This week is National Nurses Week. It is an opportunity to honor the 3.1 million registered nurses who are primary providers of hospital patient care. Right now at hospitals and health centers across America, nurses are offering essential…

Tomorrow is Yom Ha'atzmaut, the commemoration of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. This day of celebration is always immediately preceded by Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day. This timing is no accident. The people of…

I want to thank the gentleman from New York for the introduction of this bill. It closes an important gap in the statute, which will enhance the safety of our country and provide essential review confidentially. I urge my colleagues to…

Given sustained U.S. interests and support to Lebanon over the years, our strategic objective of supporting a viable, independent, sovereign and democratic Lebanon that is at peace with its neighbors is more important than ever.

This weekend the Rhode Island School for the Deaf will celebrate 125 years as an educational institution that serves deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Rhode Island. Each year, approximately 12,000 children are born with some level of…

This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day, a time to remember our responsibility to be good stewards of this planet and our urgent responsibility to respond to global climate change. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human…

I strongly support the goals of this legislation to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding and for his leadership on this Special Order hour. Madam Speaker, 5 weeks ago President Obama fulfilled his constitutional responsibility and nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme…

It is incredibly important that we are careful not to seem to be elevating abuses against one particular group above others.

Religious minorities around the world face discrimination, harassment, persecution, and worse.

The real scandal here is the waste of taxpayer money in the majority's continued pursuit of this nonscandal.

Denigrating the poor as undeserving is a way to score points, I suppose, with some conservative voters.

The poor handling of tax-exempt applications at the IRS was a direct result of the Supreme Court's obliterating our campaign finance system in Citizens United.

The real scandal, I would suggest, is the fact that political spending by so-called social welfare groups is exempted from taxation and is subsidized by the American people.

It's clear that section 111(d) of the Act gives the EPA broad authority to address not just pollutants that were known at the time of the Act's passage, but also new problems as they arose.

It's to hide the identity of donors, to make it seem as though campaign season ads are speaking for the people when they're really speaking for the wealthy individuals and corporations that fund these super-PACs.

It is completely unacceptable that the Israeli people continue to live under the constant threat of terrorist violence.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to particularly thank the gentleman for his extraordinary leadership on this very important issue of forced arbitration, which is denying many, many Americans the right to have their grievances…

On Saturday, at 3:30 p.m., I am hosting a public discussion at the Community College of Rhode Island Lincoln campus to highlight financial aid opportunities for students and the work we need to do in Congress to address the crisis of…

I am very proud to be the co-chair of the Congressional Peacekeeping Caucus, which I formed with my colleague Adam Kinzinger.

The Fiscal Year 2017 request of $7.17 billion for the region is an increase of almost 9 percent over Fiscal Year 2015 enacted levels.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank both the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from Texas for their extraordinary leadership on this important resolution. Yesterday, the world saw the face of evil in a series of…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in April, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the United States v. Texas, a case that has been repeatedly litigated by our colleagues in the halls of Congress. And this…

the President's implementation of the ACA and his implementation of the immigration laws exercises discretion in ways that all previous Administrations have done

the majority in the House has on more than 60, 6-0, occasions, voted to repeal this law, but to no avail