Pete Sessions

I thank Senator Hoeven. The Senator is exactly right; it will do all of those things. It is a step in the right direction in every area. I appreciate my leader on the Judiciary Committee and ranking member, Senator Grassley. I would ask a…

I guess, lastly, what I would like to do is engage the gentleman on really a broader perspective, and that really is the idea of American exceptionalism; how we have the greatest military in the world, our United States military; men and…

In continuing our dialogue, the gentleman sits on this awesome and the most powerful committee here, the Ways and Means Committee. The committee on a regular basis hears from people in the United States who do a lot of business overseas…

Mr. Paulsen, I want you to stick around for just another minute because I really want to engage you in speaking about exactly what you just said. We know TPA is that process--Trade Promotion Authority--whereby Congress gives authority to…

I want to thank the gentlewoman for taking the time to join us tonight. We are also joined by a young man who, from the very beginning of his time here, was described by his Governor as one of the brightest young men in Minnesota. Erik…

I thank the gentlewoman. Perhaps more important than that is that you build a friendship between groups of people who really not only share cities, where we have sister cities that grow up and are born of each other, but it is a merging…

I wish to discuss S. Res. 414. I am pleased the Senate has unanimously declared April as National Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month for the second consecutive year. I thank my friend and able colleague, Senator Ben Cardin of…

The Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member, voted out the nomination of Leon Rodriguez to be Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, also known as USCIS. This agency has been at the center of the collapse of…

I will be making a point of order in a moment against the bill before us because it violates the budget we agreed to. I will share briefly for a few moments--the order is that we are to commence voting at 2:30. I believe that is correct. I…

I come to the floor today to address the unemployment benefits legislation. This legislation is, frankly, an admission that after 5 years of spending more money for costly government stimulus--all of it borrowed--to try to increase…

I appreciate the work of Senator Wyden and others on this problem. It is a matter we need to fix. The Senator from Maryland said the fix is signed off by the House too, so I guess we are supposed to know the fix is in. We are just going to…

I thank the Senator from Oregon for his leadership and hopefully something can be worked out on this because it is important. But it is frustrating that there is no intention, it appears, to allow this provision, this fix to be brought up…

Reserving the right to object, I want to express my appreciation to Senator Wyden for his leadership. He is going to do a great job as chairman of the very important Finance Committee. He is active in all the issues before our Senate. But…

I rise to mourn the passage of a friend and to pay tribute to a remarkable man. Jeremiah Denton once served his country as a pilot, a prisoner of war, a rear admiral in the Navy, and a Senator of the United States. He passed away Friday…

As we wrestle with the Ukraine situation, I hope we can--I wish we could have gotten together to be able to pass the core responsibility of this Congress, which would be to allow the loan program to go through--a $1 billion loan program…

As chair of the Committee on Rules, I want to take a moment to address the procedural status of the resolutions discussed in this measure. It is my understanding that the resolutions contemplated by H.R. 4138 would not be privileged or…

I appreciate the opportunity to listen to Senator McCain. I think facts have proven him right for many over many years of warning this country about how we have to conduct international relations in a realistic way. I had the opportunity…

We have a lot of challenges before this Nation and this Congress. I believe the most critical challenge is how we handle financial matters that have been entrusted to us, how we handle the budget and spend the debt we are approving in…

Thank you. I will yield the floor if some people wish to speak in executive session on the nominations. ____________________

I have no further requests for time, and I am prepared to close. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I don't consider common sense or the right thing to do a $24 billion irresponsibility, which is, once again, what the Democrat Party is pushing today on the floor of the House of Representatives. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from…

At this time, I yield 7 minutes to the gentleman from Weston, Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy), a member of the Financial Services and Budget Committees. He is not just the author of the bill; he is an awesome and outstanding new Member of Congress.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Boulder, Colorado (Mr. Polis), my colleague and my friend, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman).

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, at this time I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Richmond), a cosponsor of the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act.