I think part of the reason that we have gotten here and part of the reason that there is such frustration with the income inequality in this country is because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major business organizations have not taken…

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for Chairman Engel's leadership on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I look forward to continue working with Chairman Engel to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security this Congress. I'd also like to thank…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Engel and Chairman Royce for all of their help on this piece of legislation. I would also like to thank my colleague from New York, Elise Stefanik, for introducing this resolution with me, which honors…

I'd first like to thank the committee for considering my resolution that I authored with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York on supporting greater cooperation on space research.

The bills and resolutions considered today on Australia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Liberia, Mexico, Iran, global fragility, Counterterrorism in West Africa, organ trafficking, and HIV/AIDS address important issues in the world.

I was glad to see yesterday the announcement about the United States committing another $185 million to help combat this humanitarian tragedy.

I am glad that we are having this hearing. That we are talking about it for what it is, a health crisis.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of the bipartisan Global Electoral Exchange Act, H.R. 5274, which I introduced with my colleague, my Republican colleague, Mark Meadows, and also others, including…

Mr. Speaker, on behalf of many Americans, enough--enough of cruelty disguised as border security, enough of inflicting pain on children to make their parents stay away, enough of picking on the weak to show that you are strong. The people…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, subcommittee Ranking Member Sherman, also my colleague from Texas and the coauthor, Representative McCaul. I thank them for all of their hard work on this. Every day, diplomats…

I am told by my grandmother--I was told back then that her mother died of tuberculosis in Mexico around 1922--early 1920, and I notice that there has been about a 26 percent cut in the President's budget request in 2018 from 2017.