I appreciate the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the number of amendments that were made in order by the Rules Committee, but I am appalled that the majority chose not to include one of my amendments, No. 63, to…

I think if you repealed the 16th and 17th Amendment, a balanced budget amendment would probably become not unnecessary.

If a balanced budget amendment doesn't address that fundamental problem, you will never succeed in whatever you do with regard to balancing your budget.

Reducing our deficit and balancing our budget are goals that every Member here supports. But I worry that we often get distracted by the title of these resolutions without paying serious consideration about whether the specific provisions…

If we are ever going to balance the budget, the fact is we are going to require members to cast some tough votes. Many of these votes will be career-ending votes, and a constitutional amendment will not change that reality.

I support a balanced budget amendment. The question is what that amendment does and what it looks like.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition of H.J. Res. 111, which will overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule, prohibiting forced arbitration for many consumer contracts, including student…

Ranking Member Cummings and Congressman Issa of our committee have a bipartisan, bicameral bill called the Fair Chance Act.

What is the best way for us to reduce recidivism? To ensure people from all walks of life and from every single community have access to opportunity.

Unfortunately, our new attorney general, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, seems to want to turn back the clock on policies we feel failed in the past and reimpose the imposition of extreme sentences for low-level and non-violent crimes.

Criminal justice reform is a critical topic facing our nation as a whole.

I believe that those are some of the reasons why black men, men like myself, are incarcerated at a rate six times higher than men that look like you.

More black and brown children grow up in poverty. More do not graduate from high school.

Smart policies, like those we heard advocated for a little earlier in this hearing from our two senators and by Congressman Cummings and others on this committee, allow us to do both.

I want to thank Senator Booker, who has been my friend and champion on a number of issues...

I thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis) for proposing this amendment. The Rebuild America's Schools Act would help ensure that each of our Nation's 50 million public school students, taught by 3 million teachers, will have access…

I certainly am. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentlewoman for yielding, and want to point out that, as we discuss healthcare, we have to notice that the Republicans are using a very flawed reasoning to try to sell TrumpCare to the American…

I thank the gentlewoman, and I have to point out that, after redistricting last year, I no longer represent the Richmond area.

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for his leadership on this legislation. I rise in support of H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, which will reauthorize the Perkins Career and Technical…

This bill was unanimously reported by the committee. It has nearly unanimous support from business groups, educators, and community stakeholders, so I urge my colleagues to support the bill.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise in opposition to the ``Wrong'' CHOICE Act. In addition to what else is wrong with the bill, there are two significant problems with it impacting the jurisdiction of the Education and the…

I thank my Virginia colleagues for their leadership, and I urge my colleagues to support the resolution. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank, again, the gentleman from Minnesota for his leadership. I urge my colleagues to support the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1808, the Improving Support for Missing and Exploited Children Act. This bill will strengthen recovery and prevention efforts of missing and exploited children by…

The criminal justice system as we have discussed has a disproportionate impact on people of color because they are overrepresented in that system for a number of reasons, historically.