Today the House considers the BP respill bills. That might not be what they are officially called, but it's a much more accurate title for this legislation. It's clear that the authors of these BP respill bills did not learn any lessons…

I yield myself 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to provide that, immediately after the House adopts this rule, we will bring up H.R. 1689, the Big Oil Welfare Repeal Act of…

With regard to the subsidy issue, the simple fact of the matter is that the Republicans are not for free markets. But what they are for is Big Oil co-opting free markets. In fact, 70 percent of all energy-related subsidies go to fossil…

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, in its analysis of the administration's budget, stated that the repeal of oil and gas preferences are ``likely to have no effect on the world price of fossil fuels, and any increase in prices…

I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 245, noes 167, not voting 20, as follows: [Roll No. 294] AYES--245 Adams…

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, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adopting the…

I took the opportunity yesterday in an Armed Services Committee subcommittee to ask Department of Defense officials who have been responsible for maintaining our military technological edge what the impact would be on DOD's research if…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong support of H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. I believe that ending an innocent human life is morally wrong. But I also believe it's morally wrong to take the taxpayer…

Madam President, I say to my colleagues, Senators Portman, Alexander, Barrasso, and Cornyn, that it is great to be here this morning to engage in this colloquy. I want to follow up on the points that my esteemed colleague referred to on…

I want to thank our ranking member for his leadership and for leading for so many years on so many important issues. Madam Speaker, here we go again. Instead of working on creating jobs and jump-starting the economy, we're debating another…

These women in the District have already begun to feel the terrible effects of the rider passed already in the CR. This is outrageous. It's ideologically driven and it's dangerous. So let's reject this bill and this attack and this…

Let me thank our cochairs, Congressmen Ellison and Grijalva, for their tremendous leadership. Budgets are not just dollars and cents. They are moral documents that reflect who we are and what we believe in. The Republican budget is an…

I want to thank the gentleman from Washington for yielding and also for his leadership. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this continuing resolution. Budgets are moral documents that reflect who we are as a Nation. They're not…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the privilege of the floor be granted to Mitchell McBride, an intern on my staff. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I feel like I'm in the movie ``Groundhog Day.'' This is the conversation that we had last year. It's the conversation that we had the year before. I cannot believe that we're standing here today when we should be talking about creating…

We have an obligation to our generations who built America. That's why we will not allow the Republicans to terminate Medicare with extreme prejudice. We will not allow them to turn a guarantee for seniors into a voucher program for the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This country's in a lot of trouble. We're facing a fiscal crisis of unprecedented proportions. They say the first step toward ending an addiction is recognizing you're an addict. After spending 10 years…