I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 405, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''…

This is a very important amendment in the cycle of life, protecting endangered species, which give the joy of life and understanding to the world, to the coexistence of humans and these wonderful species that have given us so much…

Let me thank the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey) and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers) for their great leadership. But let me thank the gentlewoman from New York again for her overall leadership as chair of the Appropriations…

I am reminded of the story of Hadiatu Jalloh, a 7-year-old from Sierra Leone who, with her mother, fled to Houston to seek a lifesaving operation to rectify complications from the practice of female genital mutilation, from which she…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 599, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''…

I thank the gentlewoman for her support of my original amendment on female genital mutilation, and I thank her for her support of this amendment. I just offer to my colleagues a list of the vulnerable endangered species: Giant panda, giant…

I believe we can do better, and I would ask my colleagues to do better by supporting the Jackson Lee amendment. For example, the population of African elephants has decreased from 1.3 million to 400,000, with 22,000 poached in 2012…

I am excited that, in 1986, we added the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program--we all remember him as a great astronaut who died in a horrific astronaut calamity--to foster doctoral degree attainment by students from…

On June 12, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve as regular members of the military. In the State of Texas, a bill was sent in to establish Women's Veterans…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership, and I thank her for the time. This is an enormous and important step as it relates to healthcare in America. So many of us have been fighting to ensure that the preexisting conditions of…

Just a few weeks ago, I had a roundtable discussion with health professionals and those who are suffering from diabetes. I heard the stories of how much insulin costs and how difficult it was to be able to access healthcare, in many…

The Food and Drug Administration is working to increase the participation of people in racial, ethnic, and other minority groups in the clinical trials that test new medical products. So I would indicate that this particular amendment is…