We now face a different and larger crisis, the threat of global climate change. I am not here to debate science. The argument is settled.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to join you today. I thank Ranking Member Pallone for yielding time to me.

As has been mentioned, last month, I joined Ranking Members Eshoo and Pallone to request a hearing on updating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for the 21st century.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2315. A large and broad coalition of 11 large labor and tax organizations all oppose this bill because it is an attempt to impose standardized criteria for a uniform framework for the tax treatment…

Mr. Speaker, 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 244, noes 180, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 535]…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, there is broad opposition to H.R. 3438. In the context of a veto threat, the Obama administration notes in its Statement of Administration Policy that H.R. 3438 would…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. H.R. 3438 would stay the enforcement of any rule imposing an annual cost to the economy in excess of $1 billion, pending judicial review. Now, do you suspect what that might do? It…

these provisions, if done wrong, would hurt car owners as well as car makers.

No question that improved vehicle fuel efficiency is a worthy goal, no question about it, but not if it reached in a way that harms consumers particularly the most vulnerable.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, you don't have to come from Michigan to be concerned about the administration's motor vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards, because these provisions if they are done wrong…

the added cost of hybrids or other highly efficient vehicles may never be earned back in the form of energy savings.

The control of these islands--and I'm not saying China should control them--would give them the capacity to blockade their own ports.

We should resist a tendency that I see at the Pentagon to try to reconfigure our military as one devoted to fighting China in the South China Sea.

The Philippines wants to calm down. Japan is willing to spend only 1 percent of its GDP defending itself.

We should focus on the threats to the United States, especially terrorism, also North Korea.

It is a clear violation of everything that you learn about accounting theory.

FASB exercises tremendous government power. It is funded by a tax.

The good news is that the 2012 standards wisely included a do-over provision in the form of a midterm evaluation that does allow the EPA and NHTSA to adjust the future stringency of the standards in light of changed circumstances.