Let me repeat that - the non-partisan CBO has scored this bill as not impacting direct spending.

These mariners have gone unrecognized for more than 70 years, and they deserve to be recognized for their service.

We must not let their efforts and contributions go unrecognized while we still have a chance.

It is clear that we have to do everything we can to help the VA transition into a digital format.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to warn my colleagues about the Corker-Hoeven amendment within the Senate's immigration bill. To my colleagues who are concerned with the fiscal health of our country, I call your attention to this provision…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about a place that is very near and dear to my heart, a place that is the source of great beauty, the source of millions of jobs for this country, an economic driver, not just for the region that I…

I want to thank my colleague from the Rio Grande Valley. Here he is meeting the anxiety, the paranoia, and the legislation based on emotion instead of facts with the cold, hard truth of our economic interdependence with Mexico. We ignore…

Thank you Representative Davis. I appreciate hearing, again, more facts, more rational arguments, from my colleague from California about the border. I place that in contrast to, again, the anxiety and the fear that is surrounding much of…

I thank my colleague from Arizona for talking about the moral dimension of this issue and for putting a human face on a problem and also on the opportunity, the other side of that problem, that being the opportunity we see along the…

And so we are urgently exploring options to build a full-service acute care facility in the El Paso region to serve those 80,000 plus veterans.

I find the decision that the CBO has made frustrating and inconvenient, especially for the constituents I represent.