and promote American energy independence. Bills like the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, the Energy Consumers…

The gentleman from Georgia is asking questions about what is happening on the Senate side. They are simply not acting. It was 241-175. I think the last time I counted, there are some 234 Republicans in this House. It was 241, so there are…

I have also been concerned about the consolidation that we are seeing and Dodd-Frank's effect on consolidation of the banking industry.

It is making it harder for them to compete, harder for them to do their job, which means it is harder for families to access capital.

I thank the gentleman from South Carolina for yielding and for organizing this important discussion about energy. Mr. Speaker, I talk a lot in my district, District 12 back in western Pennsylvania. Western PA is where you had the start of…

It is an agency that is out of control.

Western Pennsylvanians are frustrated by the one-size-fits-all decisions coming out of this town.

Washington, D.C., is increasingly detached from the needs and concerns of western Pennsylvanians. The Spina Bifida Association of Western Pennsylvania works to improve the quality of life for people with spina bifida and their families by…

The crisis on our southern border is one of the President's making. His policies and failure to secure the border have encouraged tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children to attempt to enter the United States. On the way, they are…

I thank the gentleman for his offer to engage in a colloquy. Mr. Chairman, as you know, money market funds are an important tool used by a variety of different organizations, such as businesses, State and local governments, school…

I thank the gentleman and look forward to working with him on this important issue.

Thank you, Congressman Perry. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues for their help in reviewing and reading the words of the Declaration of Independence, the words that birthed our Nation. As families gather next week to celebrate our…

Next week, on the Fourth of July, we celebrate our Nation's birthday. The Declaration of Independence, signed 238 years ago, laid the groundwork for the greatest Nation in history. The Founders, in the Declaration of Independence and our…

Joining me is my colleague from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who will continue with the recitation of the Declaration, Congressman Scott Perry.

The President and this Administration have a sad history of overselling its policy objectives and initiatives.

Shouldn't the FSOC's SIFI designation process consider the costs of designation as well as its benefits?

Doesn't this just reinforce the reason why regulating this industry should be left to the SEC, who has the needed familiarity and expertise?

The situation unfolding in Iraq is a tragedy. Almost 4,500 fellow Americans made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq defending our freedom and fighting oppression and tyranny. More than 32,000 men and women who served our country in Iraq bear…

On June 4, we mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre of peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square in the People's Republic of China. These protesters were merely calling for democracy, an end to the dictatorship of the Communist Party…

In having stepped forward to defend our country with their very lives, our veterans deserve a health care system and a claims process that are both of high quality and that are accountable. Unfortunately, the VA has failed veterans in…

Wouldn't you agree that we are here today because we had a massive financial collapse in part due to people being taken advantage of in bad mortgaging, bad consumer practices?

I thank the chairman. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act, which will make the advertising of a trafficking victim for a commercial sex act a crime. Human trafficking is…

I have an amendment at the desk printed as No. 1 in the Congressional Record. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the…

What about taking into account a particular regulation's impact on jobs and wages? Is there a specific analysis of that?

I thank Chairman Ryan of the Budget Committee for the hard work that he has been doing over the last several years as we look to get a handle on the spending problem we have here in Washington, D.C. Mr. Chairman, our debt is out of…