Our Nation is being ravaged by skyrocketing levels of prescription opioid and heroin abuse, and our veterans have been particularly hard hit. Today, 68,000 veterans are struggling with opioid abuse disorder. Veterans suffer higher rates of…

As seen in this debate, few issues divide this country the way abortion does. One sides argues an autonomy that allows no questions. The other implores we recognize the inalienable, God-given right to life of all human beings, a right…

I commend the chairman, the ranking member, the conferees, on this work that they have accomplished. The opioid and heroin epidemic has hit western Pennsylvania hard. Nothing brings this crisis into sharper focus than when you are speaking…

I want to thank my colleague and neighbor from Pennsylvania, Congressman Murphy, for his unrelenting leadership on this legislation and for calling attention to a problem that affects millions of families across the country. Nearly 10…

I think the failure to have such a strategy has undermined our overall efforts.

Wouldn't lifting these secondary sanctions weaken our efforts to combat the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism?

As we approach Memorial Day weekend, we learn from the Book of Wisdom that ``the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.'' They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was…

In contrast to the religious persecutions in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, America increasingly became a safe space for people to exercise their faith in accordance with their conscience. Religious freedom was woven into the…

The first freedom mentioned in our Constitution is the free exercise of religion. The Founders understood the universal right to seek God in accordance with one's conscience and, also, that many sought refuge on these shores because of…

I thank the chairman. I also want to thank my colleagues, particularly the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Keating), my friend, for inviting me to work with him on this important amendment, which adds drug take-back programs to the list…

I thank my friend from Wisconsin for his leadership on this very important piece of legislation, and the chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee for working together to bring it to the floor today. The United States is being…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, after line 3, insert the following: ``(9) Developing, implementing, or expanding a program to…

I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner) for his work on this important legislation. To close, I simply urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment to ensure that the funds provided in this legislation can be…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 13, strike ``and''. Page 6, after line 16, insert ``and'' after the semicolon. Page 6, after…

I want to thank my good friend from Indiana for her leadership on this very important piece of legislation as well as the chairman and ranking member of the committee for working together to bring it to the floor today. The United States…

2 weeks ago, on April 26, the world lost an extraordinary man. As a political prisoner in China for 19 years, from 1960 to 1979, Harry Wu endured torture, forced labor, and severe hunger. It was not until 3 years after Mao Zedong's death…

To close, increased access to naloxone, particularly for patients who are at high risk, has been identified as one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of opioid and heroin-related overdose deaths. Let's ensure that our…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and thank her and Mr. Guinta for this very important evening where we are talking about a plague on our country. I am pleased to stand here today to join my colleagues from both sides of the aisle in…

On April 29, a natural gas pipeline exploded in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, immediately destroying one home, injuring a resident, and forcing the evacuation of a dozen other homes. I rise to thank the first…

the Dodd-Frank Act, which was sold as a way to end too-big-to-fail and product consumers when it ends up enshrining is too-big-to-fail in law.

EPA regulations that are throwing middle-class workers in my district out of work.

I consider the Affordable Care Act, where we had the Congressional Budget Office say that is going to cost 2 million jobs.

I thank Congressman LaMalfa for those observations and to hear about some personal interactions with the Little Sisters of the Poor and the tremendous work that they do. We see the Little Sisters of the Poor at my parish about once a year…

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear the most important religious freedom case in decades. It is Zubik v. Burwell. The purpose of this Special Order is to talk a little bit about religious freedom and what is at stake here. Before I…

I thank Mr. Benishek. Again, you think about the dignity of the human person and, as he talked about, the importance of the right to life, just a fundamental right. Again, as I mentioned earlier, the first right in our founding documents…