I fear that the Grand Old Party has lost its way.

I am amazed at the number of members of the Grand Old Party who are defending Russian intrusion into a legitimate election.

This sex trafficking is metamorphosing in the sense that the means, the methodology by which compensation is being received is changing.

We also know that this is a cash-intensive business which means that there are some persons masquerading with a facade of legitimacy that are walking into banks, leaving cash-intensive businesses and they are making deposits.

I thank the witnesses for appearing and I am grateful to this effort that we are endeavoring to take up. It is bipartisan and it is an opportunity for us to demonstrate that, when it comes to the sins associated with sex trafficking, there…

A strong and well-funded Superfund program is necessary to ensure the toxic sites in Texas and throughout the United States are cleaned up.

People are suffering. They can't get loans that other people get, and sometimes they are more qualified than the people who are getting loans.

It is not their fault that we have this history of invidious discrimination, something that I know we don't want to confront and don't want to talk about, but it exists, and somebody has to say it.

OFR is a necessary part of the Dodd-Frank defense against systemic failure.

I think it should be if not a goal of the national government to give that information to folks but also use that energy efficiency so we may not have to build another electricity-generating plant.

I think the Energy Star program is probably one of the best programs that we have.

Let me tell you why it causes me some consternation, and then you give me your indications.

The 21st Century Cures Act contained a billion dollars to fight the opioid epidemic. This is substantial but certainly not enough to win the fight.

Federal housing officials announced Friday what they called 'another down payment'--an additional $57.8 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank our committee, because we have held a number of these hearings over the last few weeks and months looking at the reliability issue.

EPA has not been forthcoming in response to the benzene leak at the Valero refinery in our district...

The pain is not eased simply because it was done without intentionality.

I know what invidious discrimination is like. I know the harm that discrimination can cause.

It was about more than a house. Many of these people had just purchased the home of their dreams.

Friends, if you like kickbacks you will love the CHOICE Act because it will allow hardworking Americans to go into a lending institution to acquire a loan and receive an indication that he or she has qualified for a loan at 8 percent when…

I want to compliment you for standing your ground against the odds.

I think that investigations ought to be opened and I think somebody ought to be prosecuted.

Don't you think that the cost of not doing it is important, as well?

Continued open discussion on these new technologies are essential moving forward so that consumers can be familiar with both benefits and the limits of autonomous features.

In my opinion, a better title for this hearing would be, 'Another repeal bill.'