It is my pleasure, my dear friend and colleague from New York. It is almost hard to believe, I would say, that we are noting the 1- year anniversary of the terrible storm we called Hurricane Sandy striking our Nation's shores. It seems…

I am encouraged that we have today before us a bipartisan bill that will help improve our Nation's waterways and infrastructure and create jobs. However, I do agree that this bill is imperfect, and I am dismayed that this bill includes…

I represent the 17th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, which has two shuttered national parks right now.

Yesterday, I received this letter from Lori Sywensky. She wrote: As a Commissioner of the Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, Housing Authority, I wanted to make you aware that the County's Housing Authority issued layoff notices today to…

I thank you, Chairman Issa, for this opportunity to discuss the IRS's role in implementing and enforcing the Affordable Care Act.

there is an utter frenzy to do everything people can think of to get rid of Obamacare before it takes effect.

So the Tea Party has successfully shut down the operations of the Federal Government. And why have they done it? Well, they've done it because they're worried: They're worried about the danger that the Affordable Care Act is going to work…

Once again Congress is set to play politics by threatening to shut down the government, rather than work toward a compromise. Just last month, we marked a disgraceful anniversary of our Nation, the S&P's downgrading of the full faith and…

I thank the gentlewoman from Arizona for yielding. And I also want to join Congresswoman Dina Titus in thanking Congresswoman Sinema for arranging this Special Order hour and taking the leadership to put these people together and speak out…

I want to thank the gentleman from California for really bringing home the point of the importance of SNAP benefits to our Nation, the validity of the program and the ridiculousness of the cuts that were passed out of the House today…

I rise this evening on behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to repeat and enhance the calls made by our colleagues today to end the disastrous spending cuts known as sequestration, to put a stop to the proposed disastrous cuts to…

Mr. Lowenthal, to your point about no one would choose to take meals for 6 quarters and that no one would choose to remain on SNAP benefits, there is this myth running around that we hear all the time that people abuse SNAP benefits--that…