Very soon in this House, we will have a chance to do something that America needs done, America wants done, and we can do it together, and that is to lower the cost of prescription drugs in honor of our wonderful Elijah Cummings. The…

We want to build out in rural America. That affects us, red State, blue State, red district, blue district.

The tourism industry, it really requires people who live in each one of our communities to be so invested in what it is they are offering.

But Brand USA, why wouldn't we want to do it when it is working?

I want to thank her for her leadership on this issue and her partnership on the subcommittee as ranking member.

I want to emphasize the urgency that we act.

Why waste this money that belongs to the public?

Faster is better than slower, right?

If we get this bill passed, Ben & Jerry's all around.

Well, I want to thank all of the witnesses. Mr. Chairman, our colleagues, we have an opportunity finally to do something good for all of our communities, because they all need it.

I think we all agree with that. But having the money from a public asset go to private gain, do you have any argument that that makes any sense?

If you're going to do something where 160,000 people are going to have to leave their homes, and you feel some responsibility... you're going to make some arrangements.

we should not be in as many of these long-term conflicts as possible.

But I wanted to ask some questions about what the consequences are of the way in which the President of the United States acted with literally no notice to our Kurdish allies.

To take an action where, in one fell swoop, with no consultation, no forewarning, we betray allies who have been with us, and we leave innocent people at the mercy of people who are going to get them, I don't get that.

We are seeing the creation of an unnecessary and total avoidable humanitarian disaster.

We should not be in as many of these long-term conflicts as possible.

How do we not know, before the President went in there, how many people would be in the line of fire?

Your country has suffered so much for so long, and our heart goes out to you.

There will be consequences, but when it is on us, because we make a voluntary decision about how we're going to execute, and the consequences are that innocent lives are lost, that is not subject to being washed away because it's quote…

I thank my classmate for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it has been so wonderful to be sitting here listening to members of the Congressional Black Caucus talk about their work, their friendship, their respect for a giant who walked among us, and…

This resolution really raises a question to each one of us who is a Member of Congress; and that question is: Do we believe in the separate, independent authority of the legislative branch to conduct oversight? The contents of this…

That's kind of un-American, isn't it? We just say you can't negotiate.

I am very interested in this cap that is contained within H.R. 3 with respect to the out-of-pocket costs that seniors would face

each pharma lobbyist is holding back 250,000 Americans