Mr. Speaker, in West Virginia's Second District, we have a lot of Federal workers and contractors who are affected. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 240…

The Trump Administration has frozen implementation of Basel III's punitive treatment of mortgage servicing assets.

I have been working on my, with my staff, on legislation to support community banks, who are, frankly, suffering under these Basel III absurd treatment of these assets.

My view, which is backed up by language in the U.S. Constitution, is that gold and silver coins are money.

It is in the Constitution that we have the right to do that, the duty to do that.

Your predecessors have not incorporated anti-counterfeiting technologies into U.S. coins, minted of precious metals.

But in my meetings with law enforcement, I know the Secret Service and U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement have been dealing with many cases.

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to commend the House Appropriations Committee for passing 11 of the 12 appropriations bills out of committee. All the bills except Homeland Security have passed committee. Here on the House floor we have passed…

What we started doing as a society is picking a group, the group de jour, and you know, their rights trump everybody else's.

I am just going to remind you of a couple things that were brought up at the time.