Mr. Speaker, in closing, I would just like to thank Mr. Crowley for offering this important issue. It is important to Irish heritage, and it certainly deserves the recognition as a park right here in our local area of Washington, D.C. I…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise in memory of former Congressman Bill Barrett. He passed away earlier this week in his hometown of Lexington, Nebraska. Mr. Barrett devoted his life to service. From his speakership in the State legislature to the…

I'm with you all the way, Mr. Johnson, on the assertion that nobody has any permanent squatting rights on public land.

I think that's a very fundamental problem.

There is a role for Federal Government, there is a role for government regulation. It protects people.

Most are familiar with the TVA, which, by the way, was a great success story of government investment in an underperforming region during very difficult economic times.

Don't get too carried away with that smaller government thing, because that's not how your region advanced.

We can't have people exercising illegal options, right? We all want to be within the law.

So a lot of your neighbors are there illegally.

I think that's pretty material.

The new rule would impose an eventual ban on existing nonnavigable houseboats and floating homes in 30 years.

I think it's important, in an era where all too often, we hear rhetoric about the hobnail booted government on our necks, and government can't do anything right, that's not true.

We will also examine today the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would protect human babies who are born alive.

The abortion industry has labored for all of these decades to convince the world that unborn children and born children should be completely separated in our minds.

I would earnestly implore in this moment in this Committee that the majority leader of the United States Senate... to hold in some form a recorded vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

To any compassionate human being who has not invincibly hardened his or her heart or soul, an honest consideration of this absurd inconsistency is profoundly enlightening.

More than 90 percent of the American people support this kind of legislation, yet we have been unable to even get a vote or even a debate in the United States Senate.

I just wanted to make a comment that I'm supportive of what the chairman is after here.