A recent report by the American Council for Technology Industry on government best practices for social media recordkeeping identified the need to develop communications between social media team and records management as best practice No…

So it is a much stricter standard than exists in most workplaces.

I thank my good friend from New York. Madam Speaker, I rise on behalf of the seniors in my community. Before we enacted Medicare in 1965, almost half of all seniors in our country had no health insurance coverage. That's why the creation…

Eighty percent of the benefits that we pay out are paid for by return on investment.

Is it your understanding from your fellow Governors that Vermont is unique and that most State pension funds are in fact under water or about to go so?

The Republican budget for fiscal year 2012 that the House will take up later this week is not a Path to Prosperity. Rather, it is more accurately a Path to the Past. Just like President Bush's ill-fated attempt to privatize Social…

It's time to stop holding the American people hostage to the ideological whims of those who don't understand that responsible governing is the art of compromise. We are on the sixth continuing resolution in as many months for the current…

I thank my friend from California for his leadership. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 910. My friend Mr. Blumenauer made the point that there is a deliberate misleading title to this bill somehow cynically allowing voters…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 310, noes 104, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 228] AYES--310 Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin…

How soon we forget. During the last congressional session, then-Minority Leader Boehner called deem-and-pass bills ``a scheme and a plot,'' one that he has employed immediately upon assuming the Speakership. It's doubly ironic because this…

Today the House will vote on H.R. 471, a bill to make Congress the de-facto School Board for the District of Columbia. This legislation, introduced without a hint of irony by self-proclaimed small-government conservatives, would authorize…

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Mr. Speaker, today we debate the rule on whether or not to fund National Public Radio. This is an ideologically driven attempt at defunding a revered American institution, and the reason is because you don't like…

If we continue to slash the foreign assistance budget irresponsibly as your side of the aisle did in H.R. 1, we are going to cripple our ability to exercise diplomacy.

We need a vibrant foreign affairs policy. However, that policy needs to be one that is prudent with the American taxpayer's money.

The idea that the world's surviving superpower cannot afford to back up its diplomatic efforts is to me a reckless thought, an unacceptable thought.

The year-long continuing resolution the Republicans in this House passed last month on a straight party-line vote represents misguided values. House Republicans sought to cut an arbitrary amount of funding and did so with a meat ax…

This final amendment, which I submit with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Al Green), who led this battle in committee, protects our men and women in uniform who risk their lives to keep us safe in our homes by protecting theirs. It would…

I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011. Many decisions made over the past decade on both sides of the aisle contributed to the Nation's untenable debt. The Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act provides…

We condemned Kim Dae Jung's initiative by saying, if anything else, can we at least let the Koreans encourage them...

I am struck by the fact that, just a few weeks ago, here in the House of Representatives, the United States Congress, sadly, from my point of view, significantly slashed the 150 Function of the budget.

I am reminded of the fact, listening to our colleague understandably concerned about the use of loudspeakers, that when the United States, through the Government of General Noriega in Panama, the American military used exactly this…

I would hope that, upon reflection, Members of Congress here in the House would reconsider the cuts that we made to the continuing resolution in the 150 Function.

I do look forward to hearing the U.S. State Department and USAID's efforts to help bring peace to this tragedy worn country.

I join with the United States Government in commending this conviction.

We are talking about improving [the U.N.].