Gregory Laughlin: “I am a non-Californian who is going to speak on this amendment, and I have to confess my knowledge of it comes as a…”

Mr. Chairman, I think it is fitting that we gather here in Washington on the Potomac River on the 160th anniversary of the date that a group of Texans gathered at Washington on the Brazos in Texas to declare our independence from a…

On this week when our Nation is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Nazi Europe, I think it is appropriate that I take this special order to address an injustice that was done to millions of veterans of our…

the Laughlin-Tate-Brewster-Bachus- Parker amendment to the Emerson amendment is a balanced, reasonable amendment to address the ongoing problem involving section 401 of the Clean Water Act and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This…

I first want to thank the distinguished chairman of our committee for turning this bill into a truly bipartisan bill, and I commend our last chairman, the gentleman from California [Mr. Mineta], for tying to work with us in the last…