Mr. President, today I am introducing the International Tax Competitiveness Act, legislation that will protect American businesses and workers by ensuring that they can compete on a level playing field with competitors who are using tax…

We have now been operating for more than 800 days without a budget having been passed. We are operating at the direction of the party in control of this body on autopilot. It is easy to operate on autopilot. In many ways it is far easier…

I too rise today because it's obvious to all of us we need initiatives that make America more competitive. We need to tap into the can-do spirit of Americans and out-innovate the rest of the world, all those things that made this country…

I want to thank the gentleman from Illinois and the committee for helping us find a solution to this problem. There are really a couple of reasons for this amendment: One, there really is a national interest here. We've got 75,000 metric…

Mr. President, today I am introducing the American Jobs Matter Act, legislation that will promote domestic job creation in the field of Federal contracting. We must do all that we can to stop the outward migration of jobs. This bill takes…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, recent peer-reviewed scientific studies suggest that mountaintop mining is associated with higher cancer risk and elevated birth defect rates and many other health problems in…

Our country's worst polluters don't deserve a get out of jail free card. I think that's an unintended consequence of the current language of the bill, absent this amendment. And I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to adopt…

I would like to thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would also like to congratulate the gentleman from Utah on the occasion of his birthday and convey my…

There are ongoing negotiations about how to deal with our Nation's budget deficit. And while we need to make the tough cuts as part of the package, we also need new revenues. One idea for new revenues would be to regulate and tax marijuana…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: SEC. 6. PERMIT HOLDERS IN SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE. None of the…

From a purely self-interested perspective as a Coloradan--and perhaps we have very little to lose as we're a headwaters State--snow that falls in my district on the continental divide will either end up in the Arkansas and Mississippi…

I don't agree with what the gentleman from Ohio said. I don't believe that this should be yet another unfunded mandate on the States. While the number of unregulated facilities has more than doubled in the last decade, many State…

I have no further requests for time, and am prepared to close. I would like to ask the gentleman from Utah if he has any remaining speakers.

I thank the gentleman. It is Maryland's Fourth Congressional District, which is just outside of the Nation's Capital. But I can tell you that in the Fourth Congressional District in Maryland, just like across the country, people in my…

Right. And I think that you were right to correct me. I mean, I think sometimes even I would like to think that perhaps what we're talking about with the Ryan budget that we've heard so much about and with these other ideas is about…

If the gentleman would yield, I think you point exactly to what the problem is: that rather than our seniors facing their older age with some degree of certainty about being able to meet their health care needs, instead we throw them out…

They are saying it with good reason. It's because it's worked. It's because our seniors are no longer wondering in their golden years whether they will be able to meet their health care needs. It's because our seniors and their families…

Thank you for yielding, and it's wonderful to be able to join my colleague from New York and my colleague from Texas in this discussion. It's so important for the American people, and I just want to remind my colleagues that 46 million to…