Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I want to thank, particularly, Representatives Sinema and Benishek for bringing up this Special Order hour. For my own part, I speak for the northeastern part of Pennsylvania…

This is not something that is denied. Judges have discretion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. The answer is that, every time somebody with damages proves his or her case in front of a jury, the jury has the discretion to award whatever they think is proper damages. For example, if…

Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is that this is misguided legislation. More ominously, it disproportionately hurts the people filing claims--civil rights claims, consumer rights claims--and it has a chilling effect on legal innovation. It was…

Mr. Speaker, I will say, with due deference to respected colleagues from Virginia and Texas, this is a misguided piece of legislation. I speak as not only a Member of this House, but also as somebody who has practiced civil litigation for…

I want to take this moment to urge Congress to turn its attention to reauthorizing the AML, so we can continue the important work in reducing the impact of abandoned mines.

There are 65 million gallons of acid mine runoff every day flowing into the Lackawanna River, compared to that 3 million in the Animas River spill.

Thank you for that, Administrator McCarthy.

Now that we have established that mining companies are not contributing to cleaning up their own messes, what are the sources of funding that you have for mine cleanup?

While the Gold King Mine spill was damaging, this spill pales in comparison to a series of even bigger toxic spills.

Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose H.R. 1994, which seeks to transform 300,000 VA personnel to what we call at-will employees, capable of being fired based on anything, including their beliefs and not their merit necessarily. It effectively…