Peter Welch

Anything we can do to help fill that gap is going to help students and the tethering you describe is ideal and could be really useful.

Thank you for your aggressive leadership on this. It really makes a difference in Vermont and a lot of our rural areas.

I hope that means that we will be able to focus on some of the other efforts that require some bipartisan cooperation like the homework gap in like the deployment of 5G.

And can you comment on what steps can be taken in order to treat rural America as the first-class citizen?

That's politics, that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion.

I very much appreciate that it takes strong people of independent judgment to make certain that we continue to be a Nation of laws.

Had you, after your thorough investigation, found evidence that suggested that criminal conduct occurred, is there anything, anything or anyone, that could have held you back from deciding to prosecute?

You had to make a call that was based upon your view of the law, not your view of how it would affect the outcome of who would be the next Commander in Chief.

The prosecutor has really awesome power. The power to prosecute is the power to destroy and it has to be used with restraint.

The RFS mandate has been a well-intended flop. It has not helped the environment, it has hurt it.

This was a plan that had bipartisan support, RFS. It had the best of intentions, it had the worst of outcomes.

I want to thank Chairman Graves. I appreciate his support of this amendment. I also want to thank the ranking member for her support. I also thank my cosponsors, Congresswoman Matsui and Congresswoman Frankel, but I especially want to…

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 17, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $500,000)''. Page 17, line 11, after the…

Regulations I think are really important, and it can be really beneficial.

I think standards are absolutely essential.

One the most outrageous loss of jobs is with Carrier leaving Indiana to go down to 3-buck-an-hour wages in Mexico, which I think is pretty appalling

I think standards are incredibly important, but I don't think they are everything.

I have an amendment at the desk, and I ask unanimous consent to offer it at this point in the reading. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Vermont? There was no objection. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk…

The real fundamental question for us is whether or not in this defense budget we are going to ask what are the fundamental strategic necessities of the United States to be in a strong posture to defend itself. The approach of just throwing…

I supported sanctions. Every tough sanction that we were able to impose on Iran I supported.

The place is a mess, nation-building, an arrogant policy embraced by a prior administration, didn't work out so great.

We were promised we would make money on the war.

The President made the decision to go to war.

Congress blew it on the Iraq resolution.

The collective decision of those countries and us was that the Iran nuclear deal was in our collective interest.