I would like to support this bill. I believe in energy independence, as do the people I represent at home, and accordingly am supportive of opening up these offshore areas--but I do not think this should occur without the concurrence and…

First off, I would just say thank you to Chairman McKeon for his work and for the leadership's work and, indeed, for providing this time for debate. As was just stated by my colleague from Texas, I don't think that there is a more sacred…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for his leadership on the subcommittee. I would say the same to my colleague from Louisiana, for their respective pieces of work on this important bill. As has already been noted by both of my…

All that could be said has been said, and with that, I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4803, the TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2014, sponsored by the Gentleman…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this bill. I would just like to thank, indeed, the chairman and the members of the committee for their great work on it. At the end of the day, it represents expanded choice in…

I thank my colleague. I rise in respectful opposition to the CBC budget for the reasons that my colleague from California just enumerated. I have listened to this debate over the last few minutes, and the Ryan budget has been called a…

I join in support of this bill not just because it is about amendments and the importance of public input, but ultimately because it is about two central tenets that the Founding Fathers laid out that I think are important to both…

I thank the chairman. I thank him and the other members of the committee for their work on this important bill, because it is certainly about cost. I mean, you can't do anything efficiently if you have got a 15-year permitting process. It…

I came down to this well yesterday to talk about how for 20 years I have run back and forth to the Lincoln Memorial and how the day before yesterday I was shocked to run down there and see the place in chains. I had planned on making a run…

I have been a runner all my life. I ran in high school and college, and it has always been my way of sort of clearing my head. Sometimes I clearly haven't run enough. Over the years, during my roughly 20 years in and out of Washington, I…

We are at a shutdown, which is to say that we are in a challenging time. My prayer, I think, is joined by so many other Republican colleagues for families that have been affected. It is something that we very much wanted to avoid in any…

I thank both of you for what you're doing tonight. Mr. Speaker, as we well know, there are many heroes from across this country. Most recently we've seen them here in the Capitol with the tragedy of the Naval Yard. But I think that you all…