Voting, in my district we had an election in May, a primary election for county offices, very important and about 10 percent of the people who were registered voted.

if people who had convictions in the past were allowed to vote, if they voted, by their simple action of voting they would show they were in the upper 10 percent of the citizenry.

How do we all get here? How do we get to be one of 435 people in the United States Congress, a great honor that it is to serve in this Congress? Madam Speaker, we all get here because people vote for us, the American public votes. It is…

Of course, we know that's not true because the people with epileptic seizures, the mothers who have found that part of that is the cannabinoids, or whatever it is, it definitely helps their children.

A great number more than that get arrested and get a scarlet 'M' fastened to their chest for life, which means they don't get a job maybe or a college scholarship.

I, for one, think that we should expand our horizons and all opportunities we can to people who have cancer and other life-threatening diseases to ease their pain and their anguish.

That is what I was astonished about, Mr. Farr, when I watched this movie. It was Katie Couric, and I forget all the other people involved in producing it. But it was about how Congress had basically acquiesced to special interests to…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 7, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $3,000,000)''. Page 43, line 18, after the dollar amount…

Mr. Miller was talking about white potatoes. How does this bill affect white potatoes? I saw this movie called ``Fed Up,'' and white potatoes in general are the evil that cause people to get obese and gain weight. How are white potatoes in…

Today, sadly, the House asked for a moment of silence for a student who was killed in Oregon. Yesterday, sadly, we had a moment of silence for deaths in Nevada. We didn't have a moment of silence for the death of a student at Seattle…

Finally, as even some of the Majority witnesses acknowledge, the Obama Administration's enforcement efforts with regard to protecting religious freedom--in the workplace and elsewhere--are to be commended.

Religious freedom is indeed a fundamental pillar of American life.