So you have no say-so at all on how that money is spent?

This is the Oversight and Investigations hearing on Volkswagen's Emissions Cheating Settlement Concerning the ZEV Program Implementation.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and heading up this very important Special Order on a topic that affects every single family in America, and that is their health. As the gentleman said, yesterday we passed a very important bill, the…

This bill includes in it elements of H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which is the most revolutionary change to mental health since the Community Mental Health Act of 1963. It includes fundamental changes in how…

This is a moment of great joy out of a situation of tremendous tragedy. After the last 4 years, since the time of the terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School followed by repeated other ones, our Nation has awoken from a slumber of…

At noon today, back in my district in Pennsylvania, there is a funeral service for Scott Bashioum, a brave policeman who died last week. His partner, James Saieva, was critically injured. Ultimately, the shooter died of suicide. Had we had…

This week, we lost the greatest golfer ever, the man who brought the sport to the masses, a name synonymous with competition, the king, the legend: Mr. Arnold Palmer. Arnie was a favorite son and native of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a city…

The Journal of Pediatrics recently reported many preteen children are at risk for suicide. Previously, it was believed that young children were incapable of suicide because they can't feel as hopeless or didn't have an understanding about…

This needs to be among our highest priorities for reforming the Select Agent Program.

However, and disappointingly, even with consciousness raised about the lab safety, bioresearch labs persist in questionable inactivation practices today.

The dangers presented by such a careless mistake are unacceptable, and thankfully no one was harmed so the Army dodged a catastrophe in this matter.

Disastrously, recent incidents at Federal bioresearch labs have revealed lackadaisical methods used to inactivate anthrax, a deadly select agent.

I include in the Record a letter from which I am going to read some excerpts. This includes a letter that we are sending to Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Reid in the Senate. Let me read a few excerpts from this. We are…

Our Nation is witness to a silent mass killing every day this year. This year, more than 250,000 Americans have lost their lives so far, but the public never knew it. It has never been on the front page of The New York Times or The…

I have tried, through words, to demonstrate the severity of our country's mental health crisis. Today I will try it again with numbers: 67,130, the number of Americans who have died from mental health issues since we passed the Helping…

On rollcall No. 505, I was unavoidably detained and missed the vote on the previous question. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the…

Our investigation found that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, effectively wasted $4.6 billion in grants.

the fact that they are subsidized is phony, is absolutely phony.

Over the weekend, The Denver Post Editorial Board published a piece supporting the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, H.R. 2646. Their endorsement joins 72 other papers, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post…

During a time when our Nation seems so divided, polarized, and unable to come together on any issue, there is one thing on which most of America agrees, by policy, politics, and polling. In April, a national mental health survey found that…

This committee began its investigation of the state-based exchanges in the spring of 2015.

I just want accurate data so we can deal with this, so please get us that.

I thank the gentlewoman for her Special Order tonight. The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis bill is something the House passed 422-2, and I sure hope the Senate takes it up. I keep hearing they may think they don't have time. But I…

How much time is left? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Arizona has 5 minutes remaining.

Hundreds of Americans have been uprooted from their plans and left without any insurance coverage.