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 69, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000)''…

I thank the chairman and ranking member of the Appropriations Committee and the chair and ranking member of the Interior Subcommittee. Mr. Chair, today I rise to highlight the importance of the EPA's Superfund Enforcement program. Around…

May I ask how much time I have left. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Washington has 1 minute remaining.

I have a bill that I am working on now that would not allow donations to members of a committee where there is an interest at stake.

I would urge Chairman Goodlatte to hold hearings on that very important topic.

I do not believe that there is any Republican or Democrat that would want this kind of trauma to occur. But I ask my Republican colleagues to stand up for who we are as a country. Do not allow America to become this in the eyes of the…

But, in fact, this locks 82 percent of Dreamers out of citizenship, while dismantling the family immigration system and revoking approved petitions for 3 million family members who have paid fees and waited for years. This is not a…

The Keep Families Together Act is the only bill that is a real solution to the human tragedy of abuses of children, of family separation at our border. This bill prohibits the separation of children from their parents; limits criminal…

10 days ago, I visited a Federal prison south of Seattle that holds 174 women. I met with all of those women. They are seeking asylum. One woman had three children. The first child was shot and murdered by gangs. The second child was shot…

I thank Mr. Raskin for yielding. You know, that story about payday lending just reminded me of how in the State senate right before I came here, we had to fight back to make sure we stopped the rollback, because we actually were able, with…

I thank the gentleman for his leadership in the Progressive Caucus and thank all my colleagues for the deep devotion that they have shown over the years to addressing racism, poverty, and inequality. It is my honor to help bring a light…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. ___. NOISE POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND MITIGATION. Not later…

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 36, line 23, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon. Page 37, line 4, strike the period and insert…

I thank Chairman Shuster very much for accepting the amendment, and I urge support. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Holding). The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington…

I thank the gentleman very much and I urge support. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment…

It has been a great honor to be able to come into Congress with Mr. Khanna and to see the years of work that he has done before coming to Congress now turning into critical legislation around Yemen, around workers' rights, around…

There is one thing everybody agrees on, and that is that it is past time that we face the institutionalized racial inequity that is built into every single step of our mass incarceration system. We know that mass incarceration…

Later on this afternoon, in recognition of Infrastructure Week, I will be releasing the second annual overview of transportation and infrastructure priorities in my district, Washington's Seventh Congressional District. The report features…

I thank the gentleman for his continued leadership on these Special Order hours, and also for his leadership in the Progressive Caucus, and on the Judiciary Committee. I am here to talk about SNAP because I am sort of dumbfounded that we…

I want to thank Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Johnson, and a number of Republicans that helped me to get some funds into the last budget omnibus spending bill that expands the LEAD program across the country into some of these critical areas that…

I would like to thank Chairman Shuster and Ranking Member DeFazio for including two of my amendments in the en bloc package. The gentlemen have set a high bar for leadership and collegiality through this process, and I look forward to…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on: Passage of H.R…

I will say that I share my colleague's frustrations that this committee has turned into a bit of a theater.

This is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, I make this motion today in order to ensure that…

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Jayapal moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3144 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report the same…