I can tell you that an initiative led by our national office of Job Corps -- it's called Youth to Youth.

You know, maybe that would be a better question for the Department of Labor.

Job Corps students both on and off center are 2.5 times less likely to commit suicide, four times less likely to die from a drug overdose, 15 times safer than their counterparts, 16 to 24 years old nationally.

My contention is that, inherent to American citizenship, is the right to have an opportunity, and that Job Corps creates opportunity for young people in circumstances wherein often that opportunity is too difficult to find.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I am not going to take 5 minutes.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to bring to the House's attention two fine Texans who are sitting up in the House gallery, Ben and Dan Matheson. Ben has been on my Air Force advisory committee down in Texas for the entire 32 years that I have been in…

Mr. Speaker, mandates seldom work. Markets do work. My friends on the Democratic side of the aisle haven't pointed out that 19 million Americans have chosen to pay the tax penalty to the IRS, rather than be forced into one of these…

We are going to need a lot more energy infrastructure in the next 20 to 30 years and pipelines are going to be a big part of that.

I think we are going to do a pipeline permitting reform bill and we would really like your agency's input.

if we are going to do a pipeline reform bill is there any reason we couldn't use the same regulatory authority and permitting process for oil and gas pipelines?

What went wrong and what do we do to fix it?